Note to Brink
Realtek has released R2.83 drivers on their web site around near end of January 2024 & early February 2024.
however, R2.83 has the old 6.0.1.8186 drivers but updated MS digital signatures & with certain Realtek HD Audio manager files updated
(in short, R2.83 is pretty much a...
v6.0.9239.1 HDA FF06 generic 64bit driver + Waves MaxxAudio software from Fujitsu EMEA (posted 11/24/2023)
-old version, new Microsoft WHQL signature date of 10/23/2023
FF06 = generic HDA with Waves Maxxaudio integration
WHQL for x64 Windows 7, 8.x Windows 10/11
FF06 HDA best suited for...
guess Mozilla decided to release a non-esr version of FF 115.0.3 after all but their release notes page is different than for 115.0.3 ESR
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.0.3/releasenotes/
Firefox 115.0.3 ESR just came out today 7/18 for Win7/8.x - release notes for FF 115.0.3 ESR
Firefox ESR 115.0.3esr, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
not sure if there will be a "regular" non-esr edition of FF 115.0.3 (maybe later or tomorrow?); only an esr edition is currently available...
Firefox 115 ESR released Jul. 3 (Jul. 4 for others):
Directory Listing: /pub/firefox/releases/115.0esr/
last major ESR release to support Win7 & Win8/8.1 (and older apple macOS versions)
version 6.90.66 of Setpoint available 1/19/2023 - should still support Win8/8.1 as well as Win7
v6.90 installed & still worked on my brother's old Sony Vaio laptop with Win7 x64 Professional edition
reboot/restart the laptop and check the Win8 activation status again to see if it is really activated or not
type winver.exe in the Run dialog box to see if the correct Windows 8 edition is installed (whether Windows 8 Core/Home or Windows 8 Pro)