R.Wieser wrote:
Paul,

OK, how about this. Hard to believe this is the right control.

Than thats two of us. When I go to that setting it says "Firefox will send
a signal that you don't want to be tracked whenever Tracking Protection is
on". The whole point is that I want *less* blabbering, not more. :-)

With regard to speeding up your new browser,
you could test with a new video card :-/

Lolz. Thats not going to happen on old hardware running XP I'm afraid.
I'm not even sure if a "new" videocard for my hardware does still exist.

"In Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, and check under
"Graphics", it should say "GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1",

I can't find such a line, but I noticed something which could explain some
of the slowness (though I have little problems with its overall performance)

"unavailable by default: Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing"

Never knew that XPsp3 supported D3D 11 ...

Dumb question maybe, but do you have any idea if I can maybe downgrade the
browser a bit but still have the newer encryptions supported ? I sought
for a feature list once (in regard to supported encryptions), but have never
been able to find one.

Regards (and thank you)
Rudy Wieser

Direct2D has existed for a good while.

Compositing requires 128MB of RAM, on a typical platform.
My Macintosh is the first hardware here, with a compositing
layer buttered on top. And the same minimum requirement
might still be enough. The platform there had a 128MB minimum
too. It was based on an estimate of how many panes
might reasonably be opened at once, then sorted
in Z buffer order and presented in a final representation.

The question would be, whether actual D3D 11 constructs
are #included or it's just the bollox of the support
files. Like, maybe the version of Visual Studio, when
called upon to offer graphics primitives, dredged that
up. I think there might even be an option in Visual
Studio to crank that down.

Compositing in the CPU is a bad idea, as you can
imagine. It certainly is in Linux VMs, where compiz
is running. It sucks all the life out of the VM to
do that.

Um, good luck with that project... I guess :-)

Browsers and old OSes - the war never ends.

I often dreamed of moving the crypto suite
from a modern FF to an older one, but
what are the odds that is modular. Maybe
I can find a Vegas bookie to give me odds.

Paul