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What I meant here is that I can help roytam1 with whatever assistance he may need to continue Serpent and any of his other XP browser projects. Some examples could include paying for a server to host a git repo that is accessible in China/HK, providing mirrors of his builds, or providing him with a mirror of the UXP/Pale Moon/Basilisk/etc codebases that is accessible from China/HK, etc. MyPal 68 is not compatible with XUL extensions. I have no interest in non-XUL based Firefox browsers.

I use uBlock origin in "Advanced mode" so that it includes a mini uMatrix It does break half websites I visit and I spend a lot of time adjusting the settings. I used to be a uMatrix dye hard fan, but I was spending a bit too much time configuring it, and some time I was unable to reach my goal, so I ended switching to uBlock (also because it has more powerful additional filtering options). I do regret the basic and simple power of uMatrix. I still think uBlock should include the uMatrix panel which was more powerful than uBlock's advanced mode pannel. I tried running both extensions at the same time but the slowdown was significant and it is even more of a mess to play around with. So I would not call uBlock Origin a passive extensions , It just can be used passively unlike uMatrix.

EVERYBODY knows that. I will still forever refer to it as n and u - because those letters are on my keyboard and life is too short to fetch the Greek. And if all we are going to do is CORRECT trivial matters - it's GREEK, not Greak!

... Well. "I" took that to mean he's offering to facilitate any infrastructure migration of the Roytam1 projects, should the existing infrastructure (GitHub repositories, binaries hosting server, etc.) becomes blocked by the HK regime; not as contributing actual code to those projects; but, of course, I'm not basilisk-dev ... ... And if I may say so myself, quite several of the last posts here seem to revolve around Mypal68; well, we do have a dedicated thread for it (possibly more than one), don't we?

... In addition to the above, basilisk-dev has no plans at all (and this has been specifically communicated here ) to invest development efforts on a browser that would run on anything below Win7 SP1 (current minOS requirements of official Basilisk) ... Best regards

There is waifu2x-ros for Windows XP, but it is very slow because it only uses the CPU, but it can run on any computer. https://sourceforge.net/projects/waifu2x-ros/ Cupscale works on Windows 7: https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale you can download a huge number of different models for it: https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database For fast operation it is desirable to have a video card Nvidia 950 or newer. Can also run on a processor, but slowly.

... there's always the adjective Hellenic , which is actually the preferred one (i.e. how "foreigners" should refer to everything Greek) among "Greeks" of today... (OT, I know, but I'm not the one who first committed that crime here .. )

It’s there if you enable compact mode

System Informer has these weird missing unicode characters.

I wonder what % of internet users roll without extensions? Didn't even Mozilla say back in the day that most of their users don't use extensions?

I guess you're right. I couln't find any official tests by AV-Test and other independent labs, either. I can't confirm this. I found reviews which are rather favourable.

<font: sarcasm> Two. And they are both MSFN Members. </font>

how many W7+ users do have interest on a browser with very limited number of extensions ? Especially Serpent (a fork from Basilisk) supports a huge number of extensions. This browser is compatible with both types, legacy XUL extensions and webextensions. And generally, XUL extensions are much less restricted in browsers than webextensions. TBH, leagacy XUL extensions are actually not restricted at all. And they can easily be modified. Therefore, I prefer them.

Hello everyone, A few days ago I came across this thread and first of all I want to thank @deomsh and the author of this driver for finally solving the sound issue on my retro Core2Duo machine from 2007, with Intel 945G + ICH7 chipset and Realtek ALC882 HDA integrated card. I followed instructions and the installation was very quick and easy, the sound worked immediately after I copied the HDAICOUT.HDA to the Windows folder and perform reset. The sound works great, without interference, tried system sound, winamp, gom player (mp3, avi) and finally game Warcraft II Battle.net edition, where the sound worked perfectly both in the game and with cd audio. Here are some of my experiences and a couple of doubts. First I have to say, that my setup works without HDATSR.exe, so I removed it from the windows folder, as well as the autoexec.bat entry. Of course in HDAcfg.ini it says "TSR not loaded", but the sound works perfectly, even though I don't have BUSMASTER entries in the cfg file. Somewhere in the thread it says that without TSR loaded we lose some functionality, but I haven't noticed any problems. During testing, I discovered that MinFileCache=1024 and MaxFileCache=8192 in thesystem.ini [vcache] section suit me best in terms of stability. I also changed wait1 and wait2 value in HDAcfg.ini, from $100 to $10 and now the windows desktop appears almost without any boot delay. As for the VolumeWidget entry, I left the default $14, although I also tried $02, $0C and $10, but I didn't notice any difference. Finally, one more question. I was using the latest HDADRV9L version of the driver which has its HDAICOUT.HDA file which is quite different and shorter than the @deomsh version I'm currently using. Both work, but it's not clear to me how they really differ. Generally, driver works surprisingly good and I want to thank again @deomsh and everyone who helped with the whole endeavor. My default HDAcfg.ini is attached (without my personal changes), it might be useful to someone. HDAcfg.ini

Mypal 68 is a browser developed by @feodor2 and his own projct. I think you've got something mixed up there.

Of course! It's never a good idea to have more than one real-time protection. Furthermore, I have to pay attention to resource consumption in my old Windows XP computer. As long as Malwarebytes releases definitions updates for the version 3.5.1, I will use this antimalware programme for real-time protection. The good thing is that both are compatible with each other. I can deactivate the real-time protection of Malwarebytes at any time and activate that of SUPERAntiSpyware if wanted by me. BTW, SUPERAntiSpyware has many additional features which are useful. At the moment, I use it as an offline scanner. More about that programme will come soon!

To be fair, MyPal 68 is still in beta, and its author lives in a country at war, so I'm not surprised that 68 still isn't very stable. It's stunning that it works on XP at all, given that Rust was supposedly fundamentally incompatible with XP. My comments were merely to express surprise that it's more stable in single-process mode, and to wonder whether that applies to Windows 7 or only to XP.

It was @UCyborg's idea, actually. Here's the initial comment.

Topaz AI (only older versions) will work on 7, or even Vista, surely won't run on XP and 2000. The only problem, it's a paid software. https://www.topazlabs.com/ https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Topaz+AI I don't remember which old version exactly, need to do a research. Somewhere from 2019.

nice catch and an easy fix, thanks. made an error the first time editing http to hxxp. a search / replace / text-string / all - for http://cseupdate with hxxp://cseupdate did the trick. chrome store remains useful for now if only to see what version of an extension is not compatible anymore. then download an older version from crx4chrome.

There is a minor auto-update .cab being fetched but I will likely wait unti the Chrome Web Store basically blocks us before unploading a "rebuild 2" of v13.5.2036. Whether the timeline is close enough or not is a matter of personal perspective, Manifest V3 is out there even if it has become a moving target. At that point in time, there will also no longer be any need for the "regular" version and we will drop to only an "ungoogled" version. For those that wish to block the auto-update .cab connection, open chrome.dll in HxD and search for cseupdate (there is only 1 occurrence). Replace the http directly in front of it with hxxp to block the .cab connection.

In case of that particular software, the target users are mostly other companies. There's no OS checks anywhere, the policy is as simple as "We support whatever Microsoft supports". And most of the other companies do have their IT infrastructure up-to-date, so the inability to run the software isn't an issue in practice. Clients are all Win10/Win11 + Chrome/Edge (or Firefox at few places), the dominating server OS appears to be Server 2019, the oldest that still hangs around at few places is Server 2012. Since the release of Server 2022, there are occasional queries "We intend to upgrade our Server 20xx to Server 2022, will your software work on it?". There are probably still few clients out there that have kept older hardware around and get by with the older version with less features/more bugs.

No need. I was coneying a story, nothing more, nothing less. It's not the story itself that turned this discussion sour. I'm not taking any side in what followed. I've got better fish to fry, as one of the characters in a Batman movie once said. Or was it Catwoman?

They have the numbers, they know for a fact that you're not worth their time. 2 XP visitors to every 120,000 Win10 visitors (I made up those numbers, but you get the gist). And as somebody mentioned in this thread or another, don't recall, WE have OURSELVES to blame - we fake a "modern" user agent on a "modern" OS and so we ourselves are even telling them that nobody on XP is using their web site.

If there is anything I can do to help feel free to let me know.

@Egorkaru No need to spam this forum topic. It is possible to convert themes from the Mozilla addons site to Serpent 52/Basilisk format, but it will not be easily possible to make them installable directly without converting them first as they are in WebExtension format. New Firefox themes are essentially just personas. In this Pale Moon Forum topic jobbautista9 provides an example of a theme from the Mozilla addons site that he converted into a persona. If someone is interested in the conversion process, it would be useful to review his converted persona and compare the source code of his persona to the same theme on the Mozilla addons site. You'll see in my comment on that topic I provided a link to an old version of the Mozilla addons site on archive.org that has some older themes archived. Some of those themes will install on Serpent 52 and Basilisk.

D.Draker - we are on the same page on this one, "personality conflicts" aside. Honestly, we really are. But as I read kar1's comments, I have to agree with him as well. There is a "fine line" and it is all "relative" (or is "subjective" a better word?) on just when and where that line is crossed. I am not trying to go off-topic and it is kind of all tied together. For one, the future of Chrome on Win7 is likely (I reiterate "likely", this is purely speculative) going to follow the lead of what the XP Crowd has been doing since Chrome abandoned XP. ie, one or two years behind. There is decompiling, recompiling, backporting, debug, dependency checks, trial-and-error, et cetera - "software doesn't write itself". Will that workflow "work" for the Win7 Crowd? Only time will tell. It is all "speculative" as soon as the word "future" enters the scene. There is also "intended audience" if this Future Chrome on Win7 is going to gain true traction. What I perceive a "car" to be in the future may very well differ from what you perceive a "car" to be in the future - it's all speculative... and subjective... Secondly, I propose that we have to view the previously-mentioned browser and in turn the previously-mentioned web site the same way we (MSFN) views Extended Kernels. I guarantee that Microsoft does not view an Extended Kernel in the same way that the end-consumer views an Extended Kernel. And unless I'm mistaken, even MSFN Forum Rules do not allow "links" to Extended Kernels (I could be wrong on this, this falls back on "intended audience" and I do not use Extended Kernels nor follow those MSFN Threads). But MSFN does allow us all to use the phrase "extended kernel" even though it may be indexed by search engines. You see how that "fine line" comes into play? Does the Future of Chrome on Win7 force the intended audience to utilize an Extended Kernel? Or will traction only be gained by giving in to the demands of the Vanilla Win7 Crowd and the Future of Chrome on Win7 not require an Extended Kernel? Only time will tell... And have a great day, my friend, and note that I strived to word this reply without triggering any "personality conflicts"

Technically, no, you cannot! It does have a link to GitHub for a something called a "warez" as some sort of "warez". But it does not HOST whatever a "warez" is - GitHub is doing the hosting. Semantics, I guess. MSFN does not blanket-ban GitHub links, regardless of the wide array of content, legal or otherwise, hosted via GitHub. At any rate, I still advise the poster to learn from my mistake and remove the link to Thorium's main website.

That was my mistake. Other forum member(s) were asking about Thorium, I did a 10-second Google, and posted the link. I've never actually tried Thorium. I do not, never have, and never will condone the use of "warez".

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