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There are instructions out there how to patch latest Flash to disable EOL restriction. I was the first to bring it up on MSFN. Some even opt to use Flash version that continued to be developed for Chinese market (only security fixes I guess) after it was EOL for the rest of the world, but I didn't follow that. In my most recent experience, NPAPI version for Mozilla-based browsers and other browsers implementing NPAPI was most performant, the worst was ActiveX in Internet Explorer, though for some reason it was much better in the pre-Chromium Edge, a bit better than NPAPI even. Of course, standalone version keeps it simple by not being tied to the web browser's plugin architecture.

I see nothing shocking regarding native Web Components as far as YouTube load speed is concerned, it's about as fast as with Firefox 42 user agent that gives polyfill. Trying out official Pale Moon 32.0.1b3, it's actually a bit slower, comparing 32-bit vs 64-bit though since official beta is only 64-bit. 64-bit Pale Moon was always slower on my PC. Not related to current developments, but I suspect we're still far away from decent scores on Speedometer 2.0.

Yeah, that's not normal I think. On my end, Prt Scr works even with fullscreen D3D (at least D3D8 and later) stuff, which is expected since MS tweaked their compositor and related stuff (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-screen-optimizations/). D3D8 was tried with d3d8.dll from an older Win10 build 17134 with "fullscreen maximized windowed mode" disabled - it takes tweaking internal variable inside the file, the one modified by exported function Direct3D8EnableMaximizedWindowedModeShim, the variable must be set to 0. It's interesting they deleted the code for the old behavior from D3D8...I think maximized windowed mode is just one part of the equation for making old stuff more compatible with compositor, historically, it caused massive performance degradation in DirectDraw based applications/games in Windows 8, which was fixed in Windows 10, but this mode may still show window borders of fullscreen games that don't tweak their window styles because it wasn't really expected to be done by devs, was supposed to be handled internally, so you could create normal window with borders and toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode via D3D and not worry about window styles - workings of fullscreen mode made them disappear anyway...until they came up with "fullscreen maximized windowed mode". But what we're seeing with more performant alt-tabbing and ability to PrtScr fullscreen stuff etc. - that's on their tweaks in other places it seems, not this "fullscreen maximized windowed mode" as exposed by ddraw.dll, d3d8.dll and maybe d3d9.dll. Though going from my memory, I think intro videos in GTA III era games don't work if it's forced-off for DirectDraw, so yeah, might be done just for compatibility. Easier to just have this mode always enabled rather than putting entries in the compatibility database only for games that need them, since that's a lot of work and needs feedback from customers, but only enterprise customers matter to MS and folks playing old games have community developed solutions for such issues. Anyway, regarding videos in the browser, they work quite well on my end in Firefox in software mode. Unknown if Chromium still has massive performance hit with videos in software mode. https://i.imgur.com/NGJJCM3.png (the screen on the right has graphics info indicating software mode is enabled - WebRender (Software)) But there's a bit of slowness in other aspects, immediately apparent with animations on web pages. It also seems Mozilla did some changes/fixes between Firefox 96 and 110 regarding notifications. Enabling alerts.useSystemBackend in about:config to use OS' notification system no longer causes notifications to just disappear after few seconds.

It depends on the license, open-source software may still have a license with certain restrictions, hence all the drama in the past with Mozilla-based browsers discussed on the forum. I don't know the specifics/quirks in this case, lawyers are better address for those. The less you need lawyers in life, the better...

Yeah, Chromium can't use GPU for rendering on XP. Mozilla-based browsers may be able to use Direct3D 9, but get this, it's rarely mentioned, Direct3D 9 on XP DOES NOT WORK WELL ACROSS MULTIPLE MONITORS...well, it only does with A LOT OF LAG, the performance is only as it should be (within drivers'/OS capabilities) as long as the browser window is entirely on the primary monitor. Talk about waste of good hardware!

Careful with Debian. It's thought by some that it's more suited to those that are sure they need Debian specifically. Debian is outdated by design, which is not necessarily a good thing. I'm experimenting with it on my laptop since it's sill quite familiar choice if one has been acquainted with another Debian derived distro and is looking for 32-bit one...and at the same time wonder if the reason for Firefox crashing when trying to make it use hardware accelerated video decoding capabilities on the GPU is due to GPU drivers / Mesa from 2020.

It's not easy to make the switch when you're accustomed to Windows way of doing things and specific software. I've been keeping Linux around for years, just not as the main desktop OS. I don't know about the future (if there is such a thing), Win10 currently suits me the best, pre-Win7 versions don't suit me at all, I have grudges about every Windows version I used though and Win11 is way too alien.

Specify the time in UTC so we can decide for ourselves, no matter where we are.

Hope it's not some baggage IRL, but that was my first thought as bad news just keep piling up.

Found the reason, they're blocked by built-in tracker blocking feature, but can still see them when clicking the link to them, By default, blocking only happens in "private" windows. Not new in this particular version. I'm not much of a talker, plus tired from working and composing posts may take me significant chunk of time. I don't know about others, maybe they don't want to talk about other things here, maybe they go elsewhere for other topics, maybe they don't want to talk about other things at all...who knows. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/22/laibach-to-become-first-foreign-band-to-perform-in-kyiv-since-invasion https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovenia-band-laibach-concert-ukraine-canceled-amid-rift-97491115 What the hell is Laibach all about? (it's in English) PS: Life is Life

Regarding Gmail, if I was reading correctly, access without OAuth2 is not possible anymore? If so, it seems to be enforced only for personal accounts. My corporate Gmail account still works with just classic username and password. At least I don't remember I had to change anything in the email client, I'll edit the post tomorrow after checking again to see if it's really the case. We have one application at the company that can send emails, but doesn't support OAuth2, they had to enable application password for it on Gmail side. It just generates unique password for application to use to authenticate with SMTP.

Something technical, I can't see embedded images here originating from pbs.twimg.com on my new and shiny Firefox 110 installation. There's an infinite spam of the following in the console: Unknown at the moment if it also happens with fresh profile.

Yeah, those forks are always behind, mainline Firefox usually isn't (as much) AFAIK. And TBH, there's a good deal of flexibility in those old-school Mozilla-based browsers that I simply don't need (that I know, so extensions that I don't need) while there's probably also some that maybe I would find useful, but to get it, I would have to be the programmer to implement. I know there are folks that aren't interested in tweaking simply due to the fast pace that these browsers are changing and they just want something that will surely work on all those odd sites and not worry about fighting the browser on each update. When my parents were young, there was basically one car on the road, it was Zastava 750. If you had a car back then and came from these parts, it was probably that one. Now look at how many cars and different models are on the road. I don't know, maybe I'm straying a little, but sometimes I get these thoughts that all this so called "user choice" is more of a burden than the freedom. I could get by with most popular browser with mostly default settings if I wanted, but I guess I don't due to the nerdy side of me.

What I posted above was the dialog between two characters in the series I watched. It's not connected to the discoveries you posted, but it surely involved a hand, which was referred by the characters as the hand of God. I just remember it well enough that I quickly made an association. And while it's surely not God's hand in the literal sense, maybe the creators are/were a bit religious to put various religious references throughout the series. Source material upon which it was based on surely didn't have those. Maybe some lurker would recognize where it's from, I have a feeling I put too much information.

Ellison: What about Sarah? Silberman: She was on the floor. And the boy was with her. He was screaming. And then the--the first one, the big one, I'll never forget. He--he reached out his hand and he said: "Come with me if you want to live.". Like God reaching out to man. Like-- like the Sistine Chapel. Ellison: The hand of God. Silberman: Hand of God...Yeah...though...there's no proof, we don't talk about it. All of us who were there. Ellison: What if I told you I have proof? Silberman: What do you mean? Ellison: A piece of evidence I found during my investigation. That's why I came to you. For your corroboration. To show you that Sarah wasn't crazy. Nobody...is crazy. Silberman: What is it? Ellison: The hand of God.

I've been using the desktop Linux occasionally for over the decade now. Back when I bought this computer, the disk I bought with it lasted a really short time, I applied for warranty and while I waited for the new one, I could boot a Linux distro from the USB and play Quake Live, back when it was still natively compatible with Linux and launchable through a web browser plugin. Well, I guess that's what I mostly did when I messed with it, try to get fun stuff working. I also tend to use GParted for partitioning tasks, I don't remember when was the last time I used any Windows based partitioning utility, though it's also true it's not something I have to do often. It's also handy for backing up/restoring partitions on Android smartphone, you combine few command-line utilities and BAAM, you're writing a complete file system image. At least as long as you have the phone that's not completely locked down... For desktop, it was mostly GNOME 2 or later MATE, just because that's what Ubuntu came with all those years ago. These days, I gravitate towards KDE, among other things, it allows setting desktop background per-monitor. I was also surprised when I discovered I can turn off mouse movement acceleration (known in Windows world as "Enhance pointer precision" checkbox) in the GUI: "Whaaat, you can do that without needing to write a script that executes on login?" Oh, and Compiz (the compositing window manager) was fun. I'm not experimenting much these days, so don't really have a layout in my mind what exactly do different software combinations offer, and yeah, so far, I only used two desktop environments. It's also true I don't actually need some advanced functions in window management since I spend most time in the web browser anyway. Still, KDE is supposed to be pretty functional, and if you want functional, how much other options really are out there? What I find really strange, you apparently can't bridge wired and wireless network interface or maybe only with some complicated knowledge of networking on Linux. At some point, I wanted to plug my desktop to the laptop's RJ-45 port - the laptop wirelessly connects to the access point (modem) and if you have wired and wireless interfaces bridged on the laptop, plugging the desktop in would make it appear as an equal member on the network. If you use internet sharing option instead, then it will be hidden behind a NAT point. Bridging is easy on Windows, no idea how to do it on Linux (the wired/wireless combination is problematic, wired/wired should be a breeze). Oh, but I have a wireless router, the iconic Linux based Linksys WRT54GL, there, it's also easy, at least with the right community-developed firmware.

He doesn't own anyone here anything and if he thinks he's better off without MSFN and/or its community, that's his choice. It's difficult when you feel disconnected from everyone and everything, you know?

Ha, my PC is also over a decade old, 14 years to be exact, it was bought with playing games in mind though while not breaking the bank. But the cheap laptop from 2014 is much slower, though I can still browse with handful of tabs open, even with Firefox 109.0.1. I've been recently experimenting with 32-bit Debian 11 with KDE on that laptop, so trying to save RAM while still being functional. I could probably get by even if that laptop was the only option since I'm one of the more patient folks while most seem INCREDIBLY impatient. It's been a while since I've been experimenting with Chromium more thoroughly, in the past I've been messing with Vivaldi and Edge, most recent was Edge 94, which I've setup when it was new and I still occasionally update extensions or their settings. But in the end, I always stick with Mozilla-based browser since Chromium is just inflexible in places where I'm used to more flexibility. Even Vivaldi doesn't let you move those extension buttons wherever you want, it's either all of them in one spot or another. At this point, I'm not sure if Chromium is even worth bothering with again. What sites don't work with Firefox that can't be fixed with user agent override, besides maybe some specialized apps needing Web Serial or WebUSB? My Firefox looks like this:

OK, looking back at what I said, it didn't make much sense. As someone said: Source: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/mozilla Also: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/technological_slavery But who even feels like fighting system and even if they do, are they doing it in a way that would result in an actual long-term impact? IMHO, this world's a lost cause anyway and a big object from outer space could do us all a favor. https://www.livescience.com/planet-killer-asteroid-found-by-sun

There are differences in which files are served depending on the Firefox version presented in the user agent string (60 vs. 42). Polyfill is definitely used, it's like Firefox 42 gets a faster version.

I jumped from Firefox 96.0.3 to 110 today, got about 6 extra points on Speedometer. I mostly use Pale Moon, but a bit of speedup is refreshing, though it also costs more memory and I lose some extensions (though also gain some other extensions - web altering ones really, not browser altering ones). Also needs more RAM, Pale Moon needs cca. 400 MB for 1x MSFN tab, 1x Speedometer tab, 2x GitHub project page tabs, Firefox needs 700 MB. 32-bit versions.

Sorry, got 68/78 mixed up. But yeah, that's the one, also linked here (GitHub page). It's not a webextension though, it's a legacy bootstrapped extension that depends on hacky re-enabling of loading of these types of extensions. FWIW, I've test driven MyPal when it was new on my XP x64 installation in multi-process mode, when first reports of BSOD started appearing, didn't BSOD on me once, and I've made it use all availabe RAM to the point pagefile usage naturally increased. I only encountered one specific crash of the browser, which could be worked-around with Microsoft's own compatibility shim IgnoreException. From what I recall, the exception indicating access violation had to be ignored. I found it interesting since unhandled memory access violations are often fatal and the program usually doesn't recover from it just like that. That said, my PC has top notch driver support for XP x64. Edit: Actually, not sure I'm remembering exception correctly. Maybe it was illegal instruction...UD2...encountered with sites using Web Assembly.

Some scripts and extensions for Fx57+ are available here, DownThemAll! among others and there's a link to Tab Mix Plus. Some of these were recently updated and work with latest and greatest official Firefox 110, one might need to dig into the repo history if latest and greatest is not compatible with Mypal 68.

The Linux on desktop hasn't caught on, but: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-everywhere-10-things-didnt-know-penguin-powered/

Some starting points: https://www.gog.com/en/games/linux https://store.steampowered.com/linux