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  1. UCyborg
    If anyone else finds the text rendering odd, this should help: https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-enhance-text-contrast-in-microsoft-edge/ Apparently compromises were made in Chromium code dealing with text rendering for cross-platform compatibility and Windows drew the short stick. I don't know where the information in the post above that the new behavior will be enabled by default in version 93 comes from, the blog post by MS says it should be in version 92 (where it isn't), which is is the current latest version. Maybe he tried one of the test versions and noticed it's enabled there.
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    As far as I'm concerned, it's always been bad. Very few see the reality for what it is, most deny it, so the sh!tshow keeps going.
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    The system is automated so after money is sent, it should generate the account on glass8.eu and send a thankful e-mail with a password to login to the site where a donation.key file can be generated. Subsequent donations send a thankful e-mail (without a password since account already exists) and increase the number of donation.key files that can be generated based on machine ID.
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    Half year later and my bank improved in some ways. They replaced debit cards with something more useful (Maestro->MasterCard). Taking credit MasterCard yearly subscription out of the equation, which was the only way to have MasterCard before, even if you didn't care about the fact that it's credit card, I wouldn't save with account management costs neither by switching to the bank I've been checking out half year ago. Anyway, back in January, I wrote them again, they reset something on their end and since then didn't have problems authenticating with HID Approve on Windows 10. To have a backup way to auth, I tried setting up HID Approve on Android, but couldn't activate it. So I ended up re-activating the bank's regular app. This... ...is not a problem anymore, so at least it's a bit more useful than just authenticator for web UI.
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    UltraViewer supposedly remains XP compatible.
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    The link was changed to point to license2.txt. It used to point to license.txt: http://glass8.eu/out/license.txt (which shows HTTP 418 code ATM) Edit: It looks like only the statement about how it works was removed, which I suppose makes sense for a license text.
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    The fires are raging.
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    They would ask for troubleshooting information and to test with a clean profile, which I believe is a sensible thing to do and takes user modifications out of the equation.
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    Emulating in this case, which is much slower. A system that still supports Win9x is likely slow to begin with. Big problem for late DOS games especially as far as emulation goes. On such system, it would be preferable to fix whatever issue you have that prevents running whatever you're trying to run natively as was meant to be. It's possible to have a computer that has no problem running graphically intensive games natively, but struggles with games in a DOS emulator, where a single core of the CPU is pretty much all that can be utilized to the max.
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    I was logged in. No content blocker of any kind was installed neither. I thought at first being logged in gives me local Slovenian ads while not being logged in gives more generic English ads, but it's actually random.
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    No issues related to CA root certificates with EE all the way from XP to 10 on my end. All sites that @ArcticFoxie tested on his Vista VM work without errors (browser indicates secure connection) on my Vista installation and other OS, along with Ecosia and Discord. EE checks both system certificate store and CA certificates in its own store and if the match is found, shows green padlock or green padlock with grey exclamation mark, the latter only indicates Chinese don't trust it (CA is not on their list). When no match, this is the end on XP, site is considered untrusted. Properly updated Vista and above, if this function isn't explicitly disabled by group policy setting, are at this point able to check Windows Update if the entity that issued the site's certificate is on Microsoft's list of trusted CA and if it is, it can pull its CA certificate and install it in system certificate store in Trusted Root Certification Authorities folder, so in this case the green padlock shows, but otherwise, the site is considered untrusted. https://browserleaks.com/ssl explicity tests if the browser accepts resources over unencrypted connection, so errors are expected with browsers that don't block them in that case. Not sure about the error with insecure resources on MSFN, I guess it's related to either ads from Google domains or the stuff from Cloudflare. Don't know how to check this situation more thoroughly since it doesn't happen here. If one's system can't check/pull certificates from Windows Update, quickest way is running the cert updater from here. This will install all of them from MS server. To keep the certificate store lean, probably the only way is checking the certificate details in the browser and looking up the CA certificate name on Certification Path tab, hunting the certificate on the internet and installing it manually.
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    Yes, it won't work on any XP version without a plugin, it only works without a plugin on Vista and later. No, same thing.
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    Yeah, nobody wrote XP compatible HW acceleration code for Chromium. It just wants Direct3D9Ex.
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    I got the modem in the next room, not much difference if I'm right beside it with my phone though. To PC, it goes through my phone then through USB 2.0. The phone supports 2.4G up to 802.11n standard, though the modem also does 5G (A/N/AC). Theoretical maximum of 802.11n is significantly higher than what I get. I also got only about 15 Mbps with 802.11g standard using iconic Linksys WRT54GL router and Tomato 1.28 firmware. Regarding the tests on that site, reading recent posts give the impression they're rather quirky.
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    The tests look highly "browser specific" in nature, not sure how OS plays into them. Someone will have to give a really good explanation about that connection before I buy it. Edit: OK, that does make sense - same results on the same browser regardless of the OS.
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    About 50 Mbps. Should be 150 Mbps if I wasn't stuck with the stupid Wi-Fi.
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    Looks like I win with 401 passed, 3 warnings, 0 critical, 0 skipped @ Pale Moon 29.2.1 x86 @ Win10 x64 10.0.19042.985. Same result on Manjaro Linux updated June 2021 and x64 build of Pale Moon 29.2.1.
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    AFAIK, Firefox itself only ever used Windows Media Foundation (Vista+) for AVC, which is not available on XP, hence you need a plugin on that OS, but otherwise, Firefox 52.9 can do AVC without a plugin.
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    It normally happens automatically when you paste the link in this textbox where you write the post. It won't get embedded if you use the button to insert the link, though this is the best method when you explicitly don't want it embedded as normally, you would then have to click undo link that appears after pasting the URL. I've had it glitch in the past, but was unable to figure out the cause. I think I either restarted the browser or opened another tab or private window.
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    My screens don't need saving as none are CRT, though I have a screensaver that runs for 5 min before screen goes off. It's just for show. CPU/GPU usage depends on how it's coded and how intensive scene it shows. There are others out there than just the ones that come with Windows. Windows doesn't really detect fullscreen to prevent screensaver, it's up to applications to tell the OS it's not OK to fire up screensaver, turn off monitor, go to standby...
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    Eh, they can keep it. What a load of nonsense. How are old computers less "productive", especially those manufactured after Moore's law stopped being a thing?
  22. UCyborg
    @we3fan Try setting media.webm.enabled to false in about:config page and see how it performs. Should only need a reload of the page to take effect if you had a video open before you've set it, YouTube's stats->Codecs will then say avc1. Edit: wait, if you insist on Firefox 52 and my memory is right, you need a plugin that will do the decoding of H.264 (AVC1) streams if you disable the above pref. Disabling it on its own will leave no codec to fallback on that FX will be able to decode.
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    Not much of a music person myself, but yes, though YouTube hasn't been the only source. My sound equipment is rather poor, onboard sound on an ASUS motherboard from 2008 that cost only 70€ and some relatively recent (cca. 2 years) Sony headphones that cost 30€. I also use Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 on Windows and PulseEffects on Linux. I don't have an exact equal config, it's probably impossible since they're 2 different programs, but they seem to help making things sound better even without digging deep into the configuration. Here be the 3 memorable (for me at least) theme tracks from Doctor Who: 2005 revival theme Series 8 theme The one that started it all, the original, you might say
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    I suppose this is related issue and if I understand and see correctly, you get the same behavior as in older versions if you check Unrestricted CSS in extension settings under General->Default (and Untrusted if you've added sites under that preset), effectively turning the new CSS related feature off. https://github.com/hackademix/noscript/issues/195
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    When you have an infinite number of tasks with higher priority, it's practically impossible to find time for polishing things like that so unless the bug is actively causing havoc on significant scale, it may take years before it's fixed, if ever, and in case of commercial software, you probably won't get the version with the fix for free. Mozilla also hasn't fixed slow WebGL in Firefox on XP and this is still an open issue on Linux, where there's also a problem (though technicalities differ).
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