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I've seen patches/ports of old games don't support original OS, eg. Chimera for Halo: Custom Edition (XP support was put back recently, though I haven't tried it yet), ThirteenAG, who's famous for developing widescreen patches, compiled stuff with toolset that doesn't target XP last time I checked, even if most code is compatible. Some more advanced source ports of older games (or rather their engines) are leaving old OS behind, though in case of open source engine, ports may be developed that focus on compatibility. Possible reasons for the breakage of the patches/ports that aren't focusing on compatibility include lack of interest in old platforms themselves/lack of suitable test environment, using compilers that don't target older OS; sometimes the code would work with older compiler, other times programming language's features are used that aren't supported by older compilers.

I don't know, but there's an extension for Mozilla software called AutoPager. Seems to be still available on Thunderbird addons page. I must have found it useful back then for forums or searching for stuff buried behind in the search results. I remember also making a rule to automatically load the next page of then attended high school's news page. I don't remember why I stopped using it, could be compatibility with web or with the browser or I simply chose to. I have about 50 Firefox extensions archived, I'd have to dug them out if I wanted to see how many extensions' installation could be even attempted out-of-the-box since the younger me had less technical understanding and only backed up extensions folder itself, so at best, only those survived that don't get unpacked from XPI at install. I currently use cca. 20 in more traditional browsers (Pale Moon/Basilisk) and cca. 10 in Chromium browsers. After Australis came, Classic Theme Restorer and Status-4-Evar extensions also appeared. My Basilisk that has Australis interface by default looks very similar to Pale Moon thanks to those. There were also some other extensions, which, since their authors only target Firefox, only properly supported Firefox with Australis interface through their evolution. I'm not sure about grandmas and grandpas, my mother is on the older side and she always launched programs through desktop icons. The only reason she has Open Shell installed is because I've setup her computer. Obviously, she's a simple user. Open Shell (or Classic Shell in the older days), QTTbarBar, OldNewExplorer and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker are the first programs that get loaded on a computer that I use. But, from my experience at work, even seeing just Classic Shell is a rarity. I've seen one, MAYBE 2 customers that had it installed in the last cca. 2,5 years. Same at the workplace itself, I'm the only one with visibly tweaked Windows (of cca. 20 people). Some have dark mode enabled, not sure if there's much else. At the beginning, I was asked the few times if I have Windows 7 installed. No, I setup Windows 10 to look pretty (to my eyes) and be more functional. This is actually very old news and hasn't changed until Windows 10. Applies to anything console based AFAIK. Same, but I don't know whether there was one previously in that area and they replaced it or just filled the empty spot with this new invention (I know it isn't new, the idea is several years old at least). I remembered to bring it up because I had to change back-right light bulb recently. What's funny is that the old one doesn't even look broken from outside, wire looks OK. Since I have another broken ELVELUX 12V R5W which apparently wasn't thrown away and looks the same, maybe it's the quirk of this particular bulb. Bigger problem will be when the front light goes kaput, I'm not sure about the accessibility on the front side. Years ago, someone took the car to mechanic to re-wire the lights switch, the off position since means lights on as long as key is turned to on position. My family members all have newer cars (cca. 5 years old), those have it wired by default that lights are off when the key is off, even if light switch is on. The old Polo apparently has the lights on position wired in a way that only turns on the warning beeper in addition to lights when the key is on off position, not prevent lights from turning on like with newer cars. I personally think the law is as senseless as the thing with moving clocks forward at summer. People driving with one bad front light (weak illumination) is quite common sight here. It happened to my Polo's front-right position light as well earlier this year, which is inherently less powerful, but still. When mechanic "fixed it", it worked properly only for about a month.

And you hardly need a smartphone to crash. Look away for 2 seconds because something else in the environment caught your attention and next thing you know you just caused chain collision. The news this summer said they increased penalties for smartphone usage and decreased the ones for speeding. I doubt it's much of a bother for a wallet for someone who has for the latest iPhone, hm? In other news, we got the first 3D zebra crossing in the capital city recently. Not sure what to think of it. I still find it absurd that we have to drive with lights on in the broad daylight.

OP should at least post the content of about:support page, otherwise it's all a guessing game and waste of everyone's time.

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the last release that supports Windows 7. Latest MySQL is supposedly supported only on Windows 10 and the server equivalents while MariaDB supports Windows 8.1. It would have to be tried to see if they're actually bound to newer APIs. Was "support" ever connected to technical ability, specifically, binding to specific APIs? At least the way people talk; they seem to connect term "support" to technical ability, eg. they're surprised something runs on "unsupported" platform (read "untested"). The place I work at also supports Windows 8.1 at minimum merely because that's what MS "supports". Realistically, the software runs on Windows 7 because its major dependency .NET Framework 4.8 is supported and runnable on Windows 7. The native parts are bound to VC 2015+ runtimes, which still run on 7.

https://www.techradar.com/news/bad-news-vm-fans-windows-11-hardware-requirements-strike-again

WebGPU has been functional (for experimenting) in Firefox Nightly builds since at least April 2020 on Windows 7+. Some working samples here.

Moon Tester Tool can be used by a monkey to install an extension if its only issue is that it doesn't target Pale Moon. In either case, all extensions come in a form of .xpi file (basically ZIP archive) which contains text install.rdf file, containing basic information about the extension such as GUID, name, version, which applications it targets etc. The Moon Tester Tool basically rewrites the file so the extension targets Pale Moon. Information about the max version of the target application is ignored unless strict compatibility checking directive is present/enabled. Some extensions contain the directive that the XPI content should be extracted upon installation, for these extensions you should find the original XPI file. AFAIK, New Moon still accepts extensions targeting Firefox, so if some extension doesn't work, parts of its logic may have to be rewritten to accommodate for changes in the browser core. I supposed you'd have to find the old documentation for XUL coding and info regarding whatever MCP folks changed that broke the extension to be able to fix, the developer tools baked in the browser may also give hints. I modified Destroy The Web some time ago to remove dependency on deprecated FUEL, which is long gone from Basilisk and will eventually disappear from Pale Moon as well.

The only virus problem I remember having was with compromised Classic Shell installer. Even though it rendered PC temporarily unbootable 'till I restored boot sector and fixed the mess with BCD store, it failed to display the message it intended since it was targetting UEFI systems. I still don't use antivirus and the like and don't intend to. I survived the web simply by avoiding straying to strange sites and blocking the background noise (scripts). Never considered Flash Player to be a threat on its own. Things are outrageous in real life these days. A healthy (but unvaccinated) person is treated like a criminal. We're not far from having to have QR code tattoed on a forehead. I don't think peaceful protests are the solution.

Tired. Work, work and more work. No time or energy to live. Also cca. 2 hours remaining until the start of the new level of corona insanity here.

Aye, that makes it fail at first possible moment, 127.0.0.1 is a real IP after all and consequentially more happens in the background, even if it should fail rather quickly with ECONNRESET on the socket level, assuming nothing listens on the target port. 0.0.0.0 is valid in some contexts, eg. it's the address behind INADDR_ANY macro, which is used when you don't need to bind the socket to any particular network interface on the machine. When routing, it means default route.

If you haven't been enthusiastic about WebGL, you won't miss WebGPU.

Seems like any time I stray off a handful of websites I normally visit, I encounter script heavy sites that Pale Moon chokes on. Of those that also have video content, videos not playing on them seems to be getting more common, even if they worked fine in the past. All due to crazy scripting. YouTube isn't even the worst. Ironically, I also found an article titled Why Simple Websites Are Scientifically Better on a site which doesn't seem to load out-of-the-box. Can't process the scripts. View->Page Style->No Style reveals the content, a trick some of you are already accustomed to. Also found out Mozilla has written their stance on web specifications at https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/. So apparently they're not keen on implementing everything Chromium has in Firefox, so it's a little distinct from Chromium, even though it doesn't quite feel like Firefox anymore due to things like no more classic addons support, GUI and multi-process model.

Unfortunately, yes. I don't know, AFAIK it's an over decade old quirk (from MS point of view it's probably by design) and computers have only gotten more powerful since. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0c02f2cb-39cd-4f2d-bd4e-154fd2165b69/my-wallpaper-gets-badly-compressed?forum=w7itproui

Yes, it's in correct thread, some may wish to avoid burning a DVD or using an USB flash drive to install Windows. I just didn't do it exactly from partition to the same partition on a newer OS yet. It doesn't look from the outside much (if anything) has changed in how installed OS boots compared to how installation environment boots.

Some time ago I installed Vista from NTFS partition with its installation files to the same NTFS partition. The disk already had Microsoft's MBR from before, so I just marked the target partition as active. I then launched CMD after the installation environment booted, renamed all files and folders on the disk root which name started with "boot" to something else (so the installation environment wouldn't be added to the boot menu of the finalized installation) and launched setup.exe from sources folder. A similar procedure would probably work for later versions as well, maybe even for UEFI systems with some adjustments.

Workaround for Imgur, visit https://imgur.com/beta/disable to opt out of the beta program. Will break again unless support for at least navigator.credentials is added to the browser and the beta goes stable.

Yup, it imports them as JPEG with 85% quality. I didn't find whether there was any reason for this. Windows 8 added ability to set background per-monitor and PNG format support and AFAIK this one doesn't get further compressed or converted to JPEG. Windows 10 added JPEGImportQuality setting in registry (must be manually created), so at least compression can be disabled this way. One is better off with a 3rd party tool. I personally let Actual Window Manager manage desktop wallpapers, which also addresses lack of native ability to set background per-monitor.

I doubt current versions of stuff is much of a problem in this case. I'm mostly concerned with common Linux problems. Needed a bit of refresh after having the old rotting Ubuntu install without ability to pull anything from repos (which I haven't updated since it was installed or at least only updated shortly after installation, can't remember exactly). Can always nuke it and start over, possibly with another distro if something goes south. Not a lot of extra stuff to install and setup for my use. My remark was concerning hardware that never had good support to begin with. I imagine in the future it won't be possible to use last NVIDIA's drivers for my card with then bleeding edge and eventually LTS distros as well after NVIDIA drops driver support. Kepler cards were dropped this summer, I guess 1st gen Maxwell is next in 2 years. Unless has something has changed (or will change) and Linux folks have added backward compatibility for these types of drivers?

Aye, the development is focused on what's current. Just the nature of the whole thing. It's kinda impossible to support everything, even if there wasn't an incentive to sell current stuff. Linux only got more steam over later periods of time and the things of past are frozen in their current state.

My experience is that it's slower in general regardless of what websites you visit and the computer horsepower. I got tired of Basilisk/Pale Moon over time, not just the speed, but not freeing used memory and eventually just locking up if opened too much sites throughout the session. Less of a problem these days as my browsing habits got less demanding and consequentially, I can also live without some bells and whistles PM and the likes still offer. One thing I do however get with recent FX versions and the likes of Chromium is proper integration with KeePass. KeeFox extension is kinda glitchy, sometimes it just doesn't pick up the login form and lacks the ability to popup a box to choose the correct credentials if multiple exists for the same site. Its webext iteration Kee solves these problems. Seems nobody is actually interested in fixing XUL version...

That's not what they were saying years ago. Want good 3D on Linux? NVIDIA is your only option. That was the word. And they did prove themselves, I still remember the blog post of Dolphin Emulator developers about their experience with different drivers. Though people said 2D was worse, I assumed this applied to window managers that don't do compositing. The main reason to get NVIDIA then was to get decent OpenGL support, which was historically bad with ATI/AMD, even on Windows, let alone Linux. Either way, it's what I got ATM and I don't buy new graphics card every 2 years, obviously. Even this one doesn't get much exercise anymore and the spare cards I got (ATI Radeon HD 4890 and onboard NVIDIA GeForce 8200) are only worse as far as Linux compatibility is concerned.

When Pale Moon project was started, it wasn't about catering to old hardware. From the day one, its goal was to take advantage of modern CPUs and their newer instruction sets while Firefox was the one that catered to ancient CPUs.

No wonder those variables don't make much difference as effect of the one was already applied and the other one was just a workaround according to this. I set VSync option to "Only when cheap" (at least I think it's called this in English) and it's better, at least it does't bring back tearing when scrolling web pages. But simple things still slow it down tremendeously, like having a notification on screen, even when running both CPU and GPU at max clocks.

After some more testing performing repetitive actions, opening program windows and minimizing/restoring them, it doesn't appear those environment variables are actually making any difference. One user reported he just set KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER to 1 and it made things better without enabling it at driver level. Tried that too and it's not any better and likewise doesn't seem worse neither. Maybe power management makes things seem inconsistent along with whatever you're doing at any one moment. The old Ubuntu MATE 15.10 install definitely did not scale performance up well automatically (ondemand power governor), at least it was noticeable with games. It tried to keep lower frequencies too much, resulting in stutter. I used Compiz on the old Ubuntu install. It wasn't exactly on the level of Windows 10's DWM performance, but was a bit smoother than KWin on this system. Could also set rendering rate, I put it 1 frame below screen refresh rate to improve mouse responsiveness. I tried installing it while running live image of Manjaro (for testing) from USB but AUR server blocked me midway with HTTP error 429 while downloading/checking dependencies with (I ran pamac build compiz-easy-patch in the terminal). The laptop with AMD Radeon R2 definitely fares better with KWin. It's got 1366x768 screen, though it probably shouldn't make too much difference, considering such GPUs these days don't have much of a problem driving even multiple (cca. 2-3 screens). At least not those that don't do fancy resolutions like 4K. The compositor is even more easily bogged with nouveau driver. As for KDE, well, it's got most of bells and whistles I could ever ask for. The only unrelated characteristic that I don't even know how to word the search term to find out on the internet how to change, some programs' certain GUI elements are really big, things like text fields, menu strips, buttons. I'd like to make them smaller.