Is Superfox browser development still halted?

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Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up

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Is Superfox browser development still halted? #986

Open EgorKuzevanov opened 1 week ago

EgorKuzevanov commented 1 week ago

Is Superfox browser development still halted? I was really looking forward to trying out an actual browser based on Mozilla Firefox 128 ESR compatible with Windows XP SP1 (released September 9, 2002) and 512 MB RAM. But:

firstly, the Supermium browser requires at least 768 MB RAM;
secondly, the Mypal 68 browser is not compatible with Windows XP SP1 (released September 9, 2002);
and thirdly, on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 (2008) netbook with a 32-bit single-core dual-threaded Intel Atom N270 CPU (1,6 GHz), 1,5 GB of RAM, an integrated Intel GMA 950 video card and running Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 (x86), allocating more than 512 MB of virtual RAM to the VMware Workstation v7.1.4 (2011) virtual machine will cause the physical RAM to overflow.

win32ss commented 4 days ago

At this time, Superfox usability declines considerably on NT 5.x compared to Vista and above. Due to other commitments it is unknown when this will be resolved, but the priority has been reduced for the time being, because of the extension of 115 ESR updates for 7/8.x.

greyrat116 commented 3 days ago

Webrender work in Windows XP on OpenGL 3 and partially OpenGL 2 Example screenshot Mypal 68 and Windows XP https://habrastorage.org/webt/_p/jd/0s/_pjd0saqmphp-jmffczxhtnq8yu.jpeg Firefox can use software Open GL 2 or 3 in Windows XP if the video card does not support them

Half-Modern commented 3 days ago

Please restore the missing DXVA decoder (Yes, removed in Firefox > 115 as well :/) that will enable GPU video decoding on many old GPUs from 2005-2009 and remove the workload off of the CPUs of the machines running Windows 7-8.1 before the release.

bw134polska commented 1 day ago

On Windows Vista, there's r3dfox that is supported. But there are no plans of supporting Windows XP or any NT5 operating system by the author.

It's difficult to make Firefox >89 working on Windows XP, but not impossible, so maybe in 2025 we could release the point there will be a fork that would work with XP or 2003 with SP3 (and without One-Core-API)?

About SP1 and RTM: These systems do not support Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 and newer, so they need wrappers. Maybe with them, Firefox 52.9 could be possible?

Vangelis66 commented 21 hours ago

On Windows Vista, there's r3dfox that is supported.

Yes :wink: ; however, I'm on Vista SP2 32-bit and it's currently (if ever) impossible to make r3dfox_32-bit use its sandbox:

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/130

... Not the case with Supermium_32-bit :+1: on Vista SP2 ...