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Nah... "They" were "bad" to begin with ... Updating their code frameworks to target Google Chrome 125+ (which "they" expect every single one of their users to be on at the moment ) is what distances all these services further away from what UXP can (reasonably) digest ... As part of my research into hardware acceleration in the Thorium Browser, I have now taken another look at New Moon 28 and Serpent 52. I realised that hardware acceleration was not running to its full extent. I have now fixed this. And what shall I say, at the moment Amazon and eBay are working perfectly again in these browsers, especially in New Moon 28. And all that on my acient machine. 100% CPU utilisation is no longer an issue, quite the opposite. I am delighted.

Getting all kinds of weird tracking params all day while searching for different stuff. &PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN Is it only Thorium/Supermium? Or probably it's also included in the new (usual) chrome, and I missed these.

Thanks for the hint! I will check this flag in my endless Thorium test marathon.

Tested on Win 95, works! Update works too for Netscape 9 on Nt4

TBH, in the many years that first Pale Moon and then New Moon 28 have been my daily browsers, I didn’t care much about the hardware acceleration settings. It was enabled, and that was it. However, since the websites have become more and more bloated and sluggish, I have always taken some measures to increase the page loading speed. Since the hardware acceleration was activated, I always thought that nothing can be increased. Based on my research, I came to the conclusion that this is not quite true. Two preferences were not optimally configured to enjoy hardware acceleration to its full extent under my hardware conditions, which I have now corrected. These are the preferences layers.acceleration.disabled, which I now set from true to false, and layers.prefer-d3d9, which I switched from false to true. Now, the hardware acceleration is working great and much better than before. Amazon and eBay are now loading fine, and less lags while using the MSFN forum editor as, for example, in this moment.

Thanks, I actually do have Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List, it works fine in other browsers, but not in Thorium, weird. Is it obsolete for v.122 and up , maybe?

Just found this. "Thorium is only about speed. From what I have read, it purposely includes the features of Chrome that help Google track you. Thorium is not a privacy browser." https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/17iyii4/comment/k707zyg/

I shan't be surprised! Their motto "connecting people to "great "websites", lol. Yes, looks like tracking, I can't say I noticed it, I put the use on hold due to the brightness issues.

[SOLVED] Can't locate the CMOS battery https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cant-locate-the-cmos-battery-on-my-asus-z690-g.3746680/

Just googling the name, I've found an app with the same name on WebStore. I don't have it installed, I don't even know what that is! Is it embedded tracking starting to show off? https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cybrhome/gldiimaaokgdphbhnpcfkepafoliekgl

?ref=cybrhome Someone knows what's this new tracking I started to notice? Example: https://ohs.stanford.edu/?ref=cybrhome http://google.com/?ref=cybrhome https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%3Fref%3Dcybrhome Is it also linked to 122 version and the inability to switch off client hints?

TLS 1.3 update for my older browsers: NewMoon 26 for Win2000: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/palemoon-26.5.0-20240601.win2000.7z K-Meleon 74 Goanna 2.2: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/KM74-g22-20240601.win2000.7z Retrozilla (suite): http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/retrozilla-suite-tls13-20240526.7z Retrozilla browser (rzbrowser): http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/rzbrowser-tls13-20240526.7z K-Meleon 1.5.4: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/K-Meleon1.5.4en-US.tls13.7z TLS 1.3 update files for Netscape 9: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/ns9-nss-update-tls13.7z TLS 1.3 update files for Firefox 1.0 - 1.5 and K-Meleon 0.8 - 1.1.6: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/VC6-nss-update-tls13.7z Classilla 9.3.3/9.3.4b suite: ^ http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/classilla-9.3.3-win32-tls13.7z Phoenix 0.5 with Classilla 9.3.3/9.3.4b changes: ^ http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/phoenix-0.5-cl933-tls13.7z ^ also comes with fixes for running under Win9x/FAT, also fixed some crashes in updated archive.

I know why it works with Opera 108, Dixel. Most likely, you ported the developer versions of Opera, which are beta based. In the final release of 122 Chrome they completely removed the ability to switch off the notorious tracking: "User-Agent Client Hints" (v122+) It sucks, sucks big time. Now everyone will know @VistaLover is on Vista x86, and Vistapocalypse is on iOS/iPhone. Documented case. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/2887

I have now tried to log into my Paypal account separately in New Moon 28. I was able to solve the captcha and was redirected correctly to my account. The two factor authentication, however, annoys me as always. Why this didn't work during my payment process, I really don't know.

BTW, Amazon, eBay and Paypal have become really bad. These sites are much more sluggish in New Monn 28 than months ago.

"Kyber (Quantum-Resistant Mechanism) in Chrome 124 Leads to Web Connection Problems" by Luke Jones "Impact on Connectivity and Responses The introduction of the Kyber768 quantum-resistant key agreement algorithm, intended for TLS 1.3 and QUIC connections, has inadvertently caused connectivity issues. System administrators have reported on Reddit and other platforms that web applications, firewalls, and servers are dropping connections following the ClientHello TLS handshake." "To address these connectivity problems, Google has provided a temporary workaround. Users experiencing issues can disable the TLS 1.3 hybridized Kyber support in Chrome by adjusting the browser's flags. Similarly, administrators have the option to disable the PostQuantumKeyAgreementEnabled policy." Source: https://winbuzzer.com/2024/05/02/google-chrome-124-launches-with-quantum-resistant-encryption-causes-connectivity-issues-xcxwbn/

Recently read about this one, it appears to be one of the more interesting forks of Mozilla Firefox. More knobs in settings, sidebar, keyboard shortcuts; among other things, there's a knob for tab bar below toolbars, some update settings controllable through GUI like in old Firefox versions (there's no "Never check for updates", but the option to choose to install them is there), JPEG-XL support enabled by default, knob for turning on userChromeJS script support... There's also Web Apps feature, I guess equivalent to Chromium's "install website as app". Available x86 and x64 builds for Windows, x64 and aarch64 builds for Linux and a version for macOS (guess whatever's current in the Apple world). Homepage: https://floorp.app/en Downloads: https://floorp.app/en/download Installation instructions: https://docs.floorp.app/en/introduction/installation/

This is the scan result of the notification_helper.exe file uploaded to VirusTotal from my Thorium SSE2 122.0.6261.168 WINXP x32 installation: At least, the version 122.0.6261.169 of the file notification_helper.exe seems to be inconspicuous, but it is not version 123.0.6312.133 either.

and also created a VC6 build for replacing NSS in Firefox 1.0 - 1.5 and K-Meleon 0.9-1.1: https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1266992

@mockingbird Just a kind gentle nudge, you've @mentioned Fedor instead of feodor2.

@UCyborg It's about fixing XP's acpi.sys driver to work with newer hardware.

Good News for Windows XP SP3 users ? https://www.patreon.com/posts/lsc-application-105275497

Or more likely a cmos battery that you did not see (or took for a capacitor, an inductor or some other electronic component) as it is of the soldered type, *like*: https://www.ebay.it/itm/184402003049 jaclaz

In fact, I haven't seen any extensions that do anything to CH.

Wow thanks, I use still Retrozilla ! Yes Tls 1.3 was missing.

Revised CSS fix for Google Search: @-moz-document domain("www.google.com") { .lRPPDf { height: unset !important; } .VNzqVe { flex: unset !important; } } PixAI now deviates a bit from how it was intended, but at least it stops resizing like mad, though it would also need other fixes: @-moz-document domain("pixai.art") { #app .size-full { width: unset !important; height: unset !important; min-width: 100%; min-height: 100%; } }

From what I see, it's a close colab with MS to phase out Win10 (which will be 10 years old very soon). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/how-to-detect-win11 "Websites can differentiate between users on Windows 11 and Windows 10, and detect the CPU architecture of the device, by using User-Agent Client Hints (UA-CH)"

Thanks for clarification, I don't see a way of how to return to the normal spoofing without re-implementing that flag again,

I have just tested ebay.de with a more recent user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0. This seems to help a bit. The eBay websites run more smoothly for me with this user agent in New Moon 28.

Windows 7 cannot connect to update servers by default in both RTM and SP1.

I still see that as Chromium came first, then Chrome. BOTH are owned/maintained by Google. One "department" (Chromium) hands over their "engineering" to another "department" (Chrome). That "department" (Chrome) adds their "content" and then it is released to the public (as Chrome). Chromium may have been a "Google INTERNAL" but it existed FIRST. We would not have Chrome (created by Google) if Chromium (created by Google) did not exist FIRST.

I've wholly and completely disabled Automatic Updates (and Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Security Center, Search Indexing, Prefetch/Superfetch, Connected User Experience, Diagnostic Tracking, Insider Service, Font Cache, ...) in every OS that I've ever used !!! Up to and including Win10 LTSB 2016 !!!