Due to server slowness, downtime, and other issues, Eclipse will be moving to a more stable and efficient platform that should result in much better stability. There is no timeline for this yet, just want you to know what's happening with all the downtime and I have a plan to fix it.
I've started using the last x64 version on Windows 7 part of my retro-gaming rig and it feels great for now, but 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...
Sorry for reporting that here, as I'm having issues with my (horribly old) Githhub account. It's been at least a decade since my last connection over there and I'll probably need to open a new one.
By the way, I also get from time to time the impression of slightly lower loading performances when handling the loading of multiple tabs, compared to Firefox 155 ESR. No special testing and I care so little about such delays that I wouldn't call that an issue, but, just by curiosity, is there any potential reason why a retro-gaming rig (with an old I5 680 and 16gb of DDR3) could struggle a tiny bit more with R3dfox ? or why 155 ESR could, maybe, open some websites a tiny bit faster ?
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 ?
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 ?
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
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.
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.
k4sum1 who?
I might know what I'm doing not the hit album by brad sucks
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...
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.
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...
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.
k4sum1 who?
I might know what I'm doing not the hit album by brad sucks
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
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.
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...
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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.
