My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[AstroSkipper]

2 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

There are animations here at MSFN?  Never seen any, that I recall.

Aside from the .png emoji's, which my Proxomitron config allows to animate for three cycles (at least, that's my default for all gif's, would have to look at the config or download one of the emoji .png's to research further).

When the CSS code for animations and transitions is active, you can't close some popups on MSFN. For example, the popup to see your recent notifications.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

38 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

From now on, I'll toggle all my CSS files via this script. 

Now you're getting the hang of it!  I toggle CSS via a Proxomitron "menu" added to every website.

 

Toggling CSS was also a "button" I added to my GreenBrowser back when GreenBrowser was my default.

 

If you want to experiment with other methods, and as I was tracking down the "real source" for my versions of animation-killers, I noticed that ebay.de is specifically cited in this Greasy Fork script (but as an EXCLUDE which would need REMOVED).

Edited November 15, 2024 by NotHereToPlayGames

[NotHereToPlayGames]

34 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

From now on, I'll toggle all my CSS files via this script.

You may find that this will not "play well" with any web site that has dropdown-menu navigation sections.

[UCyborg]

On 11/14/2024 at 1:00 AM, j7n said:

In what situations would hardware acceleration make a significant difference? Most normal, even rather complex webpages are rendered once and stay like that as they are scrolled. You'd have to have some elements overlayed onto one another with transparency and moving, or being constantly refreshed as if they were moving, or a video. There probably are such. But what are any concrete examples where h/w acceleration makes the CPU usage noticeably go down?

It can speed up painting a bit and smooths out animations, also scrolling, most apparent when you auto-scroll. It also has an effect on font appearance (maybe there are combinations of obscure about:config settings where it doesn't, but haven't really dug into it).

Videos are good example where CPU usage can be significantly reduced. Difference between Task Manager looks like this in my case between HW accel on and off on a 1080p video on YouTube (Pale Moon).

Also on my PC there's a night and day difference on Street View on Google Maps, at least on Chromium, it's still laggy s*** on UXP browsers. Maybe my dream PC fares better with that.

Edited November 15, 2024 by UCyborg

[roytam1]

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20241116-3219d2d-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20241116-3219d2d-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z

source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom

IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20241116-3219d2d-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod-ia32.7z

source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32

NM28XP build:
Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241116-d849524bd-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z
Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241116-d849524bd-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod-ia32.7z
Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241116-d849524bd-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod-sse.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20241116-d849524bd-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z

Official UXP changes picked since my last build:
- Issue #2305 Part 1: Add support for hasIndices to RegExpFlags (/d) (47ef1701b3)
- Issue #2305 Part 2: Support .indices in match result template objects (845d36d582)
- Issue #2305 Part 3a: Pass ResultTemplateKind through CreateRegExpMatchResult (2d8696c4fe)
- Issue #2305 Part 3b: Create .indices and .indices.groups (6dbe2de6db)
- Issue #2305 Part 3c: Merge repeated loops over MatchPairs (a382c2aa66)
- Issue #2305 Part 4: Check for failure when getting RegExp match result template (1878228db7)

No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build.

No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build.

Update Notice:
- You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases.

* Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

[roytam1]

New build of BOC/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20241116-7bda12e7-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z
BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20241116-7bda12e7-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z

source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom

* Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15.

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New build of HBL-UXP for XP!

Test binary:
IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20241116-id-656ea98-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z
IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20241116-id-656ea98-ia-93af9a0-uxp-6db7856f7f-xpmod.7z

source repo (excluding UXP):
https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild
https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

[roytam1]

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP!
* Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual.
** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions.

Test binary:
Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20241116-49ae958fb-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20241116-49ae958fb-xpmod.7z

repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55

Repo changes:
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 1: Add support for hasIndices to RegExpFlags (/d) (47ef1701) (d6bf9dfce)
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 2: Support .indices in match result template objects (845d36d5) (3e5fca5ad)
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 3a: Pass ResultTemplateKind through CreateRegExpMatchResult (2d8696c4) (f6e8c84b7)
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 3b: Create .indices and .indices.groups (6dbe2de6) (dd1d93cf8)
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 3c: Merge repeated loops over MatchPairs (a382c2aa) (ceb33f611)
- import from UXP: Issue #2305 Part 4: Check for failure when getting RegExp match result template (1878228d) (49ae958fb)

[UCyborg]

Am I the only one that feels there aren't really any "good", "normal" browsers left?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

GreenBrowser, Sleipnir, and SlimBrowser used to all be very good to me.  I actually still use GreenBrowser, but more for debug purposes when tracking down web site issues spanning different browser engines.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Total YUCK on the newest Sleipnir!  Been away from it for several years.  Wow!  Total YUCK.

[UCyborg]

I don't even know what I want anymore. I keep thinking I should use something else, but then it's totally alien and I come back. Maybe I really should buy new PC and try to distract myself with newer games or something.

[j7n]

The new XenForo software is spreading. Now it's not just motorcycle boards. It causes 100% CPU for me in New Moon until the script is stopped and the cookie prompt stays obstructing some of the view.

My Windows 2008 partition is only 24 GB with great room to spare.

https://www.techsupportforum.com/threads/solved-extremely-bloated-c-drive.610414/

[UCyborg]

You mean the new version of XenForo? Any example?

https://forums.ross-tech.com/index.php uses XenForo, but doesn't have cookies popups. These are inredibly annoying, especially on mobile devices. How many times it happened I couldn't even dismiss it while it blocked everything in sight...

[Sampei.Nihira]

9 hours ago, j7n said:

The new XenForo software is spreading. Now it's not just motorcycle boards. It causes 100% CPU for me in New Moon until the script is stopped and the cookie prompt stays obstructing some of the view.

My Windows 2008 partition is only 24 GB with great room to spare.

https://www.techsupportforum.com/threads/solved-extremely-bloated-c-drive.610414/

Do you mean the Consent Cookie Popups?

Strange.

Do you use the right list of filters?

[Sampei.Nihira]

2 hours ago, UCyborg said:

You mean the new version of XenForo? Any example?

https://forums.ross-tech.com/index.php uses XenForo, but doesn't have cookies popups. These are inredibly annoying, especially on mobile devices. How many times it happened I couldn't even dismiss it while it blocked everything in sight...

I have studied a combination of DNS-level filter lists (as far as possible) effective in mobile browsers without extensions.
But this topic is OT in this thread........