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Today I managed to install .NET Framework 4.8 on my VM with Windows Vista Home Basic x64, how did I do it? First to install it use the method previously used with the .NET Framework 4.6.2 and 4.7.x; nothing more than this time the procedure is longer since when starting any application designed for .NET Framework 4.x in Vista an error dialog appears for lack of instructions in kernel32.dll and ole32.dll respectively. In HxD edit the clr.dll file that was the library that calls those instructions, replace clr.dll with the edited version and, surprise! NET Framework 4.8 is compatible with Windows Vista! Even create a small application with Visual Studio in Windows 7 to see if it worked at all and NET Framework 4.8 works correctly in Vista. Instructions for installing NET Framework 4.8 on Vista (you need to have a minimum .NET Framework 4.6.1 installed) 1. With the method of previous versions on this page: https://msfn.org/board/topic/178673-tutorial-how-to-install-net-framework-472-on-windows-vista/ 2. After finishing the installation, replace clr.dll in "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319" and "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319" with the versions in the zip file 3. Do regsvr32 if necessary 4. Restart your Windows Vista 5. NET Framework 4.8 in Windows Vista! Link to download the parch: Download

Usually, everything Mozilla deems as "good" is the complete opposite, unfortunately...

I'm into this name- simple, catchy, and easy to remember what it refers to. Y'all who like it as well should upvote his port, so we know how popular it gets

360ee v11.0.2251 was released. I recommend not to install official version but Repack & Portable version. https://lrepacks.ru/repaki-programm-dlya-interneta/182-360-extreme-explorer-amp-portable.html

I have been testing SSErpent (just a nick I gave to the browser due to it working on SSE only systems) and while it does work, it's a little bit on the slow side. I am studying the about:config of the browser and I'm fairly confident that I can develop a UOC Patch for it. And if I successfully manage to develop it, I can port the changes to the regular 52ESR and NM28 versions. Since SSErpent does not support E10S, I will not implement it. But apparently it has working APZ, which is good. Tiled compositing is still broken but I think I could be able to compensate that. Give me some time guys.

For the past few months I've been backporting Chromium 76 for Windows XP. I made GUI improvements as well. Here are some screenshots. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/499221835225890829/570061156253958174/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518172695439867904/570299310428651540/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518172695439867904/570300563753795614/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518172695439867904/570421865416491008/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518172695439867904/570298720785268766/unknown.png I started with Chromium 76 and fixed a long list of errors on Windows XP before reaching the point where I have to replace DirectWrite with GDI. I tried several times without success. A few people have expressed interest in the code for my Chromium project but I declined to share it. I'm willing to share it now with someone who can help because I think it's more important to keep the project going. Here is a notice I posted on Skype and Discord: I'm willing to cross-license my work with anyone who can enable GDI font rendering. That means I'll give credit to whoever helps me, and they will be required to give credit to me if they release their own browser using my XP patches. Both of us can make our work open- or closed-source as long as we give credit to the other party. Here is the list of errors I resolved. GetThreadId EnumSystemLocalesEx GetFileInformationByHandleEx GetUserDefaultLocaleName InitOnceExecuteOnce K32GetPerformanceInfo K32GetProcessMemoryInfo K32QueryWorkingSet SHGetKnownFolderPath EventRegister SetProcessDPIAware GetDateFormatEx GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation GetLocaleInfoEx InitializeConditionVariable K32EmptyWorkingSet K32EnumProcessModules K32GetMappedFileNameW K32GetModuleFileNameExW K32GetModuleInformation LCIDToLocaleName LocaleNameToLCID PowerClearRequest PowerCreateRequest PowerSetRequest RaiseFailFastException CloseTouchInputHandle DisplayConfigGetDeviceInfo GetDisplayConfigBufferSizes RegsterPowerSettingNotification RegisterTouchWindow UnregisterPowerSettingNotification SHCreateItemFromParsingName SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow SHOpenWithDialog SHQueryUserNotificationState UIAutomationCore.dll (fixed by installing the .Net Framework) PROPSYS.dll (fixed by installing Windows Search) DWrite.dll (in progress)

I'm sure Mozilla had (what they thought was) a good reason to redo the rendering engine in FF 49. It's probably tied into a thousand other things. So I'd expect putting the old engine into a new browser to be a bit like transplanting a brain.... I imagine there's some way to fix it; I just don't think that's the right approach. @VistaLover's probably our best expert on these questions, though, so I'll defer....

I hope there is a way to port the rendering engine of FF45 ESR SSE to 52 ESR. Otherwise developing a UOC Patch for such a platform will be always, pardon my word, "half-assed". I wish I was able to fix it, but I'm not a programmer and I don't know where to begin, alongside not having the time to do such a task (heck, I even have a new version of the 45 ESR UOC Patch and Enforcer, still unreleased as I'm not having the time to do that!), but I really hope this can be sorted out for good. Those browsers can run really great on old hardware, if only those two things could be fixed.

OK, so the e10s code is still there; it just doesn't work properly in the SSE-only build. Weird, but it is what it is, I guess. Wouldn't the NM28 version of the patch be your best bet, since the only difference between the 52 version and the NM28 version was the latter not enabling e10s? Yes, I would generally expect it to behave the same as the SSE2 build; bugs and all, unfortunately. Fixing it is certainly possible, but probably not a trivial task. There were many changes between FF 48 and FF 49, AIUI. @roytam1 would have to figure out which one(s) broke APZ and tiled compositing; then perhaps they could be reverted, but it depends on whether later changes depend on the ones needing reversion.

According to Major Geeks (see the page mentioned in my post): "The tool relies and uses the same WU infrastructure, all downloading is through WU." So if you run WUMT on an XP machine with POSReady updates enabled you will get the same updates as you would get running Windows Updates in IE8.

It doesn't matter with XP, but for Win10 there is a newer utility inspired by WUMT available: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr/

Enabling E10S causes several rendering errors. But it's okay, I can do fine without. It's going to be a fun challenge to develop a UOC Patch for it.

To anyone who may read this post, Retrozilla does support AES-GCM cipher suites, but you need to enable them through about:config. search "security.ssl3" then create a new Boolean "security.ssl3.ecdhe_ecdsa_aes_128_gcm_sha256" and "security.ssl3.ecdhe_rsa_aes_128_gcm_sha256". Retrozilla works very well, and I'm excited for the next version (especially a 3.0 release).

I wasn't sure if this was already in the archive, so I'll upload it just in case Rudy sent this to me on July 27th - It's an updated version of his AHCI driver to fix BSODs on AMD Ryzen B350/B450 chipsets unzip with 7zip AHCI.PAK

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 http://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20191130-0aabdf6ac-xpmod.7z Win64 http://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20191130-0aabdf6ac-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - update libaom to rev 1f0a4746aa8bfcce3fe7fbd2092aef8fe247aef4 (without moz.build and aom_ports/aom_once.h) (0ae57e925) - applied NSPR Bug 1586070 - Read does not advance file position for files larger than 4GB on Win32. (See also bug 70765.) r=kaie (3f9dbaa13) - updated to nss-3.44.3 (6402431c7) - import change from tenfourfox: - #431: M1385165 (5b2393042) (736e52372) - port change from tenfourfox: - #579: M1218456 +backbugs -nsILinkHandler removal, with changes for 45 (5e0cd430c) (6d0cdf8b2) - import change from tenfourfox: - #375: M1352323 M1038099 (eb6f62648) (4fcfb5a3d) - import change from tenfourfox: - #375: M1334642 +efficiency patch (1d2b06b10) (faf6c5367) - import changes from tenfourfox: - #578: M1580320 M1584170 (216c8ff73) - #578: update pins, preload, TLDs (46acdd518) (7348a05a4) - import UXP changes: - Issue #1291 - Part 1: Ensure exp(1) returns e exactly (use a const) (ddb27ac3e) - Issue #1291 - Part 2: Stop using the lib's sqrt() function (b6c0bdd7d) - Issue #1291 - Part 3: Update fdlibm to Sept 2019 version (ddb1aaaee) (170c81c40) - import UXP changes: - Issue #1288 - Part 1a: Update brotli to 1.0.7 (729ee0f18) - Issue #1288 - Part 3: Update woff2 component to 1.0.2 (66b4db7c3) - Issue #1288 - Part 4: Update the OpenType Sanitizer component to 8.0.0 (207b043e1) - Issue #1288 - Part 5: Pass graphite fonts through OTS. (e266a1fc5) (bc341b23a) - import UXP changes: - Issue #1274 - Part 1: Adopt the cairo version as our own. (bc89f33a8) - Issue #1274 - Part 3: Update libpixman licensing (fd38014a6) - Issue #1274 - Part 5: Misc fixes and version update. (82d70c6ae) (0aabdf6ac)

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20191130-e8584e14-uxp-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z Browser-only Suite Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20191130-e8584e14-uxp-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z source patch (excluding UXP): https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/boc-uxp-src-xpmod-20191123.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Use alternative packaging for mail and navigator (480939c5) - [UXP] Update branch commit pointer (83b07f9d) - [UXP] Update branch commit pointer (8171afac) - Add some git logic to mach stub and remove dedicated xref script (e8584e14)

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20191130-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.4.win64-git-20191130-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.8.0a1.win32-git-20191130-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.8.0a1.win64-git-20191130-013ef52ed-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Issue #1300 - Clear the message manager script cache when updating and removing add-ons (f703f61ea) - Add crashtest for resolved bug 1558522. (1f36fcbb3) - Issue #1254 - Update embedded emoji font to 0.5.0 (Twemoji 12.1.3) for Emoji 12 support. (1a8fdf3c7) - Merge pull request #1301 from JustOff/PR_mm_script_cache (e8c40b0bc) - Issue #1302 - Add self-hosted implementation for string regex .matchAll (185a9a750) - No Issue - Use alternative packaging for Pale Moon and Basilisk (52cb294d2) - Issue #1303 - Add langpack generation targets for Pale Moon and Basilisk (064790189) - Fix typo in application./basilisk/build.mk (0b92b3e5d) - Allow Solaris to use alt packaging for Pale Moon and Basilisk (8fea22c95) - Issue #1304 - Make the second arg of insertRule optional (ea03043bd) - Issue #1258 - Remove remaining chat core bits (997be5d52) - Merge pull request #1305 from adeshkp/patch-13 (8f92e6117) - Simplify the overflow child frame reparenting in nsInlineFrame::DestroyFrom. (7070dddb4) - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP (013ef52ed)

First, let me tell my configuration: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz (O/C'ed to 3.54? GHz) GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512 MB RAM: 1.5 GB, DDR2 (runs at ¨440 MHz because one of the RAMs is 533 MHz and it won't overclock well) Main browser: Serpent 55.0 Pros: Works well on YouTube, can play 720p without lagging (thanks to GPU acceleration), can play videos on Twitter as well Cons: Can't open Instagram (I don't use it so it's not important for me), needs user agent spoofing for some websites to open (like Whatsapp Web, but once you done it it will be saved) and when I install Ublock Origin it stops connecting to Internet so I use ABL (Adblock Latitude) from Basilisk Addons page Second browser (when I want to do something requires some Chrome extensions or translation of a page): Extreme 360 Chrome (or whatever else) Pros: Works like a new version of Chrome I use on my main PC, no problem on websites Cons: As GPU acceleration is disabled for Windows XP on earlier versions of Chromium, it won't play videos well on a PC like mine, so I'm only using it for Discord and things I mentioned above. Third (when I want some synchronization between Chrome on my main PC, my phone and the "Pentium 4" PC: Slimjet Pros: Not so much, think it's like a Chrome 49 but it's based on Chrome 50, and it has a built-in adblocker Cons: Same as Chrome 49 (no acceleration, website errors due to old XP libraries) (Use of ProxHTTPProxy helps it, but you know, why open another program while there are browsers doesn't require that) Sorry if it's too long, but I wanted to share my experiences. And an advice for Discord users: Right click on 360 Chrome Browser's executable, select "Create Shortcut" or "Send > Desktop (create shortcut) Right click on the created shortcut, and add this line at the end of Target: --app=discordapp.com/channels/@me Click OK or Apply then exit. So you'll have Discord in a browser window but without any buttons or address bar, just the title bar and you can see the website icon on the taskbar (just like the app!)

@VistaLover This is off-topic, but there is a workaround for Otter to get YouTube and Facebook videos working on XP. You need to download this - https://otter-browser.org/tmp/otter-browser-xp2.zip Then you need to copy the "Lib" folder over from that version to the current version. I did that ages ago, and it still works. See this thread for more detail.

but miss of classic theme is still a big problem to me. forcing windows to use classic theme by using w8classic.exe will cause other applications look strange.

Here I have the compilation of files at the moment that I was able to rescue from Windows Update v4, I think I don't even have half but at least it's a breakthrough. ALPHA VERSION 1.0 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1X-CCTARVFjV9BBnMziqsq-PN45vsl4YK Remember to extract it with 7zip, the file is supercompressed to -2MB, if you have no errors