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After several attempts it worked.

Obviously the Firefox default APISet dll loading of dependentlibs.list doesn't get along with forwarding dll's in the registry by knownDlls here. In details: The file "dependentlibs.list" is in the Firefox program folder. MSVCP140.dll api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll VCRUNTIME140.dll api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll mozglue.dll api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll nss3.dll lgpllibs.dll api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll xul.dll => New: dependentlibs.list for Firefox 49 - 52.9 and Cyberfox 49 - 52.9.1 mozglue.dll nss3.dll lgpllibs.dll xul.dll ---------------- I also had Thunderbird 52.9 running. Still to be noted - the account wizard doesn't open (it freezes on start). MyPal: The "address bar workaround" to set search.json to read only may not work. I want to investigate further. The AzureContentBackend skia probably works fine on it. dependentlibs.list for MyPal (28 / 29) and Centaury: mozglue.dll nss3.dll gkmedias.dll lgpllibs.dll mozsqlite3.dll xul.dll Screenshot MyPal 29.2 on ME Centaury crashed with skia AzureContentBackend. So stay with cairo and use CTR. dependentlibs.list for SeaMonkey (2.46 - 2.49.5) and Thunderbird (52 - 52.9.1): LDAP60.dll mozglue.dll nss3.dll PRLDAP60.dll lgpllibs.dll xul.dll Msvcp140.dll and vcruntime140.dll aren't knowndll's and may remain in the file.

Finally, I've found the problem. I'm running Firefox 52.9 esr. FF49+ doesn't run with the ApiSet Dll's in the dependentlibs.list on ME so that the ApiSet Dll entries must be removed. Supplement and Explanation: The reason is almost all MS APISet dll's aren't loadable on ME/98! This means Firefox tries to load them, but can't and outputs the message "Couldn't load XPCOM" and discontinues the start. The problem can be worked around with forwarding in the registry to Kernel32.dll and ucrtbase.dll. MyPal 28 and 29 start and run, too, but I've the issue of FF 28 - 44 "Input in address bar doesn't work after a while or second start anymore / Search Engine List is empty".

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Some tests on XP: I mean that CID49/52 runs as good as FF49/52 on XP. CID needs the api-ms-win files just like Firefox. I can add them to system32 or the program folder. These were simply removed. Basically it is a Firefox with some additional security features/extensions. At this point, I cannot say whether these extensions are working properly here. What doesn't work is the installer! And I started Firefox on XP to compare about:support > failure log regarding "Unrecognized feature WEBRENDER". I had set FF52 to Compositing Basic (Hardware Acceleration disabled) and this error info appeared here, too. Then on ME, I started CID50 without profile (first run), but with a prefs.js and Hardware Acceleration enabled/D3D9. With the result that the message did not appear at least for the time being. It could be a new message/info of any failure regarding to a failing WebGL Renderer or feature. More research is needed to make this message clear. Probably it will never possible to use webgl without driver support on ME/98.

Do you mean the ImportPatcher to Vista? No, I think the exe. Icedragon is usually set to XPSP2. It also starts with XPSP3, but not with Vista and higher. I experimented with DX11 files and had set CID for this purpose to Win7. Those tests are still at the very beginning. Sorry, now it's late in Germany and I'll go to bed. Jumper, many thanks for looking at this. Tomorrow I'll try the redirection. "Cid starting doesn't mean that it works completely." Maybe not, but I think it reaches 90% of stability and functionality of Firefox 52 on XP.

roytam1, thanks for the information. It seems to me that skia works better on WinME.

My msvcrt is 7.0.9981.0. (VLC Player requires 7.0) I also had tried to run Firefox 49+ with version 6.1.9848.0 and the original, but always without success. I assume that ucrtbase works with IceDragon 49,50 and 52 (because IceDragon runs), but then apparently not with Firefox 49 - 52. Just tested IceDragon to start without these registry strings again. I deleted them and then CID didn't start anymore! "API-MS-Win-Crt-Conio-l1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-Win-Crt-Convert-l1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-ENVIRONMENT-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-FILESYSTEM-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-HEAP-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-Win-Crt-Locale-l1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-MATH-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-MULTIBYTE-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-PRIVATE-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-Win-Crt-Process-l1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-RUNTIME-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-STDIO-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-STRING-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-TIME-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" "API-MS-WIN-CRT-UTILITY-L1-1-0"="UCRTBASE.DLL" So isn't it a proof that it works?

I found only two and I think minor differences (selected) in the tree view before the break. DW LOGS: Both bring up the message "Couldn't load XPCOM" during profiling. CID with line Unloaded "WINMM.DLL" at address 0xBFDD0000", FF with line "DllMain(0x10000000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x00000001) in "MOZGLUE.DLL" returned 1 (0x1)." much earlier. CID loads after this line WSock32.dll, but FF not. After OK check on message the profiling continues. I doesn't get the message on CID start. CID usually runs without an error message. I get the message on FF start and it is aborted. Kexstubs.log: FF nothing and CID "= ntdll.dll:RtlIpv6StringToAddressW=o3 =" , but this line is also logged when FF4x is running. KernelEXAPILog: "Couldn't load XPCOM" with 1 f0265bb5 [Firefox.exe]004087e8:<Kernel32.dll>LoadLibraryW bfc00000 FF KEXAPILOG.doc

ComodoIceDragon doesn't start without the APISetStub-strings in key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\KnownDLLs. I attached it here once more. The UCRTBASE.DLL must be added into the program or system folder, too. That again to requirements. And I have just compared CID 50 with FF50.0.2 (both have the same Gecko version) with DW. The tree of Firefox breaks to early after kexbases. Before that, both are almost exact identical. Jumper, what do you think? Knowndlls.txt

I think you are looking for that.

A small compilation of possible or useful browser settings: Datareporting disabled: user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.unified", false); Awesomefonts for icons (example): Awesomefonts must be installed user_pref("font.name-list.sans-serif.x-unicode", "Arial, Symbola, FontAwesome, Font Awesome 5 Free Solid, Font Awesome 5 Free Regular, Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular, Segoe UI Emoji, OpenSansEmoji, Microsoft Sans Serif"); user_pref("font.name-list.sans-serif.x-western", "Arial, Symbola, FontAwesome, Font Awesome 5 Free Solid, Font Awesome 5 Free Regular, Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular, Segoe UI Emoji, OpenSansEmoji, Microsoft Sans Serif"); user_pref("font.name-list.serif.x-unicode", "Tahoma, Symbola, FontAwesome, Font Awesome 5 Free Solid, Font Awesome 5 Free Regular, Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular, Segoe UI Emoji, OpenSansEmoji, Arial"); user_pref("font.name-list.serif.x-western", "Tahoma, Symbola, FontAwesome, Font Awesome 5 Free Solid, Font Awesome 5 Free Regular, Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular, Segoe UI Emoji, OpenSansEmoji, Arial"); To try: user_pref("gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.display.use_document_fonts", 0); or 1 user_pref("gfx.downloadable_fonts.woff2.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", false); maybe a bit more pleasant to edit user_pref("browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll", true); user_pref("browser.urlbar.trimURLs", false); to see the whole URL user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 32768); small value saves HDD space (of course more easy to set in options>advanced>network) user_pref("loop.enabled", false); Hello extension disabled if not needed extensions.pocket.enabled;false Pocket extension disabled if not needed Tab and icon glitches: user_pref("gfx.content.azure.backends", "skia,cairo"); Skia unsuitable on RT's FF45 / KM76 and IceCat / direct2D not supported UserAgent: user_pref("general.useragent.override", "(..."); example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 D3D9 Hardware Acceleration: user_pref("layers.acceleration.force-enabled", true); user_pref("layers.prefer-d3d9", true); Disabling or deleting unsupported features (but otherwise blocked): webGL, d3d11 and direct2D media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva;false user_pref("webgl.angle.try-d3d11", false); user_pref("webgl.disable-angle", true); webgl.disable-extensions;true user_pref("webgl.disable-wgl", true); user_pref("webgl.disabled", true); user_pref("webgl.enable-webgl2", false); user_pref("gfx.direct2d.disabled", true); gfx.direct2d.use1_1;false gfx.canvas.azure.backends;direct2d1.1,skia,cairo gfx.content.azure.backends;direct2d1.1,cairo to install unsigned Addons: user_pref("xpinstall.signatures.required", false); Video - YouTube (if necessary): user_pref("media.mediasource.webm.enabled", true); NewTabPage: user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", false); crashes of versions 2x and 3x are possible if enabled Cleartype: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype.always_use_for_content;true

RT's KM76 and RT's FF45 crash with skia AzureContentBackend here and on IceCat 38.8 is nothing readable. Cyberfox 48 is OK.

Tab and icon glitches: The AzureContentBackend was changed with 52 from cairo to skia. I found the change to skia works for lower versions, too. I've successfully tested it with versions 31 and higher. 28 - 30 don't accept skia and cairo remains. The matching setting is (added skia): gfx.content.azure.backends;direct2d1.1,skia,cairo. Direct2D doesn't work anyway - it needs DX11. Direct2D can be deleted. (Release notes FF52: When not using Direct2D on Windows, Skia is used for content rendering) A possible new glitch is probably sporadic letters that were slightly out of place and reduced in size. After browser restart the glitch is gone again. I observed it on CID 52. NewTabPage feature: The customising of the NewTabPage is basically possible, if I added the appropriate bookmarks on XP (not possible on ME) for the desired thumbnails on the NewTabPage. Then it's possible to drag the bookmarks on the NewTabPage. I tested this on CID version 50. I assume that this also applies to Firefox versions 42 and higher. But I haven't tried this so far. According to my experience lower FF versions 2x and 3x often instantly crashed when I tried to open the NewTabPage. So that I used to turn it off. Compositing CID 49/50 : Basic: There are still but rare menu glitches here. I get two messages in about:support/Failure log 1. unrecognised feature webrender 2. DrawTargetCairo::Snapshot with bad surface 1 (repeated) Then with Hardware acceleration enabled D3D9: I see only "unrecognised feature webrender"

There is no UI glitch (window is not completely displayed) on CID 49 - 52 anymore. Compositing is Basic. So there is no need to enable Hardware Acceleration for this purpose. Moreover the tab and icon glitches are gone with version 52. And I think I don't have crashes with "browser.newtabpage.enabled";true on higher versions, but considering that it is useless, it's better to set an URL with CTR (ClassicThemeRestorer )anyway. Other issues must still be taken into account.

Ok, I have read that CID 50.0.0.2+ isn't installable on XP anymore. So I installed 52 and 57 clean on Win7 for test and comparison purposes. The installer works initially on ME. I'm able to check portable and choose a destination folder, but when I click the install button a message "not enough free space" appears and I can't go any further. So there are two possibilities: A portable installation on Win7 (Vista) to use it afterwards on ME. Or as I said to extract the Setup with 7Zip and simply run the exe (XPSP2 mode). I have not yet eroded the exact requirements. I attached my current Kexstubs.ini. And see additional requirements for FF42 - 48. Kexstubs.7z

I'm running the Firefox fork IceDragon 52.0.0.4 32-bit! ( download FileHorse/FileHippo). The program doesn't come with any Win7 APISet dll's (api-ms-win-core) inside what probably makes it much easier to run it on ME (98). The installer stops with an error message. Possible is to unzip it with 7Zip. Then it runs portable. Tomorrow I'll try to install it clean and portable on XP, too. It is quite positive, that it runs without Tab and icon glitches here. The next higher version I found is 57.0.0.4, but it didn't start on the first try. It would be good, if I find somewhere the release notes / history or a complete archive.

I have set audio output modul to waveout for all versions 3.0.x due to repeated playback problems with automatic. WaveOut is completely OK to my ears. 3.0.13 (win32) is already in the vlc archive, but not on Vlc download page. And many thanks for your answer and tips.

Oh, checked it on a second machine and the videos play. Think one of my latest Kext test entries is the culprit. =>Last week I experimented with Blinkopera and had added for it several API's to kexstubs.ini. The problem was [D3D9.DLL] Direct3DCreate9Ex.

I'm looking for a working "video output modules" setting for VLC player update 3.0.13 - so far without success. VLC crashes or give a Vlc-cone flicker with openGL. I had set 3.0.12 to Direct Draw., but this doesn't work anymore. Audio files are still playable.

Hallo HarryTheGamerGuy, welcome on MSFN. http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/Help:Contents https://www.dll-files.com/unicows.dll.html (version 1.1.3790.0! not older)

You're welcome!

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Hallo Bruninho, the youtube website is stable (Player (stats): codecs VP9 (243) / opus (251) only) on Firefox 48.0.2 /45.9 /Cyberfox 48.0.2 (WebRTC peer connection must be disabled in CF). I don't remember any crashes. But this means not all movies can be played. RT's Firefox 45.9.33 or K-Meleon 76 have better support to play all videos (ffmpeg). These are slightly less stable. An error in XUL.dll can be possible and with that error the browser will crash. I mean the site formula1.com is not always well rendered and FF48/CF48 don't play the videos. Many icons are missing. But they don't crash. I haven't made a complete moodle check with CF48/FF48 - only three minutes. Moodle.org generally makes a good impression. Moodle sandbox demo worked here. SCORM lessons? not checked. Bruninho, this is a snapshot, tomorrow everything can be different on the web.

I never used the RZ eMail client before, but I just tried it with one of my accounts (freenet) and I was able to receive the mails. Maybe openSSL is worth trying (https://msfn.org/board/topic/174247-windows-9x-ssl-protocol-winsslwrap-117-rev-08/) (http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1591502.html) . I still use OutlookExpress 6 as my main client with the help of WinSSLWrap on ME. It is sufficient for text, photos and attachments. For unsupported contents I run Thunderbird 45 (KernelEx/Kext) or have to switch to XP and TB 52.