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Internet / Mypal68: A possible alternative browser?
« on: July 19, 2025, 02:03:18 pm »
Hi All
While browsing osnews.com I saw this:-
Mypal68: Firefox 68, maintained for Windows XP
Thom Holwerda 2025-07-17 Mozilla, Gecko 9 Comments
Do you have a Windows XP retro virtual machine or, god forbid, run Windows XP on your primary machine? You’re going to need a sort-of up-to-date browser, and it turns out Mypal68 offers just that. Terrible name aside, it’s Firefox 68 ported to and maintained to run on Windows XP SP3; SP2 and lower are not supported, but some people do seem to have some success getting it to run on those.
There are issues, of course: there’s a 1.5GB memory limit, and the browser will crash when it reaches that limit, and 64bit builds simpy don’t work at all, so there’s only a 32bit build. Version 74.1.0 was released a few days ago, but that version number doesn’t actually mean the browser is now based on Firefox 74; they had to change the reported version number for extension compatibility.
Could "a sort-of up-to-date browser" currently "maintained for WindowsXP" be of interest to us OS/2 users?
Would it be easier to port than Dooble + qt5/6?
If any of our "Mozilla experts" fancy taking a look: https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68
Regards
Pete
While browsing osnews.com I saw this:-
Mypal68: Firefox 68, maintained for Windows XP
Thom Holwerda 2025-07-17 Mozilla, Gecko 9 Comments
Do you have a Windows XP retro virtual machine or, god forbid, run Windows XP on your primary machine? You’re going to need a sort-of up-to-date browser, and it turns out Mypal68 offers just that. Terrible name aside, it’s Firefox 68 ported to and maintained to run on Windows XP SP3; SP2 and lower are not supported, but some people do seem to have some success getting it to run on those.
There are issues, of course: there’s a 1.5GB memory limit, and the browser will crash when it reaches that limit, and 64bit builds simpy don’t work at all, so there’s only a 32bit build. Version 74.1.0 was released a few days ago, but that version number doesn’t actually mean the browser is now based on Firefox 74; they had to change the reported version number for extension compatibility.
Could "a sort-of up-to-date browser" currently "maintained for WindowsXP" be of interest to us OS/2 users?
Would it be easier to port than Dooble + qt5/6?
If any of our "Mozilla experts" fancy taking a look: https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68
Regards
Pete