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Dear Dave, you're, as usual, right, and this is a very good example of what you've just told. https://msfn.org/board/topic/178137-mozilla-firefox-5291-esr-works-on-windows-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1269639 Words torn out-of-context is a total disrespect, not to mention the mockery part. On behalf of all members, I want to thank you for being a marvellous moderator!

You sound arrogant and conceited, was that your intent? Is the forum getting renamed in your honor? This is a quote taken out of context. If you want to quote me, please do it correctly in context! Here is my original statement: What sounds arrogant and conceited about this factual statement? The answer is: nothing. But your subsequent comment is simply inappropriate and superfluous.

Because msfn need to pay for license key and spam prevention. Thats why! This is private site based on donations and I do everything for free. Here are some people from the beginning and I respect them, otherwise MSFN will be removed from the net long time ago. Calm down and be patient.

Correct. The browser Thorium is in different versions available but none of them is compatible with a CPU SSE only. It works perfectly in New Moon 28 and Serpent 52. Thus, it's a very good recommendation. Try to lower the minversion to 27.10.0 in the install.rdf file inside the xpi archive! Maybe, it works then in New Moon 27.10.0, too. BTW, it was indeed a typo in the user agent string I already corrected.

Agree, but it would be a great breakthrough, so let's dream on!

I honestly find it hard to believe, probably a glitch by GPU-Z.

This one seems to finally improved a bit, btw.

AtBroker.exe

Pros - a somewhat light, with the most needed customisations, like removing the ugly profile button and the ability to have a really clean UI Officially works on old OS, the release version of Win 7 (2009) for example, works on Vista with a couple of tweaks, works on Win 8 from 2012. No problems with excessive brightness or fonts! Cons - very seldom engine updates. Thoughts?

How do we know it's the original project, and not a fake one, like in the recent case with the warnings about fake Supermium?

There is a lack of respect for other members being shown in some posts here recently. May I remind everyone of Rule 7b. Consider this to be a warning.

As I already mentioned, you can also test mobile user agents. The advantage of a mobile user agent is that the offered version of a website is very often (but not always) much lighter. Here is a Firefox based mobile user agent originally used by Firefox on Android: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:125.0) Gecko/125.0 Firefox/125.0 You can lower the Firefox version of this string to a value you like, of course. In New Moon 28, @roytam1 has recently changed the default user agent to the following string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.7) Goanna/6.7 PaleMoon/33.2 On my Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 32-bit computer, Google works fine with this user agent. In general, one can say that more recent user agent strings lead to a website version with full functionality but unfortunately very often more cumbersome on old, weak computers. But one thing is clear. It is always a game of trial and error. That said you should use a user agent extension for experimenting. Here is a very good one called User Agent Status: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1250958 At this point, I should mention that I additionally use several user scripts on Google websites in my browsers as, for example, Return Pagination to Google to make it the way I like it. If you have questions to extensions or user scripts, please do that in my thread Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations as our conversation here has unfortunately become off-topic. Any browser related things should be requested in @roytam1's browser thread. Cheers, AstroSkipper

@Hackerman Mozilla/5.0 is the general token that says that the browser is Mozilla-compatible. For historical reasons, almost every browser today sends it. Windows NT 6.1; WOW64 implies that the browser's OS is Windows 7 64-bit. If you want to tell the website you are on Windows XP, you have to change that to Windows NT 5.1. Gecko and Goanna entries are information about used or compatible browser engines. More later.

ARP.EXE

StartAllBack 3.8 is major update with fully recreated taskbar. It will be necessary for August 24H2 update. It's like 70% new app. New - Shy autohide taskbar perk - Never, hide labels combine button setting - Reorder task thumbnails by drag&drop Improved - Reduced taskbar memory usage, improved responsiveness with async immersive shell startup - Pixel-perfect task icons if possible - All-new animations - Incorporated RudeWindowFixer Removed - Modern jump list with classic taskbar - Pinning to jumplist via drop on taskbar button - Auto-hide taskbar for fullscreen UWP apps Download: https://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe No translations for taskbar context menu in beta 1 Refer to alpha 1/2 threads

interesting i heared problems like this severial times now but often it was a xp64 issue there is a relativ high chance that you might try x32 (upgraded sp3+rest) and see of that problem also apears on the 32 bit version because some did have similiar problems and using 32 bits did not have that problem in the next step the x64 bit version was fixed up xp64 was getting far less upgrades, fixes and patches 64 bit operating system where not popular that time, thats why there are 7, 8.1 and 10 x32 bit versions

You need to disable taskbar on all displays to move main taskbar.

Check if you have HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinWidth

Not here, sitting at 95 MB... running RC.

It's only apparently, apparently is being the keyword in that sentence. One Core API doesn't allow extensions, for example, not to mention it's glitchy as hell!

Cancel that! Nailed it down to an update I installed for one game, removed it, everything is fast again. Moving onto another 15 years cycle.

Here, since you don't think I belong here, MY XP-Era machine IS SLOWER THAN YOURS. I belong here! Whether YOU like it or not. PassMark did not list the Pentium 3 for a comparison and it wasn't worth my time to locate this comparison for you. REALITY IS, if you want to pit my XP in a battle with your XP, yours is FASTER. Again, I belong here! Sure, mine is only 14yrs "young" and yours may be older by five calendar quarters, but age doesn't paint the entire canvas. And YES, I took GREAT OFFENSE to your statement claiming otherwise! "You are forgiven", whether you want to be or not.

BS. I'm on an XP-Era machine. Running 52.9.1 ESR. Thanks, btw, for the download link. I would suggest that even Serpent 52 users on XP also have a SAY and VOICE in this thread. Feel free to request ADMIN RIGHTS so that you can change the title of this thread to serve your purpose.

You sound arrogant and conceited, was that your intent? Is the forum getting renamed in your honor?

We are talking here about using a mobile user agent only on google.com. And iin this case, Google Search performs much faster on old, weak computers. Especially in Thorium, it works great. All tested by me on my old machine.

Hi there, I think the icon margins is a bit too far apart. I've attached an image comparing RocketDock ( Top ) vs AllStartBack Taskbar ( Icon Size: M, Margins: XS ). It's crazy how the gap is almost same width as the icon in taskbar. The icons are customized and maximized to fill the whole space horizontally. Also I know the blank icon isn't taking full space horizontally, I measured in other area only put the text there. The separator is from another app.

It doesn't support dx12, When you hover over that textbox it explains that it ts only about whether the GPU's hardware supports dx12 (probably takes this info from some list) and it doesn't test whether drivers and OS also do. As for what works on this driver: dx9 - works dx10 - not tested, but should work like dx11 dx11 - works as browser HW acceleration, but not in games. Vulkan - doesn't work (I made no attempts at fixing it or using VulcanRT installer but it's very low priority thing on this laptop) OpenGL - not tested yet Video decoder DXVA - Doesn't work and causes a BSOD when you attempt to use it. Had to remove atiumd6a.dll from system32 and atiumdva.dll from syswow64, so that video playback just falls back to software rendering OpenCL - doesn't work

Take that up with an admin. I have reported dozens (plural) of spam in the last couple of weeks. They all pertain to cracks, keygens, and dating. So YES, those words should be BLOCKED !!! Admins are FAST and remove them within 20 minutes or so of being reported. And NO TOPIC here at MSFN would ever NEED those words for the sake of discussing said topic. This is about effective spam prevention on the board. Whether Dixel agrees are not, the DOZENS of spam in the last couple of weeks could have ALL been prevented had these three little words not be allowed to be posted.

AppLaunch.exe

_isdel.exe

AdapterTroubleshooter.exe

Yes. Lower the user agent in about:config via the general.useragent.override.google.com or general.useragent.override.google.xxx pref where xxx is your country-specific TLD! If it doesn't exist, create this pref as a string one. This is a site-specific user agent. Choosing a mobile user agent for Google is also possible and makes the Google searches even faster.

@Hackerman Here are two further, more recent SSE alternatives. A Firefox 45 fork: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/firefox-45.9.34-20230930-69f77fc6e-win32-sse.7z and New Moon 27: https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20240720-be4fef94e8-xpmod-sse.7z

And if you still need the very old, abandoned Mozilla Firefox 52.9.1 ESR, here is a link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210730234012/https://download-origin.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-esr52-win32/1536215521/firefox-52.9.1.en-US.win32.installer.exe Alternatively, one link from the first post still works: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/firefox-52.9.1.en-US.win32.installer.exe

I don't know as your CPU is very weak. Try the Mypal 68.14.3b SSE release, and you will see whether it works or not. These should be the right ones matching your hardware specs. But it is always a game of trial and error. So, check them! You can't lose anything.