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You know, in theory I share MCP's "ideological aversion" to DRM, but I've never understood how their refusal to support it is supposed to further their presumed goal of discouraging DRM's use! Seems to me all it does is discourage the use of Pale Moon and its forks. It's not as if PM's lack of DRM support has any content provider thinking, "I'd better not DRM my content, or I'll lose all three of my PM browser users!"

I completely agree. A lot of websites that used to work well in older browsers are now hard if not impossible to use in a browser that handled them just fine several years before, and there's no logical reason why that should be the case other than to try to push people off of old browsers and old PCs and try to force them to buy something 'new' and 'shiny'. Planned obsolescence at its worst. Considering how far back Gecko goes, I can understand why Gecko and its descendants would have trouble with HTML5 and modern 'evolutions' of JavaScript, as Gecko was never meant to run that crap in the first place. The more bloat that has to be added to a code base, the slower a browser that uses this code base is going to run. When I look back at archived versions of pages from circa 2008, it's amazing but also depressing to see how much nicer many pages looked back then. Obviously, not all of them were winners, and some sites actually improved with later re-designs, but comparing how most sites looked in 2008 to what they look like today, the 2008-era sites win by a landslide nine times out of ten. They were (for the most part) simpler, more elegant, and served their purposes effectively. I have nothing against HTML5 or other modern web technologies, but I do have a serious problem with them being used in such a way that a site literally becomes unusable without a fairly recent browser. For me, Firefox 3.6 was the last truly great version of Firefox, and in my opinion the 3.x series as a whole was the peak of Firefox overall. If you count all three versions together, then between the release of the first beta of Firefox 3.0 (in November 2007) and Firefox 3.6's last release in March 2012, that's well over four years of development. While the people at Mozilla had a great idea with having 'ESR' versions of Firefox (as it brought back emphasis on longer development cycles), my only major gripe with it is that by having it go by every seventh version (10 > 17 > 24 > 31 > etc.), they missed many versions that were the last of their kind that could have benefited more from having ESR status. For example, 12 was the last version to support Windows 2000 without unofficial kernel updates, 28 was the last pre-Australis version, 48 was the final version that did not require SSE2, and 56 was the last pre-Quantum version. It would have made more sense to create ESR versions of these, and while I realize there isn't a world's worth of difference between the ESRs that we did get and these versions, it created an interesting dilemma: stick to a 'final' version with a now-deprecated feature, or stay up-to-date with an ESR that continues to get security updates, but is also missing 2 to 4 versions' worth of improvements. Having 56 as an ESR version and the final version for XP would have been four versions' worth of improvements XP users could have gotten, and it would have been a carrot to dangle for XP users by having the last pre-Quantum version also be the last version for XP (ooh, look at shiny new Quantum--you want it? You gotta get off of XP!) My apologies for ranting...I'll make sure to stay on topic with any future posts in this thread from here on in, but I just wanted to get these thoughts out. Sometimes it's good to get these things off your chest.

I've read that JustOff is Ukrainian, and so would have bigger issues than maintaining browser add-ons to deal with these days. One hopes he is well and safe....

FYI, For those of you that use uBlock-for-firefox-legacy and have the built in list "Malicious URL Blocklist" checked. Since today, updating that list failed here. The maintainer of the list changed the URL's... https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#url-based I had to manually add the new URL under "Custom": https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/urlhaus-filter/urlhaus-filter-online.txt See also: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/issues/332 Also, the maintainer of uBlock-for-firefox-legacy (JustOff) is inactive since Feb. 18... [Edit] For browsing GitHub and GitLab you need the extension GitHub/GitLab Web Components Polyfill.

No clue, to be honest, kind of totally at the discretion of the end user. I use an AutoIt script to completely recreate my profile within any version of 360Chrome. I do not keep sessions, passwords, and cookies. I don't generally advocate "migrating" an existing profile between browser versions, be it 360Chrome, PM, NM, St, Mypal, et cetera.

Стерегущий, лучше используй сборки с уже интегрированными файлами, тут в основном тусовка экспериментаторов или разработчиков/моддеров

@steregushchyy Make a try, which drivers work best for you with the XP SP3 from Ramsey, there you can choose drivers http://www.zone94.com/downloads/software/operating-systems/123-windows-xp-professional-sp3-x86-integral-edition Dietmar

That's why I didn't click on anything, I don't want that performance again!

Maybe you get another interesting Chinese installer!

Hi @NotHereToPlayGames, I already recommended 360Chrome too. So keep cool and don't be sad! And by the way one example does not mean anything! A lot of modern sites do work in Mypal 68. But in 360Chrome too, of course! I don't use 360Chrome v13 or higher, only v11 due to my hardware limitations. The versions v13 and higher are resource hogs. So, no way for me. Cheers, AstroSkipper

@steregushchyy Just copy new acpi.sys instead of acpi.sy_ into folder i386 (delete acpi.sy_ there). No need to compress. And you need to extract with 7Zip the folder sp3.cab in i386 and change there acpi.sys against new one and compress it again with cabpck14, place it after this with same name sp3.cab into i386 folder Dietmar

https://colinfinck.de/posts/modern-visual-studio-meets-ancient-windows/ https://colinfinck.de/posts/targeting-25-years-of-windows-with-visual-studio-2019/ https://github.com/enlyze/EnlyzeWinCompatLib/tree/clang This issue may allow 9x compatibility and appears to mention the functions mentioned at stackoverflow: https://github.com/enlyze/EnlyzeWinCompatLib/issues/1 The below may or may not apply anymore but it's something I've been meenting to look into: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19516796/visual-studio-2012-win32-project-targeting-windows-2000/53548116#53548116

You're welcome!

Problem solved. Config.ini has to be modified. In section [SSL Pass-Thru] you have to deactivate *gov.uk* by setting # in front of the string or delete *gov.uk* completely.

Yes, supposedly there is - https://www.thewindowsclub.com/usb-port-remains-active-even-after-using-safely-remove-hardware The official article regarding this appears to have been removed. It's because these LED backlights burn you retina. Try to find a CCFL monitor. Or purchase blue light blocking eyeglasses , at least. Regarding blue light, there's also f.lux and similar software.

@steregushchyy Until now, on each board you can install XP SP3 as long as its Bios offers CSM. On newer boards you may find only Lan i219, where until now no driver for XP exists. I have 2 boards, where XP SP3 runs very nice: First is Asrock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 (stable, fast, 3 full armed PCIe slots, overclock, all drivers for XP) Second is Asrock z690 Extreme, for this you need an external Lan card for XP Dietmar

@steregushchyy In most cases, the AHCI driver from Fernando 1006 is enough. You need the new acpi.sys V5 for boards >= Skylake oder AMD Ryzen or some crazy boads like Baytrail. But I have a X99 board, where I need the modded acpi.sys for XP bit 64 and not for XP SP3 Dietmar PS: Anyway you need also the for USB3 modded driver for XP SP3.

Agreed! That really and truly is the only end possible with an ecosystem that revolves around "nightly" and "weekly" updates. You cannot properly and adequately "test" software with that release schedule. Your user-base does the "testing" for you. Oten resulting in bugs from six months ago being buried very deep because it took six months for the user-base to find it versus the "coder" that is SUPPOSED TO HAVE BETTER KNOWLEDGE of the "code" but the "coder" didn't have the TIME to "test". Agreed totally too! Nowadays the user is demoted to be a beta tester. That's one of the reasons I prefer @feodor2's release schedule. The new version of Mypal 68 (68.12.3) seems to have been tested more deeply than browsers with a one week release schedule. Of course, a one month interval for developing and testing doesn't mean all bugs have been eliminated or all missing features have been added , but for me the new release of Mypal 68 seems to be very matured. Anyway, I am very happy about the progress of development. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Or there's MemPanel in my package that displays RAM, swap, total system load, and CPU usage. There was a utility for freeing memory, I think it was called Free RAM XP Pro or something like that. On occasion it did clip some of the used memory as well leading to problems but most of the times it did its job well.

Agreed! That really and truly is the only end possible with an ecosystem that revolves around "nightly" and "weekly" updates. You cannot properly and adequately "test" software with that release schedule. Your user-base does the "testing" for you. Oten resulting in bugs from six months ago being buried very deep because it took six months for the user-base to find it.

This was (of course) before I changed it to FF 91 and was experimenting with 68, but I find 91 to be smoother and faster. Wow Wow .. very very nice. With this configuration (on my system and personal preferences) I'm watching videos and not even 1 single error. I limit it to only 2 processes. user_pref("dom.ipc.processCount", 1); Things are much smoother by spoofing FF91 on Win 10 user_pref("general.oscpu.override", "Windows NT 10.0"); user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win32; x86; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0"); I don't need safebrowsing so I disable it, along with newtab user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_dangerous", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_dangerous_host", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_potentially_unwanted", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_uncommon", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.newtab.preload", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.addons", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.features", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSearch", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", false); user_pref("app.update.auto.migrated", true); user_pref("app.update.url.details", ""); user_pref("app.update.url.manual", ""); user_pref("browser.bookmarks.max_backups", 0); user_pref("browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks", false); user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 0); user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false); user_pref("browser.cache.offline.capacity", 0); user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false); user_pref("browser.contentblocking.category", "custom"); user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false); user_pref("browser.preferences.defaultPerformanceSettings.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", true); user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_entries", 4); user_pref("browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo", 4); user_pref("browser.shell.shortcutFavicons", false); user_pref("browser.slowStartup.notificationDisabled", true); user_pref("browser.startup.page", 0); user_pref("browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.warnOnOpen", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.history", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage", false); user_pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", ""); user_pref("captivedetect.maxRetryCount", 0); user_pref("captivedetect.maxWaitingTime", 0); user_pref("captivedetect.pollingTime", 0); user_pref("devtools.debugger.enabled", false); user_pref("devtools.devices.url", ""); user_pref("devtools.gcli.lodashSrc", ""); user_pref("devtools.performance.recording.ui-base-url", ""); user_pref("devtools.remote.adb.extensionURL", ""); user_pref("devtools.webide.templatesURL", ""); user_pref("dom.enable_performance", false); user_pref("dom.ipc.reportProcessHangs", false); user_pref("dom.max_script_run_time", 0); user_pref("dom.push.serverURL", ""); user_pref("dom.webnotifications.enabled", false); user_pref("gecko.handlerService.schemes.mailto.1.uriTemplate", ""); user_pref("javascript.options.asmjs", false); user_pref("javascript.options.wasm", false); user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 0); user_pref("media.benchmark.vp9.fps", 30); <---I decided to reset back to its default user_pref("media.benchmark.vp9.versioncheck", 5); <---I decided to reset back to its default user_pref("media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground", false); user_pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", false); user_pref("media.gmp-provider.enabled", false); user_pref("media.gmp.trial-create.enabled", false); user_pref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true); user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.maxInterval", 0); user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.minInterval", 0); user_pref("network.connectivity-service.IPv4.url", ""); user_pref("network.connectivity-service.IPv6.url", ""); user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 1); user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true); user_pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch", true); user_pref("network.http.redirection-limit", 4); user_pref("network.predictor.cleaned-up", true); user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false); user_pref("network.proxy.type", 0); user_pref("permissions.default.camera", 2); user_pref("permissions.default.microphone", 2); user_pref("plugin.default.state", 3); user_pref("plugin.defaultXpi.state", 3); user_pref("plugin.scan.plid.all", false); user_pref("plugin.state.flash", 0); user_pref("privacy.history.custom", true); user_pref("privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs", true); user_pref("privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown", true); user_pref("privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled", false); user_pref("security.OCSP.require", true); user_pref("security.mixed_content.block_display_content", true); user_pref("security.mixed_content.block_object_subrequest", true); user_pref("security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation", true); user_pref("security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken", true); user_pref("security.tls.version.min", 3); user_pref("services.sync.fxa.privacyURL", ""); user_pref("services.sync.fxa.termsURL", ""); user_pref("urlclassifier.trackingAnnotationSkipURLs", ""); user_pref("webgl.disabled", true); However, what I'm a bit perplexed with, and that I can't get a secure connection to 1.1.1.1 and ESNI is no longer working?!? user_pref("network.trr.mode", 2); user_pref("network.security.esni.enabled", true); Any assistance would be appreciated. I now have very high hopes for mypal going forward - I'm truly enjoying using this browser and might consider making it default someday soon. ...:)

Yes, for latest UXP builds it's a transcript from: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/compare/e207b5a...7747508 Code imported from "upstream" issues has the corresponding issue number clearly indicated, e.g. "Issue #1509 - Invalidate previous result when datalist is changed." One can find more details regarding that issue (and the "bugs" it potentially fixes... or not ) by looking it up in the upstream issue tracker, e.g. https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/1509 Obviously, much of this is "Greek" () to most, non-coder, users, but surely "big" things, like support for optional chaining operator (?.), are cleary marked ; all one needs do is simply "comb" that commit log for resolved bugs that would positively affect one's own worklow... FWIW/OTOH, even Mozilla go into the trouble (?) of composing some form of "Release Notes" for their Firefox Nightly "trunk" builds (updated twice over the course of 24h) in, what @Mathwiz called, a plain-language "executive summary" of changes, e.g. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/100.0a1/releasenotes/ with the "disclaimer": ; a separate set of "Release Notes" is also available for pure developers/coders: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/100

Great answer. (I was aware of upstream workings, but unaware that they made it into St52 and NM28 - will be testing, woot woot.) But I would prefer the forum software to replace "M$" with "**". Since it is meant as "derogatory", then it should be "censored" with asterisks. I just "hate" reading "M$" when what you really mean is MICROSOFT.

FWIW, if you switch back to last weekend's New Moon 28, it should work, too... https://forums.mst3k.com/ , as do most of newer sites, is tailored to work best in recent Chrome (and derivatives)/Firefox ; for the techie specifics, they're using the Optional Chaining Oprerator ("?."), part of ECMAScript2020 (a Javascript standard); by a "stroke of luck", OCO was very recently implemented upstream and made its way into last WE's UXP browsers by Roytam1; these include latest Serpent 52.9.0 and latest New Moon 28.10.6a1; having still a NM28 build from "earlier this year" was/is the root of your issue with "forums.mst3k"... BTW, if you have any sort of leverage towards the admins of that site, you should ask them to look into providing better backwards compatibility with non-Chromium type browser engines, aka "legacy" browsers, like the UXP ones (official Pale Moon and forks, official Basilisk and forks), official SeaMonkey (and forks), etc.; more so, if you plan to be a paying customer of theirs but, at the same time, continue using browsers supporting your XP OS... Who knows, next week they'll start using Chrome 98+ specific web APIs, very unlikely to become supported "here" in a timely fashion, if ever... In such a case, your eventual request for help here will be futile, sadly ... If, OTOH, you're prepared to be using Google's latest spyware on M$'s latest spyware OS to watch your movies there (on mst3k), then case dismissed...