Mypal browser problems

UK-Tim

UK-Tim

Hi People,

A month or so back I found that Mypal 68 started to "draw-out vertically" some of the graphics on web pages.
The problem didn't "seem" to affect Mypal 29 at first, but as I used 29more I soon saw the problem there as well.

I kept popping over here to see if it was just me, or if others had noticed the problem.
Now I've found a work-around, I thought I should let others know about it.

On Mypal 68.14.4b
Under Options / General / Performance
Un-ticking "Use recommended performance settings" fixed the problem for me.

On Mypal 29.3 (Which was less affected)
Under Tools / Preferences / Advanced / Scrolling
Un-ticking - "Use smooth scrolling" fixed the problem for me "I think". If not this, something else did!
It's harder to test as 29.3 doesn't always produce the problem.

The problem "seems" much worse when my internet connection is poor.

Also:
I've been using "Supermium" more often lately to get me through "I am a human" website tests.
Once I'm though the test, I generally copy & paste the URL in to Mypal and carry on as normal,
especially if I want to make use of "Get'emAll" multi-threaded downloads.

I also noticed "Get'emAll" has been back under development recently.

My everyday pc is quad core L5420 Xeon with 2GB of ram running XP configured to resemble win2K.

When first running (for the first time on a given day) "Mypal 29.3 & Mypal 68" take between 6-10 seconds to load & display.

When first running (for the first time on a given day) "Supermium", it takes 30+ seconds to load & display with all 4 cores max'd out!
(I wonder if Supermium has been compiled in a debug mode?)
 
I think the fact that no one else is complaining says a lot about my internet connection!



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I also just found out a few moments ago that I also have to Un-Tick "Use hardware acceleration when available" on Mypal68

This affects all my pc's & laptops.
 
I don't have access to my XP laptop right now but the fact that you have to disable hardware acceleration points to a problem with video, mis-configured drivers or perhaps your video doesn't support hardware acceleration at all.

Keep in mind that Supermium is based on Chromium 132 meant for modern Windows 10/11 PCs with gigabytes or RAM. Your 2GB is definitely going to cause performance problems with Supermium.
 
Tested on my XP laptop. Here are the specs:

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No missing drivers in device manager.

I clocked the loading times on this PC for various XP browsers.

MyPal 28: 12.75 s
MyPal 68: 11.81 s
Supermium 1M 15.25 s
360Chrome 26.04 s

My wireless speed on this laptop is 2.7 MB/Sec. I have performance settings/hardware acceleration enabled on all these browsers and don't experience the screen stretching issues you do on any of these browsers. HD videos do sputter somewhat in Supermium 132 on this laptop.

You probably need an XP gaming PC to run Supermium smoothly.
 
Sorry, I didn't realise there was a reply, but now I do thanks for your timings.

Clearly Supermium does take it time.

In the last 24 hours or so, I've been using :-

&

I now get 404 page found on the link above.

I also get the same 404 on "https://uk.annas-archive.org/", but I know I'm just being blocked, and so
now use a non-English version such as "https://fr.annas-archive.org" instead.

Both "Chromes" work with the "I am a human" tests on annas-archive and both booted in around 12 seconds.

I had occasionally been using a Chinese version of Chrome 360, but only because I didn't know any better, and didn't
realise there were working English versions.

So for now, I think I'll stop using Supermium and use one of the English 360ChromePortable's instead.

Many of my browser problems often seem transient, maybe lasting for a few days or months
before something changes web-side. On Mypal, problems seem to come and go quite regularly. I came close to being locked
out of my Github account, because logging on would always fail the SMS security codes. Then on the third day I tried early in the morning
when my 4G router data throughput is at it's best and I got straight in. Further testing shows that it will usually fail me after 2pm,although
I can still pull 30Mbits of data using 40 threads, but only 1Mbit or less on a single thread as opposed to the more usual 15-20Mbits on a single thread.
So to my mind the data throttling used by 1p mobile in my case, or "Tower overload", seems to cause the SMS security
codes to fail and the graphic stretching artifacts to manifest on Mypal29.3 & 68. I'm sure both problems are real software bugs, but it's
takes a very specific set of data traffic circumstances to show them up. They have been mentioned on the Mypal Github site.
 
UK-Tim said:
...I now get 404 page found on the link above...
Click to expand...
That is because AF has only left us with 13.5.1030_Redux_1 and all others are considerd abondonware now. He stated he didn't trust anything above 13.5.1030_Redux_1 anyway. I still use V11 sometimes but that is also abondoned.
 
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