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From my experience, Japanese content is highly suitable to be geo-fenced. They protect a lot of things from overseas access.

As of... about a month, or two, can't tell exact, NewMoon 28 is unable to login to AOL nor Yahoo (same parent company, same back/front systems). After input the password, nothing but a spinning circle on the submit button. Latest version/build, the same issue persists.

For the shake of test I tried the Windows 7 (32bits) binary posted with quickjs (thanks to the developer of this tiny engine) and I wonder how powerful computers do the people that develop things have? Literally, it hangs a few times through the compute, even for a fraction of a second, while resolving the YouTube challenge :/ Multiply that 2 times, as I check the available formats, and then download the desired format, and the benefits of downloading+playing performance vs viewing on the page, starts to vanish. It has been requiring more and more compute time through time but... wow Or the whole process gets optimized or... YouTube is winning by far. For those interested, I only have a Core 2 Duo. As most here, old hardware, yes. EDIT: I wasn't initially able to make the latest published x64 version (2025.11.01.082330) work with quickjs (my fault by setting the path "--js-runtimes quickjs:'c:\balbla\'" instead "--js-runtimes quickjs:'c:\balbla\qjs.exe'" because I didn't want a PATH path either ;) ) and maybe it has a slightly better performance, but not much. EDIT2: as a side note, I know that the performance drop is not by yt-dlp, nor this build, but the damn YouTube JS and the JS engine, but... just ranting.

In the case of ffmpeg, as I use for more purposes, I use upx to reduce the disk size to around 50% on each file. In terms of run time, it doesn't make to work slower. Give it a try: https://upx.github.io/ (Don't worry to use old versions, I use an old 3.x)

I just read the external JavaScript requirement and... I think I'll give up using it from here. They say that a headless browsers defeats the purpose of yt-dlp, but... an engine over a hundred MiB, a half of Firefox 115 installation doesn't? Come on... I might regret and come back to yt-dlp again, but I think I will switch to the nightmare slow downloads from web download helpers. It is more sane, from my point of view. I'm expectant for the upcoming events...

As a side note, the standalone Windows XP version doesn't work on Windows 7 x64 with the error pointing to GetCPFileNameFromRegistry on kernell32.dll, but no problem with the native. I used to run this version on Windows 7 x64 (as I switched from OS to OS and avoid two installs (aside this I can confirm that the Windows 7 version is slightly faster on its native platform, as you pointed out nicola)). I read quick, but would your release have support/be released after september? Thanks for your efforts nicolaasjan :)

Thanks @Joseph_sw I already had an override and that enabled. I ended removing the override the other day without success. I think toggling the preference fixed it :oS Weird things.

I waited till a new version to report that for X.com/Twitter.com NewMoon 28 is... "This browser is no longer supported". As no one else has reported, am I the only one? This happens on a fresh profile (so no preferences interfering) since a couple of updates. I'm "using" Firefox 115 for X.com/Twitter.com now but... while is smoother with JavaScript is so heavy...

But the dns block is just to avoid the crash, and maybe the CPU usage (no happening here), nothing else, right? Let's see if there is a fix soon. That word is language agnostic and casts the same feeling with any language.

Thanks despite Cloudflare issue is still there. Best test page, at this moment (they didn't have the Cloudflare protection before), haveIbeenpwned.com I'm going to take the opportunity to ask if someone else has problems with Steam Wishlist page with NewMoon 28. It is some form of delayed CSS loading as it loads right, but after load all resources, the page displaces some elements. I don't update in the weekly basis, just when I remember or have an issue, and I don't know when exactly happened but all was fine until a few months ago I updated and... here it came the problem: As far as I tested before, it happened as well with a clean profile.

I just came to confirm/report the Cloudflare captcha issue that I started to have since yesterday. I sent them feedback (as it worths something...) Thanks whenever you can fix it. Or Palemoon guys can do something. It is a shame that is happening to the latest "Pale" too :S

Great, post lost on forum error :rolling eyes: yeah!! I was writing that the usual errors, nicolas, and I'd have to switch, 7jn (I'm not going to write all over)

Mmmm I see that the youtube-dl download hasn't been updated, but is "buggy" lately with several errors. Is the end of updates for youtube-dl and time to switch to yt-dlp? I'd prefer not, because I already created an environment for my downloads with youtube-dl and would have been a waste of time :S

Whatever it is, thanks for your work. Waiting for the fix from upstreams or whatever :) I found recently your XP build and I really enjoyed it :)

Thanks for your replies @Mathwiz , @soggi , @AstroSkipper. NewMoon 28 IS compatible with XP SP2 (that is not what I was asking, well, yes, which browsers were), but which one was had the latest engine and compatible with XP SP2. If NewMoon and Serpent are the latest, then all is ok :) Thanks for your replies. P.S.: after a few days I thought my post was just ignored (reasonable, in the other hand) and I didn't receive notifications, so sorry my late reply and the noise on the thread.