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Compatibility Mods :: NVIDIA graphics driver patches for Windows XP x64 :: Author blueclouds8666

2025-10-20T11:10:27+00:00

I have recently been researching some of the problems and limitations that NVIDIA graphics drivers have under Windows XP, and found several community-developed fixes publicly available on the internet. Each of them come handy for their specific purpose, but are only available separately and for different driver versions. I realized there are certain scenarios in which having them combined into a single driver package is necessary, so that's why, after some reverse engineering and assembly reprogramming, I made a combined driver patch myself. Here is what it includes:

- The pixel clock limit of 165 MHz, which restricts all HDMI connections to the HDMI 1.0 specification, has been removed, allowing for higher resolutions such as 1920x1080 at 120Hz, 2560x1440 at 75Hz and 2560x1600 at 60Hz. A pixel clock limitation of 340 MHz, as per the HDMI 1.3 specification, still applies even if your card has HDMI 2.0 capable ports. This specific limitation has not been overcome yet. Credits for the original patch go to Yas [1][2].

- The system crashes caused by plugging multiple digital displays, or by plugging an analog and a digital display, have been fixed. This bug is exclusive to Windows XP x64, so it is not needed for 32-bit Windows XP systems. Credits for the original patch go to tal.aloni.il [3].

Both patches have been applied over driver version 355.98, as this is the last one to have proper monitor detection for high resolution displays (required for setting custom resolutions and HDCP detection), while this is also the last driver version to have properly working hardware resolution scaling.

In order to get it set up on your system, install the original NVIDIA 355.98 driver package, then reboot into safe mode and replace C:\WINDOWS\system32\nv4_disp.dll and C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\nv4_mini.sys with their patched counterparts. You can grab a copy of them at the link below.

https://icedrive.net/s/hkvi27yWG718536avY8yPSbR83FW

NOTE: These drivers are provided as is, with no applicable warranty or support. The resulting software is purely experimental, as such, it may exhibit deficiencies or errors, or may not even function properly for the specified purpose.

[1]: http://wp.xin.at/archives/5616
[2]: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=903981
[3]: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/gtx-960-bsod-whenever-hdtv-is-connected.253135/

Compatibility Mods :: NVIDIA patched driver installers for Windows 7 and 8 :: Author blueclouds8666

2025-10-20T11:20:18+00:00

Some time ago, I developed my own modded installers for NVIDIA drivers so I could use them for my personal systems. Eventually, it was clear to me that other people online were having the same issues as me, so I ended up sharing them with some. Now that NVIDIA has finally discontinued driver updates for legacy operating systems, this is a good moment for me to share them in this forum, so more people can find them if ever needed. All of my driver installers are labeled based on the changes that were applied to them:

- sha1mod: all the artificial limitations imposed by the installer have been removed, so it would no longer require the SHA-2 system update (KB4474419) or an active internet connection for its own certificate validation. This allows you to install NVIDIA drivers and all of its components (GeForce Experience, ShadowPlay, Optimus, HD Audio) on a clean and fully isolated Windows 7 SP1 install without any kind of system updates applied. In order to achieve this, I had to downgrade the installer and control panel components to prior versions, on top of other minor adjustments. The driver binary itself remains untouched, without a valid SHA-1 signature, so you will have to disable driver signature enforcement at the operating system to get it running.

- rtxmod: all the artificial limitations imposed by the driver binary have been removed so that any RTX 30 series cards can run over Windows 8 or 8.1. This specific binary mod was discovered by someone else, I only adapted it to a wider selection of driver versions and packaged it on a more convenient installer. The resulting driver is signed with a test certificate so Windows 8 wouldn't refuse to load it despite of driver signature enforcement being already disabled.

All of these are available for driver versions 466.77, 472.12 and 475.14. Additionally, NVIDIA Quadro driver variants are available for those who have a workstation card. Despite their filename, NVIDIA Quadro drivers also work as intended with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. You can grab a copy of them at the link below.

https://icedrive.net/s/x3iRyTB1TVZX4NQaTxB6z13XZvSu

NOTE: These drivers are provided as is, with no applicable warranty or support. The resulting software is purely experimental, as such, it may exhibit deficiencies or errors, or may not even function properly for the specified purpose.

Compatibility Mods :: NVIDIA patched driver installers for Windows 7 and 8 :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-20T20:33:56+00:00

Useful, thanks

Research Network :: Firewall program for manually allowing or blocking program network access :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T19:01:02+00:00

Those are probably fine, but I want to be able to do something like this, and I don't think any of those can do that.

svchost firewall rule.png

I combined it all into one rule with a portset. I have it set to only allow UDP out on ports 53, 67, 500, and 4500. Any IP is allowed since all those ports are used for is connecting to the internet (DHCP) and VPN (IKEv2). Maybe I could manually set whatever and not need to allow 53 or 67 on desktop, but ehh.

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General Software & Hardware :: CRT step by step buyers guide + tips and resources. :: Author Dimitris Balafoutis

2025-10-05T09:44:48+00:00

Do you want to buy and use a CRT? Well, You've come to the right post.

This is a step by step CRT buyer's guide written by a CRT user for future CRT users.

STEP 1: find space
Make sure you have enough space for it, as CRTs can get pretty big and space-taking.

STEP 2: Find a place to get a CRT
Thrift Stores or local auction sites (e.g Vendora for Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece) are most likely the best option for you. You could check on e-Bay but be very careful, as you can often get scammed there. You can also try asking friends, colleagues or schools if they have one they could sell or giveaway to you.

STEP 3: Locate the best CRT you can find
If you have multiple options to pick, here are some things to compare:
-screen size (inches)
-dot Pitch (in mm, will determine screen sharpness)
-Screen curvature (curved or flat screen) Flat screen is better, but more expensive and uncommon.
-Colors
-Brightness
-Price (if its not a giveaway and its for sale)
TIP: Make sure you get a CRT from a known brand like LG or Sony. Avoid brands like Atari or Apple, as they usually have proprietary connectivity and/or are monochrome.

STEP 4: Test the CRT and avoid rookie mistakes.
You should test the monitor before buying. Power it on, and if it shows a clear screen, its probably good. If possible, test with a computer.
IMPORTANT: Its usually normal if the CRT makes cracking or hissing noises on power on, especially if its been a long time since its gotten power. Therefore doesn't indicate that its a non-working unit.

STEP 5: Final decision and setup
Make your decision and buy the CRT you've found the best. While you're at it, buy a good quality DisplayPort-to-VGA, HDMI-to-VGA, or DVI-to-VGA adapter if your computer doesn't have a VGA port, or else you wont be able to use it, as most CRTs use VGA only.
-Carefully place the CRT on the selected space.
-Plug it into power (if you're gonna use it on an AT-style computer, plug it in the power supply.
-Plug your CRT into your PC with the display cable.
-Now you should see display after turning your PC on.
-Now the CRT will most likely flicker (wrong refresh-rate to resolution ratio) and have a wrong resolution. Use your GPU Driver utility or CRU to find the best resolution-to-refresh rate combination (CRU will find it automatically) and then restart your GPU driver.
-Good to go!

I hope you wont have issues on the way.
If you have any issue in step 5 or want me to help you compare some monitors, feel free to reply down below, DM me directly from eclipse or from dimitrisbalafoutis@xmpp.chat/dimitriosss@escargot.chat or mail me at dimitris.balafoutis@gmx.com.

General Software & Hardware :: BKED: An Editor to the (hard) Past :: Author flatrute

2025-10-06T04:49:11+00:00

This is a repost of my own thread on MattKC's forum. As Matt wants to eventually replace phpBB with something more suitable, I decided to post it here for archival purpose.
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As of the time I am typing this it is Lunar New Year Eve and I am still fighting my laziness but here we are arthurDance

BKED, shorts for Bách Khoa EDitor (Polytechnic Editor), is a word processor made by Doctor Quách Tuấn Ngọc first released in HE 11987. The story goes that after he went back from France in HE 11985, he saw the need of a program to help him making textbooks on programming for his fellow country. Having knowledge of developing on various platform such as DEC PDP-11, Intel SDK-80, Intel SDK-85 and Texas Instrument TMS-320, he went on to create BKED in x86 assembly and Pascal which can be run in graphics mode on a wide range of imported XT and AT clones with various type of cards form Hercules to EGA. The program was sold at the price of 1,500,000 VND which was absurd at the time. Nonetheless, it got sold pretty well with the biggest buyers being national ministries. He also sold around 120,000 copies of manual of the program. The program had helped the Ministry of Education finished report of a meeting right after it ends instead of waiting for about 5 days and moved away from making mimeographs for middle schooling graduation tests. The program felt into obscurity in the mid HE 11990s after the increasing adoption of Windows and Office combined with new IMEs for the platform such as Vietkey and Unikey.

On HE 12016-05-08, the author shared his copy of version 6.4 to the public. The Google Drive link seems to require Google account login so here is a reupload of the ZIP file uploaded there for anyone who despise anything Google related:

Update HE 12024-03-29: The link has rotted. Good thing I reuploaded it here kcSmile

BKED.zip

bked source code lost confirmed.png

(Also it has been confirmed by the author that the source code of the program had been lost over time in one of his comments on his posts, which should make it a good target for decompilation Thuink)

bked splash.png

Upon launching the program, one is greeted with a splash screen to type in path of file to edit. The silver coloured box mostly tells about the program being a part of National Programme for Information Technology, supporting "ABC" character encoding which is a common name for VSCII and being made at the Information Technology faculty of Hanoi University of Science and Technology which is where the program name came from. Pressing Enter without typing anything gives you a menu to select the file instead.

bked file selection.png

(I used MS-DOS 6.2/V to run the program just since why not? pepeLaugh)

bked main.png

After choosing the file to edit (or in my case pressing Escape to create a new blank file) you are greeted with a default blue background white foreground pseudo-TUI with a horizon line at the bottom marking the end of the document.

bked editing.png

F9: toggle Vietnamese inputting
Ctrl-F9: Switch between Telex convention and "typewriter mode"
Alt-C: Open formatting menu
Ctrl+G: Insert math letters
Numpad 1-9, minus and plus: Insert table primitives
F2: Save
F4: Spell checking
Alt-X: Exit to DOS

The "UPPERCASE TEXT WITH DIACRITICS" formatting is interesting on its own. The VSCII character encoding standard defined 3 variants named VSCII-3 (commonly known under the name TCVN3 or simply as "ABC"), VSCII-2 and VSCII-1 with VSCII-2 being a superset of VSCII-3 and VSCII-1 being a superset of VSCII-2. While many European languages only need a couple precomposed characters to represent their languages, Vietnamese language requires 134 of such characters to cover all used combination of diacritics in both uppercase and lowercase which is not enough for the allocated extended ASCII codepoints. Therefore one could either violate ISO/IEC 2022 and replace some control codepoints with remaning unfit characters (as in VSCII-1), not bother with precomposed characters anymore and use a combining character encoding instead (as in Windows-1258) or (as in VSCII-3/TCVN3) input everything in lowercase and rely on programs handing such encoded text to use "uppercase fonts" on some part of the text instead YEP

There are more Word-like features such as tab alignment, margins, macros and printing but without a proper manual (The file Huongdan.pdf in the ZIP is only a partial scan of table of context of the manual book and getting one of its copies nowadays here in the Southern area is probably impossible) I could not demonstrate properly how featureful the program is FeelsBadMan Nonetheless I hope anyone who read this find it interesting and I will see you soon^tm baldiDance

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General Software & Hardware :: BKED: An Editor to the (hard) Past :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-06T04:54:26+00:00

It seems like the forum blocks uploading .zip files directly, though the cryptic "HTTP error" message threw me confused for a bit Anyway, are there more future-proof places to host those files? catbox.moe and pomf.lain.la both seem flaky for me.

General Software & Hardware :: BKED: An Editor to the (hard) Past :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T09:21:30+00:00

flatrute wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 04:49 This is a repost of my own thread on MattKC's forum. As Matt wants to eventually replace phpBB with something more suitable, I decided to post it here for archival purpose.

Didn't know they were doing it, sent a post over there about it now that I know.

flatrute wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 04:54 It seems like the forum blocks uploading .zip files directly, though the cryptic "HTTP error" message threw me confused for a bit Anyway, are there more future-proof places to host those files? catbox.moe and pomf.lain.la both seem flaky for me.

Not exactly. If a given file was blocked, the uploader would just outright tell you. The new server, even though it's been close to a year since I migrated to it, it still not perfect. File uploading is still broken, and I'm not quite sure how to fix it. Files over a certain size will fail to upload. For now I just use catbox.moe if I need something big uploaded. Or archive.org for something bigger.

General Software & Hardware :: BKED: An Editor to the (hard) Past :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-06T10:25:45+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 09:21 Didn't know they were doing it, sent a post over there about it now that I know.

I forgot that you have an account there as well

K4sum1 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 09:21 Not exactly. If a given file was blocked, the uploader would just outright tell you. The new server, even though it's been close to a year since I migrated to it, it still not perfect. File uploading is still broken, and I'm not quite sure how to fix it. Files over a certain size will fail to upload. For now I just use catbox.moe if I need something big uploaded. Or archive.org for something bigger.

catbox.moe it is. The file is around 3MB which is under your server's limit.

General Software & Hardware :: Clink - Windows CMD enhancements :: Author UCyborg

2025-09-28T23:19:17+00:00

https://github.com/chrisant996/clink

Auto-suggestions, completions, persistent history...Maybe old news for some, but it's new for me.

General Software & Hardware :: Clink - Windows CMD enhancements :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T09:15:55+00:00

The readme has a lot of modern software developeritis. So much that I'm discouraged from trying it. Like it gives me vibes that this has no way of working at all on anything pre-10.

General Software & Hardware :: Clink - Windows CMD enhancements :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-10T00:40:27+00:00

It should work on Windows 7.

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-11T20:53:58+00:00

AI is dumb, it hallucinates, it gives wrong answers, it gives non-sensical answers and generally has no idea what it's talking about.

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-11T21:35:21+00:00

AI is really nothing more than a PROGRAM.
And like all programs == JUNK IN, JUNK OUT.
But let's be frank, the JUNK IN portion of that equation is HUMAN INPUT.

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-12T07:57:22+00:00

AI is the future capitalists want it to be since it (eventually) removes the human aspects out of their money-making equations.

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-12T10:25:49+00:00

Have! Versus Have-Not!

YOU have the power to decide which one of those you thrive to be.

'nuf said... Maybe that comment will get me "censored", it wouldn't be my first, we have a biased political spectrum, "is what it is".

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-12T11:44:02+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025, 20:53 AI is dumb, it hallucinates, it gives wrong answers, it gives non-sensical answers and generally has no idea what it's talking about.

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025, 21:35 AI is really nothing more than a PROGRAM.
And like all programs == JUNK IN, JUNK OUT.

flatrute wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025, 07:57 AI is the future capitalists want it to be since it (eventually) removes the human aspects out of their money-making equations.

AI is about to rule the world and this is done by private companies which only look for profit and want you to think and to act like they want.
Think about that next time you want to use AI

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-12T12:23:41+00:00

No disagreement here.
But we already have all of that happening. Left and Right.
I don't use AI. Because it is BIASED.
I don't use Facebook or Twitter or X. Because they are BIASED.
One person's "fake news" is another person's "reality".
Has been for thousands of years.
It's a bit egotistical to think "our generation" is dealing with things that "other generations" didn't have to deal with.
Everything changes. Nothing changes.

General Software & Hardware :: AI is the future and why anti-AI rhetoric is deeply flawed :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-14T19:52:59+00:00

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/10/02/meta-to-use-your-ai-chats-to-give-you-targeted-ads-will-it-come-to-europe-and-can-you-opt-

General Software & Hardware :: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards for Vista/XP x64? :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T18:48:04+00:00

Yeah, it's just newer cards never got the drivers idk why. You can get 802.11ac on XP even and it works fine. However 8.1 the max is also 802.11ac. I don't know why WiFi is weirdly limited between Windows versions outside of maybe (probably) laziness on the WiFi card manufacturer.

General Software & Hardware :: Considering an OS update ; ideas welcomed... :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-10-04T13:41:37+00:00

Update, for the sake of completion : since it wasn't a very important matter - I'm not about to stop using Windows 7 on this rig anyway -, I've simply turned to Solution 1, managed to slap Windows 10 on top of the two existing OSes through old RAID drivers, effectively turning the machine into a triple boot one... which works well enough. Case closed !

General Software & Hardware :: Considering an OS update ; ideas welcomed... :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T04:55:52+00:00

8.1 often has the same connection issues as 7, so I think installing 10 or new hardware would be the only solutions.

Also I'd suggest building a NAS instead of having a RAID card in your main. I got tired of waiting for hard drives to spin up all the time in my main PC and slowing stuff down and so I built a NAS. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, just whatever you have laying around. (with a bunch of RAM (8+GB) because it uses a lot of RAM for whatever reason.)

General Software & Hardware :: Considering an OS update ; ideas welcomed... :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-10-06T16:02:12+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 04:55 8.1 often has the same connection issues as 7, so I think installing 10 or new hardware would be the only solutions.

Also I'd suggest building a NAS instead of having a RAID card in your main. I got tired of waiting for hard drives to spin up all the time in my main PC and slowing stuff down and so I built a NAS. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, just whatever you have laying around. (with a bunch of RAM (8+GB) because it uses a lot of RAM for whatever reason.)

Yes, 10 looked like the easiest solution in the long run. Not that I plan on using it a lot for now...
For the rest, I've never considered or configured a NAS, so I'd need to search a bit around for information. Do you mean that a network solution with only a single HDD constantly spinning (constantly or occasionally saving info elsewhere) would be more interesting ? Does your NAS cover all common security issues and allow for hot swap whenever (or if) your main HDD breaks ?
I've never really been looking for performance : more than backups, the main selling point of RAID 1 was the ability to swap hard drives in any case of trouble, including their deaths - effectively making that issue a trivial matter. I believe I didn't have to reinstall the OSes there for the past 15 or 20 years maybe, which feels great...

General Software & Hardware :: Considering an OS update ; ideas welcomed... :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T18:44:19+00:00

For me, I have my NAS running on like the cheapest hardware you can get, and it's pretty good. I have a RAID 5 of four drives resulting in 12TB total storage. RAID 5 basically means you don't get the capacity of one drive, but that one drive can fail and you can still recover from it. I have it set to spin down the drives when inactive because I don't need 24/7 access, and I can go even a whole day without needing to access my NAS. I don't think the NAS can access the wider web even though it's on my network, at least the last time I tried, it didn't work. I can swap in a new drive if one drive fails. However since it's RAID 5 only one drive can fail without losing data. RAID 6 is similar, but you lose the capacity of two drives, therefore up to two drives can fail and you can still recover from it.

General Software & Hardware :: Considering an OS update ; ideas welcomed... :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-10-16T20:19:34+00:00

Mmm... Okay, interesting. I knew about RAID 5's existence already, yet never came across that "NAS" terminology, as an amateur, while gathering information to build my rigs years ago... And yes, it seems indeed the best cheap solution for someone who'd want to secure a large amount of storage space. I don't need that on this retro-gaming setup - even half of 1TB would already be enough -, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks !

General Software & Hardware :: Modern AMD GPUs on NT 6.x is a mixed bag :: Reply by TylerTT

2025-10-18T16:42:38+00:00

TylerTT wrote: ↑06 Jan 2023, 00:24 Been getting the Windows 8.1 driver crashing since I upgraded from my RX 580 to my RX 6600 XT (

Came back to this after a little while. Exact same card, now black screens after installing the driver. Nice.

EDIT: turns out I just forgot to disable Resizable BAR lol it works now

General Software & Hardware :: Windows Movie maker 2.6 black screen issue on windows 10 :: Reply by ginger334

2025-10-25T19:59:09+00:00

Why nobody cares about this?

General Software & Hardware :: Windows Movie maker 2.6 black screen issue on windows 10 :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-25T20:12:47+00:00

I have no idea
It must be a driver issue or maybe some setting in WMM.

General Software & Hardware :: Windows Movie maker 2.6 black screen issue on windows 10 :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-25T22:52:50+00:00

Could be a codec issue, maybe?
I know I have to jump through some hoops to get "old" .wmv and .wma to work in modern players.
Seems that newer codecs disable some of the older codecs that are known to have "security holes".

General Software & Hardware :: Windows Movie maker 2.6 black screen issue on windows 10 :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-26T11:26:21+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 22:52 Could be a codec issue, maybe?

Yes, that too.
WMV is dead anyway, de facto.

Browsers :: Open source web browsers for older Windows versions :: Reply by luk3Z

2025-10-11T05:35:44+00:00

Adeii's builds (for example LibreWolf for W7 [137, 141, 142]): https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-14T19:54:30+00:00

Firefox 115.29 ESR is out:
https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/115.29.0esr/

Release notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.29.0/releasenotes/

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-14T22:11:14+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025, 19:54 Firefox 115.29 ESR is out:
https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/115.29.0esr/

Release notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.29.0/releasenotes/

I'm starting to wonder if I should revert to this on Windows 8, or stick with r3dFox. Some sites do work better on r3dFox 140 ESR, but updates are more timely and predictable on ESR 115.

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-14T23:08:02+00:00

JodyThornton wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025, 22:11 I'm starting to wonder if I should revert to this on Windows 8, or stick with r3dFox. Some sites do work better on r3dFox 140 ESR, but updates are more timely and predictable on ESR 115.

You can use both like I do

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-14T23:22:42+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025, 23:08You can use both like I do

I hear you. I'm more of a standardize and settle person though, selecting one utility to do the job. What issues do you still experience with v115?

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-15T11:03:49+00:00

JodyThornton wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025, 23:22 What issues do you still experience with v115?

I had 2 or 3 sites not working or partially working but actually not anymore. So no specific issues (I'm spoofing the user agent of latest Firefox version) but it's overall slower than R3dfox.

Browsers :: Extended support for Firefox 115 ESR :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-16T21:53:26+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025, 11:03 I had 2 or 3 sites not working or partially working but actually not anymore. So no specific issues but it's overall slower than R3dfox.

For the non-working sites, is it due to User-Agent blocking or unimplemented JavaScript functionalities? I know that one of the founders of Mozilla is still doing the former, old-school method to block scrapers rather than using something like Anubis as it looks basically like Hashcash for him. [citation needed]

Mobile Devices :: The phone industry is racist towards people with small hands :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-12T16:59:15+00:00

I've had Unihertz Jelly Max for over half-year. The two oddities I've encountered are USB functions other than charging stop working after a while, I found only reboot to bring them back and the other one having changing wallpaper for home screen background; if you have GUI colors set from background image, color changes terminates apps, apparently Android bug that dates couple versions back, so better stick with static color.

Interestingly, this phone charges when plugged to a computer even if computer is turned off. The old Xperia E3 wants working USB communication for charging to work.

Perhaps encountered issues are solved in Android 15 upgrade, but I'm anxious about upgrading. The other problems have to do with rooting and rooted users continue to be oppressed by app developers. I'm less inclined toward certain experiments because flash storage is huge and it wouldn't be practical to backup/restore everything. And everything has to be encrypted, on the old one, I could mount internal ext4 partitions on desktop Linux distro. Bleh...

Mobile Devices :: The phone industry is racist towards people with small hands :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-12T21:23:41+00:00

Okay, only due to UCyborg's reply did I even know that this "topic" was here.

My apologies, but I really do not like how words like "racist", "Nazi", "Islamophobia", "transphobia", "Xenophobia", "genocide", "fascist", "misinformation", the list is endless, gets thrown around so much that they NO LONGER really have any MEANING.

But I digress...

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Author Duke

2025-10-19T21:24:54+00:00

FYI with version 144 Firefox has dropped support for Android 5, 6 and 7 and also for 32-bit x86. Now the minimum required Android version is Android 8 Oreo:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/15/raising-the-minimum-android-version-for-firefox/

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-20T05:17:07+00:00

Which Android hardware nowadays still run on those Android versions? Malware filled Android TV set-top-boxes?

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-20T19:13:32+00:00

I had some otherwise really nicely working Samsung Tab S2 tablets that ran Firefox. I'll just download the final APK of Nightly, install it, and leave it at that. I figure I'll get a year out of those tablets

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-20T20:33:07+00:00

I have some 'old' devices too which are still working fine but are running Android 7 and won't update to anything higher.

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-21T01:56:08+00:00

I have a ton of Android phones collected, and a fair bit of them run 7. The Droid Razr M is a really cool one that is stuck on 7, but otherwise runs all the apps I'd need. Albeit it's a bit slow, but it's still completely usable.

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-23T20:29:52+00:00

Is Firefox even usable on 1 GB RAM devices? I only tried it few years ago and didn't like it, was too much of a resource hog.

Mobile Devices :: Firefox drops support for Android 5-6-7 :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-24T12:07:33+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 20:29 Is Firefox even usable on 1 GB RAM devices? I only tried it few years ago and didn't like it, was too much of a resource hog.

However, on a Samsung Tab S2 tablet with 3 GB of RAM, it was still very useful.

Gaming :: Alternative game stores and why you should use them :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-12T13:09:45+00:00

I have too many games on both...

Gaming :: Windows 7 and connection issues with GOG servers... :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T04:51:50+00:00

I had thought this would've been about GOG Galaxy not connecting since I fired up 1.2 for once in forever to download a game and it was a bit finicky and I had to restart it a couple times for it to work. Maybe that was just their servers being funny at the time idk.

I kinda stopped caring about achievements after I quit caring about Steam. I think at some point I knew GOG had achievements, but I had completely forgotten they did until I read this post.

Gaming :: Windows 7 and connection issues with GOG servers... :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-10-06T15:35:01+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 04:51 I had thought this would've been about GOG Galaxy not connecting since I fired up 1.2 for once in forever to download a game and it was a bit finicky and I had to restart it a couple times for it to work. Maybe that was just their servers being funny at the time idk.

Probably. I don't have issues with downloading anything through Galaxy for now. Just the Achievements gone missing... which, yes, isn't exactly the end of the world, but I wondered if there was a way to help with that.

Gaming :: Windows 7 and connection issues with GOG servers... :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T18:50:30+00:00

What I had meant (I probably should've been more specific) was that the library was broken, so I couldn't get to the point where I could start downloading the game until I restarted the client a few times.

Gaming :: Windows 7 and connection issues with GOG servers... :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-10-16T20:40:43+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025, 18:50 What I had meant (I probably should've been more specific) was that the library was broken, so I couldn't get to the point where I could start downloading the game until I restarted the client a few times.

Oh, okay ! Well, Galaxy itself may behave a bit weirdly from time to time : I've noticed warnings about "Cloud Save Sync failed due to heavy load" in a few rare situations, but I don't know if they're due to Galaxy's shortcomings or GOG's issues with its servers. It's a good idea to check the offline installers whenever you're having trouble with a game - any kind of trouble - through Galaxy : if you can access your library and download a game's installer through your usual browser, it's probably just a detail about the client. So just install it the old school way, then use the "Scan and import folders" function - yes, even in v1.2 - to add it to the Galaxy's interface afterwards.
Hey, it's still branded as "Beta" even after six years of updates ! At least GOG's staff acknowledge that it still needs improvement, continue to invest in it, and usually answer quite fast in case of troubles.
Also, library updates seem sometimes a bit capricious. I never ran into such troubles personally, but some people complain about having this kind of access issues (broken library, no downloading, etc.) whenever newer items are updated shortly after release dates. Everything seems to be quickly solved - else the common user would be more vocal about it ! -, but it's probably a good practice to expect the usual potential crashes if you're a player keen on playing the latest hits right around their release day...

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-14T21:18:15+00:00

MS keeps waging war on local accounts.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/10/07/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-to-require-microsoft-account-internet-during-oobe-tested/

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-14T21:37:01+00:00

My newest laptop is only 1.5 yrs old and it came with Win11 24Hx.

I know that for reinstalling it, all I had to do to install without an MS Account is Shift->Function->F10 (Home) at the "Let's Connect" screen to open a command prompt window, enter ncpa.cpl, DISABLE the wi-fi, then enter shutdown /r /t 0, and then when the install resumed it DID NOT SEE A NETWORK AVAILABLE so it ONLY THEN presented a "I don't have internet" link on the "Let's Connect" screen, click that link and it lets you install WITHOUT an MS Account.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-14T23:03:57+00:00

Looks like it's going to be harder and harder:
https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

Time to switch to Linux

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-14T23:25:21+00:00

The randomly named user mentioned in that article has always been able to be manually entered.

At the "Let's Connect" screen, again use Shift->Function->F10 (Home) to open a command prompt window and enter sysdm.cpl to access System Properties then click Change to access Rename Computer.

TO H#LL WITH LINUX Been there, done that, ain't ever found a d@mn one worth keeping around. "To each their own."

Microsoft isn't as smart as the folks that find the workarounds.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WORKAROUNDS.
Especially for those of us that use unattended answer files and debloat Win *BEFORE* it lands on the hard drive.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-15T19:07:05+00:00

Typical Linux distro at least doesn't come with fucked up GUI out-of-box. Jumping through all these hoops, what's the point? Windows was supposed to be user friendly OS.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-15T19:23:31+00:00

"Agree to disagree."

I have sat my GRANDPARENTS in front of Windows and in front of Linux.
Whether the Linux Fan Boys will like to admit it or not, my GRANDPARENTS can EVENTUALLY find their way around WINDOWS.

Sorry, SAD BUT TRUE!

Linux is *NOT* for everyone. Plain and simple.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-15T19:31:06+00:00

Though sure, if it weren't for Microsoft including SOLITAIRE games, my grandparents would have given up on Windows also.
Maybe that's the sheer GENIUSNESS of Microsoft, that they were smart enough to know if they didn't include SOLITAIRE then "old farts" would never use their product.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-15T22:18:07+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025, 19:07 Typical Linux distro at least doesn't come with fucked up GUI out-of-box. Jumping through all these hoops, what's the point? Windows was supposed to be user friendly OS.

I guess your comment kind of confuses me.
Mainly because I AGREE WITH IT.

Vista's default green and blue whatever it's supposed to be desktop.
XP's green grass and blue sky.
10's "window", 11's "rose".

In my view, WINDOWS NINETY FIVE was the LAST version of Windows to have a GREAT default wallpaper.
ie, THERE WAS NONE, just a BLANK desktop with icons in the upper left corner. THE WAY I STILL USE A DESKTOP TO THIS DAY!

Windows started "F-ing Up" when they REMOVED the IE desktop icon (because of the context menu it provides).
Soon after that, they thought they should also remove the "My Computer" desktop icon.
Have to scroll through four or five settings boxes just to get it back (because I don't want the pinned icon next to Start).

So yeah, the default GUI needs to jump through hoops to get it to where one likes it.
But, um, SO DOES LINUX.
This "Type A" has no issue with admitting he is "Type A".
And no default Linux GUI exists that doesn't require me to jump through a few hoops.

But sure, Windows is WORSE in that regard (for the most part).
One of my biggest "beefs" with various OS Distributions like X-Lite or Nexus or you-name-it is how they **F UP** the ICONS.
Adding "icon themes" is great for a FIFTH GRADER. But I am no longer in the fifth grade.

But hey, again, "Linux does it also". **F-d Up GUI**

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-16T03:11:55+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1jzBDKFKg

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-16T05:07:56+00:00

Reminder - YOU MUST DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET AND DISABLE WI-FI to get the "I don't have internet" link.

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Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-16T10:25:40+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025, 05:07 Reminder - YOU MUST DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET AND DISABLE WI-FI to get the "I don't have internet" link.

Are you sure this still works with 25H2 ?

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-16T13:07:16+00:00

I do not have 25H2. Isn't your video link 25H2?
I admitedly only watched a portion of the video and screencaps in my previous post are from that video.
All I know for 100% is that I have a .txt file on my computer dated 4/17/25 and your video uses the same exact method.
My newest laptop install uses this method but no, it's the version just prior to 25H2, maybe even two versions prior.
I will not be updating to 25H2, it took me approx two months and over a hundred installs to get this version to my liking.
And I do not believe in upgrading for the sake of "support".
Once I get an install to my liking, IT NEVER RECEIVES ANOTHER UPDATE THEREAFTER... NEVER. "To each their own."
Windows Update is DISABLED, embedded Microsoft Edge is REMOVED, Action Center / Security Center is REMOVED, et cetera.

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Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-16T17:26:21+00:00

Downloading 25H2 as we speak.
Will *ONLY* try in a VM (assuming it will even install in a VM).
Download speed is bottlenecked on the server side so I sit and wait... and wait...
Should know by this afternoon "if" the SAME OLD TRICK still works for 25H2 (and if it does, I'll wonder what all the fuss was about, lol).

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-16T20:16:52+00:00

Well, I can only speak for 25H2 installed in a VM and there is no way to NOT install as a local account!
Perhaps it is something that VirtualBox "did". I didn't have to do ANYTHING. It installed as a LOCAL ACCOUNT without me doing ANYTHING.
ie, an ANSWER FILE will be the ONLY thing required to install as a local account on "real hardware".

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Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-16T22:13:08+00:00

Interesting.
We can see in your pic that it detects you as 'Not connected - Offline'. Maybe you have created a VM without any network device at all ?

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-16T22:28:10+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025, 22:18 In my view, WINDOWS NINETY FIVE was the LAST version of Windows to have a GREAT default wallpaper.
ie, THERE WAS NONE, just a BLANK desktop with icons in the upper left corner. THE WAY I STILL USE A DESKTOP TO THIS DAY!

I was expecting you to mention Clouds.bmp

Fun fact: winnt(256).bmp, the default wallpaper of Windows NT 4.0, is aligned vertically on top of Clouds.bmp, perhaps as a way of saying that NT is one tier above 9x.

Edit: Fixed incorrect quote attribution

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-16T23:39:41+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025, 22:13 Interesting.
We can see in your pic that it detects you as 'Not connected - Offline'. Maybe you have created a VM without any network device at all ?

Correct. I **NEVER** install any OS while connected. Call it paranoia, lol. But that shouldn't be relevant here. VirtualBox uses an "internal" ANSWER FILE to install Win 11 (to get around TPM, Secure Boot, and RAM requirements). Therefore, Q.E.D., all that is needed to install Win 11 with an OFFLINE ACCOUNT (ie, the topic-at-hand) is an ANSWER FILE.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-17T00:03:02+00:00

I suppose I should also point out that I normally use Rufus to REMOVE the TPM/SB/RAM limitations for W11 VM installs but that did not work with 25H2 (at least not my older Rufus, did not think about looking for upgrade until posting this update). Which also means I could not use my preferred OLDER versions (plural) of VirtualBox. I did have to upgrade (temporarily) my VB in order to install 25H2 (via embedded answer file).

So if I did need to install 25H2 on "real hardware", that would be my starting point - track down the specifics of the answer file that VirtualBox 7.0 uses (ie, also intentionally an OLDER version of VB because I have a 5.x and a 6.x and neither of those would install 25H2). Important to note because even VB 7.0 already had 25H2 local account installation solved LONG before 25H2 was even released.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-23T20:32:26+00:00

Can't say Linux is for me as a daily driver, though I found it useful for some tasks that are either difficult or impossible on Windows.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-23T21:00:23+00:00

The most promising version of Linux in my view was Clear Linux.
Designed by Intel but works great for AMD processors as well.
Was the *FASTEST* and *SNAPIEST* version of Linux I have ever come across.
With Ubuntu being the *SLOWEST* version I have ever come across, really no clue why it is so "popular".
But Intel abandoned Clear Linux a few months ago.
To me, they are all nothing but "hobby projects" and I can't do any of my *real life work* without Windows.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-24T21:20:07+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 21:00 With Ubuntu being the *SLOWEST* version I have ever come across, really no clue why it is so "popular".

Off Topic

Word of mouth I guess.

Besides Ubuntu, I only dribbled with Manjaro Linux few years ago, Debian, Puppy Linux and Raspberry Pi OS (on Raspberry Pi 5).

But I'm not comfortable there in general. Guess I'm too attached to Windows way of things.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-25T00:00:41+00:00

Off Topic

^Same!

I'm not all that comfortable with Linux either. I do use Manjaro but I agree ... Ubuntu is far to slow on my aged systems. I'm also attached to Windows it would seem.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-25T00:18:17+00:00

I wouldn't say that I am "attached" to Windows, rather, I use it because it's "superior" AND I CAN DO MORE.
Like it or not, there is a reason that Linux is a tiny miniscule measly little 6% of market share.
But hey, it used to only be 5%, so things are "looking up".

It's a HOBBYIST OPERATING SYSTEM.
Much like my Commodore 64 emulator.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-25T19:38:36+00:00

Linux is for programmers and I'm not a friend of programming. I hold the same opinion about using legacy Windows versions. But Win11 is just becoming more and more unusable with each iteration. I don't know what happens when older Windows versions start showing signs of age.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-25T20:13:39+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 19:38 Linux is for programmers and I'm not a friend of programming.

Nah, not anymore. At least not with Mint or Zorin.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-25T20:53:01+00:00

I always run into hurdles and even if things weren't as buggy as they are, I'd still miss Windows style font rendering (ClearType), mouse feel, System Informer, the way file system is organized etc...

There's just too many things that bother me about it that it's pointless.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-25T22:03:16+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 19:38 But Win11 is just becoming more and more unusable with each iteration.

Let's not kid ourselves, it's been that way FOREVER, it's not really a Win11-thing.
It's not even a Microsoft-thing.

My very first computer didn't even have a hard drive (they did exist, just nobody needed that much "space").
64 KB RAM for Commodore 64 and Apple IIe (would have to research Apple IIe, pretty sure it was 64k).
128 KB for Commodore 128.
256 KB for Amiga 1000.
1 MB for Amiga 2000.

I maintain "slimmed down" VirtualBox .vdi's of every OS most OS's that I've ever owned.
It's always kind of funny to witness how the size grows from one OS to the next.

Win3.1 = 20 MB vdi size
Win3.11 = 78 MB
Win98SE = 218 MB
WinNT4 = 236 MB
Win2k = 578 MB
WinXP SP3 (no .NET) = 634 MB
Win2k3 = 1.07 GB
Win7 = 1.28 GB
WinVista = 1.74 GB
Win10 LTSB (2016) = 1.84 GB
Win10 LTSC (2019) = 2.61 GB

I didn't keep my Win11 25H2 "test VM" (and nor was it "slimmed down"), but if memory serves, that .vdi was 6+ GB !!!

XP is really just too "fresh" in most of our minds.
But give it some time and it *WILL* be just like Win3.1, 98, 2k, and yes, even C64, just something to fire up for nostalgia, not to really "do" anything.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-25T22:15:59+00:00

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Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-26T11:34:35+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 22:15 Windows 3.1

Haha, yes!
I still have the Year 2000 and €uro patches somewhere

BTW:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=893803

But I guess that should be in the Windows 9x and older forum.

Windows 11 :: Method to create offline account on Windows 11 Pro :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-26T23:15:48+00:00

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 22:15 2025-10-25_18-13-31.jpg

This brings back nice memories - I used to use 3.1 with dial-up networking right up till 2004 when I junked my old laptop - Gosh I used to remember the dos commands but now I forget.

Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 :: Windows 7 Extended Kernel :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-12T11:40:35+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑17 May 2025, 13:10 Another fork:
https://github.com/YuZhouRen86/VxKex-NEXT

I have not tested it.

New version 1.1.3.1763 available:
https://github.com/YuZhouRen86/VxKex-NEXT/releases/

I have still not tested it.

Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 :: Windows 7 Extended Kernel :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-16T23:33:57+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025, 11:40 New version 1.1.3.1763 available:
https://github.com/YuZhouRen86/VxKex-NEXT/releases/

I have still not tested it.

I use it as it has a few quality-of-life changes that I like. Compare normal VxKex:

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The font on NEXT is always Segoe UI instead of default locale font which is ridiculously small on CJK versions of Windows at 100% scaling
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Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-09-28T23:12:15+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 00:18
BenjaminK wrote: ↑26 Sep 2025, 02:15 I did notice a small bugger : the three upper right options (Close, etc.) only appear when I activate the (main) title bar - as shown below. They'll still work, but are invisible
That occurred with older versions of R3dfox but I thought it should be fixed now.
Is it the same if you use another theme ?

Yes, I considered that too, but no dice... Switching between 141.0.3 and 142.0.1 didn't fix anything either. Are there any parameters I could check or experiments I could make to help with your diagnostic ?

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Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-09-28T23:52:28+00:00

That's a problem which occured to some people on Windows 7 in the past but I thought it should be fixed now.
I have no idea about what to do, if you could do anything on your side. So I give it to K4sum1 the developer of R3dfox

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by BenjaminK

2025-09-29T21:08:12+00:00

Let's do that Mr Nukem ... To Github it is, then.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-01T10:36:29+00:00

Firefox 143.0.3 has been released with some fixes:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0.3/releasenotes/

and important security fixes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-80/

Just saying

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-07T02:38:39+00:00

How could I build r3dfox installer for my native language? Of course I could just install .xpi language pack later on but Programs and Features still shows the browser's base language as en-US.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-14T23:16:27+00:00

Firefox 144 is out with some important security fixes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-81/

Let's fall on our knees and pray K4sum1 to not let us down

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Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T19:08:08+00:00

I'll get around to it soon. Haven't been feeling like it recently and just wanted to game. Now I don't feel like gaming and more like getting some stuff done.

Something else I want to try is seeing if I can get Windows 7 (and potentially earlier) booting on certain ASRock AM4 boards with certain CPU configurations.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-16T22:39:29+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025, 19:08 Something else I want to try is seeing if I can get Windows 7 (and potentially earlier) booting on certain ASRock AM4 boards with certain CPU configurations.

Not ASRock, but I managed to install Windows 7 on ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS board, AMD Ryzen 3 3200G, and no dGPUs with CSMWrap. I still had to enable CSM to get the built-in VGA fonts that CSMWrap needs. Otherwise, it runs solid albeit the startup sound seems to be cut off (?) when playing through HDMI audio to monitor. CSMWrap also released a new version mentioning the ability to load dumped ROMs for VGA fonts requirement which I want to take a look someday...

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-17T03:21:54+00:00

This is what I mean

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Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-17T03:50:36+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑17 Oct 2025, 03:21 This is what I mean

acpi.sys replacement does not work?

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-17T03:50:57+00:00

I've traced it to hal,dll

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-20T23:46:48+00:00

When you are creating the new Version 144 of r3dfox?

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-21T01:05:38+00:00

I prefer next version of r3dfox ESR rather than chasing the constant updates to be honest

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-21T01:58:50+00:00

I'm working on next 143 and soon will work on 144. Next release will be big as I'm making the browser a lot more like Librewolf.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-21T03:33:04+00:00

I hope you are not changing to much - I must be able to login into https-Sites and the site's Browser up to date check must work!

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-21T03:34:19+00:00

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Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-21T10:29:23+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 01:58 I'm making the browser a lot more like Librewolf.

That sounds and looks interesting.
But make sure not to force or override any setting we may have already tweaked

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-21T12:37:00+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 01:58 I'm working on next 143 and soon will work on 144. Next release will be big as I'm making the browser a lot more like Librewolf.

Is this the same for future ESR releases? Looking forward to it.
I just want my Zapp's Photon theme to keep working.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-22T20:28:26+00:00

If it a so big project, perhaps it is better to make it later as a second version with new name like r3dstealthfox.
To today it is important to have a up too date browser, because of more and more important site's make Browser up to date checks, in worst case you get no access.
Your browser is the last hope for a poor man like me... - actual FF ESR 115.29.0 is recognized as too old...

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-23T12:27:12+00:00

Maybe I could just release 143 and 144 without this, but I got onto this task because I can't enable the menu bar (without the always enabled bug) by default without an enterprise policy. Librewolf has some privacy stuff done in policies, so the main reason for this is to keep menu bar enabled by default.

Now I'm a bit stuck, I still need to go through some stuff, but it's so big and head so small that I get overwhelmed and don't want to do it. I have no idea when I will get around to it. However I'll get around to it soon so I can update the browser.

Pretty much the only browsers I use on Windows (aside from Chromium and Lun3r) is r3dfox and r3dfox ESR. So as long as I use Windows, updates will come. If I no longer use Windows, expect a r3dfox release to come out for the new OS.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-23T12:35:46+00:00

Taiclaw wrote: ↑22 Oct 2025, 20:28 Your browser is the last hope for a poor man like me... - actual FF ESR 115.29.0 is recognized as too old...

How about spoofing User-Agent?
Go to about:config, add a string-type preference named general.useragent.override with value Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0. (Replace the number after rv: and Firefox/ to approriate ESR/stable version at the time you do that.)
If you are using r3dfox then you can also spoof only some specific sites by suffixing the domain name after preference name like general.useragent.override.jwx.org

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-23T20:25:01+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 12:27 Maybe I could just release 143 and 144 without this

Yes, good idea. Because for us end users it's more important to have an up to date browser with recent security fixes than a bunch of new features which can wait and be delayed.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-23T23:50:07+00:00

Is that a problem with Active Directory and using Local Group Policy?

I don´t kow so much about FF and the up to date check, but would it help to fake a actual FF
by using a thief function to steal all current certificates (functional and security) and the version number of a current FF and intrigue them in r3dfox - mini-updates...

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-23T23:56:02+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 20:25Yes, good idea. Because for us end users it's more important to have an up to date browser with recent security fixes than a bunch of new features which can wait and be delayed.

If it were up to me, I would just want r3dFox to be stock Firefox ESR 140.x, with the ability to run it on Windows 7 and Windows 8. That's it. No Anti-DRM or Wildevine either, since I want to be able to watch streaming news channels. But I'll live with that.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-23T23:59:17+00:00

Is there a programming forum for FF? Since most FF programmers only use the more modern parts of the internet these days and no longer use things like forums or email...
To communicate with them is a problem for an internet oldy like me...

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-24T00:06:18+00:00

A new solution:

A portable FF for all Linux Distributions or a portable FF for all existing OS's or a new Version of FF OS like the selfrunning DOSBox Pure Unleashed ! ^^

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-25T00:55:10+00:00

flatrute wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 12:35
Taiclaw wrote: ↑22 Oct 2025, 20:28 Your browser is the last hope for a poor man like me... - actual FF ESR 115.29.0 is recognized as too old...
How about spoofing User-Agent?
Go to about:config, add a string-type preference named general.useragent.override with value Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0. (Replace the number after rv: and Firefox/ to approriate ESR/stable version at the time you do that.)
If you are using r3dfox then you can also spoof only some specific sites by suffixing the domain name after preference name like general.useragent.override.jwx.org

I've tested it! Doesn't work!!!

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-25T01:00:22+00:00

Can you give us a tutorial , who you create r3dfox?

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-25T12:20:42+00:00

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v144.0.1

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-25T12:27:06+00:00

JodyThornton wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 23:56 If it were up to me, I would just want r3dFox to be stock Firefox ESR 140.x, with the ability to run it on Windows 7 and Windows 8. That's it. No Anti-DRM or Wildevine either, since I want to be able to watch streaming news channels. But I'll live with that.

Not really possible, read this, specifically the "Widevine or DRM protected content does not play" section. https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/35

Taiclaw wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 00:06 A new solution:

A portable FF for all Linux Distributions or a portable FF for all existing OS's or a new Version of FF OS like the selfrunning DOSBox Pure Unleashed ! ^^

I think that's kinda just a generic Linux binary. They're pretty portable although Linux isn't made to run raw binaries like that.

Taiclaw wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 01:00 Can you give us a tutorial , who you create r3dfox?

I don't think I can just give a tutorial on that, it's pretty complex. I'd just start by taking a given commit, looking at the title and comments around it, and seeing if you can figure out what code changes in the commit do what specifically.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-25T15:40:13+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 12:20 https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v144.0.1

Are you making similar Librewolf changes to the new ESR versions? (I almost hope not ...lol, but it is your browser)

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-25T20:17:48+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 12:20 https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v144.0.1

Thanks!

But:

Enhanced Tracking Protection defaults to strict now. Other options are removed to match Librewolf behavior.

Please don't do that. Keep the custom settings on.
Please please please

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-26T04:48:49+00:00

JodyThornton wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 15:40 Are you making similar Librewolf changes to the new ESR versions? (I almost hope not ...lol, but it is your browser)

They will come in next release. I don't see any real negative to them though. Can you like give me a reason to not do it?

Duke wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 20:17 But:
Enhanced Tracking Protection defaults to strict now. Other options are removed to match Librewolf behavior.
Please don't do that. Keep the custom settings on.
Please please please

But why? I don't see any reason you shouldn't just use strict mode. Unless you can give me an example of a website that breaks in strict mode.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-26T06:32:49+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 04:48
JodyThornton wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 15:40 Are you making similar Librewolf changes to the new ESR versions? (I almost hope not ...lol, but it is your browser)
They will come in next release. I don't see any real negative to them though. Can you like give me a reason to not do it?

Only if it causes problems with customization, or mass changes. I stick with ESR, so that UI customizations or other usrChrome.css changes last for a whole year. I like stability

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-26T10:21:37+00:00

I don't think it should cause any problems, just making sure people know in an abundance of caution.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Duke

2025-10-26T11:24:26+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 04:48 But why? I don't see any reason you shouldn't just use strict mode.

Because:

I want to use my own cookies setting: cookies from unvisited websites. IMO all cross-site cookies is too strong for some sites so you have to add the site to the exceptions which disable the whole ETP for this site. Very bad.

I want to be able to select the windows it applies to: all windows or only in private windows. So I can instantly switch between a normal or a private window if needed.

I want to be able to disable suspected fingerprinters on the fly. I've noticed some parts of some sites won't load or even custom fonts won't load it it's enabled. Again adding the site to the exceptions is not a viable solution to me.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-26T11:25:32+00:00

Ok, that's fair. I'll make the settings visible next release.

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by Taiclaw

2025-10-26T23:33:09+00:00

Duke wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 11:24
K4sum1 wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 04:48 But why? I don't see any reason you shouldn't just use strict mode.
Because:

I want to use my own cookies setting: cookies from unvisited websites. IMO all cross-site cookies is too strong for some sites so you have to add the site to the exceptions which disable the whole ETP for this site. Very bad.

I want to be able to select the windows it applies to: all windows or only in private windows. So I can instantly switch between a normal or a private window if needed.

I want to be able to disable suspected fingerprinters on the fly. I've noticed some parts of some sites won't load or even custom fonts won't load it it's enabled. Again adding the site to the exceptions is not a viable solution to me.

I use Custom too....

Eclipse r3dfox browser :: r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8! :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-27T12:57:27+00:00

I just add AutoConfig code to disable JavaScript completely and to delete cookies on every startups I was surprised to find that the main website to submit homework and reports of my college still works just enough for me to send in a couple PDF files

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-10T22:46:45+00:00

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20251011-3219d2d-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20251011-3219d2d-uxp-b709881389-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-20251011-3219d2d-uxp-b709881389-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-20251011-d849524bd-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z
Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251011-d849524bd-uxp-b709881389-xpmod-ia32.7z
Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251011-d849524bd-uxp-b709881389-xpmod-sse.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251011-d849524bd-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z
Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251011-d849524bd-uxp-b709881389-w7plus-avx2.7z

No official UXP changes picked since my last build.

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

No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build.

My changes picked since my last build:
- mailnews: fix OAuth2Providers path (16dc4c9168)
- Add support for HTMLSlotElement.assignedElements() (#2) (169c949e49)
- Merge pull request #37 from ClassicNick/Merge-20251005 (f24e68da7b)
- style: color-mix: when either color resolves to NS_COLOR_CURRENTCOLOR, it will cause color value reevaluation and cause stack overflow. hack it to use parent color instead. (702d61e68e)
- caps: hack - check `mCSP` RefCount to avoid circular calls (b709881389)

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.

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-10T22:46:55+00:00

New build of BOC/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20251011-40a79c75-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z
BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20251011-40a79c75-uxp-b709881389-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.

--

New build of HBL-UXP for XP!

Test binary:
IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20251011-id-656ea98-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z
IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20251011-id-656ea98-ia-c642e3c-uxp-b709881389-xpmod.7z

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

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-10T22:47:02+00:00

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-20251011-74c412b6d-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20251011-74c412b6d-xpmod.7z

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

Repo changes:
- import from `custom` branch of UXP: Add support for HTMLSlotElement.assignedElements() (#2) (169c949e) (4c681e213)
- import from `custom` branch of UXP: style: color-mix: when either color resolves to NS_COLOR_CURRENTCOLOR, it will cause color value reevaluation and cause stack overflow. hack it to use parent color instead. (702d61e6) (026a84877)
- import from `custom` branch of UXP: caps: hack - check `mCSP` RefCount to avoid circular calls (b7098813) (74c412b6d)

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-17T23:18:56+00:00

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20251018-3219d2d-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20251018-3219d2d-uxp-861967f98e-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-20251018-3219d2d-uxp-861967f98e-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-20251018-d849524bd-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z
Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251018-d849524bd-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod-ia32.7z
Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251018-d849524bd-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod-sse.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251018-d849524bd-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z
Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251018-d849524bd-uxp-861967f98e-w7plus-avx2.7z

Official UXP changes picked since my last build:
- No issue - Set title for about:logopage (89ee61a746)
- No issue - Improve compiler compatibility. (ac993f4fb3)
- Issue #2855 - Fix rule node tracking for NAC (cc331e8e01)
- [devtools] Remove newline kludge from "Copy as cURL" on Windows (4abf0b3f21)

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

No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build.

My changes picked since my last build:
- caps: follow-up of rev b7098813 - enlarge CSP's RefCnt value limit to prevent crashing in multiple process mode. (9ad9a88955)

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.

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-17T23:19:00+00:00

New build of BOC/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20251018-40a79c75-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z
BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20251018-40a79c75-uxp-861967f98e-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.

--

New build of HBL-UXP for XP!

Test binary:
IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20251018-id-656ea98-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z
IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20251018-id-656ea98-ia-c642e3c-uxp-861967f98e-xpmod.7z

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

RT1 Browser Platform :: Browsers release notes :: Reply by roytam1

2025-10-17T23:19:07+00:00

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-20251018-e2f63f387-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20251018-e2f63f387-xpmod.7z

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

Repo changes:
- import from UXP: No issue - Improve compiler compatibility. (ac993f4f) (88149f721)
- import from UXP: Issue #2855 - Fix rule node tracking for NAC (cc331e8e) (1b577a8b4)
- import from UXP: [devtools] Remove newline kludge from "Copy as cURL" on Windows (4abf0b3f) (1c307b192)
- import from `custom` branch of UXP: caps: follow-up of rev b7098813 - enlarge CSP's RefCnt value limit to prevent crashing in multiple process mode. (9ad9a889) (e2f63f387)

Community ISOs :: Windows 7 Updated v5 :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T04:53:04+00:00

It's just stock 7. I don't want to include a kernel only for it to get outdated. Maybe I could include something in the desktop folder in RC2, but idk, it's not essential or set in stone so I don't want to.

Community Projects :: UXP based browsers :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-09-30T00:43:49+00:00

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/UXP/releases/tag/v2025.09.28

Community Projects :: Eclipse Lun3r & Hydra, yet another UXP fork for Windows XP+ :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-09-30T01:01:54+00:00

Remind me to make a post for Eclipse Mail when I make a new build.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-09-28T11:57:24+00:00

I do find it unusual that the option makes the user's address exposed. Usually, there would be the link to the form there and the forum software would send the mail.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-09-28T17:40:56+00:00

I think this is just a phpBB thing idk.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-09-28T23:09:05+00:00

The few other forums with phpBB I visit are running modified phpBB. It just came a bit as a surprise as I assumed the other way is default.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T19:06:15+00:00

I tried looking in ACP for a relevant option, but I can't find anything,

I'm pretty sure phpBB email contact by default sends an email through the server, hiding the user's email unless the user decides to reply by email.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-18T20:46:19+00:00

From what I saw here, there's just plain mailto link on user's profile.

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-18T21:47:40+00:00

I appear to have that option disabled now that I checked. Should I enable it?

Suggestions :: Hide email as contact method by default when creating user account :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-23T20:34:42+00:00

You mean on your profile? For you to see it how it works in practice? Or some other option only admin can see?

General Chat :: Introduce yourselves here! :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-09-27T20:46:51+00:00

Welcome; Benjamin and I use XP 32 Bit and have for years. See ya around the forum.

General Chat :: Help Please - Closed Captions :: Author The-10-Pen

2025-10-09T22:12:41+00:00

Can anybody please offer some userscript assistance?

I have a streaming web site (Hulu) that has an annoyance with any italicized word being preceded and followed with an incorrect comma.

Seems it should be easy to CORRECT using a userscript but I haven't found anything online that targets something like this.

Fingers crossed that somebody here can assist and thanks in advance.

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General Chat :: Help Please - Closed Captions :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-10T18:05:21+00:00

Disregard.
I'm new to Hulu and I thought that ANNOYANCE was going to be on ALL of Hulu content.
Seems that ANNOYANCE is ONLY on a series called "The Good Doctor" and is not on OTHER content.

General Chat :: How do you detect coinminers? :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-06T04:59:03+00:00

I've not built r3dfox on a stock 10, so I can't say. I'd assume there's an improvement just from the shit in the background of stock 10 but idk exactly. I started off on 8.1 (Updated v1 from here), then 10 1709 (Nexus LiteOS), then 10 22H1 (or 22H2, I can't remember which) (Nexus LiteOS), then 10 22H2 (X-Lite), and I don't think there was any big difference between any.

I find X-Lite to work the best and it's the slimmest. My main reason for going to it was so I could shrink the partition size by like 16GB and more easily keep multiple VMs to build different versions or experiment.

General Chat :: How do you detect coinminers? :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-07T10:19:57+00:00

I trial-ran one of the Nexus releases.
I forget which one but I'm "majority-percent" sure that it was 22H2.

The experience HIT ME IN THE FACE with an expired license and a solicitation to purchase StartIsBack.
Something I never requested to be installed in the first place!

Ever since, any trial-run (INCLUDING X-LITE!) that INCLUDES anything that I never requested to be installed is THROWN IN THE TRASH BIN.
Without Prejudice!

a) did the creator of StartIsBack use this as a method of distribution to SOLICIT for his product to be purchased? (ie, a "bundle")
b) did the creator of StartIsBack AUTHORIZE his product to be distributed in this manner? (should Microsoft sue StartIsBack for this "bundle"?)
c) did the lite-os creator distribute his personal preference software with an unauthorized third-party distribution?
d) maybe that third-party license won't expire, then shouldn't the third-party creator be suing for an unauthorized distribution and hacked license?
e) et cetera...

General Chat :: How do you detect coinminers? :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-16T18:46:37+00:00

They really should just crack it atp.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Author The-10-Pen

2025-10-17T11:14:23+00:00

Kinda rolling on the floor laughing.
No, not really funny "ha ha", just something I've never witnessed in my 40+ years of computers and web sites.

MSFN just hit 100 consecutive spam posts (no, not by me, I just sat and watched 'em pile on).

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-18T06:53:03+00:00

It reminded me to when I stumbled at a newsgroup archive on Google Groups while I was reading about history of Vietnamese encodings before Unicode and all I saw was hundreds of pages of anti-communist spams

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-18T21:50:43+00:00

What I find weird is this forum gets hit by spam from time to time, but it's weird. Always MMOexp in the title and they appear to just be guides for modern slop games that don't run on pre-10. I don't understand what the point of sending them here is, or what they gain from it.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-18T22:13:48+00:00

Spam is frequent at MSFN. A couple here or there is nothing.
But when it is a HUNDRED CONSECUTIVE, it seems to ALWAYS be TURBOTAX / QUICKBOOKS.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by K4sum1

2025-10-18T22:22:46+00:00

Usually I've caught them not long after they get posted. I keep up on new posts, but I normally don't formulate a reply until I feel like I have the time to do so.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by flatrute

2025-10-19T03:24:22+00:00

K4sum1 wrote: ↑18 Oct 2025, 22:22 Usually I've caught them not long after they get posted. I keep up on new posts, but I normally don't formulate a reply until I feel like I have the time to do so.

Same here when I am on MattKC's phpBB

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-21T12:30:01+00:00

This must be why they are in maintenance mode right now.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-21T13:04:09+00:00

Possible.

During the spam assault (all TurboTax and QuickBooks), I basically watched them delete them several at a time and they kept being added WHILE they were in-process of deleting them. A few minutes into that, they did a "maintenance mode". It didn't last very long (10/15 minutes?). Today's "maintenance mode" has been going on for at least 3 hours.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-21T14:54:30+00:00

Still down! Wow! That spam assault must have really did a number.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-21T17:45:38+00:00

Still down. Gotta be the longest "maintenance mode" I've ever seen.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-22T03:00:04+00:00

It's back!

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-22T10:12:43+00:00

It was down for over 12 hours.
And as we speak, they are getting spammed left-and-right with AIRLINE TICKET CANCELLATION spams.
Maybe I shouldn't call it "left-and-right", it's 'only' seven consecutive spams in the last 20 minutes.
Enough for me to exit MSFN for now, return later and cross my fingers.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-22T10:15:09+00:00

Though a DEFINITE improvement.
Those seven consecutive airline cancellations spams were deleted already and no new have arrived.
So a DEFINITE improvement!

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-22T12:21:38+00:00

Ten more consecutive flight cancellation spams, and that was without "watching" for them.
I don't think that they "fixed" anything, I think they're just trying to stay on top of removing them so that we don't see a HUNDRED consecutive spams.

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by JodyThornton

2025-10-22T13:53:34+00:00

And now .... another error message which reads,

We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now.
You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later.

Sigh!

General Chat :: MSFN :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-22T23:58:54+00:00

I read over there occasionally and I guess I miss it when it happens.

General Chat :: what are you listening to? :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-22T23:54:11+00:00

General Chat :: what are you listening to? :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-23T20:36:20+00:00

^^ Says it's not available. Region lock?

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-09-28T12:25:13+00:00

Then there's climate change, no proper winters anymore and invasive bugs from foreign countries.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-05T22:16:45+00:00

Another weekend has come to an end. It's colder out there. Here is also very quiet.

First time trying out Custom Buttons extension (in Pale Moon). It took me hours to wrap my head around js-ctypes. It's a mechanism that allows calling native code from JavaScript. I managed to put together a button that shuts down (or aborts scheduled shut down) the computer in half-hour. Second function is putting computer into sleep immediately instead, depends on which mouse button is the button clicked.

It doesn't look too complicated in the end, but I'm slow.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-06T01:53:47+00:00

I hope you enjoyed your weekend ... at least hopefully you got some rest.

Good to see you trying new things and also starting your new project. Good to get wrapped up into something because too much time on our hands is unhealthy to overthink things. I've yet to try the custom buttons yet in new Moon or Mypal 68. Maybe this week - I need to take my mind off my troubles and get into something.

I'm hanging in there; I guess.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-06T22:46:49+00:00

xperceniol_sal wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 01:53 I hope you enjoyed your weekend ... at least hopefully you got some rest.

It never seems enough. Naps are regular a thing for me.

xperceniol_sal wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 01:53 Good to see you trying new things and also starting your new project.

It's not much of a project TBH. And when it comes to more interesting things, I can't keep focus and quickly lose interest.

xperceniol_sal wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 01:53 I've yet to try the custom buttons yet in new Moon or Mypal 68. Maybe this week - I need to take my mind off my troubles and get into something.

I just knew the extension exists, but didn't think of any button I'd actually need. The idea of the shutdown button came after realizing I use shutdown.exe from CMD fairly regularly.

There isn't a specific extension for managing custom buttons specifically for current day Firefox as far as I know, though they can come in form of userChrome scripts, which have to call functions to create the button, compared to extension that did the creation of the button while you "only" needed to add code for what it does. Quoted only because probably the part for what it does will likely be more involved.

With some copy pasting from another button, I actually got the button right the first try today in yesteryear's Firefox (125.0.3) in the sense that it could shut down the computer. But it didn't get removed when you disabled its userchrome script. Sometime later, I fixed that too.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-11T23:37:42+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑06 Oct 2025, 22:46...And when it comes to more interesting things, I can't keep focus and quickly lose interest...

I've been experiencing the same - I struggle to keep my attention on a movie and I lose track unless its something I've already watched before. I don't have an answer other than it follows hand-in-hand along with anxiety and depression

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-12T17:48:05+00:00

Yeah, another weekend spent spinning like a broken record.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-13T19:20:12+00:00

1 day to go!

https://endoflife.date/windows

OK, there's extended support for security updates for Win10 22H2 until October 2028, but other than that, Windows 10 is going the way of the deprecated and unsupported.

And the last Win11 (23H2) that can still boot on pre-SSE4.2 CPUs is going next month. I'm feeling old.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-13T20:36:45+00:00

I will NEVER understand why people are so focused on WHATEVER "support" is supposed to mean.

I have to ask, are these so-focused types also the types that BUY "warranty plans" when they buy electronics?
'cause maybe THAT is the underlying notion here, being that I also NEVER buy "warranty plans".
And my electronics ALWAYS outlast, BY FAR, that "warranty period".

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-14T20:53:21+00:00

Besides being hot topic in some places and me wanting to break silence with something, it comes with eventual newer versions of programs stopping working in part or entirely.

I tried using Performance profiler today for the first time in Visual Studio 2022 on work laptop still on older Win10 1809. It refused to start and suggested repair install. Visual Studio Standard Collector Service 150 refused to start. Reason, long story short, it crapped out after being unable to enable RedirectionGuard, some security mitigation available in newer Windows versions. I opened the service's EXE with x64dbg, patched a single conditional jump instruction to become unconditional and now the profiler works.

No idea if there's anything for Teams, this doesn't work anymore. I know you have browser instance running for it in any case, but I prefer to not have these things in actual web browser and at least some resemblance of desktop application, even if the only reminder is tray icon with the context menu.

May have to rush to Windows 11 some day anyway, but not today, not yet!

Meanwhile, running Win11 at home which was supposed to be just temporary testbed for old new sound card, but don't feel like swapping things around. I know, I make no sense.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-22T23:50:53+00:00

^Sounds interesting; UCyborg.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-23T21:07:15+00:00

It does? Welp, it's either that or upgrading Windows, a major annoyance I think.

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025, 20:36 I will NEVER understand why people are so focused on WHATEVER "support" is supposed to mean.

In some cases it means "we won't activate your license anymore".

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-23T22:06:26+00:00

I have never witnessed that.
We still run a ton of Win7 stations at the lab and even they can STILL BE ACTIVATED upon reinstall.
Despite Win7 not having "the sky is falling, where is my support" since circa 2019-ish.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by teknixstuff

2025-10-24T00:07:34+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑23 Oct 2025, 21:07 It does? Welp, it's either that or upgrading Windows, a major annoyance I think.

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025, 20:36 I will NEVER understand why people are so focused on WHATEVER "support" is supposed to mean.
In some cases it means "we won't activate your license anymore".

Even the oldest Windows version to have activation, XP, can still be activated both online and over the phone.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-24T17:11:59+00:00

Windows isn't the only software in the world with the concept of license activation.
Source: my workplace

Ugh, I regret getting access to code repo at work. Programming...stay the heck away is my advice. Why do I even bother? I hate programming, it's a sure way towards pain, misery, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and suicide.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by xperceniol_sal

2025-10-24T22:50:19+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 17:11 Windows isn't the only software in the world with the concept of license activation.
Source: my workplace

Ugh, I regret getting access to code repo at work. Programming...stay the heck away is my advice. Why do I even bother? I hate programming, it's a sure way towards pain, misery, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and suicide.

Can you take a vacation or do you have some time off from work available? It sounds to me like you REALLY need a break from that job. That being said, I know that "sure way" all too well myself. Besides, I don't want anything to happen to you - whatever you do - don't act of emotion or impulse. Try to take life day-by-day and appreciate what you do have - we at least have our freedom (while its lasts here in the States)

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-25T08:15:51+00:00

I have most of leave still available. Haven't really felt like taking it because what's the point? It's for people that have something to live for, not for walking dead.

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by UCyborg

2025-10-26T12:23:59+00:00

I posted something controversial in anger on another forum regarding how some app developers restrict their Android applications from users rooting their phone. Earlier, another guy posted something helpful (in response to my existential crisis) in another thread. He then deleted it. I think I have spooked him.

I then deleted the controversial bits. It's not really me. But I'm in a dark place, things get to me and I lash out sometimes (very rarely, but still). I don't know, am I overthinking it?

General Chat :: Then dust yourself off and try again :: Reply by The-10-Pen

2025-10-26T13:27:33+00:00

UCyborg wrote: ↑26 Oct 2025, 12:23 I posted something controversial ... He then deleted it. ...

I then deleted the controversial bits. ...

We live in a very funny and strange and hypocritical and judgemental era.
I strive to always be "in the center". That is not the same as "taking both sides" - believe in something or fall for everything.
It really is funny what some consider "controversial, you're wrong, listen to me" yet others consider "passivist, live and let live, doesn't affect me".
We have folks on this very forum that get "censored" quite a bit.
And others that can say anything without fear of any hammer.
It's almost some sense of "do not censor that person, we will be held liable for the postal rampage in 'real life' if we don't allow the 'unreal vent'..."
I say that semi-sarcastically and not directed herein specifically, though the line of distinction is fine. A fine line indeed.
One person's "fake news" really is another person's entire sense of reality, ie, nothing "fake" about it.

To paraphrase Einstein, "It's all relative."

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Memorial :: Issues with certain email providers not receiving emails from Eclipse :: Reply by Dimitris Balafoutis

2025-10-05T10:47:37+00:00

GMX also works.