Hello Mr @Alex313031 , how are you ? Thank you so much Mr Alex fir the saver life so useful vital great amazing Mercury-Win7 ! ๐ฏ ๐ฅ
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/