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  1. RamonUn
    --really off-topic -- Nice to see there have been remakes, I might have a look when I get time to watch a movie.
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    Nice I had the Amstrad in my family in the 90s, but are you still using your Commodore as a daily? It really was hard for me just to accept to use XP over Win98SE, I used Win98SE as a daily driver up to 2014, people were saying I was a boomer because I am still using XP when I was actually just starting up with XP (I was already familiar with XP but i was not liking it much especially because of poor DOS and WIN16 support but the web forced me). Now I really like XP and I will probably wait a long time before switching to Windows 7 as my personal OS. I still love and use Win98, one of the best Windows, but I mostly use XP.
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    I view this along the same as Firewalls in the XP thread. A fully functional firewall serves its purpose whether it is 2 weeks old or 20 years old. To me, "no longer maintained" is just a Red Herring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring (of course, I realize that capitalizing it may bring upon the outspoken MSFN-Killer Grammar Police... don't care, life is too short...) I am not using Stylus, I try to minimize the amount of extensions. An extension being supported does matter, not because of security bs but because it mean that I will be able to use it in the future when the browsers and the web will evolve. For many software I do not care about having very old outdated version, I do use Paint Shop Pro 5 which dates back to 1998, I used to use MOD4WIN which is a 16bit program, (I still use it on my 32 bit computers), also I prefer Winamp2.x over Winamp 5.x. But when it comes to browsers extensions I like to use what I can easily recommend also I like sometime having new features, this Is why I also write software myself. There is no cool Zoom-In option in uBO, you have to write complex filters manually, or use the zapper mode. I do not think uMatrix is outdated, I think it fills a different usecase than uBO R. Hill declared that he considers uMatrix to be inferior but obviously he is just the dev and for him uBO was an evolution and he prefers his newer design there is only limited time to write software... I would not advice you to switch to uBO but I just wanted to say that you can have a good uBO experience even as a former uMatrix fan. I do understand the path R. Hill took and even if I do not fully agree with his design on uBO I think it is a great product. -- excuse me to be a bit off-topic --
  4. RamonUn
    For me the pro and cons might not go up to 5 uBO pro1: Include community filters that does a part of the heavy lifting when fine grain filtering is needed. So you can start with a configuration where everything is blocked by default (scripts, and all third parties stuff), then unlock manually what is needed while still having the fine-grain community filters apply to the domain you unblock. uBO pro2: Much more powerful filtering abilities, including cosmetic filtering with element picker and zapper options that really let you do anything you want to a website. uBO con1: Filter panel is only by domain and content type, ie. you get only access to the first column and the first line of the uMatrix (kinda), This is a huge minus and made uBO worthless for years to my eyes. uMatrix pro1: Super intuitive Matrix, amazing interface, while still having huge amount of power. uMatrix pro2: Easy to fix a website, most of the stuff that happens can be seen in the Matrix, meaning it is more foll-proof. uMatrix con1: No longer maintained by R. Hill so the only maintained alternative is for UXP based platform with ηMatrix, meaning that you either have to use an outdated extension or stick to a single obscure browser, and I do use other browsers. uMatrix con2: Not as powerful as would be needed sometime, Often you find yourself wanting to zoom inside a matrix element to be able to select which scripts/css/whatever should be filtered. In the end I agree that combining both would bring ultimate power. But I do agree with you that initially I though uBO was useless stuff for newbies, but it is actually not bad. I forced myself to use it at some point over uMatrix, this forced me to appreciate its extended power and live with its limitations. Another con of uBO for me was its reliance on community filters, but in the end this is a compromise, while I do not like to use filters that I did not write myself, I appreciate the time and hassle it saves, and I always find filters to be a bit too conservative anyway so it is not a big trouble for me. PS: I guess eMatrix is a synonym for ηMatrix η is "Eta" in Greek.
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    I use uBlock origin in "Advanced mode" so that it includes a mini uMatrix It does break half websites I visit and I spend a lot of time adjusting the settings. I used to be a uMatrix dye hard fan, but I was spending a bit too much time configuring it, and some time I was unable to reach my goal, so I ended switching to uBlock (also because it has more powerful additional filtering options). I do regret the basic and simple power of uMatrix. I still think uBlock should include the uMatrix panel which was more powerful than uBlock's advanced mode pannel. I tried running both extensions at the same time but the slowdown was significant and it is even more of a mess to play around with. So I would not call uBlock Origin a passive extensions , It just can be used passively unlike uMatrix.
  6. RamonUn
    I would not recommend to copy the profile from MyPal29 to NeMoon28 r vice versa but you could try, have a look at about:profiles to see where the profile folder is located on both browsers then copy paste where needed. the New moon profiles should be located in "%USERPROFILE%\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon"
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    I assume you installed the CPU fixes for Win9x? you did not detail it in your post.
  8. RamonUn
    I searched the about:config options and I found the javascript.options.mem.gc_incremental is this the one? I will try to disable it to see...
  9. RamonUn
    Mainstream UXP is working on fixing some memory leaks https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/2251 Hopefully it will go somewhere, I do not like to have to restart my browser all the time.
  10. RamonUn
    For me Windows Server 2003 is sill my daily driver. I preferred the Windows 95 explorer that I was using on Windows 98SE as daily driver until 2014, At this point 98SE was no longer usable because of the Web and I got a new laptop and Installed Windows Server 2003 (licenses was almost free). I still feel like Windows NT5.x is new I hated it when it came around in the early 2000's because it was much slower than 9x and lacked good DOS compatibility, but now I love it more than ever, super stable and nice interface, it is a shame that it is getting abandoned. I probably will have to abandon Windows Server 2003 as a daily driver but I am unsure I will accept to actually use Windows 10+.
  11. RamonUn
    MyPal68.13.0 still beta with JS engine at fx78 level https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/160#issuecomment-1546736807 Be sure to check it out.
  12. RamonUn
    Is there an up-to dale list with all the programs that were discussed in this thread? I could not find one.
  13. RamonUn
    He is referring to St55, it is not in the version info but every time roy posts a new St55 release he states: > New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP!
  14. RamonUn
    palefill becomes indeed mostly useless with the latest browsers based on the latest UXP versions, this also includes IceApe-UXP and BNavigator and the main stream Pale Moon and Basilisk. I would still suggest you keep it in simply disabled in your Add on list so that you can re-enable quickly it in case something stops working.
  15. RamonUn
    I do not see why multi-process could not be implemented properly in C++ or even in plain C. What does make Rust necessary to implement multi-processing? I have been programming only in C/C++ plus a few other languages, I only recently got interested into Rust and from what I see it is a kind of better C++ but with an extremely strict memory model (when compared to C), so everything is more difficult to do but can lead to less errors in the end. It s a shame there are not many compilers yet, you only got the main rustc implementation and the mrustc implementation. I think that when you will get the gcc team develop an alternate implementation you will have a very positive forward movement thanks to the competition (we have the same with gcc vs clang and in the end everyone wins). I also hope we will soon have a standard like we have for C/C++/FORTRAN. Multi-process does not work right with UXP because it really was not designed from the ground up to be like that. Modern Firefox is very different from the old one but the fact it is written in Rust seems more to be a detail to me. There is no fundamental gap that would prevent to port modern Rust to old Windows versions, it is just that the standard library for rust does not bother bother to support it. but some someone even made a port of rust to target Win9x/NT https://github.com/rust9x/rust.
  16. RamonUn
    I do have to restart UXP based browsers more and more often, at some point the cache has to be dropped otherwise it is the same thing than a memory leak. It is not trivial for a programmer though to decide what is best to cache and for how long. I do remember an old Article from Raymond Chen taking about this and hw Acess was able to improve its performance by not caching some results that were easy to recalculate. For sure UXP has a problem and there is a lot of cache they should drop and that never gets dropped, otherwise it would not seems normal to everyone that a session is supposed to get slower and slower. and that you hould just upgrad your RAM. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041220-00/?p=36943
  17. RamonUn
    April release with latest version of MPlayer build with latest ffmpeg: https://github.com/RamonUnch/MPlayer-Ringo-builds/releases/download/v2023.04.08/MPlayer.Ringo.2023-04-08.ffmpeg.N-110187-g2133cadfcf.gcc-12.2.0.7z
  18. RamonUn
    There are indeed no more official pale-moon builds for XP newer than 26.5 but the whole point of this thread is to talk about all the unofficial builds that are based on latest Pale Moon, and also PaleMoon27 for XP, And some of those builds are compatible with SSE1 cpu as well.
  19. RamonUn
    Actually it is not reproducible with palefill, and this is because of PerformanceObserver, so setting dom.enable_performance_observer;true fixes the issue. I was keeping it disabled because it cost performances and my PC is already quite slow on GitHub, I think I will keep it enabled now.
  20. RamonUn
    MyPal68 requires a "modern" CPU (SSE2 able or beter IIRC), Plus it will only run stable if you have Windows XP SP3 In theory it should not require you to install Visual Studio 2017 runtime because it already contains all dlls in its directory. So in short if you got Windows XP SP3 + Pentium4 or later it *should* run. then again I just say *should*
  21. RamonUn
    I can confirm that the issue I had on New Moon/Serpent/IceApe-UXP is also reproducible with the latest official PaleMoon release 32.1.0, I tested on Windows 7 with a different PC and again with a clean profile. So it is not a bug specific to Roy's UXP fork. Maybe I should report this to the palemoon forums? I ma not sure it is worth the time creating an account just for this. Here is the image showing that the comment 1 gets repeated after posting comment 2:
  22. RamonUn
    I have an issue with the latest NM28 as well as IceApe-UXP on github: Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a clean profile 2) Log In to your GitHub account 3) Go to a random repository or create a new one that you do not care about. 4) Create a new issue, with an initial comment 5) Add one more comment to the issue, 6) When you add a second comment, you will see comment 1 repeat, If you keep adding comments,it will repeat even more. Example before hitting Comment on comment 2: Then after having Hit comment: You can see that the comment 1 gets repeated. This can be quite annoying when there are already many answers. Can any one else reproduce the issue? I have not tried Serpent yet? I also yet have to try the official palemoon I am running the latest builds with Windows Server 2003 (NT 5.2.3790) EDIT: I can confirm that the same happens with the latest build of Serpent
  23. RamonUn
    I was not aware about this option before @UCyborg mentioned it, I tried it for a day and now and it works fine. I do think it makes GitHub significantly slower so I might disable it later, plus it seems to leek memory?. I kinda understand Moonchild's objection but I think it should still be enabled by default, because when you ship a Browser, Web compatibility should be of first priority, then it should be listed in the *Privacy options*, because it does cause privacy issues, If you have a GitHub account and are logged in this is not a concern at all as all your activities are already perfectly known by GitHub.
  24. RamonUn
    ... For starters, you shouldn't do that (when testing), as palefill conflicts/interferes with native WC: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=237202#p237202 This is true if the point is to actually test the new palemoon but in theory palefill will not polyfill anything that is already implemented by the browser. So you can safely use palefill with webcompobnents enabled and benefit from the extra polyfills. Some things on GH still need extra polyfilling to work properly for example if you have no palefill you wont get the PerformanceObserver ad thus no auto completion after typing # or @. So there are still some benefits with palefill, but they are not major and they cost significant performances. hopefully things will stabilize quickly but even then palefill will still be useful.
  25. RamonUn
    Last stable release Mplayer 1.5 with ffmpeg 4.4 https://github.com/RamonUnch/MPlayer-Ringo-builds/releases/download/v1.5/MPlayer.Ringo.2022.stable.1.5.ffmpeg.4.4.7z
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