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    How long to wait?
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    How does a browser cause a BSOD?
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    Your JPEG screenshot is noticeably degraded, which you can see if you look around the red icons on the GUI. This distorts the comparison. This program is mainly useful to decode downloaded images that can't be decoded on WinXP at all. With fast networks and large disks, one can easily use high quality JPEG. Extreme compression is not necessary today. All these advanced formats load very slowly. JPEG-XL is somewhat better because it includes options for producing a lower complexity file that is easier to decode, but you're no in control over them if you download images from the internet.
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    Vista, pity the "poor" Sv2003 users who can't post in the XP forum. On topic, it seems that recent New Moon 28 that I updated works better on Facebook. I can post comments to post without waiting for so long, or having the text cursor return to position 0.
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    This program is more valuable now that YouTube has begun a fight against ad-blockers in the web browser. Advertisements, on top of the overhead of the browser, lead to very poor experience. A method of disabling YTDL is likely in the works too because we can buypass the whole site by loading a video through search results.
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    I'm beginning to understand why Mozilla considered the version number to be a "bug" at one point. They have successfully subverted it. After updating to Serpent 52 in place and copying over the existing profile, ClickPlayPics now work with "low" CPU usage. It is very simple, and I can't observe a difference between angle on and off. Aquarium has the same performance as in Serpent 55.
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    It's the "55" version. I don't know what the differences between them are exactly, and assumed that is sligthly newer and better. The WebGL that work don't have any sound.
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    I updated to the latest Serpent. In-place updates seem to go smoothly with this browser. https://i.imgur.com/9gE6b14.png
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    I get the following: Timestamp: 10/15/2023 4:52:02 PM Error: uncaught exception: TypeError: Argument 1 of AudioContext.constructor '[object Object]' is not a valid value for enumeration AudioChannel. Timestamp: 10/15/2023 4:52:02 PM Warning: Error: WebGL warning: texSubImage2D: Conversion requires pixel reformatting. Source File: https://play.ninjadoodle.com/clickplaypics/scripts/c3runtime.js Line: 580 Timestamp: 10/15/2023 4:52:02 PM Error: uncaught exception: TypeError: Argument 1 of AudioContext.constructor '[object Object]' is not a valid value for enumeration AudioChannel. I don't know web development and how to interpret these errors. Some other WebGL runs, so it's not that simple that it doesn't work. Does the content from webglsamples.org run for you? OpenGL can run far more comples animations than Flash could on the CPU alone. Whether we need them on the web is another matter. I could download a game to the disk once with less effort than to tweak a browser. Simple drawings were faster in Flash than with other technologies. It was made back when Pentium II processors were in use. Remember gaming magazine front-ends built in Macromedia Director or Flash.
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    For me it also uses 70% of Core 2 Duo in New Moon 28 under Server 2008 R2. I haven't been able to reduce the CPU usage. The "game" won't start in Serpent. The interface stays black and says 100%. https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html I can launch 1000 fish in Serpent. 5000 fish max out the processor and the image is choppy around 40 fps. If I configure webgl.disable-angle = false, I can only launch 500 fish in Serpent. At 5000 fish the processor is overburdened and yields 10 fps. It's baffling that they included a slow translation layer by default. The image is always choppy in New Moon 28, and uses around 70% of the processor. I don't know what is up with that.
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    What is an example of a WebGL page that can be accessed quickly, to test performance? In the past I visited a few such sites and played a browser game, but I don't recall the names of them. You had to disable "angle" because it attempted to translate all the calls into Direct3D, with a high CPU usage overhead, for no reason. CPU usually gets maxed out with modern (and not so modern) websites, and must be conserved. On any normal computer, including with Intel Graphics, you can play OpenGL Quake, and on a "modern" PC, even play Euro Truck Simulator 2. That's odd that the Radio Browser works for you, but doesn't for me. It's probably something I configured with JavaScript indeed.
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    Why does this website show a grey screen for me in New Moon and Serpent and not work? https://www.radio-browser.info/ It looks rather plain and ugly in Opium with mostly text-based UI.
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    If you don't have a modern motherboard that crashes with normal ACPI, then you probably won't benefit from the update. If it the PC crashes during installation, you need to brutally include the file into the ISO/CD. The backup copy is stored in a folder called dllcache where you could delete it from to prevent it being restored.
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    I couldn't get anywhere interesting on Lights Hello Enjoy. After waiting for a long time I could click Play, which brought me to a scene of a grey hills. Portions of them illuminated in pulses without interactivity or sound. A 3D scene is a modern invention and an old browser can't be used. The Archive is always very slow to respond, which is ok if I need to read a text or get a small zip. Feels like they have little elves that pick up a disk, dust it off and insert it.
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    I'd call Opera 12 an old browser with some merits, such as integrated functionality without dependencies on plugins, and good performance on old computers with sites that don't have a lot of JavaScript (quite likely amongst archival content). To browse a site from the Archive in Opera 12, I need to copy its URL from another browser. I can't see the timeline of available snapshots above the webpage to select from. It used to be available in the past. Verta, does your e-mail service require the latest security protocols to access? If not, there are other more light-weight mail clients. For example, my e-mail server offers an alternate "insecure" access deep in the help topics, and I am able to use Opera. Maybe an old Pegasus Mail or The Bat.
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    After I disabled CSP and re-enabled it, the site now redirects to HTTPS and loads (even while CSP is again enabled). It also loads when I directly type in https. It seems to remember some state from earlier, despite a cleared history. Normally I never type https colon slash, and just go with whichever the site is happy with.
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    With security.csp.enable set to false, archive.org loads. What are the real drawbacks of disabling CSP?
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    Thank you for checking AstroSkipper! For me, web.archive.org works too. I didn't know that the subdomain "web" could be used. In Chromium there are animated tiles on the main archive.org, which are probably too complex.
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    Does the main page or archive . org result in a white screen in New Moon and Serpent for you? My configs are far from vanilla now to work around different issues. https://i.imgur.com/PmpyUFv.png
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    TRIM for XP

    j7n replied to Dietmar's topic in Windows XP

    I meant a common SSD with a SATA cable and a standard driver, not the special Stchrom driver.
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    TRIM for XP

    j7n replied to Dietmar's topic in Windows XP

    Can O&O Defrag trim a regular SATA disk under WinXP?
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    I've never heard of that either. I suspect there might be a limit to the rate at which packets can be fetched, but not a strict round number for the resulting bitrate.
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    If they only cared about drivers, and not to impose a restriction, they could have defaulted to /MAXMEM=3072 or some other number, and allow it to be lifted and observe system stability. Now the maxmem is hardcoded.
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    I'd be curious if you could try Server 2003 and see if the problem persists. It is superior in most aspects.
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    Perhaps the author forgot that the browser is overall quite wasteful and that the list is managed by a database, but vaguely remembered that adding an entry to the end of a list is simpler than deleting one and shifting the remaining entries into the freed space. So he had a bright idea to save some writes and processor.
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