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Hi, Today, I broke rockstar launcher artificial block. Since I can't link you anything, you need to do the modification yourself. Get your hands on rockstar games launcher version 1-0-83 and install it. DO NOT open it! Make the folder read-only and restrict yourself and all Administrators from write permissions. Delete launcherpatcher.exe and run the launcher.exe, let it install socialclub and if for some reason it gets stuck on installing social club, just download the latest one and install it. We are not done, now you'll see an error complaining about missing dependencies. Download CEF explorer and locate social club folder. open socialclubhelper head into import directory and select user32.dll change adjustwindowrectexfordpi to adjustwindowrectex. and that's everything. To be able to play gta v for example, you need to locate playgtav.exe before the artificial block, even versions from 2020 works since the are just a stub. https://prnt.sc/2Ucu5Np45BM5

Fixed.

Agreed on both counts. I did do a "site:msfn.org" search for when rebasing first came up, and by whom, I knew it was a VERY long time ago. I did not find any "before and after" Mypal or New Moon reports, but the recent AstroSkipper post is the only one that actually performed the rebase. I myself did not spend the time to rebase Mypal or New Moon. I didn't search long enough to see if anybody actually did. AstroSkipper caught feodor's attention, so that is a good thing for Mypal. Yes, the cold-start versus RAM-saved is a trade off. The slow and ancient pieces of sh#t that need to be concerned with RAM never have more than ONE tab open. As mentioned in the past, we have only ourselves to blame when we think a 20yr old computer should be able to browse twenty tabs. And same here, I've moved on from XP (for the most part) and Life has Improved by Leaps and Bounds. I only had myself to blame for "sticking to my guns" and staying on XP for as long as I did. But I do not run "stock" Win10 either! Technically, I never ran "stock" XP as far as that goes.

The new Boolean preferences, and their default values, appear to be: security.same_origin_policy.enabled;true content.cors.bypass_preflight_request;false content.cors.disable;false Under normal circumstances I recommend leaving these alone, but I wanted to document them just in case.

Since I was the one who brought the rebasing of the xul.dll file from Mypal 68 into play and have been doing this for a long time, I would like to know what criteria you used to select the base addresses of the other DLL files. I had suggested the following: The recommended and most suitable address range for DLL files is actually from 0x60000000 through 0x6f000000. Did you already test the additional rebasing of the other DLL files from Mypal 68? What kind of further positive effects did you observe then?

Have you confirmed/verified that it isn't your DARK THEME causing the "brighter" view on your end? Is that an Operating System "dark" or an extension that defines your "dark"? Has that extension changed from the date of your first screencap and the date of your second screencap? I do not use dark themes and nothing has changed here as far as my "view" of MSFN for several years.

VC-1 is disabled by default in LAV?!?!?! Are they crazy? It's the default format for BluRay disks. How is this possible? Probably, you wanted to say it's disabled in MPC-BE, the enemy of old OS? I just can't comprehend who would want to compromise the common BluRay disk standard playback...

I'd gladly help you, but I don't have a high end CPU or PC. My most "powerful" is Pentium G from 2013? 2014? Supposedly, I can push it hard (overclock to the max.), but them again, it's not far from that old Quad Core.

What I am 100% certain of, - MPC-HC 64bit version decodes 10bit H265 faster than the 32bit counterpart, Try 64bit XP, maybe?

I said quite sure, not 100% certain. It's easy to guess because nVidia is famous for making artificial restrictions for older OS in general, a goof example was the artificial rate refresh limit introduced for XP. Sorry, I don't have GTX960/50. I have a GTXTitan (Jan. 2013). And some time ago found a working 780 Ti in the local dumpster (E-waste). Both only support 8 bit H265, not 10 bit.

Today Microsoft sent a message that by September 16th all Hotmail accounts must use OAuth2. I've tried setting mailnews up with IMAP (pop accounts don't have the OAuth2 option for Hotmail) but mailnews says it doesn't support that authentication method. Is there anything that can be done to fix this otherwise Hotmail accounts will no longer be available?

x265 10 bit tends to suppress film grain, H265 8bit tends to over-saturate videos a lot. AV1 tends to over-contrast videos a lot.

Or try logical extraction technique, the investigators connect the mobile device to a forensic workstation or hardware via Bluetooth, Infrared, RJ-45 cable, USB cable, etc. Make a Hex dump

You mean he can't see any video output at all? But it should play using only the CPU! Edit. Probably his output colour is limited, so he needs to choose 8bit colour depth videos only.

The OP specifically asked about decoding, not encoding. His GPU obviously lacks NVENC anyways.

Lentoid h265 decoder, I tried it in the past on a very old Quad (LGA775, made 15 years ago or more) XP era, I don't exactly remember the model, it was something like Q8400, or so. Very poor result, miserable, unwatchable. Skipping frames.

Nvidia drivers are a closed source software, kept in secret. For XP one would need to write new portions of code and insert into them. Not possible at this stage, unless you have a mate working at nVidia to leak the drivers.

I'm glad you think rebasing the xul.dll file makes sense. Mozilla doesn't care about less RAM usage. Like many other manufacturers, they assume that the users of their newer versions have enough RAM available in their computers. Otherwise they would not produce such rubbish.

I am not always right. But a pure comparison of CPUs is not sufficient. Read here, for example, about the difference between SD-RAM and DDR2-RAM: https://www.transcend-info.com/support/faq-296#:~:text=DDR2 SDRAM(Double Data Rate,(double of DDR SDRAM). Maybe now you'll realise what I'm talking about. And apart from that, an Intel Pentium 4 is not the same as an Intel Pentium 4. There were different series like Willamette, Northwood, and Prescott. And within these series different FSB clock rates. So, forget about these comparison sites! The only way to compare our computers is doing the same test regarding all hardware components. P.S.: Due to my motherboard layout, there are several bottlenecks. Firstly, the extremely slow SD-RAM memory, then the very low bus clock rate and finally the AGP 4x interface, although my graphics card actually is an AGP 8x one.

Please, don't come up with your "gut feelings"! I have presented all the essential facts that you have not commented on. My presentation has nothing to do with subjectivity and hypotheses. But as I said, it's offtopic here anyway and actually totally irrelevant. Your cucumber is old and mine is many years older.

Thanks for linking! Unfortunately, such comparisons are not particularly useful. It also depends considerably on other components such as the RAM memory, north and south bridge, the bus clock, the graphics adapter, processor features, hyper-threading and so on.

Not quite true. I use both my old Windows XP computer and my Android tablet for what you call "real work". And in some special cases, a notebook with Windows 7 and Windows 10. But that was not the point here. Anyway! This thread is actually about Mypal 68, and I am happy to confirm that this browser works well on my old hardware. And much better when optimised.

Ok. As far as I can see, my Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz 32-bit has a higher operating frequency than your Intel Atom 1.6GHz. In all other categories, your CPU is better than mine. L1/L2 cache, thermal values, instruction sets and so on. And you use DDR2-RAM which is much faster than the old, slow SD-RAM I use. Furthermore, I assume your Intel Atom CPU supports Hyper-Threading technology, my CPU does not. Even your Intel GMA 950 graphics is more efficient than my NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP 4x (8x is not supported on my motherboard). And as we all know, the operation frequenzy is difficult to compare regarding completely different processors, i.e., a higher frequenzy value does not necessarily mean a higher performance. BTW, which Intel Atom CPU is it? N270? All in all, I think your old Acer is faster than my old computer.

That's a general problem here on MSFN. If members/users have problems, they are very communicative and willing to provide information. But when it comes to selflessly contributing something to the cause, a certain listlessness prevails. Very regrettable. In principle, the same people always make a contribution here to move the cause forward.

Good comparison! This clearly shows the positive effect of rebasing I stated in previous posts. 66.6% less RAM consumption. That's a lot. BTW, maybe your CPU is weaker (I can't remember what kind of CPU you have) but your system is equipped with 4 GB RAM, mine with only 1.5 GB RAM (slow SD-RAM, i.e., no DDR-RAM).

Ok. I can confirm that your code is indeed working except hiding the Open new tab button when only one tab is open. My recommendation is to move the Open new tab button to another toolbar, for example to the left of the url bar or to the right of the search bar, via the toolbar menu entry Customize. Doing so, this code is enough: /* Hide single tab -- works */ tab:only-of-type{display:none !important;} /* Reduce the minimum height of the tab bar to 0 so that it collapses when empty -- works */ #tabbrowser-tabs, #tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox, #tabbrowser-tabs > .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox{min-height:0 !important;} The moved Open new tab button does no longer cause wasting of screen space. Another solution without the need of moving the Open new tab button will be posted by me, too.

What if you download the problematic video, rename AV1 to .mp4 and drag-n-drop on the browser?

Sorry, I don't have a github account. Voltage spikes, when starting the browser or trying to play a video, on my GPU happen with both of those dlls.

Vista x86 WITHOUT SP1 or SP2, yes, using D3D9 HW acceleration-mode because in Vista WITHOUT SP1 or SP2, DX11 wasn't implemented yet, so the behaviour is rather similar to XP. Driver version 347.26 (iCafe). Nvidia Titan 6gb (Jan. 2013). Probably make use of the Vista's native DX10, then?

Without hardware acceleration, the Thorium browser is nearly unusable on my weak hardware. Websites take ages to load completely, and videos cannot be played at all.

My GPU goes into full rampage mode. That said, it's not normal, even if we all understand it was made in January 2013, it can still play games up to 2018. Load shows as 100%. Temps would be like I was playing a demanding game.

The most recent release with its archive file Thorium_SSE2_122.0.6261.171_WINXP_x32.zip does not run well on my system. Mainly because the provided progwrp.dll does not support hardware acceleration on my hardware. It is not able to activate it. Thus, I replaced this by IDA-RE-things' Chrome XP API Adapter which at least enables a bit hardware acceleration. The reason for "only a bit" is that, although GPU rasterisation can be enabled, it doesn't work as it should. It does exactly the opposite, it slows everything down. So I have to switch it off and use the software rasterisation instead.

I'm using uBlock Origin 1.58.0 with the SSE4 version of Thorium Legacy on XP, and it seems to be working fine.

Fair enough. It was our talk about Android browsers that I was mainly saying was off-topic. As you why sync still works on Thorium and Supermium if it's not supposed to, I have no idea, I'm just glad that it does work!

Stay on topic please guys. FWIW, I use Thorium (and maintain an interest in Supermium too) simply because I want a reasonably up-to-date browser that works on XP. I would never use either of them on Windows 10 as I can use current mainstream browsers there. As far as I'm concerned, the main advantage of using Thorium (apart from the fact that it works on XP!) is that it supports Google Sync. That replaces what I lost when I had to abandon Firefox on XP, where I used to sync with Firefox on Windows 10 and my Android phone. I can now sync Thorium and Supermium with Google Chrome on Windows 10, and this has sadly made me abandon Firefox as my default browser on my desktop after many many years. The one fly in the ointment is that Google Chrome on Android does not allow extensions, so I can't have an ad blocker there. That makes it unusable as far as I'm concerned, so I've had to stick with Firefox (with uBlock) on my phone. (I know there are a couple of Chrome browsers for Android which do allow extensions, but none of them support Google Sync.)

What trends? I think there are no real trends. Many here are quite volatile, rather wavering. Spoken for me only, I will continue to observe the development of Thorium. It runs quite well on my old box except for media playback. But New Moon 28 remains my main browser there and finally again Mypal 68 in version 68.14.2b, which runs really well now. And on the subject of dying, personally, I am a genuine Windows XP die-hard fan. I'll probably always be one, come what may.

I've been meaning to play around with this. I am doubtful of the results. Thanks for bumping it. I hadn't read that post yet. ---- EDIT: I have messed with this before. I'm sure it should take more then copying registry entries. They won't really matter, between 9x and 2K/XP. You'll more likely just be combing them for settings. But again, there isn't likely much usable in there. I'm also doubtful that the driver memory/IO/Interrupt will matter much, unless you are on 95. When I first looked at this, I was on a 915GM/910L device. The latest Intel drivers for 9x seemed like less of a match. The even older 815M driver gave me more luck. SInce I last looked at all this, I've forgotten the chip lineage. Its probably helpful to know all of the design branching details. This isn't really helpful, but VIA display chips, from that time, use a similar driver design. Both the Intel and VIA chips have a late S3 heritage. Its my opinion, that you'd likely need to do some hex work. !And! there is a chance you could ruin your hardware. Some "light" reverse engineering observations, of both driver installed and working as intended, would help. But even that promises no victory. It just depends on how the chips and code changed. If it did work, its because someone sold something new, with hardly anything new about it. Stop blushing NVIDIA! ---- @sonyu Where you looking for something, in particular, when you found this?