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Irrelevant but Do you even plan to merge the NSS and the retrozilla 2.3 changes?

... Same is true (new bugfix release) for his py3.13.x builds: https://github.com/adang1345/PythonVista/tree/master/3.13.8 (seeing that your GitHub "Win7" release assets are compiled with adang1345's py3.11 implementation )

Pardon my asking , but which type of C compiler was used there? MS Visual Studio 2022 on Win10?

@roytam1https://github.com/ClassicNick/Arctic-Fox/releases/tag/2024-10-18 I now have a slightly updated source code release of Arctic-Fox winbuild available. I also set up a Linux Mint 19.3 build machine, so hopefully I'll be able to learn how to push git commits.

True. One of the biggest reasons I started using PROXOMITRON way back in the day (though I admittedly rely solely on userscripts/userstyles nowadays). Again, PROXOMITRON to the rescue. At least for back in the day. Nowadays, I use this for those stupid animated GIFS -- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee There are uBO lists that also block those "cookie notices". I prefer the userscript route but "tomaytoe, tomahtah".

Oh, I don't mind building myself. That said, there is a new Python stable release (3.14.0) from adang1345. Test build for Vista/Win7 (32bit): yt-dlp_Py3.14.0_x86_Vista.7z As usual, the Brotli dependency is not yet available for Python 3.14... So, I had to build a wheel myself from source (not easy...). Here is the 32bit variant, if you want to compile yt-dlp yourself: brotli-1.1.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl

I managed to hack around to get it starting and I could send messages and file but for some reason I was unable to see messages other person was sending. They would not even be received by the client since I would get them only after I logged in on other client. Other user got all fine though. Also trying access font settings resulted illegal process. It is better than nothing working at all. Need to continue testing I guess. Or it might be way I hacked around calls that broke it all. What are rules on redirecting missing calls? How you find alternative. Sorry if that sounds dumb but I was never programmer aside from industrial.

Biggest problem I had with cash was with self service stations which unfortunately happens to be popular when you live in middle of nowhere. I prefer to fuel up when on more populated areas but I got thirsty SAAB B201 (8l/100km highway 12l/100km town due automatic) engine on my 900 and when doing very very long trips I do need refuel on self service. I keep debit card with me for that reason. Maybe I am not doing too much buying aside from groceries and other basic necessities and it is not problem to me. Car parts well aside from ignition parts, fresh oil yearly and every 5 year or so new ball joint/cv shaft/etc due roads being in wonderful condition I don't need. Stuff I ever done in car workshop I had one ex saab mechanic taking care of it and he accepts cash. Only thing I order online are spare parts for car, computers etc, since when living in middle of nowhere there are zero stores to get them but for reason I cant explain multiple fashion stores... Also you cant pay with cash on most of public transport but I rarely use them. Over the years I only had few train trips some of which I did not even pay myself. Trains are very expensive here and unreliable anyway they buy fancy locos then don't maintain them and then you are left stuck in middle of nowhere. Or even worse they catch fire like DM12 been doing quite lot due poor maintenance and design flaws. I think most are not in lucky situation as I do to avoid those options and it kinda sucks. Bigger the town is less choice you have for anything. How about embedded midis? Or even worse embedded wav file. Those freaked me out when some random midi began blast out out of silence. To add insult to injury some wannabe 90s website guys added those midis to their sites. Also don't get me started on animated GIFS Funny I never seen them either despite not having that script. Well my browser is hardened to max so that might be why. That is useful script though for those sites that embed them differently. Thanks for linking it.

What version 7-Zip? After delete META_INF 7-Zip not ask to save. When trying to install the edited .xpi, a message appears that the installation script was not found

Hi Tihiy! Thanks for looking into this! This time I decided to dig a little deeper. I applied "Win10 Ribbon UI" Explorer style and deleted HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders Of course the File Explorer window reverted to its default size and position. I moved, resized, opened, closed and Shift+closed the window several times. It didn't save its new size and position. I looked into the registry and noticed that HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders was not recreated. Then I applied "Win11 Command Bar" Explorer style and moved and resized the File Explorer window. It saved its new size and position without any problems. I looked into the registry again and noticed that HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders was successfully recreated along with the Shell subkey and all values. I'm not sure what to think about this. Is it a question of specific permissions? I've installed StartAllBack in "C:\Program Files\StartAllBack" and I'm running Windows as an admin (if that matters).

DXVK 2.7 or later requires VK_KHR_maintenance5, which is not supported by R535. Combining Vulkan beta driver 538.42 with latest PB driver 539.56 is a workaround, but it is not a perfect solution because graphics driver may crash at specific scene during gameplay. When I played RE:2, graphics driver kept crashing if Claire entered interrogation room. Another bad news is NVIDIA uses driver version instead of release date to show RTX driver search result. So the search result will not show old production branch anymore. I don't understand why NVIDIA made the mistake, because NVIDIA should know GRD and PB have different support policy.

Hi ; well, cmalex's py3.11.4 assemblies (one compatible with just XP and one with Vista+) aren't currently being hosted on GitHub (AFAIAA), but they can be ; OTOH, adang1345's py3.13.7 assembly is already hosted on GitHub, and so is 3dyd's custom PyInstaller build used to make the Win7/Vista yt-dlp distributions; it may be possible, at least in theory, to author a modded GA workflow file to point to the custom implementations of CPython+PyInst necessary to package the Win7/Vista builds; e.g., upstream are using their own, custom, build of PyInstaller to create the "official" yt-dlp releases; perhaps a consultation with your "AI friend(s)" (or a question on SO, etc.) could prove beneficial in fully automating even the (currently) manually created release assets ; just a thought from a dedicated (hardly intelligent ) friend of yours... Best wishes !

Agreed. I remember when "annoying" used to be (depracated) MARQUEE to scroll text. EVERY web site you went to had these d@mn things. Way back then, the "not old people" learned how to combat the annoyance. And it's still us that do that combat nowadays. ie, I didn't even realize the web site had a "blue privacy/cookie notification". This is all I've ever needed for those -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432050-anti-cookies-consent

IMO the internet got 'bad' once 'normal' people found it. But I think that is more nostalgia for the most part. As for when that happened, I'd say (at least in the US) that happened once Classmates came around. Everyone who was in high school or college went onto there to keep touch afterwards. That site got stepped on by Facebook which was originally designed for college students, but became so popular that old people joined it to keep in touch with those who were on it. For the current generation that is moving into the world, Facebook is seen as a site for old people which is a quote I've heard from multiple people of the younger generations, an insight I am afforded since I 'moonlight' at an arcade. This is only my perspective on things, but normal/old people from 20 years ago were basically computer illiterate, and astonishingly, people of that same stereotype in the current day are still mostly computer illiterate despite having grown up in with computers in a fully connected world. Combine that with the mentality that corporations have of treating adults (employees) like children and you end up with web technologies designed to protect the computer illiterate but in a fashion doesn't feel like the correct way to do it. I find it amusing that the link to this article on the Guardian brings me to a page where half of it is covered by a blue privacy/cookie notification. But overall I think that there are certainly many good points about how the internet has evolved and it is actually better in many ways now than it used to be. It is certainly more useful, something I didn't really grasp because I never had a mobile phone that was new enough to do anything cool until just recently. I think it will get better and we will figure out how to evolve it to deal with the current issues it has. There are more eyes on it now than ever before and that means more ideas of how to do things will occur. But that doesn't mean that there won't be some new dumb trend that everyone adopts that we'll have to deal with. We may end up looking back and laugh about how we were all bent out of shape about captchas and cookie banners in the face of whatever annoying thing we'll be having to deal with.

YouTube's comments history & live chat, both claim NM28 to be "unsupported browser", which obviously misinformation / false claim by Google, because both of it would work if I simply override the user-agent .

I have observed that WinXP only handles 4k disks correctly (on all my motherboards, so no bluescreen after first restart, not S-ATA) when updated to (I use @harkaz's patch packs) Unofficial SP4 - that is up to 2014, I believe. Of course I put his EOS SP4 also - to get systems to 2019 state and the two contain many useful fixes besides the official updates.

hard to say when you dont know the entire thing - but the firmware definitely has potential to fix a such related problems - but as said there might be more of things still involved

EXACTLY !!! And when you call up the tech support, tell them a little White Lie of "my bank account has a million in it and there is none of these puzzles to solve to access that million, so DO NOT tell me that you do it for 'security' or every bank on the planet would be using these puzzles but NONE OF THEM DO, it's only folks like you, never government web sites, never banks, never insurance companies, never pharmacies, never anything that NEEDS TO BE SECURE, it's always always always you RETAIL FOLKS breaking down PRIVACY all in the guise of 'security'."

It doesn't have to unpack the executable to the TEMP directory each time yt-dlp is executed, so it loads a bit faster and doesn't wear your disk that much. The disadvantage is, that you can't update it with `yt-dlp -U`. Around 20 minutes. I have to fire up different virtual machines, each with different Python installs. I only have to build the custom ones for XP, Win7 and Linux_x86. The rest is done by GitHub Actions workflow.

yt-dlp_win7.exe is the usual one. What is the advantage of using yt-dlp_win7.zip with extracted libraries to _internal? How long does it take to prepare more than a dozen builds for an update?

It always was. An overpriced China rubbish. I can purchase much higher quality stuff near my house with cash, much cheaper, like 3-5 times less. Bought an AEG fridge for just 700 Swiss Francs (800 Euro) locally, while at Amazon it was like 1700 or more.

Why not simply ignore those sites? And if you paid for a service (streaming, for example), bombard their tech support until they remove it. Demand money back, etc.

Do you have troubles with using cash? Like @VistaLover described about "outlawing" certain Euro bills in EU by the Greek (or other) governments. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186106-r3dfox-a-modern-firefox-based-web-browser-for-windows-vista-7-and-8/page/16/#findComment-1282311

G'day from Australia, I'd like to propose a few feature additions: Ability to re-order all items in the right side of the start menu Ability to add and re-order separators/dividers in the right side of the start menu When a custom folder is added to the right side in menu mode, it would be great if you could open that folder in explorer when double-clicked (or give an option specify a custom action). Thanks again for StartAllBack! If you implement the above changes I'll buy a 20 license pack and gift it to my family and friends.

If I understand you right, the Toshiba 4TB HDD partitioned with both settings "Legacy" mode [unaligned] and "Vista" mode [=aligned] settings will work fine under WinXP/2003/Win10 because the firmware of the HDD will handle both aligned and unaligned partitions correctly?