Mcinwwl Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 There might be old corporate websites that still relies on Silverlight, and as long as M$ officially provides support, they need to update... beware corporate lawyers, rarrrr! Last year I had to open Internet Explorer for once, as I needed to view some boring corporate broadcast and only IE was capable of displaying it - technology relied on Silverlight
dencorso Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 11 hours ago, Mathwiz said: Edit 2: Downloaded the new Silverlight to my XP VM and installed it. Does anyone know of a good Silverlight test page? Sure! http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html
sdfox7 Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 6 hours ago, Mcinwwl said: There might be old corporate websites that still relies on Silverlight, and as long as M$ officially provides support, they need to update... beware corporate lawyers, rarrrr! Last year I had to open Internet Explorer for once, as I needed to view some boring corporate broadcast and only IE was capable of displaying it - technology relied on Silverlight This explains why I couldn’t get it to work in Chrome 49 on XP. I have had Silverlight installed for years but I didn’t realize that Silverlight only works in Internet Explorer!
Mcinwwl Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 It worked on older browser version having support for NPAPI plugins,. At work I have Windows 10 workstation, so Firefox 53+, newest chrome, or Edge are the competitors, and when I received my computer, all were too new to support Silverlight
Mathwiz Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, dencorso said: Sure! http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html Interesting. Runs fine in IE8, Advanced Chrome (NPAPI support restored), and NM 28, but not Seamonkey 2.49.5 or Basilisk/UXP (neither official on Win 7 nor Roytam's build on XP). On those I just get prompted to install Silverlight Anyway, it's clearly XP-compatible. Edited January 17, 2019 by Mathwiz
dencorso Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, Mathwiz said: Interesting. Runs fine in IE8 and NM 28, but not Basilisk/UXP (neither official on Win 7 nor Roytam's build on XP). On those I just get prompted to install Silverlight Strange! It runs OK on Basilisk/UXP (Roytam1's on XP SP3) for me on three different installations (in different machines). Are you sure you've activated the Silverlight Plugin? Does your Basilisk/UXP installations even list the Plugin?
Mathwiz Posted January 17, 2019 Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) Yes, it's there and set to Always Activate. Edit: Turning off e10s didn't help. It runs in Safe Mode though, so it's probably conflicting with some add-on. Edit 2: Found it! It was Canvas Blocker. Edited January 17, 2019 by Mathwiz
luweitest Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 IMO This project is more suitable to be a wiki page, and only contains software that has stopped WinXP release, i.e. only "LAST" version, not latest. Add some : R, 3.4.4 ThrottleStop, 8.60 sigcheck, 2.30 FoxitReader, 9.01 FileZilla, 3.9.0.1 FileZilla_Server, 0.9.43 Wireshark, 1.12.13 adb, 1.0.32 Sandboxie, 5.22 VirtualBox, 5.2.22 gajim, 0.16.9 1
Tamris Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 3 hours ago, luweitest said: VirtualBox, 5.2.22 From VBox's download page: Quote Please also use version 5.2 if you still need support for 32-bit hosts, as this has been discontinued in 6.0. Version 5.2 will remain supported until July 2020. So it will most likely still get updates for the next 18 months. 1
dencorso Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 BTW, what's the last version of SRWare Iron that works on up-to-date XP SP3?
Tamris Posted January 27, 2019 Posted January 27, 2019 Well, the download page on their site offered me version 49 so most likely nothing newer will run on XP.
Bersaglio Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 WinRAR 5.70 Beta-1 has been released today (confirmed working on Windows XP SP3) Link to English version: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar57b1.exe What's new in latest version: https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm So WinRAR 5.70 Final will still be compatible with XP SP3
NojusK Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Bersaglio said: WinRAR 5.70 Beta-1 has been released today (confirmed working on Windows XP SP3) Link to English version: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar57b1.exe What's new in latest version: https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm So WinRAR 5.70 Final will still be compatible with XP SP3 Atleast WinRAR has a place of love for xp
aviv00 Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 Im just wondering what if wine for linux was working also on windows xp will be able to run any new app then ?
FranceBB Posted January 30, 2019 Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) Wine is pretty much based on XP, but it has recently been updated to support some Vista and 7 functions, but it's far from being a fully functional Windows 7 alternative. Anyway, Wine doesn't run on XP, but the project is open source and led me to the integration of part of its call in various ways, like whenever I have to backport a programme. There's also project made by Samuel that it's called One Core API that integrates several Wine implementations and it's a custom kernel, but of course it's far from being perfect and although it provides some useful implementations, it's far from being a fully functional compatibility layer (and I can't even link it here). Anyway, the point is: Wine doesn't run on XP, but even if it would, it wouldn't be like having Win 7 and complex programmes wouldn't work anyway. Edited January 30, 2019 by FranceBB
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