My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[modnar]

On 8/28/2025 at 5:42 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

 

You only cite "Serpent 52.9".  I use Serpent 52.9 *daily* (for texting from home computer as I do not own a phone!).

Therefore, I feel compelled to report, as a *daily* user of "Serpent 52.9", that I do not get this small save-file window.

I personally use the below version as I have always had issues with SESSION-RESTORE not working in anything "newer".

I have not tried any "newer" version in the last couple of month or so because doing so has somewhat become a "waste of my time" as SESSION-RESTORE issues are never in the changelog!

Serpent 52.9 2023-07-31 "about" pic

Thank you for reply. I use the latest Serpent 52.9 (my main browser) and today it works fine.

I guess it had nothing to do with Serpent now because I often run experiments with FSFilters on my machine to find the most optimum configuration and it must have been the filter cascade that triggered that or maybe not - root certificates might also have contributed: 28.8. are the newest and I did have the latest when I experienced this.

Edited Saturday at 09:16 AM by modnar

[VistaLover]

On 8/29/2025 at 5:49 AM, Mathwiz said:

I can log in successfully using r3dfox (Win 7+ only;

Slight correction: Vista+ only, for quite some time now  ...

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox

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r3dfox is a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista & 7.

[VistaLover]

On 8/26/2025 at 3:38 PM, kuja killer said:

i tried both the "sse" version you did, the non sse and the ia32 - although i have no idea what the difference is between them all

Different builds exist based on the capacities/age of the processor (CPU) on the machine the browser build is to be launched; if your CPU is archaic and doesn't support the SSE instructions set, use the -ia32 variant (sometimes referred to as "-nosse"); if your CPU is somewhat newer and does support SSE (but not SSE2), use the -sse variant; if your CPU does support SSE2 (and later), then you should use the "normal" build, whose filename ends in just "-xpmod.7z"...

PS: Not relevant for XP users, but if you're on Win7+ x64 OS and want to use roytam1's NM28_x64 fork (you may have your reasons ), there's a fourth (64-bit, only) build variant that's meant for CPUs supporting AVX2 ; filename ending in "-w7plus-avx2.7z"...

So, now you know  ...

[jaclaz]

It seems that - starting today - Discourse based forums are not anymore accessible (with Palemoon/Newmoon 27.9.6).

Is there a (new) version (of NewMoon/Serpent/whatever)  that still works (running on XP 32 bit)?

 

[raddy]

44 minutes ago, jaclaz said:

It seems that - starting today - Discourse based forums are not anymore accessible (with Palemoon/Newmoon 27.9.6).

On *moon 28.x.x,  forums using Discourse have not been working for a long time for me.

 

49 minutes ago, jaclaz said:

Is there a (new) version (of NewMoon/Serpent/whatever)  that still works (running on XP 32 bit)?

Try supermium or another chromium.

[jaclaz]

35 minutes ago, raddy said:

On *moon 28.x.x,  forums using Discourse have not been working for a long time for me.

They needed this user script:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/page/203/#findComment-1258499

but until yesterday they worked just fine with it.

Maybe there is another (new) userscript needed.

Will try supermium.

[raddy]

1 hour ago, jaclaz said:

They needed this user script:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/page/203/#findComment-1258499

Wow, ublock filter work for me (new moon current version), userscript - no, thanks.

[VistaLover]

9 hours ago, raddy said:

ublock filter works for me (new moon current version),

I've made the uBO-legacy custom filter even more generic, because I've come across Discourse-based forums where the browser detecting script wasn't served from within an "assets" subfolder  ; so, the version I'm currently using is: 

! Discourse-based forums
||*/browser-detect-$script,important

 

11 hours ago, jaclaz said:

but until yesterday they worked just fine with it.

Maybe there is another (new) userscript needed.

The now broken  userscript just told Discourse's browser-feature-detection script that "CSS aspect-ratio (Fx-89+)" IS supported in UXP-based browsers; maybe Discourse  are now looking for something new entirely or, besides CSS aspect-ratio, for additional (recent) features that the userscript (and, alas, UXP) doesn't support... A very savvy person would have to dissect the new version of Discourse's script, identify what new things they search for now and author a new userscript... 

Discourse, in March, issued the following announcement: 

https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-july-2025/358131

so it's probably one or more of the new requirements there that broke things; FWIW, relative color syntax & subgrid aren't supported in UXP, probably the same applies to import-maps ...

Recent upstream forum thread about Discourse's shenanigans : 

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=32600

Last post there is from Aug 13th, though...

 

[Karla Sleutel]

On 8/31/2025 at 2:23 AM, jaclaz said:

Is there a (new) version (of NewMoon/Serpent/whatever)  that still works (running on XP 32 bit)?

In the whatever category.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/183495-mypal-68/

[Karla Sleutel]

On 8/30/2025 at 4:32 PM, VistaLover said:

Slight correction: Vista+ only, for quite some time now  ...

Slight correction: Vista+ without the extended kernel for quite some time now  ...

[raddy]

3 hours ago, Karla Sleutel said:

In the whatever category.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/183495-mypal-68/

Discourse? On MyPal? Seriously?