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  1. modnar
    I also downgraded to 4-18 release of Serpent 52.9. On imgur.com it just stopped responding after going through a few posts. BSOD that some mentioned could also be because of excessive fragmentation the browser causes with its cache on disk. I remember long time ago (2013) I had the same problem with fireferret.
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    I only noticed MailNews downloading very slowly (20KB/s) in the morning, but in the afternoon (~3.5 h back) it went fast. Thank you for your fine work!
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    @Dietmar Would you/could you make a better fltMgr for XP? The one that is added by SP3 (build 5512) is a p***poor W2k3 port and I believe deliberately held back (slows down with many minifilters installed).
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    What if you used MailNews (I use MailNews, by the way)?
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    An odd occurrence: yesterday evening I closed Supermium (ungoogled); a while later I ran it again and it wouldn't show the window (v144 R1).
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    Thank you for a good explanation. I guess it's Microslop™ at work again turning even good things into, well, slop. Sigh.
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    Thank you both for your answers; I wonder is there any other compiler that would be more flexible? Need you really use Microslop™ compiler?
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    Thank you @basilisk-dev, @roytam1. Wonderful work! I wonder - now in "Troubleshooting Information"/"CPU capabilities" states SSE2 here - would the browser be any speedier if also SSE3 and SSSE3 were supported when found. I ask this because Intel CPUs by themselves aren't fast (FPU), compared to AMD if you do not use their special marketable instruction sets like MMX and especially SSE. To back my claims, here is HWInfo32's Benchmark results (taken with version 6.12 some time ago): AMD Phenom 9600 (quadcore 2.3 GHz) CPU: 107698 FPU: 139478 MMX: 83891, Xeon 3065 (or Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33 GHz) CPU: 68245 FPU: 43843 MMX: 80748 (MMX score as high as 4 core AMD).
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    As I said it's a CD, so yes, the original. Not DVD. It is the right version, 0.9c. It used to be so that you had to have XPSP3 CD to create the Hiren's iso/CD. http://www.hiren.info Sorry, Astroskipper for the off topic.
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    You can easily fix registry mistakes by booting into Hiren's Boot CD (15.2); in "Registry" there is Registry Editor PE. Works well.
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    Just a heads-up: There are two security holes which are also being exploited that Google reportedly fixed a few days ago: CVE-2026-3909 & CVE-2026-3910. The new v144 probably hasn't have the fixes included...
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    Thank you a gob and a bunch.
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    List here. Also: it is not really advisable running Win2003 fltmgr on XP (different kernels) but it would be great if someone would port Win10 fltmgr.sys and fltmc and fltlib to XP. That one is really powerful.
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    @MilkChan Would you also please also make a KB for 2003SP2 original fltMgr (5.2.3790.3959)? While it has a local vulnerability, it's the fastest for XP.
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    I'm now testing two new changes that are in FireFerret_ESR 115.32.1 and not in Serpent 52.9: browser.cache.disk.max_chunks_memory_usage = 40960 (instead of 10240) browser.cache.disk.max_priority_chunks_memory_usage = 40960 (instead of 10240) It does help some, smoother, but at least on imgur.com there still seems to be memory leak happening or crazy scripts, I don't know...
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    @roytam1 Wanting to get better performance with imgur.com site I followed inspiration and disabled devtools.performance.ui.enable-framerate. Please, tell me if this is advisable, because I am observing better browser (Serpent 52.9) performance (smoother scrolling and responsivness) on all "heavy" sites (and number of them increases). Upon further investigation I reset the upper variable and enabled memory.free_dirty_pages; it is not found even in Firefox 115.32.1 (Windblows 7), it's enabled by default. Update: Apparently I went out of bounds with these; restored to defaults: neither of these prove to be good for Serpent 52.9 (further slows down browsing).
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    I did not see it happen here (with Serpent 52.9).
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    This site, while it is "heavy", works fine in latest Serpent 52.9 here (asked me about cookies and all).
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    vkvideo.ru sure is a heavy site, eats 1.3GB of RAM and videos (or rather pictures of them) are really stretched (magnified)... (Serpent 52.9, latest)
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    XP FltMgr can't be sped up; we're stuck with factory settings. The only way would be to write a better filter manager for XP (and not 2k3 versions).
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    It used to be (intentionally) broken to burden (very high CPU usage) the csrss.exe service (as seen in Task Mgr). I've installed Avast (from v18 online installer) in my testing XP_VM and will tell you tomorrow. Today everything was calm. Avast and AVG in their new, broken, state begin to burden the system through csrss.exe the next day... EDIT: The results are in and nothing changed: AvastSvc.exe constantly eats up ~25% of (dual-core configured) CPU in VM and csrss.exe eats up the other 20% of (dual-core configured) CPU. So both take up almost 1 whole core! That is outrageous, but Avast got our data, they don't care.
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    Thank you! Mighty fine! When it worked, this Serpent really ate less RAM than any version to date.
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    Quite. See here - a newly opened Serpent 52.9 2026.01.16 (latest): only went to majorgeeks.com and then to msfn.org Forum and basilisk.exe in TaskManager is wildly going up and down 1 full CPU core usage and memory from 700MB to 1.5GB and back down to ~700 then CPU usage stops. First I noticed that also in my XP VM which I use to get me fresh prefs.js to compare with my normal one outside VM (all of 1.3GB of dedicated VM RAM went missing while on sapphiretech.com). Edit: in the before session imgur.com, there weren't any swings, just normal behaviour; RAM usage going up till ~1.2GB (even somewhat lower than with the previous version of 1.3GB). Edit2: Could it have something to do with: - htmlparser: break when infinite loop happens (8201dadf41) ? Edit3: On videocardz.com and again on msfn.org (new session after videocardz crash) Serpent crashed with stated mozjs.dll as the point of breaking. Faulting application basilisk.exe, version 4.8.7.8956, faulting module mozjs.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00293c73. Both times. Edit4: Again on videocardz.com, now with different reason - xul.dll and then again on msfn Forum the upper mentioned mozjs.dll. Faulting application basilisk.exe, version 4.8.7.8956, faulting module xul.dll, version 4.8.7.8956, fault address 0x00063a79.
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    I use Panda 22.03.01 and on a dual or quad core systems PSANHost upon boot up doesn't really waste any cycles, only swells to ~100MB and then goes down to ~15MB from what I observed in TaskManager. It's been a wonderful replacement for Avast and/or AVG and their treachery of the XP systems after all this data we've shared with them throughout the years.
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