MyPal Browser performance

UK-Tim

UK-Tim

Hi Guys,

I'm running Mypal 74.1.4 (integrated) & 29.3 (portable)

For quite some time I have noticed a poor response to keystrokes & mouse,
which is accompanied by a constant grinding of the harddisk.

After clearing the cached data (1GB) and doing a degrag things improved a little
but after 10 mins on ebay I noticed the cached data was about 600MB already.
(constant grinding of the harddisk?)

So I tried this on 74.1.4

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about:config (in the address bar)

browser.cache.disk.capacity = 10000 = 10MB

browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled (set it to false)

Restart Mypal

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It's early days, but things are a lot quicker & quieter now.
 
Well since making my gaff, I think I ought to at least report how things actually went.

When I looked up the settings myself, I missed the "browser.cache.disk.enable = false" altogether, but
when I saw it in cleverscreenname's post, I used that setting instead. Just turned the cache off.

I have actually turned the cache off in both Mypal 29.3 & 74.1.4 browsers.

For me that setting turned out to be "The bee's knees" not just because it was clearly prolonging the life of
my cherished Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives, but it also helped show up where the data throughput problems were,
which were clearly were down to the websites themselves like eBay & Aliexpress and not my broadband connections.
I "think" the Tab crashes have also stopped.

For the last 18 months my broadband & home telephone have been solely down to, two Huawi B525 4g routers each
on a different mobile network, and one of them having an old land line telephone plugged into the Voip connector on the back.
I generally find that one network will start data throttling or perhaps the mobile tower is being overloaded at certain times, so when that
happens I simply switch my wifi connection over to the other router and off we go again. The two sims cost about £10 a month
each here in the UK giving me about 100GB a month of paid for data.

One other added bonus to the cache being off is that my data usage appears to have reduced.
 
in About:Support under Important Modified Preferences I have

network.dns.disablePrefetch true
network.prefetch-next false

Those should lower your data usage.

I would also think that, after defragging your hard drive so your free space is consolidated, you'd be safe to turn cache back on to lower your data usage.

If you have a lot of memory (for example I'm on XP64 with 16gb RAM) you could put the browser cache on a RAMdrive, and optionally have it save/restore the ramdrive to harddrive during reboots. I've tested several, and settled on SoftPerfect RamDisk v3.4.3
I wouldn't do this if your XP is limited to 4gb RAM or less, because modern websites hog massive memory with all their nefarious javascripting.
 
cleverscreenname said:
I sure hope not, considering it's been 8 months since any moderator has visited this site, and over a year since an administrator has visited.
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Well the reason I asked is because I can only see 7 posts on this thread including this one.

The missing posts are our conversation about scanners & your links to XP x64 AHCI drivers

If it wasn't caught in my pop3 mail, I'd have thought I'd dreamt it.

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sure do, www.driverpack.ioI haven't seen it miss anything yet! I like how easily they can be slipstreamed into existing Windows installation discs. Archive.orgseems to have every Microsoft OS under the sun, but if it's missing anything, I can probably provide you with it! from Dos v4 to Win10Ameliorated. I have a scanner that only works in Win9x and I've never placed it, because it still gets the job done, thanks to Rudolph R.Loew's patches making Win9x run on modern hardware.
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Also
1- I am no longer receiving "New reply to watched thread" notifications (They've stopped again)
2- New members are joining (I thought this wasn't possible any more)
3- Guests online show (for me at least) 1 or zero down from 50-150 when I've been online.

So something's up, and it's all a bit irksome.
 
Good eye, thanks for posting that. Yes, I've had at least one post in another thread gone missing as well. It could be mod activity or it could be computer errors on our server, but we have no contact.
 
cleverscreenname said:
Good eye, thanks for posting that. Yes, I've had at least one post in another thread gone missing as well. It could be mod activity or it could be computer errors on our server, but we have no contact.
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Probably a server corruption. The forum is too small to probably even keep a backup.
 
And the fault could be entirely Cloudfare's. Their popular "protection" package modifies website code on-the-fly, and they (serve) cache/backups however they feel like it. That's how they earned their nickname "The Internet Police", because they've used their popularity to blacklist UserAgentStrings they don't like: any old versions of Windows, any old versions of browsers, any less-popular browsers with less than 2% market-share, etc. Tyranny at its finest
 
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Could It also be dependent on what the subject matter is? As I cruise the net looking for places dedicated to current (Open Source) modifying for Windows XP, It seems that the search engines are not as cooperative as in the past. I'm not talking about published software from ye old days, I mean XP development for today. IOW, are there algorithms designed to quash mention of ongoing modern XP development...

I reposted a deleted post mentioning Python 3.11 for WindowsXP

XP Development Resources

Just dumping links useful to developers targetting Windows XP. Python 2.7.0 download: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ Python 2.7.1 download: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-271/ (better, still supports XP) Dev C++ 5.11 with TDM-GCC download...
www.xpforums.com
I'm curious.
 
Heh, with power and corruption, in humans or AI, anything's possible!

It's very cool you still take the time to post here= one of my first reads on this site, and still permanent in my bookmarks, is Re-capping A Motherboard, something I've never done.
 
TMTGTR said:
Could It also be dependent on what the subject matter is? As I cruise the net looking for places dedicated to current (Open Source) modifying for Windows XP, It seems that the search engines are not as cooperative as in the past. I'm not talking about published software from ye old days, I mean XP development for today. IOW, are there algorithms designed to quash mention of ongoing modern XP development...

I reposted a deleted post mentioning Python 3.11 for WindowsXP

XP Development Resources

Just dumping links useful to developers targetting Windows XP. Python 2.7.0 download: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ Python 2.7.1 download: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-271/ (better, still supports XP) Dev C++ 5.11 with TDM-GCC download...
www.xpforums.com
I'm curious.
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If you use Google, you get spammed with ads. If you use Bing or DuckDuckGo, you see the most viewed responses. Modern open-source XP projects are rare and therefore don't get much traffic and are considered less relevant. So I think the algorithm may have A LOT to do with it.

However, XP, Vista and 7 videos on YouTube get up to MILLIONS of views in a matter of days, from channels that only have a few thousand subscribers. Maybe Google decided it is worth milking XP users' YouTube watchtime for every cent and dime, while hiding opensource repos and instead giving up to 2 pages of sponsored ads and AVG Antivirus.
 
cleverscreenname said:
Heh, with power and corruption, in humans or AI, anything's possible!

It's very cool you still take the time to post here= one of my first reads on this site, and still permanent in my bookmarks, is Re-capping A Motherboard, something I've never done.
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In many predictions, it is small and dedicated communities that will remain amidst AI slop. AI is probably crawling this forum as we breathe anyway. I know a close friend who wanted to activate XP via phone, encountered this forum and is a guest reader (meaning he doesn't have an account).

I've joined this forum a year ago and thanks to it and a broader interest in legacy technologies, I am now quite proficient with soldering, low-level Arduino projects from recycled devices, recycling devices, VB6, C++, Lazarus Free Pascal, how DLL and other libraries work, installers and how to make them, antivirus software, Microsoft certification, quite some stuff about networking, how to find what you want on Internet Archive...

I also managed to do something I did not think possible - I have aquired XP and Vista hardware. I do most of my app development on my XP laptop.

That is why I made a YouTube channel where I try to share what I learned, with more to come (still working on some soldering videos), because it would have been a lot faster if such information was more readily available.

That is also why it is kind of sad to not see more people joining this forum, as when less-proficient or less-experienced people come for help, they can receive the help they want on this forum (which is quite less toxic than a place like Reddit).
 
cleverscreenname said:
Heh, with power and corruption, in humans or AI, anything's possible!

It's very cool you still take the time to post here= one of my first reads on this site, and still permanent in my bookmarks, is Re-capping A Motherboard, something I've never done.
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Thanks for the sentiment. That recap lasted quite a while but the MB died and was part harvested. My New XP DAW is rocking though.
 
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