UCyborg

U mad bro? Did you actually think optional chaining / nullish coalescing (not supported yet) operators are of such large significance that would make any measurable impact on web compat in general?

No, but can't reproduce on Win11 VM neither now...I'll play some more with Vista (on real hardware) next time I boot into it, don't feel like rebooting my main Win10 if I don't have to... It's not an isolated case, others wrote about it on the internet, maybe something does change and I overlooked it...I tend to overlook...glitchy brain. My Win11 VM does have over 10 network profiles ATM, but I wasn't plugging the phone into it directly, either VMware's NAT was used or the Bridged option, nothing else, but the latter links to the phone's adapter on the host, so could be that as well.

Something that persists since Vista days, if you use phone's USB tethering, it will forget about network profile (the one that controls whether file sharing and similar stuff is enabled or not) you saved after reboot and create a new one. Before Win11, you were always asked by default about the network type when the system created a new network profile. Win11 doesn't ask, but still creates new network profile, even though you use exact same phone and IP address and gateway. I wonder if there's a proper way to make it remember to use the old profile.

I tried latest Serpent 52 yesterday and encountered issues in developer tools; on Inspector tab, Rules sub-tab is either completely empty or just shows some random rule, far from complete picture at least.

That's really long. I noticed on my particular PC that using MS's AHCI driver produces abnormal delay when "shutting down" with Fast Startup enabled. Granted, that's a specific quirk and I normally use NVIDIA's AHCI driver built specifically for my motherboard's SATA controller. It's basically log off and hibernate, though there might be additional specific details in the process. I remember noticing in the past DWM being launched with -hiberboot parameter, which seems to be related to Fast Startup.

No software, just a stopwatch.

Just to clarify, when I specified my laptop boot time, I meant from the moment it starts loading (after the BIOS picks it up after POST) to the login screen. Cold boot on my main desktop running Win10 20H2 is about 35 seconds (WD WD5000AAKX disk @ 7200 RPM, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, AMD Phenom II X4 920, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti). The CPU is kinda underperforming, especially in single-threaded department compared to Intel's offerings of the time. I've had it much slower with Win10 general. I did not turn one installation from slow to fast though, so don't ask me how I did it. This one just happens to be faster than the older ones. The way files are arranged on disk could also be the factor. This is also the only installation where I ran defrag after everything was installed. I don't use high performance plan as it seems stupid to run CPU and the rest at max frequencies where there's nothing to do and never had problems with Windows managing that well enough on its own.

I used UxStyle 0.2.1.0 as the UxTheme patcher for allowing unsigned themes to load. The patch is done in memory, starts working right away, no reboot required. https://uxstyle.com/ Something about Vista Visual Master and how it patches Aero theme; maximized windows keep the color intensity of an active window even when they're not focused. For non-maximized windows, the intensity is reduced when not focused.

You're lucky that I'm just on a trip back in time messing around with Vista and can confirm the setting works. I applied it through GUI, accessible through both gpedit.msc and secpol.msc. Instead of an UAC prompt, an error appears stating A referral was returned from the server.

Don't get me wrong, I think knowing is great, I just think sometimes not being aware of certain things would be easier on the mind. I heard rumors before about some people's computers taking MINUTES (!!!) to boot. I have a slow laptop; 1,35 GHz dual-core APU (a CPU with onboard GPU), 2 GB of RAM, with some 256 MB taken away as video RAM and additional 40 MB disabled because it went bad and a 5400 RPM HDD and that doesn't take that long to cold boot 32-bit Win10. Haven't actually used Windows on that laptop and that laptop in general in a while, I'll turn it on occasionally and plug it in to try to prevent battery from going completely bad. Don't remember the exact cold boot time of Win10, must have been somewhere between 45 seconds and a minute I think. I dealed with one particularly odd Win10 machine (or maybe it was server variant) at work once and it took a over 1,5h (!!!) to install .NET Framework 4.8. My laptop didn't take more than 15 min I think (going from my memory). There could be something more going on in these cases than mere "running with defaults". That OS is too weird even for me. And even pretending the OS being in that shape is the norm, developing solutions for the shortcomings is quite a feat. Did you see how much code ExplorerPatcher has?? Quite a turn from Steve Ballmer's attitude towards Linux, huh. I agree with what this guy is saying: https://itsfoss.com/windows-linux-kernel-wsl-2/ I don't like the idea of having to switch OS multiple times a day, but having a possibility to use some other OS than what came with PC is good. Lack of that option is worrisome. Mainstream browsers are changing too much in general, you never know what you'll get. If there were just layout engine additions / fixes, fine. Besides that, I noticed in practice even Firefox has problems migrating profile data between versions, eg. it can happen you can't login to a certain website after upgrade because it corrupted data under storage folder in your profile folder. Too much complexity that even developers can't cope anymore, forget the poor clueless end users! The ageing creeps me out. I'm very aware of it, still young, but would turn back time by 10 years any day. I get easily tired as it is, not sure how I'll cope if I somehow make it to the (distant?) future, especially if working hours don't get shorter. You're way beyond even some younger folks in your capabilities and understanding of technicalities involved. My father never bothered to learn computers, I think it's the combination of inflexible character to some degree / lack of interest and he was a workaholic whose work didn't include computers.

They're the lucky ones IMO. Not burdened by the knowledge of tinkering possibilities. I do; constant screen lag / stutter on my dual-screen setup.

Too much monotony can do that. I got the letter from the financial board few days ago that I owe the neighboring municipality 40€ for "speeding" fine, which I already paid in time in January, so then half-price applied. I wrote an email to the municipality, attaching payment confirmation document and they apologized, saying the list of transactions for the day when the transaction was made was missing. Holy moly, with all the computers in place, LOL! Late edit: About the "speeding"; to clarify, I'm not some maniac overconfident in his driving abilities, I was merely entering...is it the settlement?...can't find the right word...a town or village doesn't seem fitting neither...and there was apparently a hidden radar at the beginning where my speed was apparently 58 km/h. The limit is 50 km/h. I tend to slow down gradually and use engine alone as a brake when deemed safe to do so. Also, the road was bloody empty! Guess if I'd let go of the gas pedal about 2 seconds earlier, I'd made it there within the limit.

I hinted that it might as well be disabled because if it isn't just a no-op var (can't be bothered to dig through the code), querying for "Flash embeds" (which is the default if the code is still there) on YouTube is pointless and a waste of CPU cycles.

Nothing new, the place I work at changed system requirements of the software produced there from specific versions of the browsers to "latest version of Chrome or Firefox" months ago. The era of explicitly supporting older platforms is long gone, no value is seen in supporting the old platform if the application in question can be run on the newest. Perhaps development was also slower in the past so supporting older platforms due to less differences from newer ones was easier. You'll be dead by then and WWW in its current form might as well not exist, if it even still exists by then, so hardly a reason to worry about!

Anyone installed IrfanView 4.60 recently on Vista? Installer fails to create desktop / start menu shortcuts here, only empty folder is made in start menu.

Note that the solution above...depends on your POV and what sites you visit, but you may end up with TONS of certificates you'll NEVER need. Microsoft's default way is on demand, if a root certificate of the site doesn't exists in your store, a check is performed if MS trusts it and if it does, the certificate is fetched and put in the store.

Judging by the prefix, it's probably an outdated variable that was probably relevant when YouTube was still using Flash Player...yup, that was it...https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Youtube_Embedded_Rewrite. If there's still active code behind it, it's useless in 2022.

Anyone happens to know an easy fix for Google Drive, if it exists? The file view is broken, unscrollable.

Check again in 7 years.

Interesting, is it possible that keeping the time service running prevents the clock reset every hour when running normally (no standby / hibernation)?

Windows 10 always writes full path to the sound file.

Chrome on Win7 keeps Windows theme aesthetics in the title bar. It's still drawing tabs in the title bar (this applies to all OS), so no actual caption. On Win10 it custom draws Win10 style caption bar over Win10 default caption bar, which is even funnier. Even MCP guys did this to their Pale Moon and said this was the only way for it to look right, which I never understood. Of course, then it sticks out like sore thumb if you use Aero Lite (the only official MS theme besides default one) or any unofficial theme. Last time I checked, there was still a command line parameter to disable this behavior on Chrome and Pale Moon also has a setting, though I think it changes something else and that is just side effect, forgot exactly and it's late. Vivaldi has the checkbox to enable normal title bar, of course all GUI inside the window is still custom.

Yours still didn't have real title bar last time I checked, always custom drawn XP Luna images over the real title bar regardless of system theme, always white caption font (probably hardcoded type as well). I have green font color set for active window and red for inactive window. I like how PotPlayer (media player) does it, you can have it custom or follow Windows theme aesthetics. Still, you can try --no-sandbox command line parameter. Who knows if sandbox is even effective on XP / on these browsers. But it's the only thing in my experience that actually helps.

Yay, more incompatibilities (Stack Exchange sites, Tumblr...). I tried transpiling that MSFN service worker, it still didn't work. I've held on for a very long time, but even from my POV, this ship has sunk unless the developers behind these browsers step it up. Until then, as Agent Smith would say: Late edit: Seems inline (in HTML) incompatible JS might be only on some Stack Exchange's sites, at least on Stack Overflow for now.

Yeah, misunderstood documentation. I've put those two to 128 now.