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I have an old account on Imgur. Links 2.25 on Linux displays it fine though, so no JavaScript actually needed. Does RetroZilla have a problem with the image itself? Direct link to test: https://i.imgur.com/Nxe2lmA.jpg (needs TLS 1.2, but so does MSFN if I'm not mistaken). And a smaller one: https://i.imgur.com/Nxe2lmAm.jpg Heh, I know you're also still rolling with 800 MHz CPU. Hardware was rapidly advancing back then, the box of Asus P4B533 motherboard from 2002 boasts about 3+ GHz support. Interestingly, I haven't read about anyone here with a computer of the similar specs that my family's first PC had, so 133 MHz Pentium, 16 MB of RAM, 2D only graphics card and a sound card with a proper FM tuner. Those were the times. Wonder what period incorrect software we could find for those specs. Great, that was easy to get going. In Arch world, it's available in AUR, so at least with pamac available out-of-the-box on Manjaro, it's as simple as running: pamac build ink Found QInk, though it remains to be seen if there are incompatibilities with Qt5 libraries other than altering path to some #includes since this is Qt4 era program. Seems there's also non-existent #include in the code pointing to presumably local header bundled with the code, but maybe it's auto-generated by a different build procedure than the classic ./configure && make. Qt stuff definitely seems to have some specifics when it comes to building. Might research more at another point in time and possibly learn something new along the way, but otherwise happy with cmd-line ink tool.

It's a nice-to-have since GPUs are naturally good at decoding videos and it frees CPU for other tasks. Some also notice better battery life on laptops and reduced fan noise. Firefox had some VA-API support years ago, then they dropped it because it supposedly wasn't implemented optimally. Still, it made a difference on my low-end laptop (lagging 720p playback vs smooth 720p playback). Chromium had VA-API support patch available for some time (going back to at least 2016), it seems it made it to upstream in recent time and Firefox also re-implemented it. Can't use it on my desktop since NVIDIA only implements VDPAU in their drivers and VA-API->VDPAU converter library doesn't work. VA-API is most widely supported, but according to Arch Wiki, other non-browser software dealing with videos tend to support VDPAU as well. Surprised GPU decoding of H.264 4K (3840x2160) 60 FPS videos work here even though vdpauinfo declares 5.1 as max supported level, the mentioned resolution and frame-rate combo is supposed to be 5.2. That wasn't the case few years back when the limit was 4.1 if I remember correctly and there was an error message about unsupported level when trying to play video above that. Well, that printer is from another era. Seems there's no support page anymore. I remember reading on their site to get the driver on Windows Update for recent Windows versions few years ago. Vista is the only MS OS that includes driver for this printer out-of-the-box. I found original cartridges still for sale on HP site. Anyway, the close-in photo of the text on the included driver CD: Off-topic remark, but I'm really not a fan of printing and printers. These days, it's needed here once in a blue moon for some stupid real-life bureaucracy. There's no point in owning a printer for printing once in a blue moon, especially not this kind since apparently cartridges don't react well to being unused for extended periods of time. But the family wanted a new printer (ended up getting a multi-function device) when catridges for the old one weren't found in a nearby shop and gotta have these things at home when needed rather than having to visit a post-office. So a thing was used for scanning a document or two and printing a thing or two and this time it barely prints, so ended up printing that thing at workplace. Maybe cleaning cartridges and contacts would help, but I'm almost certain nobody will need to print anything the next year.

I remember this article from 2019 comparing KDE and Xfce on performance front: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/ I have an old HP printer in the basement (DeskJet 3550) that works all the way from Windows 98 to Windows 10 (64-bit) and Linux, not sure if there's a way to check ink on the latter though.

I see number of dislikes. Pretty sure I didn't few days ago.

This Aero theme is the closest you'll get to the look of how you could get Firefox to look in the golden age from around 2009 or so. This isn't mentioned, but you must also turn on toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in about:config page, the chrome folder in the ZIP goes to your profile folder, check it on about:support page. I haven't looked into what exactly is needed if you only want proper aero in the upper area. This method doesn't restore rendering of plain web page elements, like buttons, radio boxes, check boxes scroll bars etc. These rendered using OS theme in the old versions, apparently there's still a pref to restore them that way by disabling widget.non-native-theme.enabled and enabling widget.disable-dark-scrollbar. Setting browser.uidensity to 1 will enable compact mode, which reduces URL/search bar height.

Yes, it is.

Linux (the kernel) has been in my life in one way or another for years, obviously quite scalable. It runs on the WRT54GL router (which I don't use anymore) and my smartphone. On my desktop it's mostly for messing around, trying out certain software and there are certain Linux tools that I simply prefer over Windows ones. I love GParted and command line utilities for messing with disks/partitions. I realize things related to desktop didn't get much attention than other parts, Torvalds himself also pointed out something along the lines that he intended Linux for desktop, but didn't quite turned out as well in that department and turned out better for servers and such. Years ago, I could play Quake Live from Linux distro running on USB while I was waiting for new disk since old was sent in for warranty due to bad sectors. It was somehow launched from the browser, but I don't think it was WebGL, Wikipedia says it used NPAPI plugin, so i suppose that's how they made a client outside the web browser. Pretty cool until id Software dropped support and made it Windows only. I just often notice someone writes Linux is faster, but don't note the exact specifics, so me being a sucker for anything graphics quickly notices things like elements on web pages not animating smoothly and such. I know itvision.altervista.org covers modern Windows and Android and I don't disagree. I wouldn't call it FUD though. Negative? Yes, but reality is pointless and cruel, so...

Yeah, just realized yesterday evening I missed it, was too tired to write that I missed it. Still wondering if there is any other XUL addon supporting browser with such functionality. Funny thing about XUL addons, despite the possibilities, we got some WebExtensions these days that surpass XUL alternatives. Obviously, this is about extensions interacting with web pages, not messing with UI, eg. (Greasemonkey vs Tampermonkey, KeeFox vs Kee, Stylem vs Stylus etc.). Guess it makes sense since most people are on Chromium, followed by modern Firefox, at least on Windows.

Besides vanilla Firefox (and supposedly Waterfox as well), what Firefox-derived browsers have multi-account container feature, either built-in or as an extension (doesn't matter)?

I'd have to get a distro with a bleeding edge kernel if I wanted to test if the bug still exists, but unless something changed since summer, you can break the entire audio subsystem until reboot by telling the HD audio driver to re-initialize. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/hd-audio/notes.html What's also interesting, the current Linux HD audio driver of 2015 did not care about status of jacks. The current one does, I need a registry (on Windows) / config file (on Linux) tweak if anything is to come out of rear speaker/headphone green jack because the sensor is broken and system thinks nothing's plugged there. Drivers have always been kinda finnicky since they often don't get as much attention than their Windows counterparts. I've always had fun with graphics drivers. Years ago they said ATI/AMD sucks, get NVIDIA, now they say NVIDIA sucks, get AMD. Like I'm changing graphics cards like underwear. There was also the driver for Realtek RTL8723BE Wi-Fi adapter, quite unstable out-of-the-box years ago, needed disabling its power management, otherwise a kernel panic followed shortly. Linux distro can probably work as main and only OS for people that don't have certain expectations, there's still a lot to improve in the Linux world. Do you get SIGILL (run Firefox from terminal to get an error on exit)? Some parts of code may still require it if they generate SSE2 instructions at runtime and those parts weren't rewritten, which would probably be significant effort.

@InterLinked has some Dark Mode thingy in his Iron 70 that adds the black background to quote boxes when he posts. The forum software accepts HTML formatting in these boxes, so you can post black, brown, red on pink... I might mention Stylem here so you can have these things in the GUI and a toggle to turn them on/off.

Should look like this on Win7:

I looked through System settings on Manjaro KDE and font anti-aliasing is enabled by default. Turned it off to see what it's like and holy crap, hell no, can't imagine using that setting on regular basis. No, ne, nein, nyet, aniyo, na-ah. So it's nothing to do with fonts (maybe certain types of fonts are exception, but I wouldn't know for certain), just how they're rendered. Chromium browsers on Linux apparently do follow system settings, so nothing out of the ordinary here (ignoring possible exceptions with niche distros/desktop environments). But they apparently, at least from outsider perspective, use hardcoded parameters on Windows. Edge with edge://flags/#edge-enhance-text-contrast flag enabled is the exception. Some fonts look worse than others when rendered the Chromium default Windows way and really do cause eye strain for me, though Clean Font Families, which @ArcticFoxie pointed out some time ago, can help a bit. BTW, isn't this very similar to turning off the option in Firefox browsers to use fonts set by the website, if available? Either way, depending on one's tastes, the website may lose a bit of its personality then, at least on typical Chromium browser on Windows, fallback fonts still lack that extra touch that can be achieved following system parameters. Shouldn't they appear the same in both systems? Win10 still has ClearType enabled by default and the checkbox to turn it off is still in the ClearType tuner wizard, aka. cttune.exe. Options are always welcome to tune them to what works for one's vision. I use a little bit of everything (slight exaggeration), even though I do still lean on Pale Moon/Basilisk most of the time. Chromium browsers are interesting for the heavy content, but I avoid plain Google Chrome.

I haven't tried installing Windows fonts on my Linux installation yet. Curious of what the results would be since fonts look clear out-of-the-box without any specific tweaking.

What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? How exactly did you do it? I'd do this sort of thing offline with Robocopy and enabling unbuffered copying. This program first appeared in some extras Resource Kit for XP/Server 2003 I think. Granted, my disks haven't needed defragging in years, but I had to "defrag" a Linux ISO in order for it to boot since YUMI or one of its extra utilities didn't write it to USB flash drive in contagious chunk and got an error otherwise. Robocopy was the easiest solution.

The whole thing could be interpreted as the feature, forum simply accepts plain HTML in these text boxes, there's not something immediate like BBCode, that is used to have defined, restricted set of formatting features, at least that's one of the reasons it was developed for according to my understanding. Even if you had a locked down browser without developer tools, it could still be done by editing memory, so then the further step would be using a locked down device - you see where this is going. Who likes severely locked down hardware/software?

Edit: I have the impression most users won't encounter this so chance of a fix from a forum-side software is low. Isn't this Chromium 78+ only? He's on Iron 70, which is Chromium 70. On the other hand, not much effort required to add the code manually, regardless of the browser. So should the forum software clean it up? HAX2MAX

Cool, somehow missed "unset" exists. Looks cleaner for this case.

There was a guy that also managed to post "bugged" text in another thread. Are you targetting the element of class ipsQuote where you set background to none?

Normally, but quotes look like this: The code snippet - the added style, background: <blockquote class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote="" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic" data-ipsquote-contentcommentid="1207268" data-ipsquote-contentid="183016" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-timestamp="1636013935" data-ipsquote-userid="428778" data-ipsquote-username="Mr.Scienceman2000" style="background:rgb(0,9,15);" id="ips_uid_2086_13">

@InterLinked Is there a reason your quoting everyone has grayish text on black background?

MS said they'll contribute this back to Chromium, but I doubt this is happening. Gotta keep Edge distinct from other Chromium variants, eh?

What you're seeing here is nothing more than custom drawn frame by the program displaying the help page. If you want Windows 7 theme on Windows 8.1, try this one: https://deviantart.com/damonkeyoncrack/art/Aero7-V2-for-Windows-8-8-1-429412929

Looks like it. Some of these will break with future builds if MS purges the code of the old Explorer/taskbar, which is still there. Win11 will have feature updates like 10 so who knows what will change in the next one. ExplorerPatcher author must have OldNewExplorer installed as old drive grouping certainly doesn't come from ExplorerPatcher. Out-of-the-box, it's pretty bleak. Sure, there are some useful additions, but they don't make up for omissions. Dumbing down is pretty radical in this one. Funny someone mentioned KDE. KDE is nowhere near like this.

Chrome and the likes have this so called bloatware statically linked in executable, which is wasteful. Having 5 programs running with statically linked runtime means there are 5 copies of runtime in the memory instead of 1, which would be the case with 5 programs with dynamically linked runtime. Last time I checked, Firefox was dynamically linked, but bundles runtime libraries in its folder (user convenience...), which negates memory savings of dynamic linking, but getting it to use system installed libraries isn't much of a fuss either way. Says more about you than anyone else, really. People that still use it have their reasons, one of my reasons is font rendering. It uses system ClearType parameters rather than hardcoded ones. Per-monitor font rendering settings might still be an issue, haven't checked Firefox in a while, but Pale Moon only renders using primary monitor's parameters regardless of the window position. Recent stock Firefox handles most of the crap Chromium does (at least the important stuff, some web APIs are intentionally omitted), site compatibility is getting progressively worse with forks. Some will blame it on web devs for using newer features, others on the incompetence of the people working on the forks. Guess it depends on who you ask.