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  1. UCyborg
    I feel really old looking at these screenshots.
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    At my workplace, they say everything will be great when transition to new .NET is done. We'll be able to have everything then. Except happy customers, probably, they're never happy! That AVX example with Moonchild crew's programs is a rather odd one. Does average MSFNer even know a wide enough spectrum of software to be able to make proper judgement?
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    Power Windows users are already accustomed to installing 3rd party enhancement tools. The rest either don't care and uses whatever OS comes with the computer as-is or don't use computer at all. At least that's my impression.
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    You forgot "a lot of time", assuming keeping it updated is desired. Isn't it ironic that most folks that would desire such fork aren't programmers? Also, I've always had an impression that MSFN crowd underestimates how much it takes to support legacy technology.
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    I managed to get Python 2.7 going (installed). Pale Moon (64-bit GTK2 version) took slightly over 58 minutes to compile on a Raspberry Pi 5. I did not use --disable-debug-symbols option, used defaults as suggested in build instructions, the source code was downloaded to external WD 5 TB hard disk, the slower kind using SMR tech. Still can't believe the browser works, that was the first time I ever compiled any web browser from source code.
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    Welp, as I finally got around to this, I stumbled upon the first obstacle, there's no Python 2.7 in Debian Bookworm. Guess I'll have to figure out how to get cross compiling working on PC using older Debian or Debian based distro.
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    They're still comparable in a way that one core will still run only one task at once, just like single-core CPU. That does sound a bit extreme. I got few temporary freezes then and then for few seconds on my slowest computer, which has a dual-core APU (AMD's term for CPU and GPU in a single chip) clocked at 1,35 GHz, if I opened too many pages. At that point, it's better to restart the browser. MSFN is probably one of the lightest websites I visit. Back then web browsers were still more like fancy HTML document parsers. Then rapid-release treadmill started and browsers grew in complexity and I guess that idea got lost in trying to preserve other features making it distinct from ChromeZilla and fighting with web compatibility issues, which has turned into application platform in the meantime.
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    Incorrect, SSE4A is AMD-only instruction set containing 4 instructions which are not available in SSE4.1 and subsequent SSE4.2, collectively known as full SSE4 set. SSE4.1 is being targeted by SSE4 build of Thorium, so @Anbima should stick with SSE3 version on his old AMD.
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    Maybe it's both. Do you (en)code the video or format it?
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    Policies may live longer, but they can still disappear. I'm not sure any Chromium fork can be trusted in that regard unless it's backed by the community interested in keeping them despite the decisions "upstream".
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    Perhaps win32 will be able to keep Manifest V2 in Supermium, it should land in Thorium as well. My remark about choice and apathy was meant to be more general, more broad, not limited to web browsers or even computers. I made a bit ranty / rude post a while back on PM forum about them switching 64-bit builds to require AVX (1) instruction set, they deleted it. Still wonder where it makes significant difference compared to SSE2 build. I've been using contributed AVX2 build on work laptop for a while, but I'm not sure I'm detecting much regarding performance. What little I did turned out to be more related to clean session vs dirty session. I think only clever manual coding could speed it up significantly...maybe, Mozilla couldn't do it with keeping all the cruft for extensibility. This whole thing reminds me of one aspect in gaming world, (G)ZDoom source port of Doom, original game was released in 1993 and it's famous for being ported to all sorts of devices that at least have something resembling a CPU. I've read on VOGONS forum you may be able to run Doom Eternal from 2020 more smoothly on 2013 hardware than some mods on GZDoom specifically, some due to bad coding of mods, some due to all the cruft in the engine that's there to support competing standards for extending game logic. And even having expensive computer won't help with performance much. Kinda similar with Pale Moon, you can't sell that browser to an average individual, it's almost universally perceived as very slow. I'm somewhat used to it, but I also use other browsers, depending on the mood. Though I tried disabling 3 of 4 cores on my CPU recently and tried browsing on XP with Serpent, but this is where my patience ends, couldn't live with that.
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    And you wonder why are there still wars on this world when people can't be nice to each other even when it comes to these banalities. Though I'm of opinion that a lot of choice is a double-edged sword. And new tech stuff constantly coming out or existing stuff changing can leave one apathetic in the end.
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    Linux has come a long way since 2005, though there are still oddities in places and they still didn't get some banalities right that Windows has done right since forever. So don't be surprised for the lack of polish under the hood and elsewhere. One of the first things I noticed with Raspberry Pi 5 and official Raspberry Pi OS, my session with all open programs was just gone if I turned on the option for screen to go off on inactivity or if I turned off the screen with a button. It's due to some combination of VideoCore4 graphics driver and Wayland, you can either put a special parameter to the kernel command-line or switch from Wayland to X11. Yeah, Wayland vs X11, that still seems to be a hot topic in 2024, LOL. Wayland was supposed to get graphics / windowing system right and display compositing out-of-the-box, but it just has its own quirks and restrictions and whatever GUI programs you use have to be programmed specially to support Wayland, X11 emulation on Wayland can be costly in performance, at least that was my experience with Vivaldi on Raspberry. I don't know, being a long-time Windows user and Windows almost always being #1 target for programs and hardware, I don't think I could personally just let it go. Windows 10 should still be fine for a good long while unless some of Windows 11 specialties are desired.
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    Doesn't detect serial ports on XP.
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    64-bit version of PuTTY 0.81 needs hex editing to get running on XP x64 as minimum OS version specified in the PE header is 6.0 (Vista) instead of 5.2 (XP x64 / Server 2003).
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    So XP is still actively targeted? Unrealistic example, but still, one wrong step and baam!
  17. UCyborg
    I don't remember the last time I used Microsoft's start menu on anything past Windows XP.
  18. UCyborg
    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, huh? I really doubt that was the case. It wasn't long ago another lost soul wandered to the wrong forum, though. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=31164 Firefox folks hate on Pale Moon folks, Pale Moon folks on hate New Moon folks and the Earth keeps on spinning. Nothing new. Edit: @DanR20 @roytam1 Aye, that x.com user agent override works. Weird redirects.
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    In terminology used by web browsers, it's avc1. Ask your browser if it canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="avc.42E01E"') or rather canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E"'). Anyone that experimented with YouTube is almost surely familiar with stats for nerds and "c" in avc1 abbreviation is distinct enough IMO to tell it apart from AV1, or should I have referred to the latter as av01 or AV01 for consistency.
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    They? AVC1 = H264 I never noticed any weird artifacts, washing out, brightness or whatever with VP9 specifically though, certainly not in contrast with H264. I only have H264 forced on XP backports of Chromium on XP because it's much slower with VP9 there, lots of frame dropping. VP9 seemed most balanced to me overall, so normally prefer that. Old desktop's CPU is too slow to run AV1 in decent resolution in a browser, so it's not used there. Though Raspberry Pi 5 can handle it OK up to 1080p @ 30FPS. I'm mostly on Mozilla based browsers and noticed in the past, mostly due to messing with roytam1's forks, that their H264 software decoder seemed slightly less efficient than VP9, I don't recall exact details, must have been some performance hiccups, don't even recall if it was the same on official Pale Moon on officially supported OS, so there was that and I prefer to have choice above 1080p, so stayed with VP9 for YouTube.
  21. UCyborg
    I wanted too see if it would be running as terrible on my end on single core as others here have been saying.
  22. UCyborg
    The posted DLL is x86 (32-bit). Yes, bitness is important.
  23. UCyborg
    I only use Google Search as fallback, but good to know. x.com redirects to twitter.com here. Is it supposed to work with UXP browsers? I only get "something went wrong" page, nothing useful in the console. Maybe it's for the best, I prefer not to touch anything associated with Musk, LOL.
  24. UCyborg
    No idea, I never tried. At least UMDF 1.0 installer is packed in an obvious way inside WMP11 installer, observable if you open it with 7-Zip.
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    Chalkboard looks like an odd case that happens to be slower in Chromium with GPU acceleration. I don't need benchmarks to tell me Chromium works much fluently with GPU acceleration on my PC, real life examples work just fine to prove it, from smoothness of auto-scrolling, animation on websites, looking/moving around in Google Street, without GPU it feels like 15 FPS at best vs. 60 with GPU, in-browser videos drop frames at various intensity, intensity depends on the OS, typically it's worst on XP, forget about 60 FPS videos in any case (I only use AVC1 or VP9 on YouTube). MotionMark 1.3, there I get 8 to 9 points on XP, 14 - 16 points on 11 with --disable-gpu parameter passed to the browser, 480 to 484 points otherwise. My PC was initially going to be pure AMD Dragon, perhaps CPU falls a bit short on CPU intensive tasks, but the platform generally works well for the purpose it was designed for. It comes from era before Google took over the web. Their engineers don't strike me as being good at optimizing software rendering. I dribbled with Android x86 in the past, it's practically unusable on both of my computers without real GPU drivers active. While it works fine on pure AMD laptop I have as-is, that wasn't the case on my desktop that later got ATI GPU replaced with NVIDIA GPU and NVIDIA was totally unsupported at the time. Nouveau generally doesn't perform too well anyway. Though Android is normally never run without GPU, I don't think there's a smartphone out there where the OS doesn't have appropriate drivers baked in. On Windows, you could probably still get things done with GPU driver disabled if you really wanted.
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