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11 minutes ago, Radpop said:

 

Okay, it's time to start 16 years old XP once again and find correct browser versions.

 

Coolnovo could be also good browser, but I meant 360 Browser version 7.5.2.110 (kernel 31): http://int.down.360safe.com/360browser/360browser7.5.2.110.exe.

 

I've still Pale Moon 3.6.32 installed with Addblock Plus 2.0.3.1, with Noscript 2.9, Click&Clean 4.1.1 and User Agent Switcher 0.7.3.1. This could be hard to find, and 360 is much better. Rapid deterioration of Firefox started after 3.6.28, and it have been continued. If You want old Firefox instead of Pale Moon: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

 

You r r8 bro but the problem is when installing older version of firefox many sites say plz update your browser, it is not supported

Btw I'll try coolnovo tomorrow at my office

Also the 360 browser which u mentioned above is of size 45.62 mb , which will also slow my system

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If you aren’t happy with Firefox v52.9.0esr, my personal recommendation would be K-Meleon. This also uses Gecko, the rendering engine developed by Mozilla, so any older Firefox add-ons you can find,  should work out of the box. Some say its interface is old school, but if you put aside a little time for the learning curve, its capabilities are impressive. There is a portable version available and a working version of Adblock Plus (for Firefox) that can be downloaded from the K-Meleon forum. V76 is under active development, using Goanna rather than Gecko, with regular preview releases that to give you an idea, were lasted updated on November 3, with feedback and discussions on the K-Meleon forum.

 

Otherwise, the K-Meleon fork known as K-Ninja ceased development in 2008. CoolNovo was based on Chromium and has been inactive since 2013. Arora has been discontinued and QtWeb is no longer maintained. SlimBrowser used the Trident rendering engine that died with Internet Explorer, so users are now pointed towards Slimjet, again based on Chromium, a base some consider unnecessarily “heavy” for older hardware. Maxthon also supports Trident, a hangover from IE days, as does Polarity.  

 

Midori might be a possibility, since it is supposedly cross-platform and has a built-in ad blocker, but I didn’t have much luck getting the latest portable version to run on the Windows 7 x64 laptop, I am using to write this. Anyway, this is the sort of topic on which everyone has an opinion. Just my 10¢…

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4 hours ago, brain_death said:

If you aren’t happy with Firefox v52.9.0esr, my personal recommendation would be K-Meleon. This also uses Gecko, the rendering engine developed by Mozilla, so any older Firefox add-ons you can find,  should work out of the box. Some say its interface is old school, but if you put aside a little time for the learning curve, its capabilities are impressive. There is a portable version available and a working version of Adblock Plus (for Firefox) that can be downloaded from the K-Meleon forum. V76 is under active development, using Goanna rather than Gecko, with regular preview releases that to give you an idea, were lasted updated on November 3, with feedback and discussions on the K-Meleon forum.

 

Otherwise, the K-Meleon fork known as K-Ninja ceased development in 2008. CoolNovo was based on Chromium and has been inactive since 2013. Arora has been discontinued and QtWeb is no longer maintained. SlimBrowser used the Trident rendering engine that died with Internet Explorer, so users are now pointed towards Slimjet, again based on Chromium, a base some consider unnecessarily “heavy” for older hardware. Maxthon also supports Trident, a hangover from IE days, as does Polarity.  

 

Midori might be a possibility, since it is supposedly cross-platform and has a built-in ad blocker, but I didn’t have much luck getting the latest portable version to run on the Windows 7 x64 laptop, I am using to write this. Anyway, this is the sort of topic on which everyone has an opinion. Just my 10¢…

Gr8 explanation bro,tried k-meleon with admuncher, it has low memory consumption as compared to other browsers

https://i.postimg.cc/rsDSnHzT/browser.jpg

See the above image I cannot quote anyone also cannot reply from the bottom submit reply button

Same problem I was getting in firefox v43.0.1 which I am using it now

Cannot understand what is the problem

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7 hours ago, ashish1989 said:

Gr8 explanation bro,tried k-meleon with admuncher, it has low memory consumption as compared to other browsers 

 

You may try this variant:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/list.php?19

 

dl: https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM-Goanna-20181117.7z

 

Actually, Dorian[one of the major author] was quit last year, he appreciate this variant.

Still, you may meet some "your browser is old", such as Github, but very few.

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i still  suggest you choose one of IE shell, as backup broswer.
Aurora Browser:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Aurora-Browser.shtml
Slim browser
https://www.slimbrowser.net/

 

Most online video use adobe flash, in that case, IE use the smallest resource. [Windows build-in rendering engine]

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10 hours ago, ashish1989 said:

https://i.postimg.cc/rsDSnHzT/browser.jpg

See the above image I cannot quote anyone also cannot reply from the bottom submit reply button

Same problem I was getting in firefox v43.0.1 which I am using it now

Cannot understand what is the problem

Edited 10 hours ago by ashish1989

 

I can replicate this issue under K-Meleon 75.1 and believe it is caused by the way this browser handles the CSS3 used by the forum. The same applies to your older version of Firefox. Download the latest development version of K-Meleon 76.0, where the problem does not exist...

https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM-Goanna-20181117.7z

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4 hours ago, jasonliul said:

Most online video use adobe flash, in that case, IE use the smallest resource. [Windows build-in rendering engine] 

 

Are you sure? I thought only on Windows 8 and later, not XP or Windows 7...

 

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8 hours ago, brain_death said:

 

Are you sure? I thought only on Windows 8 and later, not XP or Windows 7...

 

IE & windows never really separate.

 

Anyway, Firefox/chromium has their own rendering engine,

This test was launched by media, also suprise me.

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When my 0.5 GB RAM XP lost flash video playing, Firefox was first without it. Now it plays flash video as simple pictures, but nowadays flash videos are very rare. Two other notable browser engines, Trident and Chromium, were then much better. I tried also some little joke browsers, but they weren't really competitive by any means.

 

There are many ways to free up more RAM: Right choice of AV or tweaking off useless Windows services like action center.

 

360 Browser 7.5 and latest 360 TS without Avira&BD were/are best combo for PC with 0.5 GB RAM. 

 

OS level: Stripped XP was lighter for browsing than any Puppy Linux in that time, and billion times more stable. Maybe Puppy had more speed before...

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21 hours ago, jasonliul said:

i still  suggest you choose one of IE shell, as backup broswer.
Aurora Browser:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Aurora-Browser.shtml
Slim browser
https://www.slimbrowser.net/

 

Most online video use adobe flash, in that case, IE use the smallest resource. [Windows build-in rendering engine]

Sir slim browser is really gr8 and light with builtin adblocker but nsaneforums is not opening in it

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18 hours ago, brain_death said:

 

I can replicate this issue under K-Meleon 75.1 and believe it is caused by the way this browser handles the CSS3 used by the forum. The same applies to your older version of Firefox. Download the latest development version of K-Meleon 76.0, where the problem does not exist...


https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM-Goanna-20181117.7z

😉

Ok sir I will download this version but is there any solution to handle the CSS3 problem caused in my firefox

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3 hours ago, ashish1989 said:

Ok sir I will download this version but is there any solution to handle the CSS3 problem caused in my firefox 

 

A few have been suggested, but these work mainly from the developers side. Your best bet is just to upgrade your Firefox, although K-Meleon 76.0 has a built-in ad blocker too...

 

Mozilla Firefox 52.9.0 (32-bit) ESR, the last build officially to support XP, doesn't have this issue either (en_US)...

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.9.0esr/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2052.9.0esr.exe

 

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Mozilla firefox the last build my dad also use windows xp and he loves firefox just pair a good av and ad blocker....

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On 12/4/2018 at 8:00 PM, brain_death said:

 

A few have been suggested, but these work mainly from the developers side. Your best bet is just to upgrade your Firefox, although K-Meleon 76.0 has a built-in ad blocker too...

 

Mozilla Firefox 52.9.0 (32-bit) ESR, the last build officially to support XP, doesn't have this issue either (en_US)...


https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.9.0esr/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2052.9.0esr.exe

 

The version is good, but is heavy on my system, kindly suggest any way to solve css3 problem on my firefox 43.0.1

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