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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.

Quite a step up from prices we pay. The cheapest at our ISP (we've had cable - DOCSIS to be exact since the beginning) is 42€ (57,28 canadian dollars) for 200 Mbps DL / 20 Mbps UL, the same line covers the TV and telephone as well. We started with 2 Mbps / 384 Kbps back in 2004 or so, which was gradually upgraded over the years. Back then, telephone was on a separate line (non-cable), another provider. Interesting, didn't know such driver exists for Windows 98. I posted the INF from Vista, usable on XP as it is: https://msfn.org/board/topic/178016-android-rndis-driver It picks up the device by the compatible, universal ID. I wonder how many users do these things manually. Network Manager sets it up automagically.

Internet told me some dark truths I'd never be aware of otherwise. Perhaps I'd be happier if I remained ignorant. I don't mind it, I keep it enabled for known sites to not have degraded the experience. But for random sites where I just want to read something and it works without, great, less work for the browser. Either way, I don't think it's going anywhere. The software I support for the living, at least the client side, is full blown JavaScript, nothing works without it, the server side is C#. The previous iteration, which was a desktop app (web part was an optional addon), was written in Delphi. And that was PITA to support, I got employed there in its last year of support, saw everything from glitches due to corrupted database, glitches due to degrading hardware which the software (RS-485 sequential communication - when one device goes bad, you have a problem communicating with all of them), slowest and apparently messed up Windows XP machines etc. They told me JS was the easiest and fastest way to get things done on the browser side. Two funny things I heard from the two developers, one said we should use the smallest libraries possible, the other said we should use the biggest ones to make use of available resources. I'm not sure if he was being sarcastic or not. He also said let the client do some work, why should server handle everything. BTW, since you still keep XP / 9x around, presumably you have Linux configured to interpret CMOS clock as local time? Some time ago, I switched my Windows installs to interpret it as universal time, which IMHO is the only sane configuration and how Linuxes and other OS handle it by default. XP doesn't cooperate though, the times goes back one or two hours - actual CMOS time (depending whether we're in DST or not) after 1h of uptime and on resuming from standby. Still, at least the hardware clock is left alone with that setting and it works OK for that 1h. I boot into XP occassionally as a sort of trip back through time. It'd be nice if someone looked into universal time issue, but it seems there's more interest in getting unsupported hardware / software working, something I'm not really interested in doing. I bet UTC issue is much less hopeless than new hardware / software. When this hardware goes, it goes, no more XP on bare metal I guess.

The question is whether these things work on Firefox 68. Skype disables voice functionality entirely for that version of Firefox. Truthfully, that version is pretty dated; no support for newer regex expression additions, limited Intl.NumberFormat, no ResizeObserver, no support for nullish coalescing and optional chanining operators

Or just memory corruption due to something not being done right, no way Firefox 68 uses instructions my Phenom II doesn't support. OK, I was way off, should have figured since that would result in much worse consequences. But, see? Some crashes are invoked deliberately, purposefully. One of those opcodes used when testing/debugging. That code doesn't map to any of the executable modules. I'm assuming it's generated dynamically, so can't NOP it out unless one bothers to find what generated it. PS: Can't run Flash Player, plugin container process crashes.

I'm sorry, I didn't see this before. Which one of them? all of them? I have them all working in sp52 for a year at least, some much more. github-wc-polyfill for one. Maybe I read you wrong, I interpreted it as you got Serpent 52 addons working in Mypal 68. I tried Skype, spoofing newer Firefox 96 got it to detect microphone, doesn't detect speakers/headphones though.

Yup, even on a browser with ANGLE, you can't get all WebGL features due to D3D9 limitations. Does the second one do anything if the first one is false? I have better stability with multi-process mode, leaving YouTube in the background tends to freeze and crash the entire browser then. Oh well, OpenGL as it is now is quite something, can have smooth HTML5 video (no frame drops with 1920x1080 @ 60 FPS VP9 codec). Issues I noticed: window contents shifted up, the same issue also have effect on various modal dialogs, the auto-scrolling icon disappearing and rendering popup dialogs by clicking buttons of various extensions is glitchy, blinky, reminds of z-fighting issues in some games, browser doesn't survive going to standby mode, when I get out, its window stops refreshing. I have a feeling OpenGL won't fare as it does now in potential future versions based on later Firefox versions due to their overhauling of compositing components. Some people are talking of BSODs related to Mypal, I got zero those, though I did max the RAM to about 3,9 GB out of 4 GB available, about 460 MB of data ended up in the page file. feodor2 also mentioned his XP glitching when using Minimize memory usage button on about:memory page, doesn't happen here neither. I do however use the ultimate version of XP, aka Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, coupled with stable drivers.

How? I just get an error about extension being corrupted. userChromeJS doesn't work neither.

I vote for fixing UI issues with OpenGL first. Direct3D is just retarded on Windows XP. With OpenGL, I can have browser windows on any monitor without lag even if that monitor isn't "primary" (unlike the behavior with D3D, it's a general issue/limitation that isn't application specific). And in New Moon / Serpent, enabling OpenGL pref just crashes it, though this the case also in upstream versions. FWIW, OpenGL working right cross-monitor might as well be NVIDIA workaround for XP (no experience with ATI cards in that regard), but if it works, it works. WebGL performance could also be improved, I only saw it work right in some old K-Meleon (Goanna based) build from 2020, which was broken later to be as p*** poor as in New Moon / Serpent...at least KM was still like that in 2021 last time I checked...of course these issues are XP only, same XP centric browsers performance is OK on NT 6.x+.

Either way, If I understand this correctly, it's all about the fonts. Natively, Windows 8.1 is supposed to be the minimum for colored font support, hence black & white appearance on older OS. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/directwrite/color-fonts https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66867069/emoji-display-black-and-white-windows7-chrome-edge

Or just memory corruption due to something not being done right, no way Firefox 68 uses instructions my Phenom II doesn't support. Funny, I get these popups of Windows Error Reporting about browser crashing or Application Error, but if I ignore them, I can keep browsing.

At least there's font.name-list.emoji pref specifying which fonts to use. Guess what, I copied seguiemj.ttf from Win11 ISO->sources->install.wim->1->Windows->Fonts to my XP's C:\Windows\Fonts and now have most emojis in black & white on getemoji.com front page on XP on 360Chrome. They do.

Must be some logic in Mozilla browsers mapping those codes to symbols in those fonts. Can't really install the font system wide to to have it automagically work with Chromium.

Mozilla tends to handle more things on its own rather than depending on OS or its resources. I've seen emoji issues in Chromium browsers on Windows 7, but not on 10.

No, I haven't until now...the one example seems to modify already retrieved content while you're looking for a redirect. Both HTTP header and content modifications are more straightforward with Proxomitron. At least it has some documentation. Another problem is that Babel targets Node.js environment and some code you get in the web hosted version won't work in the browser (unless there are magic switches in targets box that i'm unaware of). So you'd probably have to setup Babel locally along with anything else that might be required and maybe then you could compile something that could be fed to the browser.

You mean besides mainstream browsers most people use? roytam1's Serpent and New Moon, feodor2's Mypal 68 as well. They may come from user generated content, eg. the posts on the following subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeisagift/ How 'bout a full emoji library: https://getemoji.com/

It seemed to work, though it showed browser unsupported banner then.

I read somewhere regarding designing a website that as a business you can't afford to have a website that's not accessible from mobile devices. There are still CSS tweaks. It's what most of the internet want you to believe. Yet, we have people here running XP and such browsers and they didn't get robbed because of it. Admittedly, I've also logged into my bank a few times in modern times on XP (2020+). About banks, can someone enlighten me on why, when you have user + pass and a certificate, why replace the certificate with a smartphone app or Windows 10+ app? Why is this "better" and "more secure"? Why though? Support for newer web bells and whistles is worse than in forks.

amwater.com...now that's one odd website. I don't think the issue is that the code can't execute due to trying to using unsupported features without checking for them, it gives the impression that it's just bugged somehow or rather gracefully degrades to non-functioning. Seriously, how can you mess up the ability to open login form so badly? Obviously transpiler is useless in this case since it will just regenerate the same code using different syntax while not altering the logic. So you'd have to debug it. Debugger in old school Mozilla browsers seems kinda poor, do older incompatible Chromium browsers have at least de-minification function for JS files and ability to snoop events (keyboard, mouse etc.)? It'd be a place to start I guess. I've made a small contribution to palefill, the script fixes for Stack Exchange websites and Reddit. Stack Exchange actually has over 170 websites. Assuming they all use that single problematic JS file, they should all be better now. And Reddit (redesigned one), while working now at first glance, makes my poorer Mozilla browsers unusable after opening the debugger while on it. Maybe if I took 64-bit browser, bought more RAM and waited for a while, loading would have made it to the end. Still, getting from browser just gobbling up RAM no stop after invalid regexp group error to comment pages normally loading is quite a step forward.

Added customElements to YouTube and now have live previews (animated thumbnails) in search results on Pale Moon. Also spoofing user agent as Firefox 96. I haven't determined the oldest version they pick to use customElements. Did they remove them on the related / suggested videos on the right side? Never mind, depends on the video. One thing about Babel, you may want to pay attention to source type setting. "Script" is probably correct for most (all?) of the time. For one thing, "Module", where the name implies special kind of JS file, it also always adds "use strict;". The code you're pasting from random scripts may use features of the language that "use strict;" prevents from working. Edit: got stackoverflow.com's full-anon.en.js also transpiled. Again, no account to login, but the site seems to work correctly at the first glance.