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A "hardware" firewall is a misnomer. What is usually meant by this is an embedded computer running some software for network routing, often linux. It's no more hardware than another PC. A shortcoming of such a device is that it can only differentiate between computers and port numbers, not applications. It is convenient for setting up filters that apply to all computers on the network where configuring a firewall would be impractical, fresh installations, guests, portable devices.

Where specifically do you observe a greater speed in Windows 2000 compared to XP with superfluous services, system file protection, and the visual theme switched off? The boot time in XP is shorter, with a similar size of startup programs and drivers(!). For a weird reason, there is a significant delay when deleting files in Total Commander under Windows 2000. I don't have much experience with Win2k and am probably missing more important differences. I get this WOW experience using any old OS, especially freshly installed, on a modern hard drive.

I would vote for the group of Windows 2000/XP/2003 as the same product. Not sure why 2003 is mixed with 64-bit, when the later was not so good due to poor support. I didn't welcome the additions to XP, such as the visual style and system restore. But those parts can be disabled or removed, with less effort than required for later Microsoft products. XP has had a much longer useful life than any other version, and well worth the disadvantages. "Extended kernels" do not count towards the above OS, if they copy libraries from later products, as is the case with the BWC and OneCore. I cannot accept the increased system requirements of Vista for a marginal improvement at best over the predecessor. Nothing comparable to switching from DOS to NT. And I recall that some components actually performed much worse, such as the new network stack, event viewer, certain file copy operations, leaks with entercriticalsection. Sure, it may work acceptably given a sufficiently capable computer, but the purpose of a computer is not to run Windows, but to be useful for an application. This inefficiency is worse than user interface changes. NT 6.2 is the second worst product, with the disastrous flat visual design on top of the already increased memory footprint. Out of the box NT 6.0 seems better than NT 6.1 to me, as it can be customized to more closely resemble previous versions. But again, the lifespan of Seven/R2 trumps that.

I'm a user of WinXP since around 2006 after I failed to make Win98 work satisfactory on my new intel 915 series computer. I resisted switching to it for a long time, because I knew the the old platform intimately, but had to admit that NT was a better system for stability. By this time Windows 2000 was already on its way out and I didn't feel a need to investigate it. Intially I experienced discomfort and frustration with the bare installation. I still feel that way always when install a new OS. But I started with SP1, which didn't have that many restrictions in it as later releases, and soon I also discovered the nLite tool. For I time I maintained a side-by-side installation of Win98 and Win2000 as an equivalent to booting in safe mode / command prompt only for recovery. But I rarely used them, and eventually uninstalled to recover space on the system volume. Recently I switched one of my computers, an Intel B75M, to Server 2003 for the sake of the cooler name, to gain access to about half a gig additional RAM and supposedly better network driver. It's still basically XP in mosts aspects. The machine wasn't used much, but the time I had to spend reconfiguring it to the previous state and installing software was massive. For this reason I'll stay with the current installation of XP SP1 on my other older Intel 965 computer until it fails, because I've customized it extensively in the registry and added over a hundred 3rd party programs, conveniently integrated with associations. Even reinstalling the same OS version would be most disruptive. As long as XP is fully functional and stable, with all working drivers, it remains the most efficient choice for utilizing the capabilities of the hardware. I would probably not accept poor stability or components not functional, as was the case when switching from win98, and only then consider NT6. I use WinXP for word processing, web, banking, e-mail, the usual stuff, and the Server mainly for editing sound files. No antivirus, I abandoned it still in the Win98 days as unnecessary burden. Efficiently configured with small system partitions for all application software, mostly old versions with small footprint, and capable of months of uptime. I'm pleasantly surprised to find no issues with PAE at least up to 4 GB.

The most annoying blue light sources in computer hardware are high power indicator LEDs on case, loudspeakers, network routers and similar. When blue LEDs were invented, they put them on most devices. I can read under a pair of such lights. I don't think I have a problem with them being blue, but with how intense they are. They shouldn't draw attention to themselves just because the HDD is active or the speakers are turned on. A practical reason why I wouldn't sit too close to a conventional television is the flicker from the 50 Hz refresh rate in peripheral vision, worse than on computer screens. The most comfortable setting on an LCD monitor for me is the lowest intensity backlight. This enables my eyes to stay dark-adapted for seeing in the room. This also reduces the absolute intensity of the blue light as a side effect. The fluorescent backlight also happens to be a little ugly yellow in my case, and I've adjusted the settings under color temperature. Most screens should have OSD controls for the color "temperature" that don't require any software overhead on the PC. To me, the screen appears white after I've gotten used to it, and I don't do any comparisons with printed material. In the bedroom and toiler I use natural looking incandescent or halogen lights with LEDs limited to other rooms. Now that I think about it, the screen can't possibly match any of those for accurate professional work. Clever people are now getting good business opportunities from blue filtering gadgets.

Does the unlabelled build require SSE2 instructions (others being sse and ia32)? Probably not an issue with any Intel CPU. If it is a PIII then it is too slow to run modern heavy scripted sites. What non-SSE2 enabled CPU can you practically use with a modern web browser today?

I pay €14 for 100/100 megabits. It is supposed to be reach up to 300 megabits, but I only have a Fast Ethernet line, and I get that speed in evening hours. It is in Latvia where subscriptions are cheap in cities, and apartment buildings are all wired with Ethernet.

Why would you need an automated program for selecting drivers anyway? Just save the half a dozen drivers that match your hardware to reinstall them as necessary. Rename the installation file so that it clearly show the version/date and supported OS versions inside. New driver versions usually improve compatibility with other new hardware/OS or games, which might be outside the capability of the old system anyway, add new device ids, but sometimes make the driver perform worse with old software (such as losing dithering in 16-bit).

I do not believe that a full row highlight is possible to achieve. The other columns are td.m, td.s and td.t, and are not nested under the anchor you use as the key. What could be the reason why New Moon 28 doesn't release the memory and stop using CPU if I close all tabs? Usually happens after browsing heavy sites. Memory usage still around 700 MB and occasional CPU spikes with everything inside the browser closed.

Do you encounter sites that don't work at all with New Moon 27, but work fine in 28? I prefer the most compatibility, otherwise I could just continue using an older version of vanilla Firefox. Simpler sites compatible with any browser are fast enough anyway. After switching from Opera the speed of New Moon seems excellent for me. : )

Thanks, uBlock0_1.16.4.26.firefox-legacy.xpi works well, and I can add items to a list without restart. The main reason I am looking into this is to attempt to trim down youtube. Is there a way, via extension or filter, to stop loading any videos at all? I want to browse and see comments, but watch exclusively with SMPlayer. With the old site I had managed to hide the video window entirely and browsing was quite fast. Setting /media.autoplay.enabled/ in New Moon gets me partway there, but the site still loads a few static advertisements and texts about being unable to load the video. Sorry for the offtopic.

What is the best extension currently working with Palemoon 28 for blocking advertisements? I want an easy access to the url filter list to amend it, and the least load on the processor. Something like the Opera browser. I am currently using a DNS server, but I want to block some very heavy scripts.

The Add to Search Bar plugin will be useful. I like that I can select the icon. What I do not see anywhere in that plugin is an ability to edit the URL of the search query, for example to change the scope, number or results, filters, and so on. Until now I went to the browser\searchplugins\ directory and added the search there, but getting an icon changed was hard because it is encoded. It does not seem to me that having a settings window is bloat. Most applications (other than web browsers) have that. And in its present form it is 50 KB. But I also won't argue about it. The dialog is a good aid for using visual memory to recall settings. After I install the browser onto a new computer, I can't remember which several dozen options I need to tweak from the flat list. Firefox with its extensions is very odd. If they (Mozilla, whatever) added a couple more textboxes to Manage Search Engines, it would take way less than 50 kb, and the program would be self-contained, ready to be used out of the box. Tell me about Youtube... I am trying to press Pause to launch SMPlayer, and it just keeps playing Simon and Joe and Doodahly.

Can you include Pale Moon Commander into the package? It is a small GUI in the style of existing dialogs for configuring preferences of about:config. A dialog should have been in the browser from day one. What is your position on extending the Pale Moon browser with functions that do not exist upstream? I am thinking for an easier way of adding search engines (searchable forums, databases, etc.). The Web, including modern MSFN, unfortunately is among the highest CPU load applications I regularly use. And yet one often can read claims that for web browsing one needs only an inexpensive, low power nettop/netbook... Very nice website Soggi.

What could be the reason why I can't install the extension "Tamper Data" by Adam Judson in Palemoon? It loads and its Settings page works. But I do not see an entry in the Tools menu to use it. I've succeeded transferring my other extensions from Firefox 28, without any BS about maxVersion or signatures.

I installed SMPlayer on Windows 2003 SP2 and it can't download streams over SSL connection. This applies to retrieving a YouTube page for video extraction, or direct links to media files. In the log it says that "SSL handshake failed". The program comes with its own SSL libeay32.dll / ssleay32.dll and should work like all good programs. I also tried it on a virtual machine with SP1. The Svr2003 has a couple updates relating to AES and RSA. SMPlayer works on old machines with Windows XP. I tried so far to revert to the original unpatched system DLLs, and changing the security settings for the Internet zone. What could be the cause of this? EDIT: Problem has been resolved by updating certificates inside Windows using RootsUpd and Cert Updater 1.6! I haven't used those in ages and didn't think external SSL depended on them.

Why must there be so much JavaScript bloat. It always gets justified with security, modern, clean and responsive. Does anyone remember "Feather", a light-weight front-end to the site? In New Moon, the "polymer" YouTube is slower than the previous layout in Opera (and Opera is very slow). The "mobile" layout loads fast. But I can't right-click on a link to bring up the context menu. It gets interpreted as a left click and the link is followed.

The world map is OpenGL accelerated. It loads nvoglnt.dll on my system. Maybe some configuration there prevents it from working. Angle, etc. The engine in Otter is much slower. I've given up on that browser. New sites tend to be loaded^2 almost always. https://i.imgur.com/Fy4Tl8R.jpg

Radio Garden "works" for me in New Moon. The map shows, moves and streams get loaded. But the UI has a high CPU usage, as expected, and audio output is unstable, choppy or replays a short buffer over and over again, possibly an incompatiblity with my audio interface. If you mean this by not working then I have to agree. Seems like a poor design to run the audio and the heavy UI in the same process of the browser... Seems like all the streams are normal HTTP downloads (icecast) that can be played in Winamp. But extracting the links from the network log is inconvenient.

There could be a situation that some components of the software don't load on WinXP while it appears to install and even start. Last version of SMPlayer for XP is 17.3; later versions have a new MPV module. Without a video codec, a player does nothing. IrfanView past 4.53 has a couple incompatible DLLs, one of them WebP. XnView also has a WebP dll. Maybe add a mark on your list for partially working titles. I've read back in the thread a reference about something being officially supported. Probably it is more important that the program works than if somebody on its developer's forum will answer questions about it ("support"). The very latest versions are usually not the best on XP... ugly flat design, require too much memory, slow.

The version of MPV that works for me is mpv-i686-20151029.7z (exe = 30,859,283 bytes). The version unfortunately has to be recent, to work with separate video/audio streams in the current format. Select "adaptive steams" on the network tab in preferences. It will probably stop working soon again as the system is changed. I'm surprised how long have the developers of SM etc., have had the patience to work around innovations from Google. It mostly works, apart from occasional video/audio mismatch after long seeks backwards. I didn't realize that there are gigabytes of extensions. The ones I had were quite small. But it doesn't surprise me. Open bookmark on new tab - one extension, view image onto a new tab - another extension.... Mozilla could have rolled the most popular functions into their browser instead of developing useless design stuff.

I don't understand the question. A number of programs, besides a web browser, can download (stream) files over network. This extension ("Open With") creates a menu where a direct link can be handed over to one of those programs for processing. SMPlayer also has a kind of a parser inside it for YouTube that can extract the actual link from a webpage. A video player has greater functionality, much lighter interface, runs isolated from other processes and contains all needed decoders without caring about patents. An example use case would be with own server where media files can be browsed by directory. https://superuser.com/questions/889965/ CAA is a collection of extensions for the browser. It was recommended to me by another member. Unfortunately, with Firefox, most customization requres an extension, even though the base package already is around 40 MB.

Keep a name that relates to either Firefox or Moon to accurately describe what the core of it really is. There already are too many flavors of Firefox that don't differ that much. Avoid wrong or silly NSFW associations: "bird" is a mail client and RT is Microsoft's OS for portables. Maybe Moon Whistler, but not Whistler alone as that is the whole of Windows.

I added external viewers using extension "Open With" by Geoff Lankow, which can be found in JustOff's extensions archive "CAA". This basic function should really be part of the base package, like external editors in graphics programs. Viewing video in the browser is an awful experience, as is digging through about:config. Another problem I encountered is a global ban (!) on Cloud Flare (many sites) based on the browser's "signature" and a failed "integrity check". I've customized it a bit for a few days, but have done nothing that would incur a ban. Anybody else getting this problem? I was getting this problem before adding any extensions, and noticed it again because the add-ons were hosted on CF. My IP is not banned, only the signature of New Moon. https://i.imgur.com/b53Ai0U.png Another question: Can the extended validation field in the URL bar be diasabled to extend the available space and avoid the text jumping when edited? I've succeeded removing the padlock symbol.

What options are available for adding external programs to a menu of the page (that is already open) and hyperlinks in Firefox, in particular New Moon? I want to open media files and YouTube pages in players such as SMPlayer or Winamp, as I can do for now in Opera. The program should receive the HTTP hyperlink as a command-line argument. This is a convenient simple function that should be in browsers. As I understand it, XUL extensions have been removed from the Firefox website.