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

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

Please update to 115.10

Btw, 115.11 will be released soon.

Release version based on Firefox ESR 115.6.0

See title.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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