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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I tried icedove, but I prefer MailNews, works well. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
XP_SP3 (USP4) here: I chose lang EN_US and then sign in, wrote some username and pass and it does nothing, because they're of course not correct; it does not freeze. It just spins 1 revolution in vain as many times as I click "Sign in". I'm using Serpent 52.9 by the way. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Thank you for new releases, roytam1. Serpent 52.9 is much better this time compared to 1 week ago, much more responsive and smooth browsing experience. So far all is well. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Interesting - I have been fixing poor Avast implementation of their filter driver (aswSnx) and its interaction with Diskeeper in my XP and looks like that altitude and load order combination wasn't optimal. I have now (finally) looked at Win7 32bit (thinpc) implementation and replicated the same in XP and set altitudes to completely factory values with load orders fixed and Serpent 52.9 doesn't crash anymore. Jolly good. :-) -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Sadly another crash - Serpent 52.9 - mozjs.dll, I have halved and 256-colored the pic to make it smaller. Either Serpent 52.9 doesn't like the craptor lake refresh news or videocardz.com in general. By the way - it's reproducible. I can go to craptor lake refresh news time and again and it shall crash after loading the site, it crashes just before it shows Disqus system comments that site uses. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I'm sorry - forgot to mention, yes it was Mypal 68. As for Serpent - I'm not too worried about an application crash here or there, it'll be fixed soon. It's the best I've got, since mozilla abandonment. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Today my serpent 52.9 crashed while perusing videocardz.com, I guess all those D3D calls got to it. :-/ Would newmoon be a better alternative than serpent? P.S.: You know what? Opened mypal 68 browser just for kicks and tried the same webpage and boy did it load fast; upon closing however I got BSOD. :-x That's no pal of mine - deleted the thing clean off my computer. I'm happy with my serpent 52.9. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Please someone also fix this and also lower the amount of D3D draw calls per frame (I hope I got it correctly). Serpentinšek is the best. :-) -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I use Serpent 52.9 as a direct replacement for my Fireferret 52.9 which is defunct now, besides it's got the highest scores on html5test... Anyway, please do continue to take good care of basilisk because it's very useful as Serpent for the classic systems. I simply despise the current operating systems they're peddling as "new" just because of the latest facade they've conjured up and bolted it on a pig. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Serpent 52.9 latest version 2023-07-08 working well here, better than older versions so far. Thank you @roytam1. -
Hi! I would like to know is KB970158 (kernel-mode driver foundation) and 159 (user-mode) included in the SP4? I can't seem to find KB970158 anywhere. Edit: Found the KB970158 - it's in my Avast/Setup directory; I need it for disk_eeping experiment. :-)
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My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I think I can wait a week without editing Serpent; Addons page gets rarely visited here. :-) -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Is there any way to make Serpent 52.9 cache 4k-sectors-aware? As it is now, the cache is still 512bytes oriented (means values in about:config/cache are divisible by 512, but not 4096) and changing the values, upon restart just changes them back. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Have you tried opening the page with Serpent 52.9? Isn't Serpent 52.9 the most feature rich among Roy's releases? I base that on html5test website results... -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I have experimented with cache in Serpent (52.9) a bit (mainly to compare with behaviour of K-Meleon) and found it's best to disable the Mozilla's experiment that went nowhere: browser.cache.frecency_experiment = -1 (that is its default value anyway for OFF_state). There are also some RAM-only options but I don't really need those: browser.cache.compression_level = 9 > this save memory compressing data to maximum browser.cache.disk.enable = false > this disable disk cache for http browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl = false > this disable disk cache also for https browser.cache.memory.enable = true > this enable memory cache only -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
You may or may not remember when a few weeks back I posted about Youtube shorts not displaying properly, skipping to the next one or previous one (in my Serpent 52.9 on WinXP x86) - problem solved - I finally aligned my partitions (to 4k sectors) after so many years of neglect i suppose. Now they play well from one to the next with the same version of Serpent (2023-04-13). -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Hey all! Great new release! I wonder why in recent releases of Serpent 52.9 (on XPSP3) scrolling through youtube short videos is more likely than not broken (I use screen resolution of 1680x1050). When loading a short it plays and when wanting to go to the next one with down arrow the browser goes there but then quite quickly jumps back up to previous one. This is quite frustrating. I do use ublock origin with the browser. Thanks. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
A rather funny Serpent 52.9 crash just happened - I was watching youtube for some time and then HWunBoxed video RTX4070Ti against RX7900XT and the message about basilisk encountering error popped up. The video was still going for a while and then stopped and if I dragged the error window all over the screen (which I did) resulted it this lovely picture (attached). When I "click(ed) here" it said it has to do with mozglue.dll or something similar. BTW thank you for the new release, roytam1, starting from last week's each now is much more up to date and faster working than ever before. After a Serpent restart it works normally again. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I hope all goes well for you, @roytam1. You have been a tremendous source of hope for our aging systems. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Thank you - at first I was skeptical because of FF/42.0, but this really speeds the site up! Mighty fine. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I would like to know if anything can be done about quite slow loading (initial delay) of Youtube in Serpent 52 on WinXP (x86)? -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Thank you for the latest build of Serpent. I wonder - could you make Zoom work with audio in Serpent? Would be very useful. -
My Browser Builds (Part 4)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I was reading Techpowerup review of nvidia flounders edition rtx 4080 and cannot play videos in the Serpent browser (52.9). It is not a big problem (there are tons of reviews on YT), however would like to know if this can/will be fixed. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
modnar replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Mighty fine, mighty fine! Serpent 52.9 sits this one out... I chose Serpent as my replacement for Mozilla Fireferret 52.9 because it scored the highest on http://html5test.com and still does 481 out of 555, KMGoanna does 439 same as New Moon. Am I correct in such classification?