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On 2/4/2024 at 6:26 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:
Because Supermium does not have a TITLE BAR. While not big to you, that IS big to a LOT of folks
On 2/5/2024 at 2:34 PM, Jody Thornton said:Besides, I'm sure win32 is not able to make such a change because it's basically "Chrome"
Vivaldi has it and while the rest of the UI is still custom rendered like Chrome, it's much expanded functionality-wise compared So it could be done, but people would always find something to complain about.
Am I the only one who finds all these browser discussions really monotone at this point?
4 hours ago, Milkinis said:DyceFreak- '''most people's XP machines are 99% offline machines'''
1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:My XP was used for nothing OTHER than online!
The only odd XPs I still see in the wild once in the blue moon have Firefox 52 or Chrome 49 at best, so probably not much (any?) web browsing is done on them.
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22 hours ago, Milkinis said:
you would want to delete these files or replace them with something else with the same file name.
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch -l1-2-0.dllNa-ah, that just breaks other applications. I don't have a problem with chrome.dll having to be relocated at runtime. Can still move Chrome's DLLs a bit further from default address, which is better approach since those are larger than api* ones.
rebase.exe -b 10040000 chrome.dll libEGL.dll libGLESv2.dll vk_swiftshader.dll vulkan-1.dll
21 hours ago, XPerceniol said:22 hours ago, Milkinis said:--disable-gpu-compositing
Actually this has improved things for me - thanks!as it turned out, that didn't help much if at all; at least on my Dell 745 Optiplex.This flag is pointless since what it disables is non-functional on XP to begin with. And there's a checkbox for it in the settings anyway.
I never use disable that on supported systems anyway, it's basically saying: "I don't want to use my graphics card that I paid good money for, I prefer the slow laggy and choppy graphics content, animations and scrolling."
Or: "My onboard GPU and drivers suck so I have to turn the acceleration off to avoid bugs and glitches."
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Translation: You can run the browser executable with -purgecaches command-line argument.
Or set an environment variable MOZ_PURGE_CACHES to 1.
If present at browser startup, should clean its caches then.
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48 minutes ago, XPerceniol said:
Yeah not only to the grave, I intend to be still using m old junk in hell.
LOL, but seriously, when you look at the hardware manufactured today, you cannot not notice the insignificance of the old gear. Not that you couldn't make a lighter browser, just don't expect it from Google. Though such browser probably couldn't support all the mess they've thought up should be supported by a web browser.
45 minutes ago, 66cats said:What, specifically, is FF saving? I mean it's literally kept by Google.
I didn't mention FF or Mozilla specifically. There's still Moonchild Productions and The SeaMonkey Association.
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On 1/29/2024 at 6:51 AM, dmiranda said:
Is this in windows XP? The only EVR I've got (in a very nlited/trimmed XP) is the one in the mpc-hc for this thread.
Aye, x64 flavor, but like I said, the ones in system32/SysWOW64 folders seem to have been bundled with .NET Framework 3, it's not included with XP. So if the only evr.dll is in MPC-HC folder, then deleting it would make EVR unavailable.
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On 1/30/2024 at 4:47 AM, dmiranda said:
I would prefer to have a search engine of my choice, but well, you can't have it all. Congratulations to the developer.
Looks like you have to enable chrome://flags/#enable-search-engine-choice to get it.
But yeah, it's Chromium, not something I'm too excited about in general, it's just bad for the health of WWW.
On 1/30/2024 at 6:05 AM, dmiranda said:I cant even get to open the YT page without a tab crashing, and loading gmail takes forever. Maybe with 4 to 8 extra GB of RAM...
I can have 3 YT tabs open and 3 lighter sites, the computer RAM usage is still below 3 GB, about 2,9 GB, adding GMail brings it to 3,2 GB. 10 extensions active. Vanilla full-featured XP x64. Maybe some people need to rebase one of the DLLs? At least if chrome.dll is marked in orange on Modules tab of chrome.exe properties in Process Hacker. Can't say I notice any leaks. I wonder if there's any other flag besides --no-sandbox that would work-around the disappearing fonts that seems to happen in combination with Stylus. I haven't actually tried yet if this one even works at all in this Chromium, but it helped with at least one version of the old 360Chrome 13.
General browsing is pretty snappy here, but things optimized to use GPU are slow, auto-scrolling also has a heavy feel to it. This is on old price/performance oriented gaming hardware from 2009, I don't count a newer GPU since it can't be utilized here, but older decent computers are still OK for heavy web browsers. Although MSFN often gives me the impression the only acceptable option is to buy only one computer in the lifetime and take it to the grave.
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So EVR is seemingly restricted in rendering videos in limited 16-235 color range on XP. Or is there a workaround or a missing update?
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Looks like a Chromium with typical limitations like the older variants. Guess it's good to pay the bills if your whatever-provider's site sucks so badly. No need for polyfills. Also why is only Google on the built-in search engine list?
It did crash on first startup on my XP x64 (only tried 32-bit version), but afterwards it was OK. OS is not updated beyond 2011/2012, except an odd crypt32.dll update from 2015.
Laggy transitions/animations on websites, eg. changing pages on this forum, laggy videos (also doesn't prevent screen turning off during playback) etc. So CPU struggles while GPU has nothing to do.
I see people being hyped up about Win2K support and what not, but, why? There's a charm in small footprint of period correct applications. Why would you want that monstrosity there? 32-bit chrome.dll is almost two hundred f***in' megabytes! 64-bit is obviously already beyond that. I don't know, maybe I'm just too old to "dig" today's kids' crazy ideas.
PS.:
Not this crap with the fonts again!
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Please re-download, I reverted one condition that checked for Fennec ID (the old Android version of Firefox) as I'm not sure about correctness and would have to investigate deeper if the alternative was correct (as the condition was triggered on desktop browsers and I'm not sure if the data it got would be equivalent).
As the changes don't target any desktop browser or mail client by ID, it would be good to test and see to make sure are no any new oddities in any case, Pale Moon/New Moon, Basilisk/Serpent, InterLink/MailNews or Epyrus.
Also, not sure the about the versioning scheme Borealis Navigator follows, are there versions below 0.9 in the wild? I put the same min/max versions I put when I modded PassIFox, which was tested on that application at the time. Minor details, but I just like min/max versions reflecting what's actually out there. Obviously maxversion is a bit special and an asterisk indicates (merely to the user that happens to read it, at least that's how it is most of the time in practice) support for the whole branch of versions.
SeaMonkey is also a bit special, even if it should work in the current 2.53.* version, theoretically, it could break anytime as they clean up stuff under the hood often.
Anyway, I'm not a pensioner nor a lottery winner and am a slow person in general, so these things are a huge time sink, meaning I probably won't modify this extension further at this point in time.
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On 1/25/2024 at 9:59 PM, Fightingfalcon said:
I was wondering if you would be able to have V31 compatible with a email client program called Epyrus (Epyrus E-Mail client) Click on the "repository" link for the code base info. I contacted the author about this and he told me to contact you.
You can try my version. It no longer depends on Thunderbird application ID, all relevant changes are in js/vapi-background.js, Hopefully all remains well with it, a one line change - adding Epyrus' application ID in one expression in the mentioned file - would have been easier, but the other way should be more correct.
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On 11/16/2023 at 8:13 PM, genieautravail said:
After playing a video, if I want to play another video or exit the software, I get an error message:
On 11/17/2023 at 9:51 AM, we3fan said:Remove evr.dll from MPC-HC directory
You can probably get rid of dxva2.dll as well. From the version numbers, evr.dll included here is older (6.0.6002.18005) than the one I got (6.0.6002.18084), the latter is stable in that regard.
Wonder why was Vista's evr.dll mixed with 7's dxva2.dll. Is there anything to gain from extra functions it has in XP environment? The only useful obvious addition is DXVA-HD.
QuoteThe DXVA-HD API requires either a WDDM display driver that supports the DXVA-HD device driver interface (DDI), or a plug-in software processor.
However that plug-in software processor may look like.
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51 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:
Epyrus is a Thunderbird 52-based mail client that builds against UXP (official statement).
Long-term, this becomes less relevant as applications evolve.
You can't expect eg. Thunderbird 52 extension to be compatible with application that is not Thunderbird 52 and doesn't do things Thunderbird 52's way. athenian200 was clear in that matter.
But sure, you're not the developer and you're free to not look into the compatibility with Epyrus.
1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:then this can't be the problem of the developer of uBlock Origin
It's always the problem of the extension developer, but yeah, gorhill decided years ago XUL won't be his problem anymore. So I guess it's really not.
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11 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
As far as I know, Epyrus is a Thunderbird 52-based mail client that builds against UXP. uBlock Origin Legacy is fully compatible with Thunderbird 52, Interlink and MailNews. If the developer of Epyrus made changes preventing uBlock Origin Legacy to run properly in Epyrus, then these changes have to be reverted by the Epyrus' developer and nobody else to restore compatibility. IMHO, it therefore doesn't seem to be a problem of uBlock Origin but a problem of Epyrus. If the Epyrus developer turns you away and tells you to contact me, then he just doesn't want to deal with your problem.
Nope, that's not how this game works. Epyrus != InterLink && Epyrus != MailNews
Therefore, if the extension doesn't work on it as-is, it must be adapted. Extensions must be tailored to the application they extend, it's always been this way.
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Nice, you can also set title bar's text color, both for active and inactive state, I really missed that. Few small additions in that area would be nice, like a glow effect, text alignment, ability to have blend color taken from system's accent color.
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On 1/23/2024 at 4:16 AM, dmiranda said:
Well, in my case I think there may be two probable culprits (no false pretense of expertise here, just sharing probably wrong data from an informed, risky, user point of view): 1) https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/DirectX-10-for-Windows-XP.shtml, 2) https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Windows-Media-Format-Runtime-11.shtml.
Never installed the former and the latter doesn't have it. Apparently evr.dll (Enhanced Video Renderer) was bundled with .NET Framework 3, dxva2.dll comes as dependency. It can still provide some support functions to evr.dll on XP. EVR is selectable and functional in some players, but it was primarily made for Vista.
Overall, things still look better in the land of supported to me.
On 1/23/2024 at 3:42 PM, Dixel said:Probably because it runs on unsupported Framework 4.0 with the suggested change in the ini file.
Seems the old version simply doesn't recognize that ID/string.
It seems it didn't have the 4.6 requirement, still targeted 2.0 in addition to 4.0 according to .config file. The latest one craps out on non-existent method in .NET if you try that tweak.
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This looks better:
Driver version 355.98.
This explains why LAV Video Decoder doesn't work on h.264. LAV has DXVA2 according to its settings, h.264 apparently works through DXVA1 on XP. Honestly, I've no idea how I have dxva2.dll in system32/SysWOW64, DirectX Redist seems a likely candidate, these files don't have normal custom file permissions, but inherited from their folders, no copy of them in dllcache folder either. DXVA2 is not supposed to work on XP according to Wikipedia, whatever goes through should only go through software, non-accelerated decoding paths at best. While dxva2.dll is loadable, when it comes to DirectX in general, you still need support from the layers at lower levels.
Though it's interesting VC1 codec is shown for DXVA2 at all, I don't remember ever dealing with this specific codec, at least not knowingly. So output from GPU-Z makes more sense now, querying only DXVA2. That one VC1 variant in DXVA Checker also disappears for DXVA2 when renaming dxva2.dll to something else.
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1 hour ago, mina7601 said:
DXVA Checker?
That's the one. I checked it when I was still running Windows 8.1.
I'm not concerned about what GPU-Z shows on XP regarding DXVA.
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2 minutes ago, D.Draker said:
GPUZ
Oh, I forgot about this one, but the other one I had in mind was focused specifically on DXVA and was a bit verbose about it.
This is what GPU-Z shows here on XP x64:
14 minutes ago, j7n said:There is a newer model of 750 that is GM206, and also 960 that work under XP for h.265.
8 minutes ago, D.Draker said:For the full decode abilities you would need to buy GTX750 SE (Special Edition), not the Ti.
So I'd just have to wait about half-year and I'd have that. Oh well, I couldn't wait to play Wolfenstein: The New Order back then.
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Do note that any code that runs continuously without pause on the CPU core will make the utilization on it show as 100%. The question is if the algorithm can be improved to complete sooner. The problem with single-core CPUs (which AstroSkipper uses as far as I'm aware) is that you effectively can't properly multitask on them, you can't give it work and do something else in the meantime. If you do, it will be interrupted for a short while to try to do your thing then get back to the other thing, but your thing will suffer immensely. Maybe less if you do something in the other program and give it a higher priority.
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1 hour ago, D.Draker said:
Your card also has the limited (partial) VP9 hardware feature.
Doesn't this only apply to HEVC?
I do remember there's a nice program out there to list exactly what works through DXVA on computer where it's launched, but I don't recall its name ATM.
21 minutes ago, j7n said:But luckily nobody releases films in VP9 format. On the web, there usually is an alternative normal h.264 video, or the bitrate is so low that the video can be played on the CPU.
Yeah, I rarely watch anything new anymore. I used to worry about what my graphics card supports, if I waited one year instead of buying Radeon 4890, I would've got a card with DirectX 11. If I waited one year instead of buying GTX 750 Ti, I would've got a card that does video decoding beyond old H.264 and DirectX 12.
21 minutes ago, j7n said:The "X" in DirectX stands for a complete package of stuff that games need.
I'm guilty of this as well (just the paragraph before), but Direct3D and DirectX are often used interchangeably. I didn't think of the X this way, but I knew that's how Xbox got its name - DirectX box.
On 1/19/2024 at 10:16 PM, j7n said:Microsoft always comes up with new stuff to lock customers into an upgrade path.
This goes way beyond Microsoft. I know because I work at the smaller company that does specific hardware and software. So practically, as far as I'm concerned, everyone does this.
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On 1/18/2024 at 10:07 PM, UCyborg said:
I tried it on my usual XP x64 install anyway, but it doesn't appear to be usable here.
OK, madVR doesn't work, but Enhanced Video Renderer (both variants) does. Can't use DXVA through either old XP compatible LAV Filters or new ones, PotPlayer can with its auto-selected Video Renderer, but it's
verya bit primitive, put player on another screen and no picture. Nothing wrong with the player, just the platform limitation.CUVID works through through either LAV Filters (the only option with MPC-HC) or PotPlayer's built-in decoder.
Whatever new codecs are supported with new LAV Filters, they obviously can't be HW decoded on XP era hardware/graphics drivers. My GPU is before the time they came with VP9 decoding, but I wondered if that is supported on XP with slightly newer GPU in any shape or form.
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WhoTracks.me does not appear that heavy by itself, but the script putting links in the bubble takes a long time, 20 to 30 seconds for Google Tag Manager here, depending on the browser. The script is not large, but its logic takes time.
You know, I can't help but wonder, if I buy a computer for 4000€, how much would it reduce the time it takes.
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1 hour ago, mina7601 said:
You will need to install a userscript manager. i.e., Greasemonkey, from Classic Add-ons Archive add-on.
GreaseMonkey for Pale Moon 3.31.4 should be better suited for UXP browsers.
https://github.com/janekptacijarabaci/greasemonkey/releases/tag/3.31.4Fork
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3 hours ago, XPerceniol said:
Could/would you explain what you mean by that statement?
I meant to say any new games, though there probably are and I'm just throwing out negative assumptions again.
3 hours ago, XPerceniol said:Some people can't even walk alone and I wonder why ...
They're social butterflies I guess, something our kind will never "get".
I've had bits of social life in the past, but it's all gone now. I also get sick of my own company at times, but can't escape from myself.
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It was mentioned here.
I suppose it could have a dedicated thread. The new version was released few hours ago.