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Timetrip - browsers in perspective
dmiranda replied to dmiranda's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
The first password https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-made-it-happen-45404 -
Last I checked a few weeks ago (my old motherboard died, and am now replacing my system with linux-mint+Xen+XP but XP will take me a while to get back to, and more likely than not not for browsing), jshelter worked in supermium, and does a very good job preventing fingerprinting, fonts included..
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Hi, just to report that the LAST version of ghostscrip in XP is 9.54 (only after applying the two exes and dll xompie treatment- maybe PAE is enough, I didn't check). I haven't tested it thoroughly, but enough to see that it woks far better than the previous GS version I had (9.16) loading content within irfaview. . Cheers! https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs9540/ghostxps-9.54.0-win32.zip
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Hi, unfortunately i can;t login into mydifitallive foum. My settings (quad9 secutirty, DOH, etc) may be it. I'm looking to try the last MPV build for XP by Maroc. If someone finds the time, would you post it here? thanks!
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Hi @Astroskipper. Where can we try these (two?) new buttons?
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hi, projects' main page (at least) in gitlab show up empty and with the swirling thingie spinning around.
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
dmiranda replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Those (settings) in XP are discussed at nauseam in the XP sub-forum. Until you get the hang of it, you will have to spend some time, though, and have an XP ready backup image (or many, as you advance). With the specs of that laptop of yours, it will be difficult, but (again), check with Astroskipper, it is possible. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
dmiranda replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
There are many sites I cannot visit with Serpent. The whole bunch of social media, to begin with. For those, I use other browsers that work relatively well in XP. For banks, etc, I use a chromebook, even my phone. If you were using XP, I would suggest you do the same. But for most sites, sp52 is good enough for me, and I feel safer and more private using SP52 with them, than using MP68 or supermium. As per settings, there are of two types.Those in the browser: for firefox derivatives, I keep saying use arkenfox, and have made public most of the tricks I use. It's up to you to find them in this and mypal's threads, and try them. It ain't easy as using vanilla, though. For chrome derivatives, check supermium's (maybe thorium's) thread. Astroskipper's threads on xul browsers and mypal are also good resources. -
I will give this a try. I wonder if someone has tried to use nssm (as suggested by @jaclaz) to replace srvany in install.bat Thanks for bringing this back to attention. Cheers!
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
dmiranda replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
" Very very very VERY patient" For those who use xul browsers (maybe I exaggerate, I haven't used anything xul but sp52 for 3 years or so) regularly, it's obvious that you have something wrong in your settings. In my case, speed is acceptable - except for ublock loading in startup- and similar to what you get in linux, or a poorly configured W10. But maybe it's that I/we are more patient than the chrome crowd. -
Timetrip - browsers in perspective
dmiranda replied to dmiranda's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Another great read. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet -
Timetrip - browsers in perspective
dmiranda replied to dmiranda's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Then and now https://www.wired.com/story/we-were-wrong-oral-history-hotwired/ -
Hi Zorba, I misunderstod cmalex's wording, that's all. As per python, I'm a newb (so thank you very much for the indications above). msys-mingw I used to play with back when xp was young and shinny, so everuthing was all setup and updated with little (relative to today) user input, a long time ago. Cheers!
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
dmiranda replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Yeah, rumours from your favorite browser, Mozilla Firefox, about the new lite Ublock. They took it back, apologize and such, to no avail.. -
Hi there. It's been a decade since I've tried to build something, but all this chat has got me hooked to try and see if old XP can do it. I decided to give a try to MSYS from https://github.com/akosela/msys2-xp, which claims pacman support, using http://files.1f0.de/mingw/mingw-w64-gcc-10.3-stable-r34.7z for mingw32. "This project specifically aims to compile Yamagi Quake II for Windows XP. It includes all of the required dependencies. It also provides some other useful programs: mutt, irssi, tmux, git, ssh, lftp, curl/wget. If you need additional packages that still work under this version of MSYS2 you can take a look here: https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/msys2. Download them to /msys2/var/cache/pacman/pkg and install with: $ pacman -U <package>.pkg.tar.xz" I plan to also play with the minimalist https://archive.org/details/msys2xp, which comes with its own mingw 32 and a (alleged) control of package integrity. I'm on 32, so I delete all 64. In the meanwhile, I've been trying your set "PATH=C:\Python38;D:\Mingw_61\bin;%PATH%", but I run into an issue with "python setup.py -c mingw32": setup.py, not found. I searched in the files and found ...\Python\Lib\test\libregrtest\setup.py. Is that the one I'm supposed to use? Thank you very much, Cmalex (and Zorba).