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  1. modnar
    By the way - today (sunday) I just saw this piece of news....don't people have anything to do these days?
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    Update: Yesterday I reinstalled Avast and today I have removed both FSFilter Virtualization and Imaging from the above mentioned places in Current Control Set. Filter manager in XP is so old it simply doesn't recognize these two groups and filter communication suffers (as seen in DK12's time to prevent fragmentation using Intelliwrite and Instant defrag and general web browsing). AswSP service is left as factory FSFilter Security Enhancer and I set aswSnx (virtualization service) to FSFilter Security Enhancer (XP's native group). First impressions are good, web browsing is smoother than before, we'll see. DKService can be stopped normally (and restarted) but DK12 uninstall requires aswSP (self-defense) to be disabled due to group-altitude "stretching" of the above services, so DKTLFSMF filter can be stopped normally. Update: It's better to just set aswSP and aswSnx as FSFilter Activity Monitor, with also changing aswSnx altitude to 366996 for smoother system operation and no lying to the touchy-feely fltmgr.
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    If I may chime in - basilisk-dev: while that may be true, we never experienced major problems with roytam1's releases and even if we did have some crashes, they were resolved rather quickly and painlessly. All I can say is that we can be thankful for your and roy's efforts and we should work together to push development of better classic browser forward, even for us that are cemented in the "old" system which may be unpopular, but it sure is fun to have it as daily driver even now, when all the world is crazy for excessive data sharing and automatic idiots.
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    Thank you for the new builds, Roy. They are really swell.
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    I started with this research rather late - in 2023, original problem has been introduced with XP_SP3 release, so in 2008 - quite nasty really: I have experimented with Diskeeper (2010, 2011, 12) and Avast filters in XP_SP3, because the way at least Avast (its filter drivers) is set up does slow down the system (its aswSP is at altitude 388401 but group is set as FSFilter Security enhancer, which is at much lower altitude range). With any program that "lies" thusly to XP_SP3 the computer gets bogged down for a nit-picking reason (IMO). I have found out that just for the XP_SP3 M$ really messed up fltMgr driver to require a mini-filter to really obey it's "Group"'s altitude range, which is quite a bit different than in XP_SP2 or Vista and newer Windows. Therefore I would like to know if there is a newer fltMgr.sys driver (or a modification) that allows "normal" (not so restrictive) mini-filter behaviour (basically altitude freedom) for XP_SP3? Example: DKRtWrt mini-filter is usually at 137100 (its native altitude as per M$'s own list) in XP_SP2 even though it's "Group" is "Activity Monitor", but can't be in XP_SP3 and its restrictive fltmgr - it's unstoppable (manually) then. Current version is 5.1.2600.5512. I tried transplanting it with Vista's (doesn't work) and XP_SP2 (works but lacks certain functionality for Avast to work properly). A working, perhaps temporary, solution by me was to re-classify aswSP as FSFilter Activity monitor (as was in old Avast 11 AV), add missing filter groups of virtualization and imaging to xp's GroupOrderList and ServiceOrderGroup/List (registry CurrCtrlSet) now all works well, however the nagging question remains - why should XP_SP3 be an exception - is it to further disable it in light of higher versions of the OS? I sure think so.
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    We surely need to work against that; any way we can.
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    Thank you for such a detailed and exhaustive explanation @VistaLover. It gives a great insight into our situation. Good point about Googl-isation and it's a nasty thing, in my opinion largely caused by Adobe's incompetence (?) to keep Flash together - it was a great tool for web multimedia, but then their stupidity destroyed it all. Now we have all kinds of google shyte and I don't like it one bit. What a blessing to have Roy that can make sense of it all and to in all honesty keep sane, classic systems usable.
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    Thank you for the clarification, @Mathwiz.
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    I meant, of course, the NewMoon 27 (the "standard" one), I should have stated that. Also "standard" Serpent for my understanding is the 52.9.
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    I'm somewhat confused about this sitiation: How come PaleMoon has had all these changes - that come in handy for K-Meleon too, yet not for Serpent - are those two so fundamentally different than Serpent? Has NewMoon surpassed Serpent in functionality due to all the activity? Aren't them all sort of variants of Firefox?
  11. modnar
    From my experience - keep RAM cool (under even 50°C) and it will last a long long time. I still have my Corsair DDR2 "1066" RAM; well the first two sticks died quite some years ago, and the warranty replacement two I always have them at 800MHz and 1.8V and they are cool and happy and most importantly working well. I believe even longer than yours now. Amazing grace!
  12. modnar
    I use these two sites for YT video downloading needs: https://en.savefrom.net/1-youtube-video-downloader-86/ and https://offeo.com/download/youtube-downloader/ . BTW - why don't you use an ethernet cable? It's best for a reliable connection.
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    I used to only delete the startup cache upon every new release of SP 52.9, like one has to do with KMeleon updates, but with SP it's not needed apparently.
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    Just a quick report: the latest Serpent 52.9 sometimes crashes (xul.dll) on site videocardz.com (main site), on articles it doesn't crash. I did update my certificates with Cert Updater 1.6 found on this fine site, and ever since videocardz.com ads are not displayed. It's probably a poorly made site...
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    I'm sorry - I should have written https://www.theregister.com/ not just register.com - don't know about that one TBH. :-) Thank you for your in-depth analysis. That noscript sure is a piece of work, but I guess I have it installed for historic purposes... By the way - I do not see any need to break the topic into numerous parts...
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    Thank you so much! Serpent 52.9 now works normally.
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    I too am encountering instability with the latest Serpent 52.9 - I do have noscript installed, but it's not configured to "forbid scripts globally". Register.com crashes the browser, even with noscript disabled. Also majorgeeks.com makes it crash. For this week I have reverted to v52.9.0 (2024-01-05) (32-bit).
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    I'm curious - why does site mimovrste.com /owned by alegro.cz/ load items so slowly in Serpent 52.9? I don't really need the site anymore, just curious.
  19. modnar
    I tried icedove, but I prefer MailNews, works well.
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    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.
  21. modnar
    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.
  22. modnar
    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. :-)
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    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.
  24. modnar
    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.
  25. modnar
    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.
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