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You can put as much energy into New Moon 28 as you like. It will not be possible to completely free up used memory of already closed tabs unless you restart the browser. In Mypal 68, on the other hand, there is a way to almost completely free up the memory used by tabs that have just been closed without restarting the browser. But a closer look at the matter would unfortunately be offtopic in this thread and anyway more of interest to those who are on old, low-performance hardware like me.

Simply said, it's always a question of entropy and energy; you simply have to increase the energy to reduce the entropy. And then you have some control over the expansion again. However, this only works up to a certain point and is of course only a very simple view of the matter.

Cixert, do you have WinHex? Go to "tools", "open disk" and open it as "physical device", what does it tell you? No need to format them before!

You are missing out on the best. I have been using under WinXP an ancient version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus plus the current signature update for 10+ years. Kaspersky Anti-Virus is one of my 10-most-used programs, used for virus-checking of downloads. I neither use nor need real-time protection under WinXP, and WinXP is my main opsys. I have not looked for a more recent version of Kaspersky, because Kaspersky has worked fine for me. Two days ago, after hearing about the US government banning Kaspersky in the U.S., I was worried that Kaspersky updates could become victims of censorship in Europe, just like the Russia Today SAT-TV channels. When looking for info at msfn.org, I came came across your topic and found out that later versions 18 and 19 of Kaspersky also work under WinXP. Kaspersky v18 and v19 can be downloaded at: 1) https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://arc-products.s.kaspersky-labs.com/* [filter for .exe] 2) https://products.s.kaspersky-labs.com/ for downloading the English multi-lingual version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2018: select Language: French, Country: Canada, Localization: en-US, fr-CA, es-MX My ancient version of Kaspersky runs under WinXP and can still be updated. It was available for a very brief time at Kaspersky, then it disappeared. It was apparently not archived anywhere, it seems to be a rare file. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties (thanks jaclaz, for the link!) "In August 2015, Bloomberg News reported that Kaspersky Lab changed course in 2012, as "high-level managers have left or been fired, their jobs often filled by people with closer ties to Russia's military or intelligence services"" My ancient version, digitally signed in 2012, seems to predate this change at Kaspersky Lab. My ancient version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus definitely does not contain malware, maybe subsequent versions of Kaspersky are just as clean. Maybe a version of Kaspersky after 2012 can be found, which is readily available, which does not yet contain the supposed malware, which runs under WinXP and for which current signature updates are available. Alternatively, to counteract hypothetical, supposed or potential spying of v18 or v19, one could create a separate opsys selection on the computer, just containing Kaspersky for virus-checking. Multi-booting is an effective tool for improving privacy. My ancient version of Kaspersky works fine under WinXP SP2 and SP3 and under SSE-only. Virus-checking files >100MB, however, is very slow when using this ancient version of Kaspersky on an SSE-only Inspiron 7500 laptop, Pentium 3, 650MHz, 512MB RAM. A major attractiveness of Kaspersky Anti-Virus is that it is produced by a non-Western company. Kaspersky will probably better detect malware created or sponsored by Western agencies. Maybe the cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel could not have been supposedly tapped by the U.S. NSA spy agency between 2002 and 2013 if she had used non-Western Kaspersky ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24690055 Maybe the use by Volkswagen of Kaspersky is related to the desire to protect their business in China from U.S. spying. A user's decision to use Western or non-Western software comes down to whom you want to permit to spy on your computer. Even the use of old Windows XP can be related to the desire of not being spied upon by Western agencies. More recent software is so obviously full of backdoors, calling-home, adware, metrics, etc. A good browser and a good virus-checker are the two key requirements for the longevity of Windows XP. Win98 died for me around 2014, or rather became a special-purpose opsys for a few programs, when there were no more signature updates for Kaspersky Anti-Virus v6.0.3.837, the last version to run under Win98. AstroSkipper, thank you for dedicating your time and effort to this topic so essential for WinXP! And I also want to thank Kaspersky for continuing to support Windows XP. Posted with New Moon under WinXP SP3 on an SSE-only, 650MHz Pentium 3 Inspiron 7500 laptop, virus-checked under WinXP with a current signature of Kaspersky.

Was produced at a Russian military installation factory in Zelenograd (Federal subject: Moscow), I again know this from now non-secret documents. The second manufacturing site was somewhere in Taiwan. Considering the fact it was sold throughout the whole Combloc, including Poland, it was a big market. But then again, the OP might be too young to remember.

Actually, it's pretty close to the Russkies' meaning, out-of-service combatants. Gruz is officially used in Russia language as a very common word, I had seen it through numerous documents I worked on when studying them, though I wouldn't be surprised if the word is of Polish origins. Russia language has tons of French and German words. I sometimes wonder if they have their own at all. The core of their language is based on a gimped version of old Greek, adding numerous European words later on, then simplified for the local use and pronunciation.

Ozzy Osbourne 1995 - Ozzmosis, on the original LP "EPC 481022 1", Made in Holland.

I am so sorry, but I do not want to give you any more details than I have done already, at least for now. My ancient version of Kaspersky AV can still be updated with a current signature, probably because Kaspersky Lab has forgotten about this old version. I do not want to risk not being able to update anymore. The program name is Kaspersky Anti-Virus, the .exe is digitally signed OK 2012. And as I stated before, it was downloaded from Kaspersky, it was available for download for only a very short period of time, and the installer is a rare file most likely not archived or available anywhere, so no current download link. Any subsequent version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus you can find/download, where the installer or update .exe is digitally signed 2013 to 2015 would be a candidate for checking for WinXP compatibility, potential malware behavior and the ability to update to the current virus signature. So sorry again, I like your work for this topic!

An ancient, clean AV scanner can be the version of choice if a more recent version contains malware. I definitely share your concern about the scan engine. This ancient Kaspersky AV scanner: - canNOT look into about 30% of portable .exes downloaded, but I don't use portables - canNOT look into very deeply nested files (e.g. a .rar in a .rar in a.rar in a .zip) - canNOT look into .img floppy disk image files - canNOT look into the boot sector of bootable .iso etc files - CAN look into nearly all other .exes - CAN look into .wim. BTW, until about a year ago, this ancient version of KAV could most likely NOT look into a .wim but all on a sudden it could. I would speculate that this scanning ability was added somehow by the signature updates, with the signature updates also modifying the scan engine. I explicitly have disabled updates of the scan engine because it's the last build of its version and also to avoid any download issues with future signature updates. - a major criteria for anti-virus software is its ability to look into many types of container files. Kaspersky canNOT look, for example, into .uha file types, and I would bet that none of the programs listed in this topic can. I am using sometimes WinUHA to archive incorrectly flagged files, so that a re-check by Kaspersky of archived files with flagged stuff does not generate infection or password-protection messages. - a major issue until about 3 months ago was that this ancient KAV crashed on certain downloaded files. This occurred with about 1 file for 300 files of stuff downloaded. It was quite time-consuming to identify the culprit file(s), a needle in a haystack. Whenever a crash occurred, Kaspersky created a huge file, maybe 600MB and requested permission to send the file to Kaspersky, which I always denied. - a minor issue of this ancient KAV is that it wants to call home occasionally, after very long virus-checks. These attempts to call home are being flagged and denied by ancient Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5, installed under WinXP. I did NOT give ancient Kaspersky a default permission to connect to the internet. One major incentive for test-installing Kaspersky v18 or v19 would be to see whether some of the scan engine issues listed above have been resolved.

YEP! If it weren't for the constant "dog chasing its tail" aspect of web browsers and bank account / bill payment web sites, I'd still be on it. But there is also the "fact" that XP was holding me back, there is SO MUCH MORE that a "computer" can DO once you "let go" of the feeling of being "superior" or "more in the know" just by sticking with XP. Been there, done that. I was "smarter" than ALL of friends and family because I was running XP and they were not. That "superiority complex" keeps MSFN alive. So that "works for me", lol.

There are many versions of "Kaspersky", just as with "Windows". One may be "good", another may be "bad". The art is to pick the right version for a specific purpose, and the last version is not necessarily the best version. What may apply to v18 or v19 does not necessarily apply to earlier versions.

Kaspersky modifies original Windows system files, not only it's malicious, it's also illegal in many countries, including the United States your page shows. It seems you've missed a very detailed report on that rogue activities. I understand the thread is long, so let me help you find it. https://msfn.org/board/topic/184730-antimalware-firewall-and-other-security-programs-for-windows-xp-working-in-2023-and-hopefully-beyond/?do=findComment&comment=1261215

The good is you don't have to worry about 64-bit applications if you are using Windows XP Professional 32-bit. And of course, RAM consumption is not everything, but it is particularly important for those with little available RAM. In such a system, it can happen very quickly that 100% RAM consumption occurs, for example, in New Moon 28 only due to one scrap page.

It's not just you. I made the same mistake. Despite being on XP x64, I stuck with 32-bit browsers because the RAM consumption was LOWER! Everybody "here" makes that mistake, they look at RAM consumption and think that "paints the whole picute".

Yeah, I wonder if any custom user agent override still makes any sense on YouTube since WebComponents were implemented when it comes to processing its UI. Anyway, I've decided to stay with 64-bit build. You don't need to hoard much to reach the limits of 32-bit flavor. I feel stupid now that I know the one annoying gripe I had with Pale Moon could be avoided if I didn't insist on 32-bit build as long as I did.

!\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem\ !\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\ The above writing style, only the directory files will be retained, the directory folders will not be retained.

New files from "IDA" for Supermium 124 "v1.2.0.5064 (2024.06.24) [*] XP,Vista: some additional code/rework to be compatible with Supermium v.124." https://github.com/IDA-RE-things/Chrome-xp-api-adapter/releases

Bandisoft HoneyView v5.53 Freeware Portable for Windows XP [5.75 MB] Bandisoft_HoneyView_v5.53_Freeware_Portable_XP.zip FastCopy x32 v5.7.14 for Windows XP [2.26 MB] FastCopy_x32_v5.7.14_XP.zip Cheers.

Just a heads-up if this in any way touches any of roytam1's browsers: I have just seen this video about G**gle quite possibly deliberately hampering Fireferret VP9 performance, but Mozilla found a way around it, but it's not in the new v127 release yet... Mozilla Has Finally Found a Fix for YouTube Playback Issues in Firefox - Says Google is to Blame

It's a phenomenon called "Tab Hoarding". There's a whole pscyhology behind it. It has NOTHING to do with "organization". On a psychological level, tab hoarding trains the brain to become LESS EFFICIENT at MEMORIZING things - no need to, the Hoarder just needs to scroll through the tabs to find it, why "memorize"? Psychologically, it's also about the person being very NON-PRODUCTIVE but the HOARD gives the ILLUSION of "fake productivity". I'm not a Tab Hoarder, but I do find the psychology behind it fascinating. Like "complaining" about browser performance but not "admitting" that it's the Tab Hoarding that CAUSES the browser to perform subpar.

UXP browsers indeed don't, see https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=29766. For Chromium: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates/ For Edge: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-microsoft-edge For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-group-policy-windows For personal usage, you put .admx files in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions, then you can change settings via gpedit.msc. Afterwards, it's also possible to backup settings: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/import-or-export-group-policy-settings For Edge, there are extra hoops to jump through for some settings to even work on non-domain-joined devices: https://hitco.at/blog/apply-edge-policies-for-non-domain-joined-devices/ General idea for group policies is to have certain Windows and other programs' settings/restrictions apply to all computers on the network and having them managed from central location. https://www.howtogeek.com/125171/htg-explains-what-group-policy-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy

Nothing wrong with restarting the browser to get a clean slate. I've heard multiple times of people keeping numerous tabs open and relying on them for organization (instead of bookmarks), but I've never practiced that even back on Windows XP (with 512 MB of RAM). With dynamic content that been standard for more than a decade, an open webpage more or less reloads completely when a link is followed, and I might as well load it when needed from a bookmark.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240622-3219d2d-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240622-3219d2d-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240622-3219d2d-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240622-d849524bd-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240622-d849524bd-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240622-d849524bd-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240622-d849524bd-uxp-a2f81bc791-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - PR #2530 - Fix altivec code, fix building for PPC (b73f500c04) - Issue #2532 - Implement form[method=dialog] (6ee3f46900) - Issue #2532 - Default pref check to true (f598fe63cd) - Issue #2532 - Fix a null pointer crash while doing dialog form submission (f50948c82a) - Issue #2532 - Don't do PreventDefault for escape key if <select> dropdown is not shown (368ee51d86) - Issue #2532 - Prevent unwanted text selection when backdrop is clicked. (b6d077bbbb) - Issue #2532 - Align dialog submission triggered by form.submit() with the spec. (1db268ef50) - No Issue - Add navigator.webdriver attribute. (6a200d5284) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

Personally, I think that such a thread is not really necessary. We already have two threads about extensions here, one for the legacy ones and one for the webextensions. That should be sufficient. Here they are: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/ And there can be found a lot about uBlock Origin. D'accord ?

Same here. And if the sqlite file is totally bloated due to frequent import and removal of filter lists, the installation should be reset or this file should be simply deleted, of course after creating a full backup which can then immediately restored when the browser has been started again.

In Thorium and in Mypal 68, I use the extension UserAgent-Switcher and Manager for this purpose. I already wrote about it here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1266981 In New Moon 28 or Serpent, similar solutions can be applied if needed.

Thanks for asking! As long as no new errors occur and everything is running well, there is no need to update. I'm travelling on so many fronts that my time needs to be well managed. Or is something not working? I can't see any serious problems at the moment. uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 is running fine here.

"Buyer Beware - 16tb or larger External/Portable SSD/USB drives are fake. You currently cannot buy a real 16tb external SSD or any USB drives larger than 2tb, at all. They don't exist." https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/buyer-beware-16tb-or-larger-external-portable-ssd-usb-drives-are-fake.3773032/

Kissing.

475 refused to install on me. How did you do it?

No wonder, they were sold mostly in the third world. Most importantly, they belong to the grey "market of unlicensed NES hardware clones emerged during the climax of the console's popularity". For example: "In particular, the Dendy (Russian: Де́нди), an unlicensed hardware clone produced in Taiwan and sold in the former Soviet Union". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

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Nvidia security update driver 475 arrived, but didn't bring anything new to the table in terms of comparability with newer games, it's still based on the old batch R470 from several years ago.

Win32, hello, thanks for everything, please add the ability to customize HTTP2 data like header_table_size and window_size, etc. There's a library that already implemented http2 spoofing: https://github.com/Noooste/azuretls-client I assume you can use their code, I had also sent you a message with another idea, but you don't visit MSFN again....

Is there a chance you try on a totally clean OS? I recently had to help someone with a fresh install and tried several browsers there, all of them started waaaaay faster! I assume it may be a conflict with old software. You can also check and see, Chrome tries to load old codecs upon start. Look here: chrome://conflicts

Hi, Steve! Am I the only one to think it might be suspicious to post commercial websites right after registration?

Oh wow! Interesting result on multi gazillions core CPU. I only use a 2013 dual core Pentium on that PC with the internet. Both cores frequent to the max with literally everything with this browser. Pentium G3470.

Hmm I am just aware of the Pegasus system.