UCyborg

Because they don't have categorized add-ons page for Basilisk, there's only https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/extensions/.

A World Bland Web then.

Bill has moved on. An excerpt from his AMA (https://www.windowscentral.com/bill-gates-things-we-learned-first-ama-reddit): That was over 10 years ago.

You might add that test websites don't count.

Heh, I was just looking at what elements are used alone. This is something you'd make in the first hour of web development class.

I don't believe they think in terms "let's break the old Windows X and Y" etc.

I don't think this is getting a passing grade where I went to high school.

Right, I was just curious, it's not something that actively bothers me and needs addressing right away, but my Windows installation has other unexplainable issues that are more worrisome and needs re-installing, not sure when I'll get to it, probably not anytime soon, just too much work to put every little thing back to how it was and the most important things work at least. Onto the unexplainable, the empty HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ServerKey registry key keeps being re-created, don't know by what, don't know when, I'll delete it and it'll be gone for a day or two, then it's back, then the WER crash dialogs invoked by application crashes don't appear when they normally should, despite the \Windows Components\Windows Error Reporting\Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors group policy being correctly configured - Disabled, only WerTweak utility brings them back, but this should only make difference when it comes to invocations that MS disabled, like when Explorer crashes or UWP stuff crashes. And the weather taskbar widget in ExplorerPatcher makes Explorer eventually crash, at some point, it looks a crapload of USER handles is created in explorer.exe process, exceeding the limit of 10000 and then it crashes in a random DLL at a random offset. I'm anxious about changing graphics driver on the current install, would rather experiment with that when I got Windows re-installed, unless I knew for certain these issues were somehow caused by the driver. But from my past experiences, Windows sometimes gets screwed in a certain way, then you re-install it along with every other program/driver you used and then it works again...until next time...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech

Seems you have to go out of the way to turn on javascript.options.ion. Off is default. NM27 doesn't look like a browser I'd ever use. Even MSFN is broken on it.

Windows 10 20H2 version 10.0.19042.906 NVIDIA driver version 461.40 Just wondering if anyone encountered this and could point out whether it's a Windows issue or a NVIDIA driver issue. I noticed disabling and re-enabling the graphics driver in Device Manager brings it back.

I wonder if web devs like what they're doing, especially those involved in constant employment of whatever new shinies the web browsers have to offer. And what about web browser developers, especially the ones in Google/Mozilla camp.

What about if you buy a Bugatti Chiron for 3+ million? It gets to 60 mph in 2,3 seconds. How sensitive is the gas pedal anyway? Some clumsy chump like me might kill himself the first minute. Not that I'll ever be able to afford it.

Oh yeah, you can't say Volkswagen or any other car manufacturer's been sitting on its a** in the last 20 years either. It gets even more interesting when you go further into the past - I watched a documentary titled Cars of socialism recently, though I can't find it online. The cars they were driving back then...holy moly...there was one notorious model in the documentary that I forgot how it was called that emitted a shitload of smoke when it was running, not sure if it was manufactured in Eastern Germany or I mixed it up with the other model...and I thought my previous 2001 VW Polo was a stinker!

Aye, you really get much more for the same price, even if just looking at the last decade. Though the phenomenon as it appears to me is that average MSFNer seems to have fixated himself on one particular point in history, even though the personal computing has been advancing ever since the 70s. And while Commodore 64 with the accompanying software may rust in a museum, XP and the accompanying hardware is supposed to be forever. Maybe not on MSFN, but stark differences exist even in supposedly first world countries. I watched a documentary by Simon Reeve recently, here's a part of it:

Though it's not good enough for YouTube for some reason. Any example websites?

@NotHereToPlayGames I've missed your post about GFLOPs. I suppose it's true GPU is heavily involved in actual games, more than in a web browser, even if they became a bit like game engines under the hood. Another difference may be a typical game engine is optimized to do one thing well while web browsers became a sort of Swiss army knives. We haven't really seen how Chromium would perform in single-process mode on PC, if such mode existed. But there is a RAM saving trick on Android, if you opt to use a web browser using Chromium WebView instead of full-blown web browser, that will run in a single process or two at most in newer Androids if I recall correctly. Though WebView may have restrictions when it comes to certain functionality. In any case, hardware resources in this day and age are abundant, have you seen computers they sell these days? It's not hard to see why they'll tell you to get on with the times if you're complaining about your single-core single-monitor system from 20 years ago. The world has changed since then. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/08/24/why-web-design-has-gotten-so-complicated/ Jeez, 'been looking at the computers a bit and compared one typical PC today sold in a store to mine - from AMD Phenom II X4 920 to AMD Ryzen 5 5500: 4 cores -> 6 cores 4 threads -> 12 threads single-core frequency: 2,8 GHz -> 3,6 GHz (with a 4,2 GHz boost!) TDP: 125 W -> 65 W RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz -> 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz Similar with GPU, put AMD Radeon HD 4890 from 2009 against a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti from 2023. Not fair at all! Well, have a bit newer GTX 750 Ti ATM, but that's besides the point. Back in high-school, I remember a class-mate saying 1 GB of VRAM is plenty and you hardly ever need it. RTX 4060 Ti has 16 GB of VRAM! Funny you mention consoles, there was a discussion at some point regarding consoles vs PC and there was an argument that you don't need to upgrade consoles, that was all in PS3/X360 era. Ha, 3 newer PlayStations were released since. Guess it's true in a way, you just buy a new one. But with computers, you're still pretty much replacing the heart as soon as you go into CPU upgrade, which tend to imply new motherboard and RAM, especially if there's such an age gap.

That works in the browser? I noticed PM27 loads avcodec-lav-57.dll, avresample-lav-3.dll, avutil-lav-55.dll supplied by my installation of K-Lite Codec Pack 13.8.5, but no video engine load during AVC1 playback in the browser. I have LAV Video Decoder configured to use CUDA and it works if I set PotPlayer to use that instead of its own decoder, but PotPlayer loads LAVVideo.ax additionally and then LAV Video Decoder icon appears in the tray. It sure feels like it to me.

28. September here. Interesting my deadline is sooner despite there hardly being any activity on my account. BTW, generating these codes works from KeePass 2.53.1 on Windows 98, the last version that launches on that OS.

Ouch, no experience with this one...I suspect it's like Win11, where it's stubborn to hell, so there's probably no clean way to disable it. Why MS insists on making stubborn software and breaking all old (and sane!) conventions? Let me turn off the services that aren't essential for Windows to work!

Yeah, not sure what's in the background, as far as I can tell, many web sites still work on XP in 360Chrome builds without certificate errors if you used one of those root certificate updaters (unsure if any has the option to skip installing the ones that are incompatible, so you end up with a bunch of redundant non-working certificates). But this website for instance shows an invalid certificate error. Back when my bank still required to identify with a certificate rather than having to use an app for 2-factor authentication, that must have been cca. 3 years ago, 360Chrome couldn't be used, just showed an error page without a possibility to continue. I'm unable to find any website for a test, it requires web server to be configured certain way. Everything happens before any HTML can be fetched, only Mozilla-based browsers worked for it. I tried with roytam1's Serpent 52 build of the era where it worked. I suspected so. I'd probably run modern Chromium based browsers on Linux in case I wanted to use Chromium based browser for anything and had a problem with Win10, fonts come out clearer (part of the reason AFAIK that many fonts these days aren't web-safe/optimized and require tricks - smoothing - to come out right and not totally garbled) and render with more correct contrast out-of-the-box, videos play smoothly at HD resolution @ 60FPS if you have at least half-decent CPU, you can probably even get hardware video decoding working with certain builds if you have the GPU with good open-source drivers and WebGL content should work as smooth as OpenGL drivers allow. I noticed in recent years some WebGL content still renders significantly faster on Windows when it's being wrapped from OpenGL->D3D11. At least those are my experiences. Along the same lines as GPU acceleration goes, imagine there was a company that went out of their way to port Widevine CDM for employees to watch Netflix on XP. That's even more undoable since Widevine is proprietary. Understandable. It's more of a disappointment for others that have a harder time letting go off XP as a daily driver rather than those of us with certain historical interests that drive it on Sundays to see what still works or simply mess around with period-correct software/games. Aye, it's just too much, then days turn into months, months turn into years, you're just getting older and start to wonder what's the point... @NotHereToPlayGames seems to be like my father was in that regard. He was on his feet from dawn to dusk, ran his own company, loved what he did, I remember he tended to get ill if he broke the usual pace. Even though we lived under the same roof, he was almost like a stranger to me due to his absence most of the time.

How old is the media it was installed from? Wouldn't suspect Win10 1809 based OS is anything special unless something was added with updates or LTSC variant is somehow special in that regard as well.

So not very helpful for mere peasants of MSFN. How does the core of the browser compare to 360Chrome builds? Does it also have problems with certain certificates due to relying on XP's crypto libraries (if it does rely on them)? What does chrome://gpu page look like? Does it implement hardware acceleration? WebGL works smoothly? HexGL game should tell. What does HTML5 DRM stream test say? If you get a job, that is. I have it, it's a never ending misery. Same crap I don't want to be doing Monday to Friday, weekends end like it was nothing, wake up, get there staring at the screen all day and deal with customers' crap any by the time it's over, most of the day is gone and batteries are low. No energy/will for non-passive activities anymore, as if getting interested in anything in the first place wasn't hard enough. Just waiting to die at this point. I survived COVID-19, Vladimir didn't bomb us, no floods where I live either. So the suffering continues.

This worked on my 20H2: Turning off Tamper Protection Turning off Windows Defender (I did it using gpedit.msc) I also put WinDefend service on manual. PS: Your title and post refers to the firewall while the link you posted refers to the anti-virus program.