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  1. UCyborg
    Just as I embraced browsing with a 64-bit Pale Moon on this trusty old desktop, the aging hardware has started to fail. Two days ago, I scheduled a shutdown and went to sleep, when I woke up it was still running, completely unresponsive, screens in standby. After I reset it, I noticed Windows bugchecked with DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE in amdppm.sys. Not much is written about this driver, the file description just says Processor Device Driver, internet suggests it does power management for the CPU among other things. A day later I have a browser open and a video playing in PotPlayer and all of the sudden, video starts to lag and computer gradually become unresponsive, to the point nothing responds anymore, almost totally frozen picture, just the mouse pointer still moves. Another reset, run MemTest86+ 5.01 and it hangs 5 minutes into the test, just the plus in MemTest86+ text is still blinking, but everything else, including Time, stops. I noticed it stopped in 4-6 GB range, where the cheap new-old Kingston 2 GB I got half-year ago or so is. Remove the Kingston and run it again, this time I get error spam few minutes into testing. Go to BIOS and reset CPU Overclocking from Overclocking Profile, where 7% was set below, to Auto (it was providing slight frequencies' boost, 0,2 GHz for the CPU and slightly higher other clocks; RAM, FSB...), run the test again, it seems stable. Then I reinstall the Kingston and again, hangs 5 minutes into test. So I'm back from 6 GB of RAM to 4 GB. And I suppose it's only a matter of time before factory frequencies become unstable. The 7% overclock configuration has been stable for 15 years!
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    There's KolibriOS. But if Windows was made like this, surely something else would suffer.
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    For use with PotPlayer: https://github.com/Alexey71/PotPlayer-SponsorBlock - Modified version of the default PotPlayer YouTube extension that adds SponsorBlock support. I've been occasionally using old Mozilla extension Ant Video Downloader, with its YouTube module slightly modified to work with changes implemented in recent times, yesterday it still mostly worked, sometimes getting title of the video wrong because requests for video can go out before title of the page is updated. Today it no longer works, seems URL parameters used to recognize characteristics of stream are gone.
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    Go ahead and make one if you can.
  5. UCyborg
    Win95 did much less under the hood. Not really fair to compare Win11 to an OS from almost 30 years ago that had to fit in 4 MB of RAM.
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    You can always go with standard Google Chrome with auto-update, then it will just work.
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    Decompilers won't give you the comments or meaningful variable names. Then there's the structure of the code tree and how code is split up. Certain optimizations can also change code in some ways, so again, you're getting back something different than what was originally written by the programmer.
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    Still no news about new version with working GPU rendering on XP, including WebGL? We're past mid-June.
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    So Firefox users are locked out completely? They shouldn't be using this in production.
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    Just why?
  11. UCyborg
    I just go with less is more approach when it comes to uBO. Though even if a lot of data is added and deleted from the SQLite database, uBO will always vacuum it once per session if browser is left idle for a minute or two. BTW, another broken app that used to work: https://regex101.com/
  12. UCyborg
    I would prefer Invidious if it wasn't for this issue. I don't mind this on its own, but it must be justified. When it's utilized, I expect a lot of action. I don't see a bunch of text and images as a lot of action. And I think people would prefer more interesting explanation than "It's made for Google Chrome". I think of games, a lot happens between entry point of the main loop 'til the frame is presented on the screen. Assuming target is old school screen running at 60 FPS, there's only about 16 milliseconds available to process user inputs and advance world simulation.
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    I only installed [*]Return YouTube Dislike user script recently, but saw that layout before, even on other non-UXP browsers, where I usually have ImprovedTube web extension + Youtube polymer engine fixes user script. That mysterious layout is a funny thing, most of the time it won't show up, but every once in a blue moon it will, without really doing anything different as usual. Visiting YouTube without previous cookies could be prerequisite to get the chance to see it, so either if you always clear them or just use "private" tab/window. I didn't experiment with per-site cookie settings, so default setting that accepts them applies. [*]Technically, I did use one of the very early versions in the beginning, when I changed the script in some small ways, just for personal experimentation with JavaScript, but when it got outdated and incompatible, I disabled it and only recently installed latest version from GitHub as-is. Also just tested comments section again, disabling CSS animations doesn't help much with CPU usage on UXP browsers, go down far enough and constant 100%. Mobile version of the site isn't any different in that regard.
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    Can't repro that thing with comments section on YouTube somehow consuming so much less CPU as usual anymore that it downclocked. Rebooted to Win11, idle RAM consumption at 1,6 GB rather than 2 GB (yay!), launched Pale Moon 64-bit, behavior as usual, same with roytam1's builds regardless of OS version or bitness, tried 64-bit Pale Moon on Linux as well, no difference. One thing that also happens randomly, but relatively rarely to me on YouTube when starting with clean state (just no cookies), sometimes I get this layout rather than the usual one with with description and comments below the video player: I wonder if that's actually hidden in YouTube's code and whether any subsequently injected scripts have anything to do with it. I sure don't find any settings for it while logged on, there isn't anything in Youtube polymer engine fixes script either. The only other scripts are [*]Return YouTube Dislike (reason for the bar below like/dislike buttons) and the scripts that uBlock Origin injects with default lists active + uBlock filters – Cookie Notices. [*]Also available as web extension, which actually works more correctly than user script, confirmed in Firefox and Chromium, where both were compared, a bit strange, both flavors seem to be updated at the same time, though I suspect web extension gets more attention and testing. Edit: I forgot to write, the video above is one of those that when you scroll down, very few links to related/suggested/whatever videos on the right side load, after the last one, there remains animating circle. When circle is in sight, CPU consumption is lower, when it's out of sight as you scroll away (up or down), CPU core is back at 100%!
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    Tried Serpent 52 and New Moon 28 on XP, didn't see any difference in CPU usage in YouTube comments section between 32-bit and 64-bit versions, one cure fully occupied and running full speed in both cases. Actually, I just booted back to Win10 20H2 after trialing Win11 23H2 for half-year or so, didn't see any difference here either with official 64-bit Pale Moon in comparison with 32-bit build, CPU was running full speed. So what the heck would result in such reduction on Win11 specifically with 64-bit build? This is weird and makes no sense. One difference I can think of I have late 2023 NVIDIA drivers loaded on Win11 while I still have old ones from January 2021 on Win10.
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    There's nothing to worry about 64-bit applications these days, they just work it seems. Over 10 years ago quirks might have been more common. In my experience, there was more worrying about 32-bit binaries, at some point, some of us were even hacking them with Large Address Aware flag to prevent running out of memory when it came to more demanding or just less efficient stuff. That was before that flag became the norm in 32-bit binaries. XP x64 was quite ahead of the time, huh?
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    Yeah, I wonder if any custom user agent override still makes any sense on YouTube since WebComponents were implemented when it comes to processing its UI. Anyway, I've decided to stay with 64-bit build. You don't need to hoard much to reach the limits of 32-bit flavor. I feel stupid now that I know the one annoying gripe I had with Pale Moon could be avoided if I didn't insist on 32-bit build as long as I did.
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    In my simple mind, something that was malloced should be freed when no longer needed. One thing about saved sessions that bookmarks don't do - remembering scroller position. May not work well with complicated sites, but that doesn't change that some may find it useful for (plenty of) sites where it works. It may be pointless for mere user, but for the right developer? Though I've accepted memory leaks as part of life. I have to reboot Windows every 2 months, otherwise some things stay in permanent bugged state. I've seen cases with gigabytes allocated in non-paged pool, that is gigabytes of memory allocated in kernel space that never gets swapped out to page file. Current day Samsung smartphones come with rebooting as part of regular maintenance. It is what it is.
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    UXP browsers indeed don't, see https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=29766. For Chromium: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates/ For Edge: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-microsoft-edge For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-using-group-policy-windows For personal usage, you put .admx files in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions, then you can change settings via gpedit.msc. Afterwards, it's also possible to backup settings: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/import-or-export-group-policy-settings For Edge, there are extra hoops to jump through for some settings to even work on non-domain-joined devices: https://hitco.at/blog/apply-edge-policies-for-non-domain-joined-devices/ General idea for group policies is to have certain Windows and other programs' settings/restrictions apply to all computers on the network and having them managed from central location. https://www.howtogeek.com/125171/htg-explains-what-group-policy-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy
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    My Win11 23H2 install idles at the empty desktop at about 2 GB, a record so far. Perhaps it's all the aftermath of late stage capitalism?
  21. UCyborg
    Yeah, I was working with lead-free solder, so not the easiest option I guess. Anyway, the diodes are fine, I suppose this router is done for.
  22. UCyborg
    Mine never grows beyond 30 MB. I don't know what you people are doing with uBO TBH.
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    Win 11 ..24H2

    UCyborg replied to Calista's topic in Windows 11

    Has it been confirmed they actually want full SSE4.2? I did check my old AMD has working POPCNT instruction, this is the one setup wizard explicitly asks for. I wonder if bypassing those blocks would still allow to install and boot in this case, so no SSE4.2, but this instruction alone is still supported on some older CPUs. You actually have to check for POPCNT support by looking at specific bit in ECX register's value after executing CPUID instruction with EAX register set to 0x1, it's not really part of any SSE set. SSE4.2 check could be used as shortcut and future-proofing though...
  24. UCyborg
    The nostalgia...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tn2zuMbuFM The rest of the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE707BAF5CC143199 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXDHLSinJ0&list=PLE707BAF5CC143199&index=30
  25. UCyborg
    How common are complete separate sites for mobile and desktop these days? I have the impression they mostly opt to responsive design, so you get the same site regardless of the device, the CSS magic takes care of layout. You could say that about any era, really, just adjust the numbers. I started with 133 MHz Pentium and 16 MB of RAM. You could actually watch progress bar for Hover! to load. First "modern" PC I got had a 2 GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. That RAM amount soon proved insufficient (was upgraded to 1 GB). At much later time, I learned I was basically pushing low-end PC to the limit by trying to play latest games on it. The hardware seemed flaky as-is, overclocking didn't help and again, at much later time, I got to know it was an era of capacitor plague on top. And those Maxtors just loved going out with a click of death, that PC got motherboard replaced at some point as well, maybe I'd still have the PC if it wasn't for it ending up without a HDD and bunch of old stuff was discarded when moving to a new location. I can't even imagine what I'd want in a browser to be able to come up with a list of 74 extensions. I do notice even with my much humbler list, there is significant delay in startup time, which can't be halved even by having browser profile folder plus even entire browser loaded from RAM disk.
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