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  1. For QUOC users with an ATI graphics card who are experiencing issues with the UI appearing black, please go to about:config and set the key below: gfx.webrender.flip-sequential to false. I have already removed the key in the currently public version, so you can just update to the fixed version. So far, with the key disabled (testing it on an AMD E1-1500 laptop right now) there doesn't seem to be any negative impact on performance.
  2. Update! I have done some bugfixes and added some other tweaks to the QUOC Patch. Youtube videos now should be fully hardware accelerated, at least on the machine I tested the patch. I also have made an OpenGL compatible version, in order to be used on Macintosh and Linux systems. Please update, in case you have already installed the QUOC Patch, and test it on as many systems as possible.
  3. I like challenges... Please, everybody, re-download the QUOC Patch if you're using it, as I've done some minor bugfixes and housekeeping. Thanks and please, test it on as many Quantum-capable platforms as possible!
  4. Thanks! Once I have time I will study them and test them on the low end machines I receive at work and if they harmonize well, I'll implement them in the Patch and give you credit. Actually, this makes me curious about whether I can implement some of the QUOC tweaks in the classic UOC Patch. I just need time to settle down so I can return to the RDD regularly.
  5. I have done tests on two low end computers (laptops) and the tweaks of the QUOC Patch have made a difference. Now I don't know if support for D3D9 has been removed altogether, but after applying the patch, the browser is much more smooth and responsive and it seems to have some sort of acceleration enabled. Besides that, everyone can tweak the patch as they want, and can enable DirectX 11 or OpenGL in about:config. I will take a look at your tweaks once I have enough time, as my work keeps me quite busy, and test them alongside the patch. Could you let me implement them in case they work with the patch? I would give you credit for those in that case.
  6. UPDATE! After a long hiatus due to severe real life issues, including COVID-19 and whatnot, I have finally managed to port the UOC Patch to Firefox Quantum! And so, I can officially introduce the first release of the QUOC Patch! The QUOC Patch (pronounced "Quawk") is a Quantum-exclusive port of the classic UOC Patch that we all know and love, except this one has been aimed to the hardware that can (or barely) run Firefox Quantum and derivatives, including the very latest version. I have tested the patch on a very low end laptop, a Packard Bell Easynote TE-69KB with an AMD E1-2500, 4GB of RAM and Windows 8.1, and it really does make a difference compared to stock settings. This special port of the patch has been based on the currently public N2M version, to provide the maximum stability. The QUOC Patch uses the 45 ESR version of the UOC Enforcer. As usual, please test it and let me know how it performs on your system. Thanks everyone for your patience and support!! EDIT: There are two keys in the QUOC Patch file that have been commented out. These are: privacy.firstparty.isolate and privacy.trackingprotection.enabled If you remove the // and the comments, enabling those keys, you will increase the privacy protection in your browser at the expense of some sites not working correctly or some others not displaying thumbnails, such as https://www.geo-ship.com . I have left them disabled in the patch, but you're free to tweak the file and enable them, if you wish. If you use Telegram Web with the QUOC Patch and you experience videos and GIFs not loading, simply set this key dom.caches.enabled to True.
  7. Sure, the UOC Patch has been always meant to be tweaked and expanded by people who want or know how to tinker further with Firefox and derivatives. By the way, I apologize for my absence. While the new version of the patch, codenamed N2O, is ready, I still haven't time to distribute it yet, as I started working from home due to the pandemic and my free time is pretty much inexistent now. I remember I tried an older version of the Patch on Firefox Community Edition for NT4, and from what I remember, it did work and was quite fast, but I didn't test it in-depth.
  8. I voted for Matt A. Tobin's proposals. It's the one that makes the most sense to me.
  9. Fun comparison, now that I think about it. While the build is technically ready for release, I'm not having enough time to publicly release it yet, but it's open for anyone who wants to beta test it further.
  10. It's pretty much the same problem I had with NM 26.5 on my three computers.
  11. Would it be possible to back port those from NM27? I have the issue on three different computers, there must be a reason.
  12. Is it possible to replace the connection components with the one of another version? 26.5 works great if it wasn't for this issue.
  13. As I have recently set up a triple computer set up in order to test my upcoming new version of the UOC Patch, I wanted to test New Moon 26.5 on an Asus L3000D, a laptop from 2002 sporting an Athlon XP 2500+, 1.2GB of DDRAM 400, a SiS Real256 IGP and running the good old XP SP3. Now, to the field test. I have tested New Moon 27 which is quite usable, although video performance is nothing particularly remarkable. The UOC Patch improves it quite a lot, making web browsing doable. Serpent IA32 runs faster than NM27, but loading pages consumes a lot of CPU cycles. K-Meleon Goanna is pretty much in between, faster than NM27 and Serpent IA32, and faster loading times, less strain on the CPU. I'm using New Moon 27 alongside Serpent as browsers there. Now, to the interesting part. I wanted to try New Moon 26.5, to see how it would perform on such a dated laptop, and interestingly, video performance is great: scrolling is incredibly smooth and fast, as if I am using Internet Explorer, but it has a huge drawback that prevents me to use such a browser on that computer: loading pages causes the browser to freeze for around 30 seconds. If I load a page with externally hosted pictures, no hope: the browser freezes altogether and I have to terminate it from the Task Manager. Any hope to fix the issue? It would be a perfect browser for old laptops, especially because it seems to run fast and smooth on old low end IGPs. I can replicate the issue on the RDD and the new μRDD, an Asus EeePC 4G. @roytam1
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