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WinNTSetup 5.3.5 - removed redudant code, WimHost options removed - updated wimlib to version 1.14.4 - enforce modded wimlib - HideProductKeys option defaults to 1 - minwim crash fixed - minwim speed improved - minwim extended log files - fixed WinRE GUI bugs - fixed crash installing WinXP

Probably add --wm-window-animations-disabled to reduce memory and CPU cycles.

You're indeed right! It very well can be, seeing they already call it HTTP/3, I still hope it won't happen very soon because the format is flawed.

Thanks for the new version! Unfortunately, I have to report a new issue on Codeberg.org. When opening a website there (here in Mypal 68.14.1b using single-process mode), the following message is displayed at the top of the site: JavaScript error: e.contentBoxSize[0] is undefined (https://codeberg.org/assets/js/webcomponents.js?v=7.0.0-140-34a85c1536~gitea-1.22.0 @ 10:32190). Open browser console to see more details. Here is a screenshot of the browser console: And when closing the opened Codeberg site by clicking the close button, the complete browser closes immediately which means it crashes without any message. Can you confirm this?

You have other sites opened in Supermium, this obviously adds performance penalty. Msfn, github and reddit. Esp. githun and reddit are heavy.

Probably you hit the size limit. Try to delete your old attachments. It helped me, I can embed since then.

It is not really a necessary feature. You can change that in a very simple way inside your OS. Even by using a third party tool. Anyway! In general, New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 will get what has been developed for Pale Moon and Basilisk.

OT. Last Vista one was probably based on Chrome 85, if I'm not mistaken. XP, most likely from 2016.

Hmm... are any of these work on XP? CatsXP doesn't even start on Vista without Kernel.

The last update of the GoodbyeAds-YouTube-AdBlock-Filter filter list seems to be performed 4 months ago. So, for me, not that old at the moment. However, if no more updates are rolled out, I will unfortunately have to remove this list from my mod uBlock Origin Legacy. PS: Not every list is maintained on a regular base. There are many lists maintained by only one person or updated when time is available. So, users have to be patient, unfortunately. But you can disable such a list at any time if you think, it has become obsolete.

No, it needs to be C++ source code.

So what? They share between themselves via PM. But no links in public. I also shared my personally written programmes with certain members. Some of them wrote similar software based on my knowledge and findings, My famous Chrome/Opera starter app., for example.

Maybe, for you. But I fear you are just one of the few. uBlock Origin works great. However, you just have to be able to handle it. But we have already had a lengthy discussion about this. Please, provide a link to the YouTube video where ads are not blocked by uBO! Your recommendation is unfortunately completely off-topic. Your Chrome webextension Adblock does not exist for legacy browsers. Only Adblock Plus in the last version 2.9.1 from June of 2017 which is unmaintained and obsolete since then. So if there is more necessary than only your selected filter list "Anti-Circumvention Filters", then it presumably won't work as expected. BTW, the Anti-Circumvention Filters https://github.com/abp-filters/abp-filters-anti-cv also seem to have been obsolete for some time now. The repository has been archived in December of 2023. PS: And another piece of bad news for you. Sorry for that in advance! The latest version of your beloved Adblock extension apparently no longer blocks ads on YouTube, as several users have reported in the Chrome Web Store, and is also no longer available for Thorium (Chrome 122). Here is a link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-—-block-ads-acros/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/reviews?hl=en

I tested a lot of sites like MSFN, GitHub, NY Times, Google, Chip, PCWelt, GMX and so on. TBH, I do not use Instagram anyways but this site indeed does not load correctly. BTW, I have only 1.5 GB SD-RAM.

Those they change manually in the end, to target a specific OS version. I think win32 wrote about it somewhere.

AstroSkipper, which sites did you test it with? I have the same issue Dave wrote about, memory leaks (and then crashes, sometimes just hangs) while scrolling instagram. I have 16Gb of RAM currently, can extend to 32.

... 99.99% of times , when the OS generates that error upon trying to launch an ".exe" file, it means that the "Sub System Version" value inside the EXE's PE Header has been set (by the compiler) to a figure higher than the one corresponding to the current OS (e.g. XP=5.1, XPx64=5.2, Vista=6.0, Win7=6.1, Win8=6.2, Win8.1=6.3, Win10/11=10.0); using special software to modify that field of the PE header to an appropriate value for the current OS will allow for the executable to launch, unless some other kernel dependency isn't being fulfilled (in which case the OS will generate an appropriate ERROR message, different to the initial one ) ... Below screengrab is with the AVX2 Thorium variant: TL;DR; ALL the builds you tried have been configured to require Win10+ out-of-the-box ...

In case you missed, Hybrid Post Quantum Key + QUIC (Kyber draft "X25519Kyber768Draft00"), instructions on bruteforcing that weak "encryption" method. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186176-x25519kyber768draft00-hybrid-post-quantum-secure-key/?do=findComment&comment=1265284

From my experience, 382.xx versions and below are the only ones that were written for Windows Vista and 7. Later are just ported 10 drivers. To be 100% sure, try R375 (376.xx) series.

@Dave-H, would you be willing to try out --disable-low-res-tiling? --disable-low-res-tiling reduces cpu usage and saves power https://codereview.chromium.org/196473007/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66825943/how-to-reduce-chromedriver-cpu-usage-in-selenium-python

With our without HPET, yes, a bit faster start, like Dave wrote. But I'm not on a single core. Those on a single core would've seen a faster startup.

It's very strange, it's not related to CSS, nowhere near it. And the author of Thorium suggests that flag himself. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I can't link to his site because he hosts Windows cr*cks, pirated loaders on it. But I can make a quote, those interested may find themselves. "--disable-highres-timer[1] ## Disables high-resolution timer on Windows."

I think their discussion was specifically about DNS over HTTPS, which wasn't a thing until long after XP EOS. @UCyborg brought DNS over HTTPS into play. However, the original enquiry only mentioned DNS. Hence my answer.

Here is a brief report of my testing so far if someone is interested. Thorium can actually be installed on such an old computer under Windows XP. The browser starts up still quite bearable compared to other browsers on my system. However, as always with Chrome browsers on low-performance computers under Windows, the page loading behaviour is problematic. Although I have configured all conceivable flags to increase performance and selected the settings to suit my hardware, loading web pages takes considerably much longer than with New Moon, Serpent or Mypal. Of course, websites can be loaded that no longer function properly in the already mentioned browsers. Surprisingly, RAM consumption is not a problem, it is rather perfect although Thorium is running in multi-process mode. Interestingly, it seems that I have even found a solution for my installation that considerably speeds up the loading of web pages and therefore the browser start, too. It's not a new one, though. One doesn't have to reinvent the wheel, either. But first, this method must still be thoroughly tested.

True, but you can only directly configure Windows versions released in last 4 years or so to use DOH (eg. https://www.howtogeek.com/765940/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-on-windows-11/). Older ones require to use a sort of DNS proxy or special support from the browser side. In Windows XP, you can either directly insert the desired DNS service in the native network configuration window, or you do it more convenient with a very few clicks by using a third-party tool like, for example, ChrisPC DNS Switch. I use the Pro version which has more features and is more convenient.

I had the exact same problem on WinXP SP3. I installed the "Segoe UI" fonts from Win10. Problem solved!

Supermium is the same as usual Chrome, but with tweaks to make it work on old OS. GDI rendering instead of Dwrite for XP, rewritten memory functioning. Supermium understands Chrome flags. Some flags added, some removed. All of the usual connections to Google servers are present.

I'm not up to arguing (especially when there's no need to). "Microsoft ends Windows 7 security updates | TechCrunch" Windows 7 is a legacy OS. https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/microsoft-ends-windows-7-security-updates/

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1264771

You will always find the latest version of New Moon 28 in this thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1264369 The link points to the latest post with the most recent version. In general, you can find all releases from @roytam1 on his server: https://o.rthost.win/

I never saw any links to it. I only saw someone at github asked win32 to publish the source code to that mysterious dll file, but no answer. Usually it's at github, these days.

huge improvement (for me) in load time supermium r4. read: https://github.com/IDA-RE-things/Chrome-xp-api-adapter download: https://github.com/IDA-RE-things/Chrome-xp-api-adapter/releases/tag/v1.2 replace progwrp.dll v1.1.0.5010 that comes with r4 with the above progwrp.dll v1.2.0.5035. tested on xp sp3 only.

Thanks for the hint! Unfortunately, Thorium takes ages to load MSFN pages. New Moon 28 and Mypal 68 load them very quickly. Of course, all on my very old hardware. Interestingly, I changed the window resolution of the Thorium browser. And indeed, reducing the resolution leads to loading the MSFN pages a bit faster.

Funny thing, we avoid linking to the page of Thorium for the very same reason, dodgy site. Cixert wrote, he had been given two warnings for that, so I completely understand @AstroSkipper, he's just naturally cautious. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186000-posting-test-string-boot-ini-causes-http-403-forbidden-error/?do=findComment&comment=1264274

Of course not, but it's not a bug deal, just open with CFF Explorer and change PE Header to 5.1 or smth. But! I guess there was a reason he blocked it from running on OS below 10.

Yes, it forces the connection to that specific IPv4 IP address. Just the same as forcing a block of a connection to a site by: 0.0.0.0 evilsite.com For example, I have www.facebook.com like that in my hosts file and when I try to get DNS info about it with the `dig` command in Linux, this is the answer: dig www.facebook.com ; <<>> DiG 9.16.48-Ubuntu <<>> www.facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23139 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.facebook.com. IN A ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) ;; WHEN: Tue May 07 16:21:57 CEST 2024 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45 ANSWER: 0 ; Query time: 0 msec You're only in trouble when the IP address of void.gr changes. That's up to the maintainer of uBO Legacy. What you could also do, is tell the maintainer of the list (@kargig) about his website issue on GitHub.

... Leave your router alone ; it's NOT the root cause of this issue; a simple test on Qualys SSL Labs will reveal that the host is currently inaccessible via IPv6: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.void.gr

I'd start with a well-known, 100% proven to be working video driver. Then try another videocard, I had a similar issue, the reason was - one dead VRAM module Korean Hynix. Unfortunately I can't assist in details, I'm still recovering from an eye trauma.

Probably Thorium author assumes you have the latest kernel from March 2023 and didn't bother to adjust to the older version.

On my system, the 360Chrome 11.0.2031 worked really well. The version 13.5.1030 rebuild 7 worked relatively well but only when the chrome.dll was rebased. The site loading times were much worse than in version 11.0.2031. In contrast, Thorium doesn't need to be re-based by the user and consumes much less RAM than normal Chrome versions. The standard loading behaviour is an other history, unfortunately. However, this browser was never made for my old system, either. But as I already mentioned, I found a convenient way for me to let websites loading much faster. More about this soon!

The most effect of it when you have a motherborad with HPET off.

Your results? I've tested this flag and NONE of the SEVERAL quantifiable measurements (ie, the only real way to truly eliminate Placebo Effect) shows any "considerable" performance difference. Sorry, you have to be a bit patient. I am testing so much and can't say anything qualified about one single flag. Too much flags here and too much other performance settings to identify the effects of a single flag.

Ok. Didn't notice that. Then it wasn't a request for normal DNS after all

Thanks! I will test this flag.

I think you posted in the wrong thread. This is about @roytam1's browsers and not Supermium. There are no Chrome processes here, fortunately.

Strange, it doesn't mention whether these fixes were applied. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html

They say you need to launch from a specially created icon (shortcut), did you do that? https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/531#issue-2275990442

Guess I'm lucky I'm not everyone and Pale Moon still manages all "important" sites. The latter have certainly gotten worse, though I don't care about GitHub, X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, DRM encumbered media...pretty much don't care for 99% of the internet. Don't care about Firefox either, it has become a (buggy) monstrosity I don't recognize anymore and I have no time nor interest for seeking workarounds for stuff that recently worked as expected. I've set it up quite some time ago for the family member, assuming it will be "safer" option than Pale Moon...well that was a mistake, Firefox doesn't play videos properly anymore on a humble 5 years old laptop with Intel HD 610, it either lags and the sound is screwed up (with HW acceleration) or it lags and the sound is OK (without HW acceleration). Put Pale Moon on it and it's been smooth sailing ever since.

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