Ben Markson

Good news, Fritz!Box now works with St52. I see several changes with respect to Promise so this suggest that Promise.allSettled is now being properly honoured. Ben.

You seem to be using a different Serpent to me... Ben.

Okay, so that's curious, under Serpent, my example only runs if webgl.disable-angle = true otherwise, like you, I get a black screen and a console error: failed to acquire a renderer - check WebGL or WebGPU is supported. I've long decided that WebGL and XP just don't play well together – flash was vastly superior. Ben.

Here is a simple game that uses WEbGL. It's a nice example because it's quick to load and the website gives proper diagnostics for any missing browser features. https://play.ninjadoodle.com/clickplaypics/ Now, can someone tell me how to have it run under XP without maxing out the CPU? For me it idles at 75%. I'd always assumed it's down to limitations of XP – with the same browser under W7 the CPU is negligible. Ben.

Many posts ago I suggested blocking certain animation effects: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/page/131/#comment-1250502 In particular: animation: none !important; breaks the kind of stuff you are talking about. Because of that I then changed my suggestion: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/page/131/#comment-1250506 Since then @roytam1 introduced the prefs: layout.css.animation.enabled layout.css.transition.enabled Which supersede my css tweaks. Is it possible that you have an animation: none in force? Ben.

Here's a blast from the past that I'm still using. ZoneAlarm. But not the later bloatware versions but back when it was lean and mean... v2.6 Its use as a firewall is mostly redundant as nowadays that kind of stuff is handled at the router, but as an egress filter I still find it very useful. I'm still routinely disappointed how the first thing some 'legitimate' software wants to do is to phone home. I also think it's a good protection against malware that rides on the back of another program and whose job it is to open the door to the fetching of the real nasty. ZoneAlarm will warn when a program you weren't expecting tries to connect to the internet. Ben.

I changed my mind! It breaks too many things (including MSFN) this seems better: * { animation-iteration-count: 0 !important; } ...it gets rid of the 'infinite' setting (I'm going for a global rule, not a per site rule). Ben.

I think the main culprit is this: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/vVqCiuMuYjtIEG4538PA7zjsBOXQi37pmfABOgXoEQY.css ...with its CSS Animations. This interests me as I really hate webpages that gratuitously consume CPU after they've rendered. Fair enough if its essential to the function of what's being displayed but not just to add some pointless effects. I came across this as a panacea to killing all CSS Animations: * { /*CSS transitions*/ -o-transition-property: none !important; -moz-transition-property: none !important; -ms-transition-property: none !important; -webkit-transition-property: none !important; transition-property: none !important; /*CSS transforms*/ -o-transform: none !important; -moz-transform: none !important; -ms-transform: none !important; -webkit-transform: none !important; transform: none !important; /*CSS animations*/ -webkit-animation: none !important; -moz-animation: none !important; -o-animation: none !important; -ms-animation: none !important; animation: none !important; } Which I reduced to this: * { transition-property: none !important; transform: none !important; animation: none !important; } It certainly improves that Reddit page. Ben.

I also have a copy of the source code but, like you, couldn't really find anything useful. As stunnel is stupidly light-weight and easy to deploy (no real install needed) I'm hoping it will keep me going for a few years yet. Anyway, thanks for your comprehensive summary which should be useful to anyone else researching this subject. Jose Alf also deserves a little more prominence for his work. Ben.

...time passes... A quick postscript. If using v5.70 there's no need to replace tstunnel.exe, it's only stunnel.exe that causes the system tray bug. The bug was introduced with v5.61 so the v5.60 stunnel.exe is the last working version. The v5.70 stunnel.exe does work but you cannot interact with the running instance, this isn't necessarily a big deal as there's not a huge amount you can do. Stunnel runs and it does its thing without needing to interact with it. If you want to download the exe's from github using just about any browser then you can copy the links from https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32 (the left hand column) for example: https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32/blob/master/stunnel-win32-5.60-openssl-1.1.1k-installer.exe ...change the 'blob' to 'raw': https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32/raw/master/stunnel-win32-5.60-openssl-1.1.1k-installer.exe and it will download. I'd like to find a workaround to the system tray bug but otherwise hopefully this will keep my email working in the face of any 'upgrading' my email provider may perform. Ben.

Sorry about that, it's my fault for trying to do a running commentary on something I was still working on – it's what can happen when you get sucked into treating a forum like a chatroom. I removed v5.70, it works (tested with Outlook 2002 email client) but has a weird glitch with not displaying sTunnel's tray icon and no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to appear properly. Went back to v5.60 (there's some indication in the change logs that the system tray code changed with v5.61) and the tray icon is back how it should be. Finally, I took the v5.70 install and replaced just the stunnel.exe and tstunnel.exe files with the v5.60 versions. So, it has the later OpenSSL DLLs but is using an earlier version of stunnel. I'm not sure that this is the best idea but... it works (again tested with Outlook 2002). You can even see the weirdness in the above log (the Compiled versus Running dates). Now, having said all that I use stunnel in a pretty basic way (I am by no means an 'expert' stunnel user) so it is possible that if you want to start creating your own certificates that it won't work. All I'm doing is keeping my ancient version of Outlook working with my email provider who is threatening ever newer TLS standards. Ben.

It lives... I didn't have to do anything special. This is using it on XP SP3 (with POSReady updates) unchanged as downloaded from https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32 Ben.

Thanks for the advice. I believe the latter versions of sTunnel support TLS 1.3 (I'm currently using v5.49 – the last official 32bit version). I was interested in upgrading for the extra TLS support but I didn't really hold out that much hope. It's kind of ironic that the very place where things like sTunnel are the most useful aren't supported. Ben.

Thanks for the hint! Out of interest, which browser did you use? I finally got to see the screen in your screenshot but only by using Firefox 116. Ben.

I was wondering if there was a more up to date version of sTunnel and came across this: https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32 ..which shows a recently publish version 5.70 but for the life of me I can't find anything to download. Does anyone see how to get: stunnel-win32-5.70-openssl-1.1.1u-installer.exe? Ben.