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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
Where i can download ACPI 2.0 drivers (ACPI v6666) for Windows XP?
j7n replied to DeLoreanTimeMachine22's topic in Windows XP
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
With security.csp.enable set to false, archive.org loads. What are the real drawbacks of disabling CSP? -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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 -
I meant a common SSD with a SATA cable and a standard driver, not the special Stchrom driver.
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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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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I think it's normal that the program hides or deletes previous visitations to the same address. I'm not looking for an incriminating log of activity within a certain period, but recent automatic bookmarks. I have added the settings, but time will tell if the history grows bigger. I can't get it past Last 7 days. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Do I need to place these entries in user.js and not in about:config? user_pref("places.history.expiration.max_pages", 2147483647); user_pref("places.history.expiration.interval_seconds", 2147483647); I don't have a user.js file, where does it go? -
Webp Virus, fears, nightmares, suggestions, or exodus from the internet?
j7n replied to Dixel's topic in Web Browsers
I don't know who installs image codecs at the OS level. Is there even such a thing? Microsoft had FLT codecs that only worked in Office. We probably won't see webP files being distributed outside of the web for images like album artwork in hopes of crashing Foobar2000. Any webp file I open on my computer in IrfanView I would have intentionally saved because it had real content. I've tried disabling WebP in my browsers in the past because usually it is transcoded from JPEG with an additional quality loss, but then I sometimes got no images at all.- 126 replies
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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
If I set image.webp.enabled to false, some websites like YouTube stop loading images. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
What harm could the webP vulnerability cause practically? Can they include a program in the picture file that does something useful? People seem to be worried about image viewers. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I installed the extension. Can it increase the number of addresses to keep in history? My problem was that I remembered visiting a certain page, but not all the details, and it had fallen out of the history too soon. What is "async" in the context of Firefox. I understand how two processes can be asynchronous. But how does this term apply to the dyna,mic size of history? In Opera I have 50000 entries. It is endless. Sounded like Firefox admitted that their browser isn't particularly efficient when they decreased the size. -
Old Microsoft Windows Quickview Win 95-98 ported to Xp And Vista
j7n replied to AMIRZ's topic in Windows XP
I skimmed the quote and thought that he asked about executable files specifically. For images and sound there are players that most people know of, like IrfanView or Media Player Classic. Maybe QuickView had uses in 1999. It doesn't support new formats that were invented since then. I don't know about viewers for Office programs. There used to be a mini Word and Excel viewer by Microsoft, but I never used those. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Can I change the history size of visited addresses in New Moon? In number of items or how many days to keep it? -
Old Microsoft Windows Quickview Win 95-98 ported to Xp And Vista
j7n replied to AMIRZ's topic in Windows XP
For example, "PE Tools" by NEOx/uinC. -
Old Microsoft Windows Quickview Win 95-98 ported to Xp And Vista
j7n replied to AMIRZ's topic in Windows XP
Why is this program desirable? The formats it can open are limited, and you can get another small application that is equally as good for images/sound or gives more comprehensive report on the PE header with editing capabilities. -
I know about shady sites that require a premium account, but these are not among them. There you usually have to wait 30 to 60 seconds. For example on SourceForge, there is a circular counter that goes from 5 to 0 and then the download starts. You can also click on Problems Downloading directly. On ModDB you see a white box with a clickable link. Having an account on these sites doesn't bypass the intermediary dialog.