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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.

The fires are raging.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, nobody wrote XP compatible HW acceleration code for Chromium. It just wants Direct3D9Ex.

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.

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.

About 50 Mbps. Should be 150 Mbps if I wasn't stuck with the stupid Wi-Fi.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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?

@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.

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

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

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).

Tried loading MSFN with slow 3G enabled in dev tools on Network tab on EE 360 13.0.2250 on XP x64 with NoScript 11.2.10 and still it happened only when JS was blocked. With scripts allowed, there was just whiteness until the page appeared without people's avatars, which started popping into place a bit later.

Have you thought about unplugging for a while? You don't work in IT by any chance, do you? Operating systems don't excite me in general, to me they're just the platform to run more interesting things on.

I see it happens on blocked sites, I presume that's the case when it happens since it wasn't specified in OP?

I guess there are multiple factors involved with this issue. I don't see it as described with Edge 92 and NoScript 11.2.9. Not sure how I'd see it since sites load really quick.

Half-Life doesn't explicitly set refresh rate. Did the resolution you set on desktop use 100 Hz, but the same resolution didn't use 100 Hz in Half-Life? Also, unless you overrode it with command line parameter, old WON versions set 16-bit color depth, though since you mentioned having the problem with other games as well, I assume it's not connected. Windows 98 has this concept of "default" and "optimal" refresh rate, but on the API level, you have the option to explicitly set specific rate or leave it to the system. In the process writing a patch to make this old version of the game behave better, I found out it switches the screen to 800x600 before switching to whatever is set in Video modes menu, which can be turned off with -noextracds command line parameter. Doesn't make much difference if you're playing at 800x600 anyway, but it's still code that must be executed. Wonder what they wanted to achieve with that. WON versions are quite messy in how they do window management in general. Interestingly, last update for this game was released in August 2020, that's 21 years and 9 months after initial release date (update history as of 2013 here). Or how about UnReal World that has been kicking since 1992! Both cases of official updates.