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Here’s an alternative take on the situation: The drama behind the scenes: Why Google lost its soul There are three fundamental reasons why Google Search has become so abysmally bad and all our observations are absolutely spot on: Surrendering to SEO spam (the ‘Dead Internet’ theory): The web is inundated with automated, AI-generated pages written solely for the Google algorithm, with the sole aim of selling advertising space. Google has, in effect, lost the arms race against this flood of spam. They’re trying to patch it up with filters (like the latest Core Update), which then leads to total failures where forums like MSFN end up wrongly in the digital gulag. The displacement of the ‘old web’ (Digital Oblivion): The permanent deletion and de-indexing of old content, which has been going on for a long time, is a tragedy. Google is optimising its server costs. Old forum threads, static HTML pages from the 2000s and small private tech blogs are mercilessly kicked out of the index because they don’t generate enough traffic or aren’t ‘mobile-optimised’. This systematically wipes out the collective knowledge of the internet. The compulsion towards ‘synthetic answers’: Google no longer wants to send people to external sites like MSFN. They want them to stay on their site so that you see their adverts. That is why they are trying to summarise everything in AI overviews (SGE). This leads to the actual search index withering away, because it now serves only as fodder for the AI engine, rather than as a guide to real websites.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20260523-3219d2d-uxp-829418a939-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20260523-3219d2d-uxp-829418a939-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-20260523-3219d2d-uxp-829418a939-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-20260523-d849524bd-uxp-829418a939-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20260523-d849524bd-uxp-829418a939-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20260523-d849524bd-uxp-829418a939-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20260523-d849524bd-uxp-829418a939-xpmod.7z Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20260523-d849524bd-uxp-829418a939-w7plus-avx2.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Floor fractional border widths (4510bf92a2) - Test fractional border width rounding (794f3fe2e7) - Fix CSS border rounding and currentcolor clipping (c289641428) - Flush layout for computed border-width shorthand (75136dff38) - Fix app-unit rounding for border width edges (50a581840e) - Issue #1826 - Implement broader CSS calc() parsing (29f5ff07d8) - Issue #1826 - Support calc() in media queries (f9a90b9bb2) - Issue #1826 - Canonicalize nested calc() serialization (f94a63864c) - Issue #1826 - Add typed calc() arithmetic for media queries (12b120db24) - Issue #1826 - Serialize special calc() number values (e85f778708) - Issue #2982 - Follow-up: allow color-mix to work with oklab and oklch (20b2b3b9f5) - Load mochitest modules without imp (ee00ac9826) - Remove stale imagebitmap support file entry (4337565d3a) - Issue #2404 - Enable CSS aspect-ratio sizing (0d684399b2) - Support CSS sizing math functions (93899c0157) - Revert "Cloudflare Image Resizing fix take 2" (98c9f7387a) - Issue #3089 - Support logical border radius properties (27f2a0869c) - Issue #1826 - Parse calc() weights in color-mix (4634a74b31) - Issue #2506 - Support range media query syntax (6df85ff502) - Support CSS shadow parts (51767db33a) - Whitelist virtual GPUs (VirtualBox, VMware, VirtIO (QEMU and forks like UTM), Parallels) (235bcb010b) - Issue #3092 - Refactor WASM compilation handling (a7a75b7851) - Issue #3092 - Add new GC sweep tasks. (47746b476e) - Issue #3092 - Implement BackgroundFinalizeTask for parallel garbage collection finalization (c06776336d) - Issue #3092 - Implement parallel sweeping and compaction tasks for improved garbage collection performance (3433d538ed) - Issue #3092 - Initial idle GC implementation (18ddd00afe) - Issue #3092 - Perform a minor GC on tab close (1d3dad153b) - Issue #3092 - Fix unsafe GC multithreading changes (f0cba41221) - Issue #3092 - Safely parallelize GC background finalization (e9826f5559) - Fix JS shell module hook build (6f47a2b0da) - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/tracking' into custom (0933486bde) - Implement ES2024 grouping and resolver builtins (e1b689d34e) - Implement ES2024 ArrayBuffer transfer APIs (3be309faa7) - Allow symbols as weak collection keys (e317bf10fc) - Implement growable SharedArrayBuffer (2e51dc9f09) - Implement Atomics.waitAsync (22cb023133) - Implement resizable buffer view semantics (6f3f17ba86) - Guard typed array JIT paths for resizable buffers (d97a2eb04f) - Support DataView on shared array buffers (366476589f) - Support BigInt Atomics waiters (8b09714bbc) - Fix resizable DataView out-of-bounds semantics (aea80980ad) - Validate typed array methods on resizable buffers (3cb76bb20e) - Validate typed array set and constructors on resizable buffers (7613d2901f) - Fix ArrayBuffer slice after resizable source shrink (61912d2318) - Fix ArrayBuffer storage and error types (e21c4e2917) - Fix incorrect variadic for `size_t` in `fprintf` statement in `hyphen.c`. (a02580dae4) - Make WeakRef support always enabled (6861bedff6) - Implement FinalizationRegistry (50c1419e75) - Fix FinalizationRegistry constructor realm prototype (890fb3f399) - Fix WeakRef constructor realm prototype (f3c6da5987) - Issue #888 - Vendor dav1d 1.5.3 (ca94696239) - Issue #888 - Use in-tree dav1d for AV1 decoding (4d1cefd2a1) - Issue #888 - Enable dav1d LoongArch SIMD (d36f889688) - Issue #888 - Remove bundled libaom (2d83afa321) - Issue #888 - Enable dav1d SIMD on more architectures (d328cef713) - Issue #888 - Enable AV1 playback by default (2bd46d4606) - Issue #888 - Update AV1 configure comment for dav1d (3a2f21abfb) - Issue #888 - Fix alphabetical order issue (c95062af66) - Issue #888 - (potentially) fix MSVC builderr (83b19136b4) - Issue #888 - Make symbols direct to dav1d, not AOM. (03a6729a9e) - Issue #888 - Add dav1d_flush (7887ca767f) - Follow-up Issue #888 - Enable dav1d SIMD on more architectures, add back missing nasm detection code in configure (c182d70c0f) - Issue #2354 - Follow-up: Fix building WebRTC on 32-bit ARM without hardware float. (57cd574884) - Issue #888 - Follow-up: Spot-fix; set PREFIX in Dav1d config on Apple. (3155b16f2c) - Fix build on NetBSD/aarch64 (13339f6e55) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. My changes picked since my last build: - dav1d: port WinXP threading code from mypal68, guard AVX usages with GetVersion() > 5, exclude AVX* assembly from non-x64 build, add ipred16 smooth_weights in sse for non-x64 (808697c1df) - Revert "Issue #3092 - Perform a minor GC on tab close" (3d04e32447) - Revert "Implement FinalizationRegistry" and related commits. (87776c74a9) - Follow-up rev 87776c74, restore Helper prototype changes (829418a939) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat and icu63.dll 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.

@reboot12 Yessssaa, I get the Wlan-cpu Intel 9560/CNVi on the j4105 gemini lake to work, alive=1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the most most hard step ever. I use 2 working Linux drivers: Crazy, to get this card to work in OpenBSD. 1. Ubuntu Linux with Intel iwlwifi/iwlmvm driver. 2. Old OpenBSD 7.4 with the iwm driver driver. Ubuntu is the reference path for the firmware boot. OpenBSD shows a much simpler and clearer path for scan, authentication, association etc. This means that the internal Wi-Fi CPU of the Intel 9560 has started successfully with its firmware. The firmware (its the bootcode for the Wlan-cpu) was loaded, the firmware CPU came up, and the driver receives the ALIVE notification. The XP uses now the Ubuntu firmware iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode Firmware version: 46.7e3e4b69.0 ALIVE result seen in WinDbg via alive=1 alive_status=0xcafe loadstat=0xffffffff This is the first time ever on the J4105 Gemini Lake that XP together with the Intel 9560 firmware CPU has been started and reported ALIVE =1 Dietmar

ie, this thread/discussion == https://msfn.org/board/topic/187750-sometimes-redirecting-to-spamgamble-site-when-accessing-msfnorgboard/#comments

Good point, but whatever people call themselves on forums, GitHub, or anywhere else is not relevant to this thread. Please stay on topic.

This article dated today 21 May 2026 ... for reading. https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-05-21-game-changing-battery-breakthrough-gotions-sodium-ion-revolution.html The Game-Changing Battery Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For: Gotion’s Sodium-Ion Revolution 05/21/2026 // Mike Adams On May 17, 2026, Volkswagen-backed Gotion High-Tech launched its dedicated sodium-ion battery brand, Gnascent, at its 15th Global Technology Conference. This is not a lab experiment. Gigawatt-hour-scale production lines are already running in Tangshan and Hefei, and mass production begins in the fourth quarter of this year. ...

they also checked-in lots of other things, bug parallelized GC and FinalizationRegistry may cause browser strugglish and/or crashy. EDIT: decided to back-out FinalizationRegistry here, GC-on-close-tab was backed out as well.

I am looking for an OpenSSL version that can be installed on Windows XP. The latest version that will actually install. I have come across these two web sites that list Win XP but the downloads will not install. Shining Light Productions / Win32/Win64 OpenSSL https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html Recommended system requirements: Windows XP or later 128MB RAM 500MHz CPU 300MB hard drive space ... and this site: OpenSSL For Windows https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Components-Libraries/OpenSSL.shtml#download runs on: Windows 11 Windows 10 32/64 bit Windows 8 32/64 bit Windows 7 32/64 bit Windows Vista 32/64 bit Windows XP 32/64 bit They indicate that I need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable 14.50.35719.0 (x86) which I downloaded but it wouldn't install. From that download Visual C++ runtime for XP/2003 I was able to install 'vcredist2013_x86' on Windows XP. Anything higher would not install. ... just found this site on a search: Latest working Visual C++ 2015-2019 runtime for XP/2003 https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=386 someone posted this link in the discussion, I have seen these names in the MSFN forum - MilkChan and K4sum1: Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes All-in-One Dec 2025 https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/ and there are many older download versions shown. Just would like to know what is the latest OpenSSL version that will install / work on Windows XP? I have downloaded several x86 versions but they don't install. Thanks ...

That is about the time I noticed this happening. I was going to inquire about it but figured it was a simple glitch that would be fixed after it was noticed by more members or a supervisor. It is nice to see a count of some sort, even if there are no 'humans' on the site these days. ...

Thanks for the list ... I downloaded 5 files, from newer to older and will see if any actually install. I hope one download will install, if not I will download more from the list to find one that will install. No, I just wanted to install OpenSSL on my XP setup.

VL ... Thanks for that information. I did not know that.

Today on my Win XP notebook I put a backup on to have a clean Win XP setup installed. Some things seemed a little sluggish. I put the newer version of Mypal68 on and copied the Mypal68 profile folder that goes with this version into the \Application Data folder. However, nothing worked. I ended up having to install Mypal68 and redo all my settings and extensions again. I had saved the Mypal68 profile folder earlier to a flashdrive. This is all that needs to be saved ... am I correct or am I missing another step? Just wanted ask if this is what everyone else does? I am wondering why the profile transfer didn't work or maybe it was just a fluke of some sort. Thanks ...

I had never heard of Uniextract till mentioned in your post. It's listed as working on Win7 and called 'Universal Extractor 2' at MajorGeeks.com. Is this the same program that you were referring to in your earlier post? Universal Extractor 2.0.0 RC3 / Requires: Windows 10/8/7 (58.6 MB) https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/universal_extractor_2.html I also found a portable version at PortableApps listed. It seems to indicate it will work on Windows 7, maybe even Win XP. Universal Extractor 2 (UniExtract2) https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2 System requirements: In short: Windows XP or newer. However, outdated version of Windows only have limited support: Windows 7: sending feedback requires you to follow this guide by Microsoft, otherwise it will fail Windows XP: any online functionality, such as the updater or the feedback dialog, is disabled for security reasons. Also some extractors might not work. Anything to further add about what version ... hoping to be able to go with the 'portable version' ... I hate to install anything on my computer if I don't have to. Again, thanks for the mention of this program. Sometimes 'this question or that question' leads to more information about 'something new'. Thanks to NotHereToPlayGames and the information on 7zip also working. I have that installed but it won't hurt to also have a version of Extractor available for something 'unusual'. ...

OK ... I think I have everything fixed. I just had no idea auto-updates were happening till yesterday. The latest version uBlock 1.62 seemed to be OK but I decided to remove that version and either go with the two versions that were mentioned by Karla Sleutel and NotHereToPlayGames earlier. Karla Sleutel - I'm sticking with 1.49 Developer version, later ones give me headaches, slow start with a yellow exclamation mark. NotHereToPlayGames - I use uBlock 1.52.2. I do notice that 1.52.2 'seems to be' a little faster. So for now I will give version 1.52.2 a try and see how that works for a few months. This is the site where I am finding these (and other) versions ... if others are interested. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/versions/ Thanks to all for the assistance. ...

vinifera ... I just replaced r3dfox - ESR v132.0.0 for Vista+ with a slightly older version that had uBlock Origin 1.61.0 installed. I am sure I had an older uBlock version installed. After about 30 minutes I went and checked the r3dfox - ESR v132.0.0 for Vista+ browser and uBlock was now updated to version 1.62.0. So this is happening on it's own in some way. I am not sure how this is happening ... I may want to stay with an older uBlock version and not want a newer version installed. I may not want to use this browser in the future but I am going to see if I can figure anything out about why these updates are happening. ... In Tools / Add-ons / uBlock ... I reset a change for updates. I thought I had that all set in December, so I don't know for sure how it changed. I think all is OK for now. Will watch this browser for future use.