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GPU-Z @grey_rat Perhaps it is safe to assume UXP is still doing it pre-Firefox 58 way.

Sure, but those businesses should (in theory) have experts capable of mitigating them, no need to (further) scare to death common users about vulnerabiliities they won't ever experience (simply because they don't use the affected services/programs). If we want to scare them, as general advice, we have the (evergreen) opinion by Armand Gracious : https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/experts.html jaclaz

Hello friends, I am currently working on a kernel extending project for Windows 7! You can find the sources & more information on my GitHub: kernel-extenders/nt61 If you are interested, you can join the Kernel Extenders Discord: https://discord.gg/ResNmCQCMa UPDATE 2024 Feb: Prebuilt downloads are now available on the web @ https://www.dotexe.cf/extended CHANGELOG 2023/08/17 -- Fixed instability bug 2023/09/19 -- Released wintrust.dll patch to allow anticheat games & DRM to work on my extended kernel -- spoofs WinVerifyTrust to always return successful 2023/10/10 -- Released beta version of the 64-bit (System32) Kernel32 version spoofer. Has some minor known bugs, use at your own risk. 2024/01/21 -- Released the first official version of Windows 7 Extended Kernel. No longer uses wrapper technology, should be 100% stable. 2024/01/24 -- Released v2 of the Windows 7 Extended Kernel. Adds SysWOW64 kernel32.dll and extended winhttp.dll for SysWOW64 and System32 2024/01/25 -- Released v2.1 hotfix to fix a crash bug caused by SysWOW64 winhttp.dll 2024/01/25 -- Released v3 of the extended kernel: SysWOW winhttp rebuilt, bcdedit settings, ci.dll, winload.exe and winload.efi for code integrity bypass included, new dll's added: xinput1_4.dll, dplay.dll (SysWOW64 only), api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-realtime-l1-1-1.dll, api-ms-win-core-winrt-error-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-winrt-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-winrt-string-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-power-base-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-shcore-scaling-l1-1-1.dll 2024/01/25 -- Released v3.1 hotfix. The only change is that this version fixes the install.bat for users with spaces in their Windows username (spaces were not escaped properly before) 2024/01/28 -- Released v4: Fixed install.bat failing to copy the files when ran from explorer, fixed osver.ini spoofer not working in local application mode on 64-bit, added functions to kernel32: GetSystemWow64Directory2A, GetSystemWow64Directory2W, GetSystemWindowsDirectory2A, GetSystemWindowsDirectory2W, IsWow64Process2

BINGO! Norton "harms" your computer! McAfee "harms" your computer! They ALL have "CVE vulnerability" reports!

I made a mistake during the translation of my post, sorry

Yes, it's fixed since version 117.0.5859.0. (released Jul 2) "H.264 decoder (used for YouTube live streams, Twitch etc.)"

Hi ; most sadly, since some years ago, the web isn't designed for "faint-at-heart" (i.e. "legacy"/under-resourced) H/W, and the social media sites (like the ones you referenced) are spearheading this "trend" ; it isn't only CSS-related issues (like the one discussed recently here) that heavily tax old H/W, it's the rampant use of heavy scripting, often times unnecessarily , use of blobs of JS many MiBs in size just to render a table of text, use of WASM, the notion of "treating" a browser like an all-purpose media player (lots of embedded HD still and moving pictures, full HD video) and the quick adoption of features compatible only with the recent versions of Chrome(+Edge+Safari)/Firefox ... The UXP-based browsers (one of which is NM28) can't fully cope with "that" web, especially on "era-incorrect" H/W ; use of, first of all, a competent adblocker (or even script blocker) will block several of the scripting (tracking/mining/statistics/advertising) not really required for correct page rendering; if you want to mess with CSS, you need a Style Manager (like Stylem that NHTPG recommended), into which you have to "install" userstyles savvy members of the community/coders author to tackle several issues in sites; if you want to mess with JS, then you need a Userscript Manager (like the one your compatriot, nicolaasjan , recommended) and, again, "install" userscripts (custom JS and/or CSS code that aims to modify the default code pages serve) found on-line (e.g. on Greasy Fork); unless you want to learn to author Userstyles/Userscripts yourself, there's only a very small learning curve associated with the use of those extensions (Stylem, GMFPM, etc.) ... Not 100% sure if that's what you meant , but indeed UXP-based browsers have a setting to turn OFF/ON all page styling : Kind regards.

Hello everyone, there is an extended kernel for most of the unsupported windows systems, the famous KernelEX for 98, the Extended Kernel for Windows 2000 by Blackwingcat, the one for Vista by win32, among many others. But Windows 95 doesn't have one. I would like to create an extended kernel for Windows 95C (OSR 2.5), since this would be like the most recent service pack of Windows 95. With the extended kernel I would like to make programs/components that work on NT 4.0 SP6a and 98 compatible but 95 no, like the following: - Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 -Windows Media Player 9.0 - Net Framework 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 RTM. - DirectX 8.1 and 9.0c -Office XP - DLL redirection I barely have knowledge of assembly language, I barely have a little experience with Windows NT 5.x (2000 and XP), but I don't know how to add a dependency/ordinal to a Windows 9x kernel, since when I expand the table I get a BSOD. Unlike KernelEX for 98 and ME, I want to replace the system files directly to run software that is compatible with the latest 9x.

Precisely! You're welcome ; hopefully, you're not part of the "crowd" here that have publicly stated "I don't bring anything new/useful" to other MSFN members; in any case, I still haven't solved the Serpent 52 "case" you reported and I confirmed ...

That site loads OK here (latest NM28, otherwise fresh profile), with ONLY uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31b2 installed (its default filters, only ) : Perhaps you're blocking too much Google-stuff, and their "app" doesn't like that ... In New Moon 28, I tested it with my main profile and with a fresh one. No chance, and there is no Google-stuff blocked by me. I can see the main page only one or two seconds, and then the error appears. Did you also use the latest release of NM 28 for testing?

In Serpent 52 (32-bit) (2023-08-10), the main site of userstyles.org can be loaded, but clicking onto any theme or style leads to an empty window.

That doesn't generally prevent a nagscreen popup or intrusive banner.

Seems to be fine here on 360Chrome 13.5.2036 Rebuild 1.

Seems fine on the MSFN pages for me, although I am translating English to English! No error messages though. The Chinese github pages I agree do not do anything when page translate is called, but translation of selections does still work.

I'm not sure it is on MS that this happens. I think it is a combination of the specification as well as whether or not the firmware manufacturer is compliant with it. There is still the interesting case of the Intel NUC with a specific (now lost to time I imagine) BIOS version that allowed booting Win7/8 on MBR disk on UEFI with CSM disabled. I don't think the OS has anything to do with it. Maybe the bootloaders in Win10+ changed to put a block in to do what you say. But in any case, it is not the norm that you can boot MBR under UEFI that is for sure.

https://github.com/EdgeTranslate/EdgeTranslate/releases/tag/2.4.2 latest version "full page translation" still broken on several sites that used to work. so, still not working as it did after the update from the zip file. not available in the chrome store yet. removed edge translate 2.4.2. am now using TWP - Translate Web Page 9.8.2.0. https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web/releases/tag/v9.8.2.0 this one also works on logged in sites without disabling the login or asking for cookies again. also has "text to speech" on translated selected text and has dark mode option.

Okay, I'll cave and enlighten you. But never say I never helped you out! https://msfn.org/board/topic/184684-blockbuster-video-about-to-make-a-comeback/?do=findComment&comment=1244102

It's rather distorted perception of reality. Manufacturer and the country of origin of any product must be shown on the label. Period. It's the customer protection law. End of story. Even Vistapocalypse agrees, but you don't write your remarks under his posts. Though, I perfectly understand, jaclaz and you find my posts way more interesting, I'm an active windows user, a modder, and a nice, helpful, cheerful, sociable, like to go clubbing and making new friends, I don't have any thick/annoying accents, non-smoker, rarely drinking, sport and active lifestyle oriented man, a nice company, in general.

I expect Vista to be the worst performer in these cases: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct2d/comparing-direct2d-and-gdi

Please don't start, everyone understands it was a T9 typo, because I wrote by and buy one after another with the same meaning, in the same sentence. I'll not point my fingers at those who don't know the difference between steel and steal, who and whom and so on. As for your original question, it makes zero sense to use "thorium", you can still use the original Ungoogled for win7, since they are of the same old 109 version. With some hacks Ungoogled 110 or even 111 can be backported.

I never used, never heard of them before, what am I "guilty" of? Let him do his own research. Thank you for the information! Though, it's not my favourite, I already wrote many warnings, because it's well known that Opera collects enormous amounts of data and belongs to China. It was just easier to backport it to Vista, in contrast to the usual ungoogled chrome. But Opera is also not relevant here.

Here is a quotation from 0patch support page: Cheers, AstroSkipper

No problem! What can I say more than this?

@roytam1 @feodor2 And regarding these well-known coders and creators I do not really have to mention where they are located.

Maybe we should have a COO (Certificate of Origin) besides the COA (Certificate of Authenticity) mandated by Law. The (nonsensical) issue would remain about the political orientation of the Author (and of all the contributors) of softwares, only as an example I suspect that there are many Russians among the contributors of Linux, and also a large number of Communists, regardless of their nationality. jaclaz

13.5 is from China, but not relevant, since the original topic is about the ungoogled version. The other three, by whom they were made, I don't know, never heard of them before. Which chrome version they are based on? Are they ungoogled?

I want to repeat again, go and look at the "thorium" version, it's still at 109, no it's not a typo. If you want 114, the oldest Supermium is 115, perhaps try it?

I meant @win32 already got 117 last month, so Supermium sticks to the current stream, while "thorium" is already almost a year behind. It will obviously not suit you.

While a month old Supermium is already at version 117! Which is current, and works even on Vista!

SO IS NORTON, SO IS McAFEE, SO IS COMODO, SO IS AVIRA, SO IS AVAST, SO IS MALWAREBYTES, SO IS AVG... Use that database web site and perform some searches for other antivirus programs -- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search I'm showing 75 for Avast - read through all of them before using any Avast product and if they apply to the product you wish to use. I'm showing 90 for Kaspersky - read through all of them before using any Kaspersky product and if they apply to the product you wish to use. I'm showing 25 for Malwarebytes - read through all of them before using any Malwarebytes product and if they apply to the product you wish to use. 114 for Norton... 37 for Avira... 40 for AVG... 44 for Comodo... 482 for McAfee... No, that's not a typo, four hundred and eighty two... 3,019 when I search for Firefox... Again, not a typo - three thousand and nineteen... 38 when I search for Chromium... 3,440 when I search for Chrome... 6,728 when I search for Linux... Six thousand seven hundred and twenty eight... 557 when I search for antivirus... Pointing out these CVE "issues" does have its place, but it is mostly FEARMONGERING - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearmongering

Be careful.. We're not supposed to mention that tool. But it's good to know it's working. I'm a tad spoiled over at Windows 8 Land. Here I just download and install. I have apparently two more updates coming my way. I'm not sure if what is considered to be "unspoken" will work in my case beyond that, however, I was going to stop updating Windows after October's final patch. I'll just keep updating Firefox ESR 115, and manually updating Windows Defender as long as possible. After that, I'll retire Windows 8 at the close of 2024.

Well as of the RTM release, Vista really, REALLY was a s--t pile. It really was. Slow I/O, badly written display drivers, you name it .... However, SP1 and (especially) SP2 cleared away most of those warts, and by the end, I would agree it performed pretty much identically as well as Windows 7. What was never resolved was management and cleanup of the component store. It became huge. However that doesn't bug me any more. I'm perfectly OK now with an OS taking up 15 to 20 GB of disk space now, where I wasn't before. Why? Because I now understand what the component store does, and why it provides sound stability benefits to Windows. As for Windows 8, funnily enough, I can still update using Server 2012 updates without any "tricks". I was hoping the same for my Windows 8.1 brethren, but no such "exact" luck. But Windows 8 has been exceptionally stable, and a VERY GOOD performer.

Good question! Kaspersky has a free version, but I never used it and cannot tell a paid user how to downgrade to Kaspersky Free. Microsoft Security Essentials has long been a very popular free antivirus for Windows 7. However, Microsoft once said that definition updates would be provided “until 2023,” and there have been ominous reports from MSE users recently (such as this SevenForums thread). I cannot promise you that MSE will be useful for even a few more months. Avast/AVG also makes free versions that still support Windows 7, as does Panda. I wrote about antivirus products that have already ended or plan to end support for Windows 7 in a March 1 post.

And here is the download link of DreamMail Pro 6.6.6.6: https://dl.cy-email.com/dm6/Download/dmpro_setup6.6.6.6.exe Cheers, AstroSkipper To force the updated installer of DreamMail Pro 6.6.6.6 to use English instead of Chinese as the installer language, I updated again my small loader that does this when it calls up the setup program. It must be executed in the same directory in which the setup file is located with its original file name dmpro_setup6.6.6.6.exe. Here is the download link of my loader Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6666.exe: https://www.mediafire.com/file/259uhgh0fngnu28/Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6666.7z/file Although some virus scanners detect this file as malicious, it is just a false-positive as always. Use my loader to force an English install, only if you trust me, of course! Cheers, AstroSkipper

@Mathwiz! Maybe, this is of interest to you: Cheers, AstroSkipper

It definitely depends on both the email web service and the browser. GMX and WEB.DE expect the most recent browsers. Any user agent spoofing does not work anymore. Therefore, only a reduced, simplified interface with the bare essentials in Windows XP. Gmail can be used with its full interface, but is then very sluggish and cumbersome, especially on weak hardware. Fortunately, you can switch to a reduced, fast html interface. Outlook.com can also be used with its full interface, but it is very sluggish, slow and cumbersome, unfortunately.

Hello @Mark-XP! Thanks for your nice words! Much appreciated! The solution you linked in your comment works without any modifications. Here is my detailed instruction to get the "Alternating row highlighting" working in MailNews right away: Create a folder called Chrome in your profile folder. Copy the file userChrome.css containing your linked CSS code into the created folder Chrome . Open about:config, create a new Boolean variable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and set it to the value true. Restart MailNews. That is exactly what I did. And it worked right away. Please note that toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets is a Boolean, and not a string variable! And the file userChrome.css must be copied into the Chrome subfolder of your profile folder. That's simply all. Cheers, AstroSkipper

From what I remember from my brief XP days, OpenVPN always messed up my LAN settings and adapter. Why brief ? I ditched XP as soon as Vista came out, when I bought my Siemens with Q6600 in 2007. And it was still making an impact, even on that Quad. I think OpenVPN is unreliable, it also has no *kill switch*. Sorry for my opinion.

Please don't generalize and don't oversimplify. What do you mean by "with Russia" ? I wrote the programme connects to Russia to check the speed. I stated the fact . For me it's weird. Is it not for you ?!?? It defeats the whole purpose of being protected, no ? Oh, we know you don't like the NSA. But connections to Russia ??!? C'mon. So I warned the members by stating the facts. Facts only. Regarding OpenVPN, you wrote yourself , it's has a huge impact on the CPU, so how's it "more convenient"? Sounds a bit contradictory, sorry. Anyways, thanks for your advice !

Could you tell me why ? Because of that connection to Russia ?

At least on-topic.

What worries me, @AstroSkipper may not approve because it's free and maybe crap.

Of course better to ask questions to the author before you purchase , because like I wrote, I didn't try the latest, so something could be changed.

What do you exactly mean?

Unfortunately, not. I do not agree with your statement at all. Most paid services do not support Windows XP anymore. L2TP protocol was abandoned by a lot of commercial providers, only PPTP protocol works if at all. Their own clients support only Windows 7 and higher. You can only use OpenVPN 2.5.4 for Windows XP and try their pre-configured files. Servers without a payments are crap in nearly all cases. Sorry, but VPNBook is rather a joke! And, the paid services supporting Windows XP can be counted on one hand. I do have them all (lifetime license but frankly, it's not lifetime, it's rather customer fooling). Anyway, nearly all free VPN services are more or less crap. And by the way, the OP does not want to pay for a VPN service. Not to mention privacy, security and no log policy! Cheers, AstroSkipper

Well if you have doubts , you can download the driver , extract it with 7zip and look up for >supported devices list< and/or in the >.inf< file to make sure . It's usually located in nv_dspi.inf . Also , you completely forgot 700 series , which are 100% compatible and best , in my opinion , even better than 900 series , I'm not talking abour raw power , it's about their visually quality and , for example much better AA . Also , don't forget about the legendary GTX 780M , which is faster than GTX 680MX and not that slower than 980M (in real life scenario). If you want my personal experience , my girlfriend once had a laptop with GTX 780M and it worked perfectly fine with Vista , using driver 344.x.x (do not remember the exact value). But do NOT buy laptops with OPTIMUS feature , otherwise you won't able to use your GPU completely ! I won't double post , just search for "optimus not working with Vista" or smth similar. Ask, if you have more questions , don't forget to like.

Hello , really !?!? I think 512MB RAM is more like 2004 - 2005 , sorry if I'm mistaken , though . I'm from Europe . In 2007 we had 1gb DDR2 as a bare minimum even on cheap models. At our local stores most were 2GB and expensive ones - 4GB . I had Toshiba Satellite A50 with 512 of RAM in 2004 and it was NOT a gaming laptop , it was a budget model with Intel graphics and a tiny ATA HDD.

After switching the famous "superfetch" off it was fantastic , fast , but not as fast as on Siemens , I think because Siemens used more advanced German HDDs , I even think they still in production labeled Fujitsu, yes. I mean Fujitsu HDDs , not some other 3rd party brands . I also think you should add Sony , they were good and also used Fujitsu HDDs (at least some of them) , they were expensive , I agree .