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    My Browser Builds (Part 5)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    3 hours ago, mina7601 said:

    It's fine at my side with Serpent 52 and Serpent 55.

    24 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

    This site works in New Moon 28 (2024-02-24) 32-bit. No problems here.

    The problem was real. After Moonchild and several others Pale Moon forum members contacted Cloudflare, they eventually, not without a problems, fixed it.

    You can read it here if you want to:

    https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=249856#p249856

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    TRIM for XP

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    On 10/9/2023 at 6:34 PM, Dixel said:

    Isn't TRIM is now handled by these devices themselves?

    No, SSD can not fully TRIM itself cause it does not fully know what data should be deleted and what stored. Samsung once tested File System Aware Garbage Collection - prototype SSD that can theoretically fully TRIM itself, but it does not worked as they expected.

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    [VESA]UniGFX Graphics Driver

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    On 7/18/2023 at 7:49 AM, Dibya said:

    VBEMP-NT exist , a similar product, my point is their no point for re engineering wheel so the project moved to full HW accelerated MESA based driver for future.

    More you can read here https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x

    As i said their no plan for now,

    I don't get it. Mesa9x v21.3.8.20 is emulator of HW openGL from windows 98\ME. What is have to do with universal VESA Graphics driver with hardware acceleration for XP?

    Can some one explain me?

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    Antimalware, firewall, and other security programs for Windows XP working in 2023 and hopefully beyond

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    On 7/15/2023 at 11:15 AM, AstroSkipper said:

    For all owners of a computer with a processor, that does not have more than the SSE instruction set, the air is getting thinner.

    I'm sorry, but this can not be taken serious in 2023 year. The first CPU with SSE2 was released in year 2000. That's more then 22 years ago. Let those people go and upgrade to something more modern. Windows XP works so much better on 4-core systems. Now we have even 8 core Ryzen work with XP. There is no excuses left for staying on none SSE2 system now. Go and upgrade to at least Core2Duo or Athlon64X2 - they are dirt cheap now. I repeat there is no excuses to seat on, like Pentium 3 or Athlon XP and demand everyone attention. Those systems are completely obsolete, they serve people well for 2 decades, now live them alone and upgrade!

    On 7/15/2023 at 11:37 AM, Dixel said:

    Did you actually read the US gov. labs statement, where they caught Kaspersky injecting malicious code into browsers?

    Thank you! Finally someone with common sense and logic.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 4)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted · Edited by Rod Steel

    6 hours ago, Jody Thornton said:

    Holy Crap!  Look at this Basilisk thread, where I guess someone from here went to the Pale Moon Forum and dared to mistakenly ask about Serpent.  It's not about the right or wrong I'm concerned with: it's the snotty nature that Moonbat conducts himself with.  Just a p***-poor way to talk about people:

    https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=28657&start=40#p237935

    So weird hateful people. Why they hearts so full of hate? What's wrong with them?

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    I hate it when XP using morons keep showing up here

    Wow, just WOW ! What an hateful person. Is he out of his meds? I saddened an astonished buy this level of unprovoked aggression and hate.

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    It is a long dead OS that black hats have been feasting on for many years to build their bot armies with. Any communication from an XP user is likely to be filled with malware.

    Absolute nonsense. In fact that was true when win XP was in it's prime and "normies" use IE6 or IE7- that was time when you will always catch up so virus very fast. This was the reason i migrated on Firefox around 2007 - tired of viruses exploiting million holes in IE. With all XP updates and using unique browsers like New Moon + Ublock, - chances of virus infection is extremely low. 99.99% modern viruses now can not even work in XP now - they code is incompatible with it anymore.:buehehe:

    P.S. Speaking about old Operation Systems, i have question. I recently watch a lot of YouTube channel "Action Retro", when retro enthusiast upgrade to unusual fast level Apple PowerPC machines. And one of they major problems - they not having modern browser anymore - cause they tied to Tiger and Leopard OS and they "forks" like Sorbet Leopard and they only(?) developer of they own Firefox fork TenFourFox abolished project, so they left without modern update internet browser.

    So i wanted to ask Roytam1 - how hard it will be to recompile latest NM28 to PowerPC machine? Is it really possible to do even once as experiment? I just wondering.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 4)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

    And my question is: Where have you been? :) Upstream's native WC implementation has been backported to UXP-based browsers by roytam1 (these, of course, include New Moon 28 - but NOT NM27) since the builds released on the first weekend of March:

    I did not know that. However, turns out i already use for a 14 days this March version of  New Monn, where WebComponents is included.

    1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

    ... Roy spends considerable free time composing and putting up those Release Notes every Saturday but it appears, in practice, they go totally unnoticed by the majority of users here :(; and it's a pity, TBH <_< ...

    That's not accurate statement.  I usually download new versions from here: https://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser

    And i usually read whats new in "Official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build:" and "Official Basilisk changes picked since my last build:". Because i expected that the most critical changes will be mentioned there. The reason why i miss mention about WebComponents, is because it is written as casual change in the middle of long list named: "Official UXP changes picked since my last build:"

    Here is examle of issues from there next to important WebComponents announcement:

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    - Issue #1344 - (Parser: Java) Don't reset containsHyphen value after finding one (d9b7057ff)
    - Issue #1344 - (Parser: C++) Don't reset containsHyphen value after finding one (55100bb28)
    - Issue #2118 - Part 1: Update gfxUtils YuvColorMatrix functions to match upstream mozilla code more closely. (beef43760)
    - Issue #2118 - Part 2: Add support for Identity YUVColorSpace (3e62b1fc9)
    - Issue #2101 - Part 1: Add mColorRange info to YCbCrBuffer (c0c76cd45)
    - Issue #2101 - Part 2: Use stdint.h types instead of uint8 and friends (42f329689)
    - Issue #2101 - Part 3: Update libyuv (a4d1f57b9)

    I usually not read this because i don't understand meaning of this. I wAS expectING more BIG announcement about WebComponents enabled, then getting it lost in the list of super-complicated issues that 99.9% of people do not understand.

    I Like how the Pale Moon guys did it: They openly said - "hey guys, we now enabled WebComponents by default, major change, long awaited, how cool is that!!!"

    So i notice that. But if you think i will read every - Issue #OVER9000!1111  - you simply wrong and you lying to yourself.

    I deeply respect work of roytam! and often like and up-vote his posts here,

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    My Browser Builds (Part 4)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    Today Pale Moon team release v32.1.0 (2023-03-21)  http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

    They claim that:

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    This is another major update with important compatibility improvements for the web. Most notably, our implementation of Google WebComponents is now at a state where we enabled them by default.

    So my question is - when this thing will be in New Moon? I really want to  see New Moon with Google WebComponents.

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    [SOLVED] GeForce GTX 460 not picking up refresh rate on modern LCD monitors

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by Rod Steel

    I remember about 10 years ago i read about it and now i totally forgot. I was thinking today about this and did not remeber. I do not have 144Hz monitor so i can not test solutions that i read today in internet. So...

    https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75570

    Many years ago nvidia drivers have check-mark "Treat as HDTV", which  can be unpicked. But it no longer there perhaps it hidden and needed some reg file to be activated, nvidia did such tricks long time ago with hidden options in drivers. Also i am not sure that would help.

    So my idea that you can create an alternative driver for your monitor using 2 methods:

    1) Program Monitor Asset Manager (MonInfo) - "App can both read and write data in number of formats. It can also generate INF files, which can be used as custom monitor driver." I assume you can edit that .inf file to add needed refresh rates.

    https://www.rarst.net/software/moninfo/

    2) Method that i found on some old google cache text:

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    We make a display driver (.inf file) with Rivatuner v2.24 and to the column  [Mon.AddReg] add or change the line  HKR,"MODES\1920,1080",Mode1,,"157-170,120-160,+,+".
    We put in manual mode and veil of 144 Hz in the list of supported.

    I'm sorry i did not find anything else. Only that.

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    will windows xp work on the Pentium m?

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    On 11/30/2022 at 9:35 PM, legacyfan said:

    I Have An Old Pentium M I Recently Saved From An Old D600

    Well i assume you talk about Dell notebook. I think this model was with Banias Pentium M.

    There should be no problem with windows XP and Pentium M combination - that notebooks was shipped with windows XP. In some cases there was second generation Pentium M CPU in Dell D600 - with 2MB L2 cache, code name Dothan. On motherboards with 533 FSB support they can be overclocked above 2Ghz and be really fast. As far as i remember some desktop motherboards from DFI and A-Open was available, back then, for mobile socket 479. What motherboard and CPU exactly you planning to use? There can be really cool overclock variants in case of Dothan.

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    Github and Windows XP

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    7 hours ago, j7n said:

    The Assets show me an eternal spinner too.

    Naturally, cause you don't have Palefill installed.:lol: And it will stop spin and show itself when it will be installed. Crazy-house, i know. I get link to it using 360 Extreme Explorer.

    7 hours ago, j7n said:

    Can you explain in a couple sentences what a "polyfill" is?

    Well it is a thing that execute some scripts in Pale Moon\New Moon until (and if) Pale Moon team have its own "Web Components" working. 

    https://github.com/martok/palefill/releases/download/v1.21/palefill-1.21.xpi

    Here is the file itself:

    palefill-1.21.xpi

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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted · Edited by Rod Steel

    3 hours ago, anton12 said:

    for me the website you want to render is certainly not
    completely unusable,but since I can't read Russian
    I have to refrain from any judgement about the quality of the rendering.

    Apparently you also can not read Ukrainian, because on screenshot everything is on Ukrainian language.:)

    Also i don't understand the meaning of your post and photo. This is your Asus computer on photo? Or you manage Rozetka to work properly with New Moon?

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    palefill@addons.martoks-place.de.xpi(palefill-1.20 ING)

    Did i miss something? Is this now must have for Pale\New Moon ? I install it and rozetka still glitch the same.

    This is how i view Rozetka now:

     

    2022-09-16_133518.png

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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    I want to report with sudden problem that i met on https://www.huffpost.com/  with Serpent and New Moon. Many articles there took many minutes to open and it took 100% of CPU time for like 5-6 min.

    Examples that i found today:

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-stein-devin-nunes-truth-ferris-buellers-day-off_n_63029f6be4b0f72c09d874f3

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-on-pause_n_63026c48e4b0e323a2567963

        Both articles open like i describe it. Before for many years Huff work correctly on this browsers.

    So what's going on? IS it browsers problem or creators of huffpost make some BS changes to site?

     

     

      

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    “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”

    in Funny Farm

    Posted

    On 8/10/2022 at 7:16 PM, D.Draker said:

    All my life I knew the russians were terrible (can't use stronger words due to the website policy), 

    I always knew who they really are, partly from the stories from my relativers who fought them in WW2, but most importantly , 

    I always felt it with my heart and now when they proved it for 100 centuries ahead , 

    Thank you, man. Nothing but 100% respect to you. :thumbup

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    Windows XP/2003 x32 on Modern Hardware FAQ

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Mov AX, 0xDEAD said:

    There is no free space in thread context to store all x64 AVX registers, no easy way to make it same as x32 version.

    Perhaps i am not educated about this topic at all. I just ask about first AVX, not AVX2, not AVX512

    You early write on win-raid:

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    P.S. WinXP x64 kernel has different FPU context format, but i think it is possible to do same trick, but i'm not interested

    P.S.S Don't ask for AVX512, there is no free space in FPU context to store additional 16*AVX512_H(256bit) regs.

    SO i ask does it possible to do AVX1 for XP64, or you are steel "not interested".:unsure:

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