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All operating systems look very VERY different in regards to how well (or terrible) they render anti-aliased fonts. You be the judge, you'd have to be BLIND to not see the difference -- Win7 on the left, Win10 on the right. Same exact font being rendered by both OS's. Default installs with ClearType "tuned".

Installed SP3. Zero changes other than SP2 -> SP3. ungoogled v12 rebuild 9 still scores 13.6 on this ancient AMD Sempron 3100+ single-core CPU. Was just kinda curious.

Mypal 27.9.4 scores 7.3. Next test (after "finally" getting x86 SP2 to connect to internet) -- install SP3 and see if these benchmark scores go up or down.

So totally agree! For me it was 14 months ago so you lasted longer than I did. I found myself needing FOUR web browsers in order to access bank accounts, visit online research sites, access work archives, et cetera. It was actually quite exhilarating to CANCEL a credit card and when asked "why" I told them that they will never control what web browser and operating system I use on my own computer. I was always very happy with Mypal 27 and 28 and New Moon 27 and 28. I have "fairly" modern hardware so I 'could' have used much newer browsers, but there were reasons I used what I used. I was actually quite reluctant to turn to Chromium-based (despite one of those previously mentioned four being Chromium v49) as my default browser. But it really became excruciating to have to remember which of FOUR (three after cancelling one of my credit cards) was best for this, best for that. I've been very happy with 360Chrome despite my very long reluctance to turn away from Mypal and New Moon.

For the sake of comparison -- ungoogled v12 rebuild 9 scored 13.6. Chromium v49 scored 10.3. New Moon 28 just released today scored 4.9.

Test results that close are basically identical. No surprise that v12 scores slightly higher than v13 and v13.5.

Too funny. It has been stumbled upon TWICE that I am aware of. Too early to tell for this time around, but as long as no one "exploits" this 'feature' (I lean towards 'bug') then the forum remains clear, concise, and easily readable. We have come full circle. The very reason I started HTML and JS editing a long long time ago (then via Proxomitron, nowadays through Stylus and Tampermonkey) was because "members" did exploit these 'features' - DAILY. Back then the biggest culprits were "marquee" text and the "blink" element. Both are CHILDISH. Both are also why still to this day I don't enable "signatures" on any forum I visit regularly.

When I dabbled in Linux, it didn't have anti-aliased fonts - which is a GOOD thing, in my view. It's been a while since I messed around in Linux. I have to jump through some pretty big hoops to prevent anti-alias fonts in my Win7 installs. They render okay in Win10. My eyesight is so AWESOME that I can physically see the red and green sub-pixels that anti-alias fonts use - looks very CRAPPY when you can actually SEE them. Most people's eyesight just "blends" those sub-pixels, mine does not. Can't remember how RARE that is but I'm one of only three patients my eye doctor has ever witness it in.

Incidentally - from my own experiments, you have to PASTE the span codes into the reply box, you can't TYPE them into the reply box.

Agreed. Doesn't really seem like a bug afterall. Kind of annoying in my view. But as long as members don't "abuse" this 'feature', all should be fine.

Agreed! That sales manager used to laugh at me because I saved NOTHING to the hard drive. He stopped laughing after losing his data. EVERYTHING was saved to TWO memory sticks, an external hard dive, AND was synchronized to a "work folder" on my HOME computer. Only three people in the entire company had USB Port access - me, IT Manager, and VP (I'm sure other higher-ups did also, but only three that I interacted with). Most of the company computers were so tightly locked down that you were locked out of your computer if you plugged your phone in to the USB Port to charge your phone. The external hard drive was more of a safety precaution agains the OS crashing. Reinstall the OS, all of my data remains untouched. One memory stick stayed at the office, the other was locked in the glove box whenever I was not at the office. If the office burnt to the ground, I still had the home computer "work folder" and the glove box memory stick. If my house burnt to the ground, I still had the office desk memory stick and the glove box memory stick. If the car caught fire, I still had the office desk memory stick and the home computer "work folder". If two or three caught fire simultaneously, well, come on, let's be realistic, I would play the Lottery if I was that good at beating the odds. Never EVER lost any data. Still do things that way to this day. I laugh immensely at people that buy computers with terabyte hard drives - because my hard drives are for the OS only.

re: synchronizing data Kind of reminds me of a former employer. The Sales Manager had THREE different software programs to "synchronize data" out of an immense fear of losing customer data. One was a paid-for utility - Carbonite. The second was a company-wide utility - Synology. The third was OneDrive - for no other reason than it came with Windows. One of his customer spreadsheets became corrupted and it was right before lunch break that he noticed it. It was top of the To Do List when we returned from lunch. Carbonite had already overwritten the good archived file with the corrupted archive and he didn't have it set up to keep different versions of the same file. He had Synology configured to only synchronize "one way" and two other salesmen also saved to that file. He could retrieve their copies but not his own changes. He was unaware that OneDrive only synchronized one specific folder and he never saved anything to that folder. THREE programs to prevent losing data - and he lost the data anyway!

Wow! Using my v12 just for comparison. Ran the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark on XP x64 SP2 on an intel i7-4770 (4 core CPU) and scored 77.9. Ran it on XP x86 SP3 on an Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2 core CPU) and scored 27.0. Ran it on XP x86 SP2 on an AMD Sempron 3100+ (single core CPU) and scored 13.6. Was not expecting such a wide range.

Yeah! My x86 XP SP2 can finally connect to the internet! After literally trying everything under the sun, what finally WORKED was launching a PORTABLE Chromium v49. Now all of my other PORTABLE browsers are connecting just fine - even Mypal, Pale Moon, and New Moon which none of them would connect until after Chromium v49 successfully connected. Technically, GreenBrowser always did connect (it's only a "shell" to Internet Explorer). So then I went a step further and REINSTALLED x86 XP SP2. Verified that NONE of my 360Chrome, Mypal, Pale Moon, and New Moon browsers would connect. Launched Chromium v49 and it connected. Now all of my other portable browsers are connecting. No clue "what" launching Chromium v49 is doing "to" x86 XP SP2 - but I have zero doubts that it did "something". I should have done a registry and hard drive "snapshot" before and after and compare but maybe another day.

As you can see in my above post, the black background IS due to the Dark Night Mode extension. edit - well, "above post" if it wouldn't have started Page 2.

Not sure. I "thought" I was downloading Iron 70 but my Help - About says 94. This post is from Iron 94 with that Dark Night Mode extension. Definitely not my thing! Ton of purple "bars", brown "bars", nothing but "bars" all over the place. UGLY. But to each their own.

Regarding "Dark Night Mode" extension - you may be interested to know that Chrome-based browsers (Iron is Chrome-based, but I assume you already know that) do not require an extension for that functionality. Granted, there are pros (and cons) to using an extension. But in case you are interested in trying Chrome-based browsers built-in functionality for "dark mode", open chrome://flags then type dark in the search field. You're looking for one called Force Dark Mode for Web Contents. There are several "types" of 'enable' but I suspect that just regular ol' Enabled is all you're really looking for. I don't really like it but it does give you an option to try. I'm not a fan of dark mode (hate it!) but I do understand why some like it (and why others hate it). Not sure how your extension works, but the built-in makes web sites with an already dark background (ie, such as MSFN) now display with a gray background instead.

That was a "fun" read for early in the morning. Folks getting all "defensive" and whatnot. Now I know how much "fun" it is for others to read when I somehow get dragged into those types of "defensive" off-topic rants, lol. Makes it even more pertinent to know what browser @InterLinked is using.

I'm just using ".ipsQuote {background: unset !important;}" for now. I hope very strongly that we don't find a way to post those intentionally. It would be very annoying for everbody to start posting "look at me" posts and everybody having their own background color.

What browser do you use? What list of addons/extensions are you using?

Personally, I feel like this is a FLAW &/or BUG in the forum software and wish that a Moderator / Administrator would chime in. I know you are not doing it on "purpose", so this is not meant to offend, but I find those post-quotes EXTREMELY IRRITATING and VERY DISRUPTIVE to the "readability" of the forum as a whole. I FIX this FLAW on my end using Stylus so I forgot all about it until another member enquired about it. But to any Moderator / Administrator strolling by -- don't you find those post-quotes DISRUPTIVE to the "readability" of the forum ???

I only connect through wireless router which uses hardware firewall via cable box. If I connect "direct" (which I used to do), I used Comodo, version 8.4 if I remember correctly. But on WIRELESS and living on the outskirts of town basically in the country where the closest neighbor is a quarter of a mile away, I do not use "software" firewalls as I see them as no different than anti-virus software - a "bottleneck" to SLOW THINGS DOWN, throwing so many FALSE alarms that the user just blindly clicks 'ok' or 'continue' without even realizing what they are "allowing", et cetera.

In other forum reply boxes, it's as easy as clicking the </> button in the toolbar above then entering CSS to be applied, but I tried that then "previewed" my post and it doesn't seem to work here. There's a special "format" I'm sure, I actually edited by Stylus sheet for MSFN to undo @InterLinked's replies to look "normal". I'm not a fan. But yeah, it is "cool" the first time you see it, but I prefer a more "normalized" experience when reading the forum. Long Live Stylus

I turn off/disable Windows Firewall.

My v12 has the float video also, I disable by default only because I'm not huge into videos on the computer, I have a big screen TV for that To enable the float video, go into settings then to the Advanced tab, enable the Page Utility "Show tips on videos" setting and now you have float video