alex313031 / mercury-win7

Windows 7 builds of Mercury Browser (Based on ESR115 rather than stable tip-of-tree)

Mercury Browser for Windows 7

Builds of Mercury Browser based on ESR115 for Windows 7/8/8.1 support.

Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, Ghostery, and BetterFox.

It aims to be the Firefox equivalent of my main project: Thorium (a Chromium fork).

Patches

See > PATCHES.md

Bugs

See > BUGS.md

Building

See > BUILDING.md and DEBUGGING.md.

mercury-win7's Issues

Release version based on Firefox ESR 115.6.0

See title.

Please update to 115.10

Btw, 115.11 will be released soon.

Addons not loading after moving program to different drive letter

Version: 121.0.1 (64-bit)

After moving Mercury's entire folder to a different drive letter, my addons are no longer loading. When I go to about:addons, all of them are still listed as enabled but some of their icons are missing. When I click the addons button in the toolbar, only one of the addons shows.

Compile AVX2 builds if possible

My Ryzen 5 5500 supports AVX2 so I'd prefer having AVX2 version of Mercury-win7 instead of AVX.

Note: Thanks for making Mercury-Win7, enjoying it so far with customizations I did.

Add Waterfox TabFeatures

These are a few useful additions from Waterfox, I mostly want them for the tab context menu items they add. For example copy tab url and copy all tab urls.

The commits that added TabFeatures to Waterfox

BrowserWorks/Waterfox@4c1046e
BrowserWorks/Waterfox@a6a87f1

Replace firefox esr 115 with modern r3dfox web browser based on latest firefox 129 for windows 7 32 bit !

Hello Mr @Alex313031 , how are you ? Thank you so much Mr Alex fir the saver life so useful vital great amazing Mercury-Win7 ! 💯 🥇

because my main laptop broke down recently and I went back to using my old laptop from year 2012 and so Mercury-Win7 is very useful vital and saves my machine from destruction !

Please i have request : watching streaming video is almost impossible on my windows 7 laptp made in 2012 because streaming video freezes, bugs....in web browsers (even in chromium) probably because my cpu is weak and no hardware acceleration support or old os.....

but downloading streaming streaming videos using several open source video download extensions and so i can playback downloaded videos with potlayer 32 bits for windows 7 and 3DYD Youtube Source plugin 32 bits which adds support of yt-dlp( we should enable dxva in potplayer and change to default system video decoders so that potplayer works normally in windows 7 32 bits), and smplayer, qmplay2, kmplayer, mpc be 32 bits, mpc hc, vlc 32 bits which are compatible with my windows 7 32 bits alahmdoulilAllah, i even speak to catch catch extension and open in vlc developers which allow to preview videos and send them to local video players like vlc and potplayer and developers have fixed several bugs recently and added new features options and thus, i no longer need to wait the download finish and i can send directly heavy video streaming to vlc or potplayer which have support of capital unique Dynamic Adaptive Streaming / MPEG-DASH whereas firefox and chrome and edge do not support this essential feature Dynamic Adaptive Streaming / MPEG-DASH for more stable streaming)!

and even fdm is compatible with windows 7....

https://github.com/xifangczy/cat-catch

https://github.com/andy-portmen/open-in-vlc/

https://www.hlsloader.com/

https://m3u8.dev/

https://github.com/chandler-stimson/live-stream-downloader

https://github.com/puemos/hls-downloader

https://github.com/sebaro/ViewTube
https://github.com/sebaro/SaveTube

https://viewtube.io/
https://github.com/ViewTube/viewtube

https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/fr/download.htm

the problem these download extensionsideally work with the latest version of firefox which can bring bug fixes, and our beloved Mercury-Win7 is based on firefox esr 115 , even though mozilla recently announced that it will continue to update firefox esr 32 bits even after september 2024, we can't enjoy the last version of firefox 32 bits in our wndows 7 os 32 bits , what concerns me is extensions often recommend to install the latest version of the web browser, and I just discovered r3dfox : an amazingly beautiful fork of modern firefox frequently updated (r3dfox uses firefox version 129 !!) and it will be great please that our beloved Mercury-Win7 will become based on r3dfox browser please to avoid compatibility issues with addons extensiosn updates, thank you so much !

yes our beloved Thorium legacy uses the latest versions of chromium 32 bits lts but I think firefox is lighter than chromium especially in my old and weak laptop in addition in firefox, I can disable session store, accessibility feature, apparently no sandboxing....so firefox seems to be more lighter than chromium and I think it's the ideal for my weak old laptop....

Thank you very much Mr @Alex313031 and Mr @gz83 again for all your efforts to support the millions of machines that still under windows 7 32 bits and thus save the ecology and our wallets and economy !

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox

https://sourceforge.net/projects/r3dfox/

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186106-r3dfox-modern-firefox-based-web-browser-for-windows-7/

Add Native Scrollbar to Mercury-Win7

Please integrate this patch https://github.com/ephemeralViolette/firefox-native-controls into Mercury-Win7, I hate seeing Mozilla's forced Win10 scrollbar in my Win7. This was also requested for regular Mercury Alex313031/Mercury#62 but I assume Alex did not see it.

Lack of native scrollbar patch in Mercury is the only reason that still makes me use stock Firefox 115 ESR instead of Mercury.

Mercury-Win7 v.115.9.0 SSE4 version hangs and then crashes on first use

Appears on first startup and when using other profiles
Windows_NT 10.0 22000

Add dynamic themes from Waterfox

These options allow you to force light or dark mode irrelevant to what mode the browser is in. You can have web pages default to dark mode while in light mode, or light mode in dark mode. I mostly want them since 7/8 have no native dark mode it always defaults to light mode and Firefox uses the OS mode whether to send light or dark mode preferences to the website instead of the current browser theme.

They're part of this big commit in Waterfox.

BrowserWorks/Waterfox@34a0f02

Variable font is not supported on Win7

Test site: https://stricjs.netlify.app/docs/intro.html

The site uses a variable font "Inter" and if it's not supported, the headings would all appear in same font weight.

Older CPU (non-AVX) Support in the Future?