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AIUI it's supposed to be similar to @Dibya's Extended XP. Unfortunately I think it's illegal: https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16868 I suppose it would be legal for you to use on your own system if you own licensed copies of all those OSes, but don't post any links here. It would get MSFN in big trouble.

Yes it is. When I hear Quantum I think of a line of Duracell batteries. But Wikipedia lists: Businesses and products Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of computer data storage products Quantum Sports Cars, a British-built low-volume car manufacturer Volkswagen Quantum Quantum, a line of Maksutov telescopes that were manufactured by Optical Techniques Incorporated (OTI) Quantum, line of small engines made by Briggs and Stratton Quantum-class cruise ship MS Quantum of the Seas Computing QUANTUM, a suite of attack software by the US National Security Agency (NSA) Quantum compression, a file compression format QGIS, an open source GIS program for map-drawing and related functions, formerly called Quantum GIS A time slice in computer pre-emptive multitasking Quantum computing, the study of hypothetical computers based on quantum-mechanical principles Quantum (statistical programming language), a programming language for statistical analysis developed by Quantime Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of Hard Disk products from 1980 to 2001 Quantum project of Mozilla to improve its Firefox web browser engine I see they mentioned Firefox but not Duracell. At any rate, only one of the above uses, quantum computing, has anything to do with the scientific meaning of the word. Don't even get me started on Spectrum....

I hope not too; and it's probably not the case. (Just about every time I thought I might have malware on my PC, it turned out I didn't.) But if nothing else works, don't rule the possibility out.

Not long ago, someone (who I can't remember) was wanting some application (might have been @heinoganda's certificate updater, but I can't remember that for sure either) modded to run on XP SP1. Anyway, the question came up "why do you want to stay on SP1?" And I replied that AIUI SP2/3 don't support PAE. I was told that was wrong, but didn't really understand it until now. So SP2/3 do support PAE, but limit it to 4 GB (which mostly, but not entirely, defeats the purpose).

@dencorso, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe @Dave-H's PC has some kind of malware that's "securing" it from security software

Well, I just tried it in Basilisk 52. The about:config Boolean preference above doesn't exist by default in either the XP or official build; I had to add it . I didn't expect it to work, but it did! Task manager shows two Basilisk processes, just like the "old days." Guess all my add-ons are multiprocess-compatible. Even more surprising, it also worked on the latest official Basilisk/UXP build (2018.12.18) running on Win 7 Win 7 is where I could really use it; the XP version has always seemed responsive enough, even without multiprocess mode. So evidently the multiprocess code was never removed from either build; the default was just changed at some point.

I'd assume that closes the door on Basilisk 52 (UXP) at least. The e10s code may still be lurking within Basilisk 55 (Moebius) somewhere, I suppose.

In my limited research it looked like the nightly builds of some earlier releases had it, just not the release builds. But I couldn't figure out how many versions back that went. Anyhow, point being: it's not in PM to start with; @roytam1 didn't remove it. AIUI, e10s breaks compatibility with many legacy add-ons, to the point that e10s won't even start unless every enabled legacy add-on has an 'e10s-compatible' flag set. That may be a big reason why they won't add e10s to PM. Basilisk may have it though. I recall often seeing two basilisk.exe processes in Task Manager when I first switched to Basilisk and wondering what that was about. But I suspect a new add-on has disabled it since then (I no longer see two processes). WebExtension add-ons are inherently compatible, but Basilisk supports only some WebExtension calls (version 55 supporting more calls than 52), so a lot of add-ons for Basilisk probably disable e10s.

As you probably know, these browsers are all forks from various Firefox releases. AIUI Firefox did not enable multiprocess mode (e10s) until version 53. All these browsers except one (Basilisk 55) were forked from FF versions prior to 53. Multiprocess mode was not "removed;" it was never there in the first place. (I could be wrong about this, but that's my best understanding of the situation.) I don't know if Basilisk 55 supports multiprocess mode. AIUI it was forked from a pre-release version of FF 53 and I don't know what the status of e10s was at the particular release it was forked from.

IOW, MSE is fine for the likes of us, but the masses (including our friends & relatives) will need something more comprehensive.

Yeah but 7.38 is the one that nags you to "update"

Latest MSE version that runs well on XP is 4.4. I think 4.5 works too but nags you to upgrade. @heinoganda has a modded 4.8 that will work too. All still get updates (with the POSReady registry hack) but none are "supported" unless you're actually on POSReady.

I think it's pretty much 'max' by default. Be prepared for sluggish browsing, though; at least that was my experience with MSE. I finally ended up excluding browsers from MSE in "Excluded processes" and using MalwareBytes' Anti-Exploit to monitor them instead. (MSE still monitors everything else; just not browser processes.) It was the only way to keep my Web browsing from becoming painfully slow.

So I guess users who do have the POSReady entry, and who now receive MSE updates automatically, will also need to make this change (and start updating MSE manually) after POSReady EOS next April.

That quote was from the browser.taokaizen.com (author of advanced Chrome for XP/Vista, etc.) forum admin. Guess they don't know about @roytam1's work

I've had no issues with either XP or Windows 7. But then, I rarely use IE. @Dave-H might have seen a problem before most of us, since IIRC he has Eudora set to use Microsoft's rendering engine for emails. But emails don't generally have live Javascript, so even that wouldn't necessarily trigger a problem. Still, I'll hold off patching my home system....

Now that there's a new official Basilisk release (2018.12.18), I can confirm that right-click menu options "copy image location" and "view image" do work. So hopefully there's a fix for the bugs in last week's XP version that will make it into the next XP version.

I guess I should be fair: the bug also affects IE 11 and Edge, which folks do use. Had to apply the same update to my Win 7 system. IE 8 just got the update as a side benefit. Not that I'm complaining! There are still a tiny number of Web sites that use ActiveX so they only render properly in some version of IE, and this makes those sites less likely to host a virus.

Important note about the latest Basilisk release (both "official", released today, and @roytam1's released last weekend): https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=21091 TL;DR: The PM team is anticipating that Mozilla will soon shut down Basilisk's access to the Firefox "Sync" service, so the new builds preemptively remove support for Firefox Sync and replace it with PaleMoon's Sync. What this means is, if you use Sync you'll need to sign up again on PaleMoon's server; but more importantly, you'll need to upgrade browsers on all your platforms at the same time. Otherwise some of your browsers will be syncing to Mozilla's servers, while others will be syncing to PaleMoon's servers, which of course means they won't stay in sync with each other! Edit: BTW, it also occurs to me that if you have Basilisk 55, your version isn't being upgraded to the new Sync server, so the concern which prompted this change in the first place applies to you: Mozilla could "cut off" your access to Sync from Basilisk 55 at any time. Also, one of the things you can "sync" between browsers is your add-ons; but Basilisk and PM differ significantly in the add-ons they support; therefore, if you already use Sync with PM/NM, you may want to set up a different Sync account for the Basilisk browsers on your PCs so changes to PM/NM don't mess up your Basilisk browser add-ons. Of course that means that passwords won't sync between browser families, so you may want to consider an alternate solution (such as Abine's Blur add-on) to keep your passwords in sync.

But won't the previous Android version keep working, since it's presumably 8.something?

I guess it's important if you actually use IE8 these days.... Edit: Looks like the vulnerability exploits Javascript in IE8

Not a fan of Metro myself, but the OP may be! Thanks! Edit: BTW, I usually use Basilisk 52 but if I'd bothered to check my Basilisk 55 installation, I would've seen that it had already updated its Empty Cache Button add-on to version 3.4. I thought its icon looked a little different

That's interesting. I'm guessing the "Microsoft Viewer" option uses the IE8 rendering engine, which is pretty outdated; but probably not nearly as outdated as Eudora's internal HTML viewer! Anyway, maybe the 30-second delays have less to do with security, certificates, and the like, than with the IE8 rendering engine just being slooow with modern HTML emails.

It's not surprising that Micro$oft used their purchase of Skype to "proprietize" it so that only they could release working Skype clients. As you say, that means more $ for them. And of course it's not surprising that after a major protocol change requiring updated clients, M$ isn't going to back-port the updated Skype client to OSes like XP they don't support any more. Just a little more pressure on us XP diehards to fork more $ over to them to upgrade to W10. (I suspect they'll be waiting a while for that from most of us. I'll switch to W7, or even W8.1 and its dreaded Metro interface, if I have to - but the day I have to upgrade to W10 will be the day I move to Linux.) I'm sure in a year or two, after W7 support ends, M$ will change the Skype protocol yet again and announce EOS for Skype 8 - and of course Skype 9 won't run on W7.... Similarly, Skype 10 will require W10 and won't run on W8.1, and all M$'s version numbers will finally be in sync....

Not perfect, though: the first menu option still calls my "Trash Can" the "Recycle Bin:" But if @FranceBB has the English menu now, it should be good enough; just rename the "Cestino" to the "Recycle Bin" and everything's in agreement.