UCyborg

Things crashing left and right with HW accel is not the norm. There is a specific market of graphics cards for professional applications (including CAD), used to be NVIDIA Quadro and ATI FirePro/FireGL brands, now such cards are marketed under different brand. I doubt such market would exist if HW accel did not work, especially considering the high price tag.

I doubt Mypal users with BSOD problems are getting out of their way to enable OpenGL backend for hardware acceleration. Ignoring browser issues and their HW acceleration, which came later and is a bit specific, XP was all about HW accel, from graphics to sound - look at DirectX Diagnostic Tool - Win + R -> dxdiag. At the same time, the OS is old school and there is very little room for mistakes. A hiccup that might just cause a screen flash on Windows 10 may bring Windows XP down. Granted, hiccups are still possible in other areas on newer OS, but graphics drivers got a bit special treatment so not every hiccup crashes the entire OS. And properly working XP installations where everything adds up might be rarer than we think.

@Anbima roytam1's browsers might still be OK if GPU is up for it. And software fallbacks should still be faster, especially compared to EE V13. Just noticed 720p 60 FPS has a noticeable edge on my PC in MyPal 68 while they're only smooth in roytam1's browsers in a small window without GPU acceleration. I don't know what to say about Mypal and BSODs, but a browser shouldn't be able to crash the entire OS. Hard to guess, especially without crash dumps, what's the reason. Could be driver issues, could be unpatched bugs in the OS...I only have XP x64 install here and didn't manage to get the browser to crash the OS.

YouTube strikes me as rather conservative. Still works in Internet Explorer 11, last major update of that browser was in 2014. Of course, the interface is pretty sluggish with that browser. GPU doesn't matter on Chrome on XP as GPU acceleration is not implemented via APIs XP supports. From V11 to V13, it gets progressively slower. Same goes for the upstream Chromium they're based on. Haven't tried 13.5 though. Chrome's software presentation of frames is very slow, the bigger the surface the videos covers, the slower it gets. So even at the same resolution selected in YouTube's interface, there's big difference in running it in a small window vs full screen, particularly if screen is high resolution. MyPal 68 is much better at handling video, got smooth 720p @ 60 FPS playback without frame drops (VP9 codec) without GPU acceleration. So even if it works for someone well somehow on Chrome, more CPU time is spent presenting frames than would be needed if it was better optimized. Of course, if you don't mind the little inconvenience and lack of all YouTube features in one place (the browser), throwing a YouTube link to dedicated media player should be the most efficient as far as efficient hardware resource utilization is concerned.

I have Firefox 52.9 configured very much like Serpent and guess what, this issue does not occur there with same uBlock Origin and settings. Also spoofing the same user agent as on Serpent (Firefox 71) to get modern layout, though Firefox 52.9 does not support WebP images so GOOOOOGLE is missing on the bottom of the page above the links to navigate to next pages. Might be an issue upstream since it happens on official Pale Moon. Or maybe an odd extension issue, who knows. But what kind of issue since there's no error? You can right-click the result link, copy link, paste and go and that also doesn't redirect back to Google, just normally clicking it does. Edit: No problem in SeaMonkey neither (non-UXP one I mean, never tried UXP one).

Right, I actually wanted to write removing extensions doesn't work properly, but forgot. Since you already wrote about it, I may add references to the add-on may also remain in prefs.js, extension-preferences.json and extension-settings.json (maybe it only really remains in ONE of the latter two files, not sure), plus there's also extension's storage folder under storage\default\moz-extension+++*. No idea how to identify the correct folder, it may be guessed by other extensions' accessed/modified date of files in their respective subfolder...

I don't think it's weird. Insightful might be the term.

I hear ya. I'm even starting to get used to the new right click menu and using the icons for cut, copy, paste, etc. I forgot to write then, here I meant the new useful stuff, eg. the updated console host or new notification system (both were in Win10), not the nonsensical moving of old things around.

uBlock Origin 1.42.4 seems to work fine here as well (XP x64). I noticed Firefox add-ons site doesn't let you find add-ons which current version is no longer compatible with the browser you're using unless you spoof the user agent with the newer version or access the particular add-on page directly (eg. via search engine), where there's a link to access the older versions of the add-on.

I wasn't implying that what I said is an issue per se. My mind tends to wander and wonder about the possibilities out there I might be missing out on.

HTML5 capable browsers naturally don't process embedded Flash elements inside a video tag, even if the video in that tag fails to play. For CloudTube, a script like below takes the embedded Flash element, removes video element and puts embedded Flash element in its place. There's no error checking, if layout is changed in a specific way, it'll break. // ==UserScript== // @name CloudTube - force Flash Player // @namespace https://github.com/UCyborg // @version 1.0 // @description Removes video element from CloudTube to allow HTML5 capable browser to pickup on embedded Flash video player. // @author UCyborg // @match https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== "use strict"; (function() { // quality selector isn't programmed to have an effect on Flash player document.getElementById("quality-select").disabled = true; const f = document.getElementById("f4Player"); document.getElementById("video").remove(); document.getElementsByClassName("video-container").item(0).appendChild(f); })(); I don't remember ever checking GPU stats when Flash was still used on YouTube. Were videos actually decoded on the GPU then if supported by the host environment? I've read someone here saying they were. They seem to be always decoded on the CPU in the Flash player here. This seems to be because f4Player is coded to only use flash.media.Video class while HW accelerated decoding is provided by flash.media.StageVideo class. Also 60 FPS playback might have worked under specific circumstances. I found a hint that it supposedly worked in Flash version 11.5, but not 12.0. Either way, thanks for pointing out CloudTube, @cmccaff1. This alternative frontend is actually usable for watching videos in the browser on slower computers. Even if you have decent, but not too recent computer and want to watch higher definition / frame rate videos, Invidious insists on using AV1 codec. Poorer browsers may still be able to handle the YouTube's interface, but older CPUs will choke on AV1 codec even in the dedicated media players.

Yup, we might even had ended up with higher quality software in that case. They also say striving for cross-platform compatibility improves code quality. Regarding performance, they say horse power is cheap while the effort to optimize for older hardware is not. So there are motherboards out there with relatively decent quartz crystals? Mine accmulates about 1 second per day lag. It was a cheaper model though. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't focus as much on those even on high end motherboards since who doesn't regularly sync time over NTP anyway. Windows 10 even does it daily out-of-the-box. I've set my car's clock about a minute forward from then current time about 2 years ago, I wasn't targetting exact minute, so not sure how much forward it was, just in case, and the clock forward is still better in the sense you can't be late if you orient from such clock (excluding the possibilities of extraordinary events). It's still about 50 seconds forward. Of course, my car does not and cannot go online to sync clock.

Interesting, I was never that social, at least not in real life. Your experience is quite a turn. I felt lost in groups in particular, there was always talk about random things I know nothing about. Plus not much in this world seems interesting, so good luck finding common ground. OK, I'm going to stop here for now as I'm not sure what to say next. The time it takes me to compose certain posts...phew!

Anyone knows anything about the glitch with uBlock Origin 1.16.4.30 on Google search redirecting back to Google search when using JavaScript master switch? Have the following rules in uBlock along with a fresh browser profile so something else doesn't change the behavior: no-scripting: * true no-scripting: google.com false Perform a search on Google and try to open anything it finds, you will be redirected back to Google unless the target site also has no-scripting rule set to false. So JavsScript combination - Google yes, target site no doesn't work as expected. Any way to make it work like it's supposed to? No issue with recent non-legacy uBlock Origin version on other browsers.

Seems the forum was recently updated. I don't remember the extra whitespace between member information and post content in people's posts. Is this just how the default theme that comes with the software is now or are there settings on the server side? Either way, I prefer the old look, I find the extra whitespace screaming "Hey, look at me!". The old look can be achieved by applying the following CSS: .ipsComment_author { margin: unset !important; } Or you could do: .ipsComment_author { margin: 0 10px 0 0 !important; } I find this prettier, considering the space on the left. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so YMMV.

It's an extroverted world out there. Or so it seems. More often than ever, I keep hearing how socializing is important health-wise, especially for older people.

Interesting, Firefox loads much less data from that page.

Are there other types of SSD where performance doesn't decrease over time?

They are standard. Unicode is a standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/ https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

Probably the font used for window captions.

Works, has country flags (Segoe UI Emoji only has few proper flags), but much less readable than Segoe UI Emoji.

Fixed the image.

Wait, should've read the documentation better...I didn't even put the parameters correctly...why the heck it didn't crash anyway in the console...now I got UD2 on another site...

It's only meant to bypass crash invoked by debug code, that UD2 instruction, though it will also ignore other/different occurences of illegal instruction exception if they occur, in which case it'll crash due to that code not doing what it was supposed to do, you can't really tell it more precisely what kind of illegal instructions to ignore. Amazon works fine here though...at least clicking around without an account...

Compatibility Administrator from Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit may be used to setup the database to apply compatibility shim IgnoreException to bypass illegal instruction exception until the stable version is released. Easiest way to see if it works is opening incompatible website, then opening/closing the console. Usually if the error is shown, it "crashes" then at some point, definitely by the time you close it, if not sooner.