Have not posted for a while. Previous post explained my fondness (obsession?) for the Thinkpad T42, which I still believe, in terms of form factor and ergonometics, was 20+ years ahead of its time. At one point I had over 15 T42s running XP in a network, and could take them apart almost blindfolded. The T42 maxes out ram at 2 gbs and, even with an Ebay-upgraded (compatible) processor, was sluggish at web browsing (but great for word processing and other tasks.). The bottleneck was, of course, the browser. XP HERO "FEODOR2" created the original MYPAL browser-mimic based on Palemoon, until the Palemoon people sent him a legal letter. Great camaraderie, guys!. After a brief disappearance, Feordor2 reappared with something called MYPAL68, a new "XP firefox mimic" -- but, even with the OPTIONS set to a a single "content process limit" it was still too much for the T42. So I reluctantly went back to his original (discontinued) MYPAL and watched year by year as fewer and fewer web sites loaded. This year, 2024, I had lost so many sites that I finally had to abandon the T42 completely. Ouch. However, before walking away from the XP OS as well, I decided to give Feodor2 one more try by installing MYPAL68 on a 2007 Thinkpad T61. Picked a plain-Jane T61 with low mileage (not a "T61 Frankenpad") rocking the original Core 2 DUO T7300 running at 2.0 GHZ, and 4 gbs of ram -- although XP can use only 3 gbs. Also upgraded the BIOS to the controversial, and hard to find, Middleton hack. The Middleton hack enabled me to install a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD. So, bottom line, I am writing this post from a T61 that, on boot, offers the user a choice of 3 boot partitions -- XP, WIN 81., and WIN11. (Install of WIN 11 on a T61 beyond the scope of this Forum). I have just now been testing the XP partition with MYPAL68 version 13.7.b installed -- and I am blown away by the performance! Like seeing an old friend again after many years. Even though MYPAL68 spoofs/mimics an "older" version of Firefox (much older!) 95% of my favorite sites load correctly, and even several of my banking sites are loading. (At least for now). XP in this setup seldom seems to need more than 2/3 of the 3 available gbs of ram, and core temp seldom rises above 65 degrees C. Even though SSDs are not native to XP, no TRIM, the partition runs nicely with no obvious sags or glitches. I did 3 or 4 registry changes to reduce writes (such as killing the pagefile and prefetch). The full 4 gbs of ram is available to the other two partitions, of course. I also use Ublock Origin to remove garbage from sites, which helps. Just before posting this, I was able to use VideoDownloadHelper in "browser mode" to download a mp4 video from a news aggregator site. To do that in 2024 with XP is pretty %$#% amazing. Props to Feodor2. Color me impressed.