What browser will xp users switch to when firefox ends support for xp?

cmccaff1 said:
Do you mean PM 24.7.2 (which was the last true XP version) or 26.5.0 (which was the last official XP version but aimed at Atom processors)? In either case I don't blame you for not enjoying those older versions; if I'm not mistaken both were forks of Firefox 24ESR (the code of which was starting to get VERY dated by the time 26.5.0 was released). I don't think the Pale Moon team began forking from 38ESR until version 27 came out. Pale Moon and its forks are an odd beast...though the code is forked mainly from 38ESR there are bits of code from older versions that give it compatibility with some older addons (like an older FF28-compatible QuickJava version which I've confirmed works in Mypal and Michael Walden's Foxscape theme; a fork of the latter was released for Pale Moon, but if I'm not mistaken the last version for FF28 also works with no known bugs/glitches).

By XP standards that is some very solid hardware. I'm not sure what you're using to watch action movies, but for multimedia in general I've gotten by on a combination of VLC 1.1.11 & Winamp 2.79 for several years now. Winamp delivers flawless MP3/WAV playback and VLC has been able to handle virtually every format I've thrown at it. It even does high-definition video flawlessly too. I'm thinking about getting a newer PC, perhaps something from the Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge era, and seeing how it does with XP. In the meantime this P4 is still doing what I need it to do--I'm not ready to put the old dog down just yet.
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Don't recall for sure, but I think I had this one ~ https://www.filehorse.com/download-pale-moon-32/24282/. I remember doing a Google search for 'last Pale Moon for Windows XP download', and that one at filehorse came up.

Are you having any problem with sites opening a plethora of tabs or windows on Mypal? This one site I favor for movies and TV shows keeps nailing me with five to ten of them each time I click on anything there. I have no clue what I'm using to watch movies. I think I'm 'streaming' them onsite. I do have VLC, Daum, and some other stuff, but not sure if any of that is in play in the background. Here are the main sites I'm using:

https://putlocker9.nl/tv-series

https://putlocker9.nl/movies/library

https://www3.watchfree.ac/search/American+SuperNatural.html

https://www3.watchfree.ac/list/movies.html

https://www3.watchfree.ac/list/tv-series.html

The last three is the site that keeps bombarding me with tabs or windows. Maybe you can check them out and let me know if you have the same problem, or If you can find a circumvention? The adblocker recommended by Mypal is useless there. I downloaded a few addons from Firefox site (like 'Disable Anti-Adblock), but so far, no better.

My custom-build has AMD Phenom x4 9750B (95W), Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P, EVGA E-Geforce 6800 GT 512MB, Asus Xonar D2, three WD Caviar WD1001FALS on mobile racks, one Intel 535 series 180GB SSD, two LG GH24NSC0B burners, and FSP Group Hydro Series 650W power supply, in a Cooler Master CMStorm Trooper SGC-5000-KKN1....the other components are giving me grief to find. No telling how much longer to track down the rest, but fortunately I had the foresight to get this used PC to keep me content til then.
 
trimis, I tried the putlocer in mypal and firefox, and got bombarded also even with uBlock origin installed in both

last 3 worked fine in both browsers :)

NOTE: when I want to watch a movie or series, I google it first with , for example, watch Bones online free, and then I try several sites to see which one will play best, openload will not let you buffer, streammango is good, but before I click on any button, I right click first and get a message that popups are blocked and then left click with no problems. A lot of the free watching sites have added many ads, but right clicking first usually gets me past that. :)
 
I haven't experienced any problems with 'tab bombardment' in Opera or Mypal, at least not in quite a while. Usually it depends on what sites you visit...I try to stay away from streaming sites. Oftentimes, I stream YouTube videos through VLC [a 'trick' I use is to go to GenYouTube.net and copy 3gp links into VLC; the 3gp playback uses much less memory/system resources than YT's HTML5 player, and it especially comes in handy on Pentium II/AMD K6-2-era machines that from what I recall would stutter even with Flash Player). For videos from other sites (like Dailymotion), I'll sometimes use Flash Player to watch them, and in other cases where I really enjoy them I'll download them to my flash drive (I know a site that converts Dailymotion vids to 3gp; it takes a long time, but it's worth it).
 
Then you can look at your platform migration options (which is really what an XP forum should be about in 2017 I'm afraid - "what is the best method of replacing XP".) Taking the approach of "You'll have to pry XP out of my cold, dead hands" is not one you should bet on.
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When the HDD on my old IBM ThinkPad G40 laptop that contained XP Pro went south I went with antiX Linux.
The G40 was well endowed with resources ... 3 GHz single core Pentium 4 CPU, 2 GB RAM.
Found a 40 GB PATA/IDE 7200 rpm HDD still in the plastic that I transplanted into the old laptop.
Runs as fast or faster under antiX as it did under XP. Idles at about 100 MB RAM. The "1-cylinder" CPU will max out long before anywhere near the 2 GB RAM is used up.
 
I don't quite know what difference this'll make to you guys, but I take it y'all ARE aware that Moonchild productions are ceasing production of the 32-bit builds as from the end of this month? AFAIK, this is where the source code for MyPal is obtained from, so this might just chuck a spanner in the works for the remaining XP browsers....

Mike. ;)
 
Unfortunate but certainly not unanticipated. Looks like the only remaining developer of 32 bit XP compatible web browsers is Roytam. He maintains MyPal, Serpent, Centaury, K-Meleon-Goanna, New Moon, BOC/UXP and even a Firefox 45 ESR build.

http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser

I've seen other developers abandon software pet projects over the years due to health issues, or worse, marriage + children.

In any event when the time comes when no new XP browsers updates are available you can still use practically any popular website in XP with few exceptions.

Such are the caveats of using legacy operating systems
 
thinkpadder said:
yep there's got that version 52.9.1 I've downloaded n installed it though I don't know what difference it'll make
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thinkpadder said:
yep there's got that version 52.9.1 I've downloaded n installed it though I don't know what difference it'll make
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Oh yeah. i was reading MSFN one day and stumbled upon the forum about FF 52.9.1. So i made this video of me installing it on Windows 2000. The Windows stuff i upload on my Youtube channel is usually Vista extended kernel or Windows 98 with kernelex stuff.
 
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