Software compatible with Windows Vista Extended Kernel

[Dixel]

On 7/23/2024 at 8:12 AM, yoltboy01 said:

Latest Firefox works on Windows 7 with VxKex HOWEVER it crashes a lot, especially when you download a file.

What if you disable "safe" downloading or whatever they call it in Firefox?

[K4sum1]

On 12/13/2021 at 11:10 AM, TSNH said:

r3dfox 128 Current version (Firefox fork by @win32 (extended kernel author) download)

smh my head

[TSNH]

3 hours ago, K4sum1 said:

smh my head

That's what happens when you copy-paste to avoid writing 3 words the second time and (don't) realize everything else is wrong

[mjd79]

I don't have time for thorough testing, but FF 137 x64 compiled with patches by e3kskoy7wqk
https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7 works  runs on Vista with the extended kernel dated March 9, 2023. It only requires the api-ms-core-win-synch-l1-2-0.dll library from Windows 10 (I used from compilation 10240) and osver.ini, which in my case looks like this.

[C:\Users\(username)\Desktop\firefox-137.0.en-US.win64\firefox\firefox.exe]
enabled=1
Win7SuperVerFix=1
MajorVersion=6
MinorVersion=1
BuildNumber=7601
CSDVersion=Service Pack 1
PlatformID=2

Of course type your path to the Firefox file, you can also type [global] instead

Without this dll library, the browser crashes when loading with 100% CPU usage, and without osver.ini it won't display any text correctly.

Edit: No playback of any videos works.

Edited February 25 by mjd79

[Karla Sleutel]

Could you try the same with Brave or CatsXP?

[mjd79]

I'll check it out, but it seems that it will be hard for me to run anything above Chromium 110. D. Draker as far as I know ran Chromium up to version 125. BTW. that FF 137 has the same problem as FF 130+ on XP with One Core API, that is, any codec like VP9 or H264 does not work on YT. Perhaps someone can solve it, if not, I'll wait to see what the OCA developer does about it.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, mjd79 said:

ran Chromium up to version 125

Here ( link ) is a v127 that is supposed to work on Vista with the extended kernel.  I do not run Vista or extended kernels but I have ran this browser in Win10.

In fact, it actually dethroned my Official Ungoogled v122 on Win10 because it scores higher on "not everybody trusts" benchmark scores.

On my system, Official Ungoogled v122 scores 156 thru 162, this v127 scores 204 thru 211 [Speedometer 2.1].

I've since found an even better ungoogled fork v131 ( link ) [scores 208 thru 214, basically within margin of error but is a "newer" engine] but that one is "OT" for this thread, just citing for reference.

Edited February 26 by NotHereToPlayGames

[D.Draker]

On 2/26/2025 at 6:14 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Here ( link ) is a v127 that is supposed to work on Vista with the extended kernel. 

It doesn't work,,,

And yes, I tried with the latest EX Kernel.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Don't blame me, blame the author for claiming that it does.  

 

[D.Draker]

18 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Don't blame me, blame the author for claiming that it does.  

 

It says, it allegedly works on Windows 7 using the Ex. Kernel "Vx". And Vista is an absolutely different OS.

And we can safely assume it won't work on a bare Windows 8.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

My bad.  I saw the file name "VxKex" and that threw me.