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Superfox #95

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thewanderingtraderm opened this issue Nov 10, 2023 · 22 comments
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Superfox #95

thewanderingtraderm opened this issue Nov 10, 2023 · 22 comments

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@thewanderingtraderm
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you should also create Superfox which is Firefox for windows 7/8 devices

@spacedrone404
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Can't argue with that. Will be uber useful.
And yeah, most of advanced users prefer Firefox.
I'm using Mercury 115 ESR, but anyways HUGE thanks to win32ss for his ENORMOUS work!

@Win-DVD
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Win-DVD commented Nov 10, 2023

I imagine with this, the vista extended kernel and this hypothetical Firefox fork would be spreading him quite thin no?

@win32ss
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win32ss commented Nov 10, 2023

Firefox 115 ESR and special methods to get Firefox 118+ working on Windows 8.1 have negated the need for this fork, until early next year.

Then it will be done.

The Vista extended kernel's scope has been greatly reduced. The situation with One-Core-API and Chromium 11x reveals why Supermium exists; they are having to use a myriad flags and go without certain features to run other Chromium browsers. So I abandoned all efforts of running future Chromium browsers after 111 and make Supermium instead.

However, there will be more Vista extended kernel releases in the future but focusing on kernel mode components such as modified or new drivers.

@spacedrone404
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Then it will be done.

Thank you! We need orange fox in Win7.

@adeii
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adeii commented Dec 29, 2023

I confirm that you can run Firefox 121.0 on Win 8.1.
All you need is to unpack latest (not ESR) FF setup.exe from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
and edit Optional header of firefox.exe with CFF Explorer (or similar tool).
Screenshot_1

p.s. Maybe it can run on Win 7, too. But I guess it needs additional DLLs (api-ms-....).

@KandiPanda
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p.s. Maybe it can run on Win 7, too. But I guess it needs additional DLLs (api-ms-....).

Would that be the same ones currently included with ESR 115.x.x, or would additional ones besides those be needed as well?

@spacedrone404
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p.s. Maybe it can run on Win 7, too.

I tested FF 121 in Windows 7 x64 ESU fully up-to-date environment. And it is no go.
At first program begs for API-MS-WIN-SHCORE-SCALING-L1-1-1.dll.
After putting lib into FF and system32 folders software drops: could not load xpcom error.

@adeii
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adeii commented Dec 31, 2023

Sorry for be too optimistic.
FF 121 still can NOT run on Win 7 with many added API-MS- libs (and others used by Blaukovitch) nor VxKex.
Even bridged libs for kernel32, user32, userenv in firefox.exe, xui.dll get errors.

@spacedrone404
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Sorry for be too optimistic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows7/comments/18v3o8j/i_present_you_a_christmas_gift_firefox_121/

@adeii
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adeii commented Dec 31, 2023

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows7/comments/18v3o8j/i_present_you_a_christmas_gift_firefox_121/
This VyvFox is serious project and it really works on Win 7! Thanks for sharing this New Year's gift, @spacedrone404 !

@spacedrone404
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Thanks for sharing this New Year's gift
doing my part, enjoy

@adeii
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adeii commented Dec 31, 2023

Backport of Vyvfox to Firefox, works on Win 7 x64
https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases/tag/F121

@andika207
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@adeii thanks for the build.
I tested it out with Facebook which is a resources hungry site and the performance is as good as Supermium but then I tried to open a youtube link and it doesn't work. LOL @K4sum1

@K4sum1
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K4sum1 commented Jan 15, 2024

@adeii thanks for the build. I tested it out with Facebook which is a resources hungry site and the performance is as good as Supermium but then I tried to open a youtube link and it doesn't work. LOL @K4sum1

I have no idea if taking libs breaks anything. I use a custom compile of Vyvfox daily, specifically just for YouTube, and have 0 issues.

@andika207
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Backport of Vyvfox to Firefox, works on Win 7 x64 https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases/tag/v121

odd things of github... 👮

this post has not been edited however it takes me to Supermium portable download links which didn't exist last month.

I also realized vyvfox is now r3dfox....

@n0099
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n0099 commented Jan 28, 2024

this post has not been edited however it takes me to Supermium portable download links which didn't exist last month.

It's possible to remove a git tag based github release and recreated it with the same name.

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@adeii
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adeii commented Jan 29, 2024

this post has not been edited however it takes me to Supermium portable download links which didn't exist last month.

Sorry for old tag. Correct link is https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases/tag/F121

@K4sum1
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K4sum1 commented Jan 29, 2024

On the topic of Firefox backported, 122 is a thing.

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/122.0.1-beta

@andika207
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Sorry for old tag.

it's not your fault dude. I had already downloaded this fork 2 weeks ago

this kind of things blows my mind because github superseded the previous link without notifying it

@andika207
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On the topic of Firefox backported, 122 is a thing.
Does not work on XP or Vista stock.

it's a shame if we'll get stuck on Mypal 68 forever 😢

@K4sum1
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K4sum1 commented Jan 30, 2024

On the topic of Firefox backported, 122 is a thing.
Does not work on XP or Vista stock.

it's a shame if we'll get stuck on Mypal 68 forever 😢

I'm not a good programmer, there is no chance I get it working on XP or Vista stock. If Feodor2 or someone else were to help and backport it to those versions, I would welcome it. If this does happen though, I'm not going the cheap closed source progwrp route.

@andika207
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I'm not a good programmer, there is no chance I get it working on XP

No problem #207 (comment)

If Feodor2 or someone else were to help and backport it to those versions, I would welcome it.

No chance. Feodor2/Mypal68#222 (comment)

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