NotHereToPlayGames

Agreed! I haven't allowed third-party cookies in well over two decades. My ONLY exception is strictly work-related where I need the following three exceptions in order for Teams to work (I use web-based Teams and not the Desktop App). But even these delete themselves when I close my browser.

Win95 on a '87 computer - that would be like getting a Speak & Spell to tell you what time it is. For some good history - https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

Q: What is a Cheerleader’s favorite food? A: Cheerios

I no longer have a Chase account (and yep, Chase gets discussed here quite often), but when I did, I witnessed Chase load over 130 scripts on their login page alone! But to me, that's also why I continue to use Proxomitron. I was always able to log in and do everything needed with roughly only TWENTY of those 130+. No bank account web site should be loading FACEBOOK script files, for example.

Same here. I use full hibernate and not the hybrid sleep that newer OSs use as default.

I've only ever "heard" of Discord by people here at MSFN. Other than "hearing" people throw out the word "Discord", I for one personally have NO CLUE what it is. Which is enough to tell me I HAVE NO USE FOR IT, lol. Regarding "heavy JavaScript" - how does one define "heavy"? Because MSFN loads fourty seven (Proxomitron counts them more accurately than things like uMatrix or uBO)!!! And that to me has always looked "heavy". And some of them are quite LARGE. And I technically have NO CLUE what that GIGANTIC "thumb.png" is. They show up all over the place in my logs, but I deny them via userstyle from ever being visually displayed!

Cool! I've watched Lois & Clark in the past. Will have to revisit.

Am I allowed to use F Words at MSFN? I'm guessing "no".

But on a more serious note - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkf4cAfJqxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-KVKBHCrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvyAuY5_CQ&t=1273s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1BcMO-NKUg

I've *NEVER* met a person that runs XP "out of necessity" for WELL OVER A DECADE. Heck, even the "holdouts" here at MSFN will openly admit that their Beloved XP stems more from nostalgia or don't-buy-new-until-old-is-literally-dead or new-is-waste-if-old-still-works or some sort of perhaps "bragging rights" that we (myself included) could get something that old to last so long. As far as that goes, at least when I was running XP (I only migrated to Win10 a few short months ago), I was running XP 100%, I didn't have a "tablet" or "mobile phone" to run to when I couldn't achieve a task on XP.

Looks like registration is now restored. Unique Birthday Parties, two CEO1861's, and three Grug's looks a bit Spammy. The "wtf" looks suspicious as well.

Agreed! As a rule of thumb, no link with the word "crack" or "keygen" or "hack" should ever be posted here at MSFN.

I've seen this in the past. May I assume you defused via Proxomitron?

Totally agree! The admin that runs a Proxomitron Forum picked it up over a decade ago while still on a college-kid budget, vowed to always keep it running, is not an ad-supported web site, has only single-digits visits per month, has never asked for donations, and true to his vow is still up-and-running to this day. And of course our own Roytam is another perfect example. I'll even throw AstroSkipper into that mix.

I'm afraid to open that Pandora's Box. We can only speculate.

It's actually been on my To Do List to revisit Pale Moon. It actually used to be my default but I was (as many here do, to each their own) holding myself back by "sticking to my guns" and staying on XP way longer than I should have. I don't regret the XP Years, still a big fan, but the BEST decision I have made in recent months was to LET GO of using XP and moving on. I'm on Win10 nowadays. 2016 LTSB. So perhaps still a few years behind, lol. The Speedometer bit, it's not my only quantifiable metric, but I simply do not condone "gut feelings" and when a new browser version is released, I seek PROOF that I "need" the upgrade before performing said upgrade. As this topic clearly suggests, "newer is not always better". Technically, it was only the "sticking to my guns" and being on XP that ever pulled me away from Pale Moon in the first place. But from that also stemmed the witnessing that Chromium Forks are "maybe" better suited for my needs. Though as mentioned, I still do plan on revisiting Pale Moon one of these days.

Yeah, it seems that MSFN is losing random posts lately.

Yep. The more often you visit, the more often you prevent what you are trying to achieve. You cannot attempt to achieve "non-uniqueness" by visiting over and over and over and becoming a "regular" to the wait-staff.

<OT> Your comment made me curious, lol. https://sensoneo.com/global-waste-index/

I also suspect that our recent "experiments" where a User Agent of "Chrome" all by itself probably yielded the same "observations" a DECADE ago. It's just that there is more of us performing these "experiments" and discussing them here at MSFN nowadays because of so many here at MSFN using not exactly "mainstream" browsers and/or computers.

The highest I've ever scored was 330 - on a retired laptop from work that they let me keep for home use. That would have been Ungoogled Chromium v94, v96, v97, I don't recall exactly which one. Scores kept DROPPING with each new Ungoogled Chromium release - until v114 and that's when it became my default. We're now back in the development cycle where scores are DROPPING. v120 is the gaudawful SLOWEST Ungoogled Chromium I've yet to ever encounter! If this is the result of "webp mitigation", than I can do WITHOUT! I've been monitoring Supermium development from a distance, I wish the project huge success. It's not yet quite where my needs kind of need it to be so I have not done any performance testing. Home-use performance isn't as big of a deal as office-use performance. There really is a GIGANTIC difference between a browser that scores below 100 (ie, *all* of the Roytam releases) and a browser that scores over 200. That said, I am a fan of Serpent 52 - but I run a version that is six months old and (inline with this very thread topic) will likely be stuck with it as "newer isn't always better". Edge is blocked on office computers (no clue "why" exactly), so I've never experimented with Edge. Browser performance is very important to me. Teams is the perfect example - I do not use the "desktop app", I strictly use the web site (and therefore have never been thrown out mid-call for an "automatic update" which I boycott on all software). And Teams could also by the perfect example of why below-100 and above-200 makes such a GIGANTIC difference - I do not use "dark mode" under ANY circumstance (dark mode gives me migraines, literal migraines). So my web site Teams is not only heavily Stylus'd to convert default "dark" to "normal light", but I also have style sheets that will convert the video being displayed for when the Teams "host" is using "dark mode" on his/her computer.

Corrected link -- https://github.com/da2x/fluxfonts This is something that Proxomitron also can do (works in XP and MyPal 68). But even better as it can be with each and every browser session, no matter how many times you open or close your browser in an hour. For those that use Proxomitron, the methods are very similar to what was known as the Jakx Pack.