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  1. modnar
    Thank you. By the way I had to download it with Supermium, click on FreeAV.exe on site doesn't do anything in latest Serpent 52.9.
  2. modnar
    I have searched for 22.03.01 version of Panda and everywhere I find only 22.03.05. I have 22.03.01 installed on my computers (via online installer when it was new) but never managed to find offline installer. @AstroSkipper Instead of your 21.x.x version, I believe 22.03.01 would also be fast on your computer. Would you help me find it? I just can't seem to locate it anywhere, including the archive.org.
  3. modnar
    By the way - look at the kind of commercial/ad I see in both "My browser builds" and this topic.
  4. modnar
    I hope you don't mind, but I don't do google. Quite outrageous: startpage.com in latest Serpent 52.9 lists msfn.org as 14th find (on first page) but with unreadable characters, but I remember seeing similar some time ago and the duck lists it on the second page 1st place but with crap characters.
  5. modnar
    Revert to 5-15 version till saturday...
  6. modnar
    It (XPx86 version) is the KB970158 - I know - I had POS Avast Anti-virus installed and it also contains this KB.
  7. modnar
    Yeah, upon further testing (today) I too observed that no setting fixes the dumpster fire that is the new garbage collection patch that's been added by upstream and already thrown out. So we'll just gonna have to rough it till the next release. New finding: memory.low_physical_memory_threshold_mb seems to help work around the fiery dumpster on some sites; I set it to 1536. Check your "Physical memory" in "Task Manager". P.P.S.: I finally reverted to 5-15 version. :-/
  8. modnar
    Good too; instead of collecting garbage, it's a dumpster fire itself. P.S.: Is there a way one can disable it till saturday?
  9. modnar
    With current defaults memory consumption by the basilisk.exe will go to even north of 1600K (which never went before) and CPU constantly at 25% (one whole core occupied) and browser completely unresponsive. I have observed that setting javascript.options.gc_on_memory_pressure to true ameliorates the memory problem (memory consumption stays at around 1000K), but no the CPU-one (I tried different settings, but haven't found one that worked). P.S.: This memory saving setting (javascript.options.gc_on_memory_pressure) is "true" by default in newer firefox versions (or so I have read).
  10. modnar
    You're quite correct, I already deleted this extension from my installation. Sad too, because this latest version (2026-05-22) is super leaky, runs out of memory so fast (on imgur) and even if you just go to majorgeeks.com and then come here writing the reply is all choppy. What is being put in the water upstream?
  11. modnar
    It is not 2x faster, but helps in the overall browsing experience - to bridge the gaps so to speak. Sadly it's not anymore listed in Mozilla Addons, yet it was there about a year ago; I got it thanks to the Internet Archive.
  12. modnar
    Memory Fox (1.0) pluging improves browsing experience (smoother) with Serpent 52.9. Browser still becomes unusable/unresponsive @~1.3GB RAM usage (and one CPU core completely occupied).
  13. modnar
    It went fast here (~7.0MB/s).
  14. modnar
    Thank you both kindly for the explanation.
  15. modnar
    Another thing - as experiment I enabled the memory.free_dirty_pages . Would this be like the memory_saver option in Supermium/Chrome?
  16. modnar
    You can use this FF plugin, works on Serpent 52.9. I tested in on distrowatch.com, switched it to ON and just changed Windows NT 5.1 to Windows NT 9.1, so bastards can chew on high version that they crave so much.
  17. modnar
    Just a headsup - I have found it's best to set "Memory Saver" to "Maximum" instead of "Balanced" (at least in WinXP); same performance, disk handling more inline with WinXP capabilities (seen as much less fragmentation of files being written at the time of Chrome caching, e.g. anti-virus logs) and no more "Out of memory" tab crashes. You'll find the setting by going to (in address bar): chrome://settings/performance . P.S.: It worked the first day, not anymore the second, so I changed it back to "Balanced" (tab crash every so often).
  18. modnar
    Thank you for your tests, @NotHereToPlayGames I guess I'll reset it back to 2MB. Imgur.com does seem to like 1MB better, less choppy picking through stuff.
  19. modnar
    First thank you for new release, roytam1. Today I found a new setting to experiment with, javascript.options.main_thread_stack_quota_cap. Now I don't really know exactly what it does, it just seem good to me to halve it, so I set it to 1048576 instead. Would someone please tell me if this modification is useful? Browsing seems more smooth with less memory being spent on it.
  20. modnar
    You might want to try the 475.14 (latest) driver with this github workaround, if you feel like it.
  21. modnar
    @roytam1 Please make the next build of Serpent with threads / 2 or 1 (thread) for 1 core CPU's. I believe it will be faster than current n-1 (or 1) solution.
  22. modnar
    Of course I compared the 4-25 build with 4-18 and others. Here's how it was: 4-18 and earlier builds were all slow then 4-25 was out and it was fast compared to before (but I had to revert to 4-18 because 4-25 kept freezing / not-responding). This new build 4-30 or 5-2, while faster than 4-18 and earlier builds, is slower than 4-25. On my CPU Serpent's thread count now returns 3 which I observed in VM's is a no-go. Slower than 2 or 4 threads. So better stick to even number of threads, but not all of them, so 2. At least for Core2 Quads that are really 2x2 CPU's (shared L2 between only 2 cores) and not 4x1 CPU.
  23. modnar
    First thank you for a new build, roytam1. From using this new Serpent 52.9 build 4-30 (or 5-2) I observe slower performance and I suspect it's because of the threads setting. Imgur.com site though heavy is good for testing things. Also tomshardware.com, also heavy. For number of threads I would propose CPU cores / 2 or 1 if 1 core. I have a four-banger here, and while 4-25 Serpent stopped responding on imgur, while it was functional it was faster than version 4-30. I came up with half of threads because I observed with VMWare if I set the number of cores to odd (3) virtual machines perform worse as they do on even number of cores (2 or 4). 4 though also are not recommended for anything but Linux because there aren't any left for the host then (I suspect poor optimisation on Windows guests). Also - my Core2 Quad is not really 4 core CPU, it is 2x 2 core CPU.
  24. modnar
    Has anyone here succeeded installing e.g. 3com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) network card or similar 3com card in Windows "7"? I can't seem to find any driver for the NT_6-1. No other LAN card comes close to 3com's.
  25. modnar
    XP SP2 version? Is older and doesn't have all functionality, so even worse. 2003 SP2 (kernel 5.2) isn't XP (kernel 5.1), so not applicable.
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