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For background music, when I want to move beyond my comfort zone I prefer to use YT via last.fm, which allows me to expand my collection (which I prefer to listen with musicbee or wynil). But I watch news on YT, and now and then try a playlist, specially on party times, where my taste doesn't fit the audience. Now, for testing/tweaking a browser/profile I use YT, FB and GG to see how it behaves with such bloated and heavy bricks: if it can render these sites well, it will render most sites too. That doesn't mean that a browser is good if it renders these sites well. It simply means that it can handle them, and is good for social media. But we have already discussed that.

In my set up 360chrome plays smoothly too. I ceased forcing using AVC1, and that stopped the stuttering, even at 1080 with 60 fps. I like AVC1 better (probably old habits, and relatively good GPUs), but, something has to give. As per YT getting "crapped out" from other sites, yeah. For normal use, I run YT in a profile made for social media, while browsing "normal" on a debloated, safer and more private browser/profile.

Enhancer for youtube, and all ad-blocking monkey scripts I have tried (among the most recently updated) seem not to work. YT is ok in 360chrome and mypal, with the last working version of enhancer for youtube. It stutters in st52 (or else it stops, probably wherever an ad is scheduled, and stays there until hitting space twice -one to pause the frozen rendering, the other to start playing again). In vanilla profile, without ad control, yt works well, if for well you mean with ads.

No. It is ok in 360chrome and mypal, with the last working version of enhancer for youtube. It stutters in st52 (or else it stops, probably wherever an ad is scheduled, and stays there until hitting space twice -one to pause the frozen rendering, the other to start playing again). As we all nlite and tweak XP beyond recognition (newbs call that frankesteining your 20 years old XP), though, everything is possible :P

True that. Enhancer for YT still does the trick in 360chrome. Thanks, @Dave-H As per its creator, "Distribution of Enhancer for YouTube™ temporarily stopped! Due to the countless changes that the YouTube developers have made, Enhancer for YouTube™ is now completely broken for Firefox (partially works for Chromium based browsers) so I had to pause its distribution. A huge amount of work is necessary to fix all the issues so don't expect a new version to be released in the upcoming days. Please do not contact me for an estimated date of release, I don't have one." https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube PS: enhancer for youtube works well in mypal68 too.

Hi there. I hope this new version helps, but the YT choppy behavior affects all browsers currently working in XP, unless you are willing to suffer ads in a vanilla profile. And even then it chops.

Github common user functions (idk the coding part) is working well with e10s now.

Previous CPU Tamer crossed out. There is a new version/fork that seems to do a better job: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431573-youtube-cpu-tamer-by-animationframe

2 or 3 years ago its effect was noticeable. Not today. So with anything yt. For example, enhancer for yt used to be flawless. Now it makes yt stutters.

Interesting. I've been using singlefile-1.18.25-an+fx, from ff addons, two or three versions down, the reason being that it's the last that allows me to check the settings. Now, those settings are in browser-extension-data folder. But it would be nice to have something more up to day. The the question: what version is this ESR version forking from. Thanks!

Please keep us posted.

Hi there. About superstop, very nice. It cuts the crap out of "social media" very fast. I tweak mypal (and sp52) with user.js tricks, however, so the actual gain is for me marginal. I actually prefer Tab reloader (0.6.1). It fails to import settings (with my tweaked user.js set up), but if you enter your settings manually (AND SAVE), it seems to do the trick. The same applies to sp52. For what I understand, this addon uses workers to fight again workers that keep sucking resources in the background. It works in my set up. My settings in the picture. They prevent refreshing and widgeting and attempting to sniff data all the time, very very effectively, allowing me to work on multiple tabs iwthout exhausting resources to a freezing point. Now, I can surf in style, even without multiprocess on. I will report back on that, later. PS: I have also managed to solve (well, it solved itself) an issue I had making user.js work. I started rebuilding profiles from scratch (in sp52 and mypal), and suddenly it started working, which makes life so much easier. Cheers!

ItT works perfectly with tampermonkey on sp52 and 360chrome -it makes loading yt homepage very light-. For some reason, it doesn't always work in mypal68.

Here are some of the scripts I'm using, mostly dealing with nags, performance and untracking. Most of them picked up in msfn discussions on roytam'1 and 360chrome builds. Ad host cleaner: http://floxflob.free.fr/scripts/ Bypass Paywalls of news sites: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/userscript/bpc.en.user.js Bypass Paywalls of news sites (ES): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/userscript/bpc.es.pt.user.js Clean Cloudflare URL (not sure how well it works): https://github.com/andylizi Disable AutoRefresh (generally works): https://greasyfork.org/fr/scripts/16079-disable-autorefresh Endless Googel: https://openuserjs.org/scripts/tumpio/Endless_Google General URL Cleaner: https://greasyfork.org/users/435316-beck Google Direct Links for Pages and Images:https://greasyfork.org/scripts/429493 Google Search "View Image" Button (unsure if it still works): https://github.com/devunt/make-gis-great-again Halt! (for heavy social media): https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/source/125995.user.js Link Sanitizer: https://github.com/cloux/LinkSanitizer Link Untracker: https://codeberg.org/izzy/userscripts No delay: https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/6499 Social Fixer for Facebook: http://userscripts.org/users/864169999 Split fbclid: https://github.com/DungGramer/split-fbclid YouTube CPU Tamer:https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/418283-youtube-cpu-tamer

The absence of menuedit, tabmixplus and a proper sidebar is a pity, though. I notice that it is possible to use stylem. I wonder if there is a script to get the tabs to the bottom of the page, where the status bar once was...

It's getting good. In the attached pictures you will find the list of addons I'm running mypal with. Below, the [attached] modified user.js (from the original user.js for ff69) I use, at its current state. At the top (lines 78-179), stuff I've been adding. Linkedin and yt, work well. Facebook has issues, but may be my settings. The whatsapp qr thing keeps swirling. I have issues playing mp4 from some sites, more likely than not, my settings. I use e10s, btw. ghacks user.js

Well, I've found the solution. First, I didn't know that tray it! has a function to hide tray icons in "edit" --> "shell icons". Works well. There is another option: traysaver at mlin.net (in archive).

may be some apps in the system calling back for (system) cert renewal on connection? I used to block digicert systemwide (commented about it in some of the first threads of royatm's browsers). I kept the block until I couldn't hold it anymore: damn thing is like gg, probably a subsidiary. so I'm nowadays more selective in scope. Those system certificates are a funny thing, to be sure. I once picked a little known thing called omniroot in my system certificate list. Its poor (ludicrous or nonexistent) public credentials made me realize how little it took to be able to monitor the unsuspecting. I don't mind. I use 9.9.9.9 extra secure for DNS calls (as first suggested, that I noticed in these forums, by @nicolaasjan).

I may have had a bsod or two using the first mypal68 version, but none since b2. What I do have are multiple browser crashes that render it useless until killing it and launching it again. My guess is it's related to directx and RAM restrictions. Crashes are more likely to occur when using two apps that require directx, or after hours of use, nothing unexpected on xp nowadays, in any browser. Which is the good thing about b3: nice browsing, @feodor2, thanks!

Hi @mina7601, it is attached, but just to satisfy curiosity, This doesn't happen to me in a vanilla set up (in vm). It's just a product of my settings. Now, are my settings safer than vanilla? I think so. That's why I report, based on usage, what I reported. Is it something really to worry about? No. I know the risks I take usding this mod, relative to not using it (beginning with the fact that some sites would be unusable or subpar). But I guess knowing is always good.

Articfoxie, nice stuff. Just reporting two things related to your buid. When firing it for the first time, going to youtube generates an error. This is so, I think, because I block gstatic systemwide. Once I return (with an identical profile unexposed to a gg site), I can get in. I thought that would stick even after a reboot, because I recreate my profile every single time in normal use, without rebooting. On rebooting the os, though, the thing starts again. First launch of youtube with the same profile, gstatic calls are blocked. On second launch, all is good again. For google sites. ungoogling goes so far with my system settings.

I'd say it's an issue of reduncdancy. I suffered my first and only attack in 1996 or so. I realized it was done through netscape, I think, export edition. Since then, first with 95-99, then with XP, I have tweaked my set up in so many ways that I have problems myself installing stuff (which I don't do, spare a few necessary exceptions, nowadays) or even running some software, unless I do such and such. I assume we all do such things, in as many ways as we can, reduncdantly but effectively preventing intrusion, even if one takes a chance out there, after observing the terrain, now and then.

One more (and very old) reason to disable webgl. Did you just get the memo? Or are you just fud-ing your way around?

It's a good thing there is a thread already. I can post the ones I use, and how I change them (when I do). As per your query, I have no proficiency to tell what works or not, other than by usage.

Actually, it would be nice to start a monkey business thread, so all these scripts are available in one place.