Jody Thornton

Explorer++ https://explorerplusplus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3200

This was in response to Dixel's inquiry. Maybe he will see it. I'm good though

That certainly could be true, but I compared these browsers (Supermium and MyPal 68) just now with Explorer++, Softmaker Office and Serpent 52, and I'm not noticing a difference. All I can say is that out of all the options on this rather ill-equipped Vista notebook, Supermium really does run well. Very snappy considering I only have 2 GB or memory.

That's basically it for me too. I really prefer the UI consistency between applications. Chrome, when run on may xNix desktop environments, remedies this issue, but on Windows, Chrome/Supermium, and Microsoft Office Products are the biggest offenders in this area.

Hey Dixel. I have noticed no difference in brightness. I am A/B testing between MyPal 68 and Supermium as I type this. I do not notice at at all.

Bingo @VistaLover. The GDI flag worked. Move over Roytam1 and NotHereToPlayGames (all in jest, I promise), but you have been supplanted. We now have modern browsing in Vista (without any extended kernel). Although 360 does allow tables under the address bar (ahem, tabs - I'll leave the error intact because of subsequent responses ), so I do tip my hat to NotHereToPlayGames for that one especially. And Roytam! has come along with bringing XP and Vista up to browsing snuff.

My mistake. I thought there was a customized version of Supermium. I'm looking at the flags now. I also found a "Disable windows 10 theme flags", but it didn't do much. I also forgot that there's no way to have a true titlebar in chrome, so also my bad. I do have the vista look-alike buttons now though, so that's good, Now I just need to figure out why certain check boxes and menu elements aren't rendered. You were very helpful. No apologies needed

Hey folks! Forgive my confusion. I finally started to give Supermium a run for its money on my Dell Inspiron Notebook PC, running Vista Home Basic SP2. It has 2 GB of RAM, yet Supermium is running really swiftly considering everything. Now I downloaded my copy from GitHub. It installs to the AppData\Local Folder., whereas I unzipped the Chrome-Bin contents in to a \Program Files\Supermium folder. In either case, it sports a Windows 10-esque title bar. I understood that Win32s made a version with the old Chrome interface. Where is that downloaded from? I appreciate your help.

Question about Supermium before I dive in and try it. UI-wise, it just Chrome, correct? I wish there was a way to make a browser that looked like Chromium Edge did when it was in beta, but with today's engine.. It would be even better with tabs under the address bar. I'm just thinking out my replacement options for when Firefox ESR 115 bites the dust.

Sheesh - gotta love Andy Prough's really friendly mention on the Moonies forum. You'd think there'd be appreciation for AstroSkipper's UBO Legacy mod ... but no. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=30787#p247823

Thanks for the heads up

I actually meant the auto login (or auto-filled usernames and passwords). They're in there, because if you press login on the website, it works, but the boxes show blank.

Is the white boxes content also related to not seeing most saved usernames and passwords populated in the boxes? (auto-filled?) Otherwise, the x86 version is working quite well on Vista Home Basic.

It's actually gone. His XP based page for downloads is still there. But he shut down his forum nearly a year ago.

I just created an account over there too. Well, at least we're not stranded without RyanVM's forum.

Thank you. I have an old account there, so that's where I'll check. Thanks!

So again where are we to get status updates when the board goes down?

That's alright. I already have the LTSC 2019 box setup, customized, pared down and ready to go for use next year, so I'll stick with it. Plus the LTSC 2016 won't have support updates for as long, And I hear the more recent LTSC builds have a much fatter and bloated Windows Defender implementation that causes a performance hit.

No I actually prefer ESR versions. They stay with the same feature set, and userChrome.css changes to the UI are set. Otherwise, I'd have to make changes every three weeks. Plus I'm staying on Windows 8 for the meantime, not Windows 8.1

My understanding is if I skipped that month's update (I think it was April 2018), I would have the following updates, and not the one with Spectre/Meltdown patches. I never used the rollups. Anyway, everything worked out fine

I thought so. I had resigned to not using it, as I knew that October 2023 updates were going to be the last ones generally available. I have turned off the Windows Update service, since I now just manually update Windows Defender. So I'm going to run the OS as is for the remainder of the year. I'm still getting updates for Firefox ESR 115, so we're good until September there. I'm OK that I can't use these new ESU updates for Windows 8. I always installed the "Security Only Update" and not the rollups, since that allowed me to bypass the Spectre, Meltdown and Flash patches. End of an era. Next year I'll move to Windows 10 LTSC 2019. I'll miss ya Windows 8.

Hopefully what I'm asking is not in violation of the forum terms and conditions: Has anyone on Windows 8 attempted downloading and installing the November 14, 2023 update (KB5032247), which is the Monthly Rollup? I have turned off Windows Update, now that October 2023 has come and gone. I didn't wish to act as a guinea pig this time, but I am interested if it still installs, without any tools or patches.

Yeah but mina701, it's perfectly reasonable to offer up valid alternatives to bridge the gap. He just wants to read the files. If you're saying (like the OP) that only valid solution to an issue is exactly what was specified in the thread title, and no one can offer up a better idea, that's not being reasonable at all. You did understand what point I was trying to drive home in the doctor's visit scenario, didn't you? OK I'm done

I'll say! I mean, you try to help a fellow Canadian The way he sees it, it's like going to a doctor and saying, "My leg is in pain, and I need you to chop it off"! The doctor replies, "No need actually! We have medicine that will get rid of that pain. You can keep your leg!" But tirigliu doubles down and says, "Wait! I specifically asked that you fix this by amputating my leg. There's no need for your silly comments!" Sigh!

I just edited my post -- JUST before you responded