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I use a bat that deletes existing profiles, copies my clean, vetted profiles into a ram drive, and then launches sp52 preloaded with my extensions and settings (including a fresh storage folder) from RAM. I automatically delete all trash+logs+s*** -including profiles- on logoff, restart and shutdown, as well.

I automatically delete storage on every restart.

Thanks for sharing all this, @SuperWorkstationXP, it is indeed good stuff. Would there be a manner to connect the xp vmachine to apps in linuxmint server, instead? What about connection to the host (in my current very newbie experimentation, a linuxmint too.

In my experience with both sets of 360mods publicly available, Netflix never worked with them. 360 wants to play netflix with html5, and (to my knowledge) doesn't "see" silverlight. In xp, roytam1's sp52 (I also used to try Netflix with his other builds, some time ago) plays netflix if you have silverlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78kRAJfxhWw

Linkedin works now in a fresh sp52 profile.

about:profiles gives you the location, with some basic options.

I never had this issue, maybe because I uncheck "Discover USB devices" in chrome://inspect/#devices

Similar to Anbima's question: will copying the text of the quote on top of the script proposed by Articfoxie suffice to work on TM?

Finally a good explanation. A bitmap cache, perhaps?. I'm transitioning in the different direction. I want a linux with openbsd for non-smb home networking, and want to run XP (as I like it, all stripped down of tricks and in shinny leather, so to speak), for non-internet related stuff and apps. But thank you very much for sharing this.

Them dragons too.

And depending the country you are in, it is not uncommon to find "secure", even oficial sites with badly-made certificates, or with outdated ones. To accept them is either fruit of desperation, oblivion, or of well-informed browsing practices. Roytam1's subforum, and the three+ 360Chome subfora in the parent forum referenced above provide plenty of tips on how to do the later, particularly (but not only) in XP and Vista -very much like Mathwiz said, before. For some problems there is no cure, though, but to trust Android, Windows8+ (forbidden in Germany, for instance, for official use due to its spyware nature), they'll take care of you :P, or go the way of Linux (i.e., Linkedin).

I promise to be polite, educated, and generally normal, like yerself. I stand corrected and in penance: you obviously don't know your own s***. Also your cybersecurity knowledge is not up to date, as you are alerting us about 6 year old problems you later tell us have not been an issue since. I'm wery sowy for not having stated that with much more clarity before. In the meanwhile, and back on topic: very please, and with sugar on top, take notice of where are you writing and for what purpose.

Perhaps you are not aware this is a forum called: Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes Linkedin works better than in chrome (more like in a cage, so to speak) in the latest librewolf in linuxmint, or (freeranging on your data) in its own shinny app in android. Be aware, though, that that has no bearings with what is being discussed here.

You surely are up to date with your fine knowledge of cybersecurity. Keep it up, because if that was indeed true 6 years ago, imagine what is today out there. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh my!

Unfortunately, for linkedin, no change yet. As I reported in the general 360chrome thread, linkedin requires a type of verification that is not recognized even after successfully resolving the challenge. Same happens with old and current SP52 builds. Banks, depends on the bank, on the country you are banking from. As per the disinformation spread by the guy above, he surely knows his s***.

This point reminded me of something of interest. Since I started playing with this tweak, I noticed that the occasional (2 or 3 times a week) BSOD was due to a failure to write a file. So (1) I set up memory booster to not optimize RAM automatically, while maintaining processor optimization, weak as it may be. The same thing happened when (2) I installed process lasso (which was (is?) free for use in XP). So I had to tweak pl to not trim ram unless hitting 75%, otherwise it would erase something not written to file, resulting in said BSOD. Now that I'm spending most of my browsing on ram, I have to further change the trim settings, now trying the ones in the pic. Only act at 80%, and for processes with over 1.2mb committed memory (which in my set up -extensions and whatnots- is the anchor of three concurrently running sp52 browser).

Dave is for ever young. I had been mostly silent (except some so-called witty remarks) until 2017, when I summoned I rather leave oblivion or see XP users fly like crazy to W7. Dave was already there when I was (mostly) mute (why say something there being so many saying the right thing?). Well, to make up for calling the wrong dave (have I?) and maybe to make him twitch an eyebrow: SP52 (aka serpent52): go to about:profiles, create a new fresh profile somewhere in the ram drive, open it, close it, delete its contents and copy all the stuff in your current appdata profile EXCEPT (I think, parent.lock). Open it again and you have a profile running from invisible (for x86 xp systems) RAM. The possibilities are infinite, hehe. 360Chrome variants: USE the VERY GOOD 360Loader thinghie in Articfoxy's mods. In the ini, in the environment section change the thing to [Environment] Profile=z:\Chrome It aint 10X faster, but a few miliseconds indeed it is, and you can run 3 o 4 Sp2 and at least one 360chrome while doing other non-too intensive cpu stuff, depending on your specs. I will edit this to include, if I can do it, mounting mailnews into RAM. [EDIT] Thunderbird (AKA mailnews) is a rock, it has such a small footprint and gives so much, even with thousands of emails in cache. I wont touch it. I guess it can be done, but she is good enough already, why push her for that extra last kick... I won't make the same mistake again, lol. I'm getting old, damn,

Thanks. I had already browser.cache.disk.parent_directory set to go to z:\cache]profilename. I'm trying now browser.cache.offline.parent_directory, which I created in about:config (string), works ( I can see Z:\cahe]proflilename/cache2 populating. . As per 360chrome it is easy: assuming you use the 360Loader.ini in @articfoxie;s mods, you only have to set the following line" [Environment] Profile=z:\Chrome\User Data If like me you have a preset group of files you want to keep constant in the user data\default folder, you will have to adjust the corresponding path in your bats. I will keep tinkering to see how yo move the sp52 profiles to rabmdisk and repot @Dave-H, consider moving this and the last @7jn posts somewhere to https://msfn.org/board/forum/201-browsers-working-on-older-nt-family-oses/? Cheers

It seems kmplayer's last xp compatible version is 4.2.2.75

Read again (or try implementing it): only one (hardly at all most) of the three tools I mentioned show there is no swap, and it is the very basic dos tool used to create the swapfile in the first place. The existence of this phanthom swapfile is picked up (other than by the tool used to create it) in most usual situations, by at leat two common (and relative to XP, sophisticated) apps. Once you prove that (or disprove it , who knows, I aint Elon Musk, or what have you, but a pewr lil fella), tell me how to make the profiles of sp52 and 360chrome to run out of that you don't care to try to see really exists (or not). But test it and prove it first.

Thanks mate. I edited the to show how to do that. Cheers.

As an update: given the extremely higher memory load being forced upon us by the malconceived practices on the internet by GG and GG wannabes, I revisited this thread. Since last month, I've managed to mount a swapfile on the "invisible" RAM of my day to day 8gb set up, with the following settings. It seems to me to make browsing life better (no BSOD, hardly any SP52 or 360chrome crash). The procedure is simple. 1) In system properties, advanced, performance, make sure there is no swapfile (virtual memory) in any of your hard drives. You can tell by the attached pic of the corresponding system properties tab, but double check looking for pagefile.sys in your hard drives (virtual or not), anyway. 2) Get swapadd.exe from the links provided by @jaclaz above, and run it from prompt to guarantee that. A simple plath to swapadd in the console would do, as per the pic of the command prompt. 3) Create a virtual temp folder using up all the invisible RAM. I did it with Vsuite RamDisk (Romex) 1.10, which has not failed me once since I use it (10 or more years?). See the vsuit ramdisk picture with the specs with which I created it. Through system path assignments using registry, app customizations and RapidEnvirnoment Editor 9.2 build 937, I put in there the temp folder(s), IE internet crap (which is created even though I don't use it and have crippled him badly, zoombie SOB) and all browsers' caches (BTW, SP52 doesn't seem to follow command anymore -i.e., user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","Z:\Cache\Profile). See corresponding pic of z:\ drive contents with the standard set of system and apps created contents. 4 Create a bat with the following code path to\swapadd "z:\pagefile.sys" 1000M 3800M 5) Add your bat file, in 4, to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Restar, and once back in, you won't find any pagefiles, but it is there in the "hidden" 4+ gb of RAM according to the specs (8gb of RAM in XP32) mentioned in this topic. Interestingly, since (perhaps) swapadd is already in use, when you try to use swapadd to look for it from the command prompt, you get "'swapadd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" anymore -which wasn't the case before 5 above-. You can however copy and run swapadd (in a command promt) from somewhere else, and it doesn't pick up there is a swapfile (as shown in the prompt white on black pic). Systemexplorer 7.1.0.5xxx or Memorybooster 1.x show you however it is there in (virtual) memory. See picture of systemexplorer reporting the resources used by mydegrag, including almost 1.5 gb of virtual memory -out there in an out of sight pagefile.sys that can't be found nowhere. Truly pirate spookng. I wonder, though, if this would hold through were I to fill the virtual temp folder in Z up to the brink... Short of dropping a large file there, I have run mydefrag for days on some old data hard drives, which consumes quite a bit of cpu resources, but also makes a hell of a lot of constant write operations to swap (see, again, edited pic of mydefrag use if virtuak memory in systemexplorer report). In the meanwhile, the ~4g virtual temp drive reports the low use that normal browser cache and temp operations (see the drive's properties pic). So I'm happy. On of these days, though, I will play with cooledit (which uses lots of temp forlder resources) and see what happens. Cheers.

Hi there. I generally use github on a vanilla profile, when needed, but update palefill for other sites. I don't allow performance observer and related, but this last build allows me (in some preliminary testing) to browse a particular github site (but not more than 1 without losing content) quite well, e10s included. EXCEPT for assets, that returns that swirling thinghie and no tree. So I then open that in the vanilla profile. Cheers.

As of today, linkedin has added a non-captcha callenge that none of the latest mods for 360chrome can handle (in my set up). Can anyone using it confirm?