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I have little to no understanding of networking, so I'm afraid I can´t help you with this particular issue. Did the download fail? I just tested a random video from YouTube in my Windows 7 VM and all went fine.
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Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Oh, and I didn't think about asking this earlier, but when you tried to uninstall Malwarebytes and it resulted in your computer REBOOTING itself (prompting a Safe Mode uninstall of Malwarebytes), was Firefox OPEN when Malwarebytes uninstall crashed your system into a reboot? -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
If it does NOT launch, then clench your fists, pound one sternly but in full control of anger level on desktop but make sure you miss keyboard and mouse, grab something in the other hand and controllably throw something without breaking it or anything it hits, raise your voice level approx 15 decibels (whereas 30 decibels is the increase of a raging uncontrolled shout), and shout out this phrase, "Curse You, Malwarebytes, You Did This!" -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
If it DOES launch, then you should be able to REPLACE all of the .exe/.dll/etc root dir files/folders of your "installed" version and it should now also launch. -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Try the PortableApps Portable Legacy 52 and see if it launches. It will not affect other Firefox installs/profiles. https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox-portable-legacy-52 -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
Dave-H replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
OK, I tried disabling the current Firefox profile (by renaming its folder and making a new empty folder with the same name). Firefox still didn't start, with the same immediate error. I think that means the issue is nothing to do with anything in the profile. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
r3dfox (and firefox) will still upgrade the connection to HTTPS, even if the relevant setting, HTTPS-Only Mode, under "about:preferences#privacy", has been manually set to "Don’t enable HTTPS-Only Mode" ... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-upgrades I had to first enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows, and then configure an exception just for "o.rthost.win" ... - Today
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As I don't think that it is fair to report this to yt-dlp, as I'm using your builds under Windows 7 (and the officials aren't valid for this), and so, just in case, the fault is in this build, I want to tell that your latest, this is 2026.01.19.143412, but not the previous, this is 2026.01.18.152406, there is a problem with DNS resolving. Instead request the OS to resolve an A DNS record (this is the IPv4 IP) for the host of the video www.youtube.com (after re-review is not the host of the video, it doesn't even reach that step, is www.youtube.com), requests a ?65? DNS record (question mark, 6, 5, question mark), that is absolutely invalid (there is no such record in the standard and so replies the Google DNS server). I use my own DNS resolver (local resolver, I mean, not external) and so I can inspect what is going on with DNS requests and so I'm seen it and reporting it. Where is the fault coming? I don't have the knowledge to tell. Just that in the 18th of January, it works OK. Regards. EDIT: just to add up, I double checked the hash and file download isn't corrupted. EDIT2: now that I think about it... 65 matches to the decimal value of the character A (capital A)... Might be some sort of UTF or ASCII thing? DNS is pure ASCII (or maybe ANSI), so no clue what has been introduced this issue. LAST EDIT: ok I wasted the time digging it, using wireshark in loopback mode, and 65 means code 41, which means EDNS. Why on earth yt-dlp is now requesting an EDNS record for www.youtube.com :-?
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VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
The article I linked to, https://habr.com/ru/articles/856602/ is, supposedly, intended for free-tier users, with an addition in the end "For paid CloudFlare users" ; but I'm not sure disabling ECH works anymore, as this statement from June 2025 indicates: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1485#issue-3189002561 ... -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
roytam1 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
VK crash is known even in upstream, so far there is no solution or workaround. better using chrome-based browser for this. -
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Egorkaru replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod crashes when opening https://vk.com: -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
Egorkaru replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Opening website http://o.rthost.win over an unsecured HTTP connection was also interrupted after the first 16 KB. I tested in the r3dfox browser under Windows 10 (x64). -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
roytam1 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
IIRC there is no sophisticated settings about HTTPS in cloudflare free-tier so I have no control about ECH. -
Or generally on old machines with a single-core processor. After restarting my computer, it additionally installs or updates some modules like, for example, NNSNAHS (Network Activity Hook Server Service) which makes starting much worse. Now, I get a popup that no firewall is installed for a short time, and Panda gets deactivated. A further one minute later, it finally activates itself. So the start was extended by at least another minute. Not good.
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There is no noticeable increase in startup time with 22.03.05 on my machine, it seems perfectly normal as it was before Panda was installed, so I can only assume that it just doesn't run well on your particular hardware.
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VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
@Egorkaru. can you not access the PLAIN HTTP version of http://o.rthost.win/ (obviously, on a browser that doesn't enforce HTTPS) ? I found some relevant issues in the Supermium issue tracker: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1485 https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/997 and, possibly, https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1005 @roytam1, it appears you have ECH enabled: https://dns.google/resolve?name=o.rthost.win&type=HTTPS perhaps disabling it could restore access in Russia ? -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
Dave-H replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I did wonder about extensions, I haven't changed those on FF 52 for years, but they do update themselves so it's possible that an incompatibility has crept in. It won't run in Firefox 'safe mode' either though, which I thought was supposed to not load any extensions or plugins. I'll try with a new clean profile which should eliminate this possibility. -
Today, I have uninstalled Panda Free Antivirus 21.01.00 and installed Panda once again but via their online installer. The version installed by their online installer is 22.03.05. The online installer downloads the legacy installer FREEAV_LGC.exe (117MB) and not the common FREEAV.exe (161MB) under Windows XP. Unfortunately, the version 22.03.05 needs much longer for starting when booting Windows XP. It is round about 5 to 6 minutes on my old machine. The culprit is the process PSANHost.exe which places very high demands on the CPU, up to 99%. The previously installed version 21.01.00 only needed 2 minutes. I'll keep the currently installed version a while just for testing purpose but I think I'll go then back to version 21.01.00. The next days, I'll use to see how this version behaves in my system doing all the things I usually do.
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Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I'm not seeing it imported either. Not sure if this is even possible, but do you have an extension or plugin generating imports that Firefox itself is not importing? Again, not even sure if this is possible (but I know it can be done in Edge [corporate environment]). -
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VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
... Sadly, I suspect those have been blocked even before ALL the free "VPNs"; Putin doesn't like to leave loopholes , does he? ... -
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roytam1 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I can't remove cloudflare here because it needs to be existed for caching traffics and there is no free alternative for this. you may find some free web proxies to access my site instead? -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
roytam1 replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
you may need to collapse whole tree and expand one by one to see who uses unsupported kernel32/advapi32 APIs. BTW here neither firefox.exe nor xul.dll import CreateThreadpoolWork and its friends here with firefox52.9esr. -
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Egorkaru replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
roytam1, please remove Cloudflare from website https://o.rthost.win. Cloudflare is blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor. Because of this, opening website https://o.rthost.win on my SkyNet ISP in Saint Petersburg, Russia (https://skynet.ru) has been interrupted after the first 16 KB since December 2025. All free VPNs has been blocked by SkyNet ISP, and my mom won't give me money for paid VPNs. -
Firefox 52 no longer working on XP
Dave-H replied to Dave-H's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Here's what Dependency Walker says. CreateThreadpoolWork is indeed showing an error, but so are several other functions, and they're not stopping it from running! Incidentally, why does it say 'Not Bound'? Should that actually be 'Not Found' or is that terminology correct? Sorry, I'm no expert on this sort of thing! -
Blackwingcat Please update some files using ESU KB's windows2000-kb2508429-x86-custom-plk_949c1405efd680cf901db2748dbbec1de297dcfd.exe srv.sys 5.0.2195.7441 windows2000-kb2676562-x86-custom-plk_dcab96b4e7275a50644ce047299fcefc74e98c79.exe ntkrnlmp.exe, ntkrnlpa.exe, ntkrpamp.exe, ntoskrnl.exe v7473 windows2000-kb2758857-x86-custom-plk_f5cfc4c05068b39fdf86d6e2b021b87a8f8c6f2f.exe kernel32.dll v7505 windows2000-kb2876217-x86-custom-plk_e1e4f63016a50df3e2f8fd195a78134ba16ce082.exe ole32.dll v7551 windows2000-kb2992611-x86-custom-plk_e18cbdacd7826ac86fc9b25ba1eb877f332b5946.exe schannel.dll v7593 windows2000-kb3039066-x86-custom-plk_ce91eb9d39184f03580a4e3fbc372db93d473ffd.exe shell32.dll v7604