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Very happy with the restoration of the menus and without wanting to be absolutely annoying I forward this request if possible. SAB ..towards perfection.

I suspect that this hardware is eating up so much space (video card, first of all). By the fact that under normal conditions, for example, it should be something like this: in this case, I would be able to simultaneously place EMS and HIMEM in the upper memory... Well, in general, okay, the option with different configurations (Game\Working), I quite like it too. Moreover, so far only one such game has come across, for which a rollback was needed IO.SYS, and all the others work. In other words, the situation is quite rare, exceptional, and potentially solvable. If there are no simple obvious paths or updates for IO.SYS, in principle, and so it will do. Thank you all.

The early internet that we knew was a big library where everyone shared info and content. The modern internet is a shopping centre, and browsers money makers machines. Just fire the start page and it is already making money from you....do a search, visit a page, everything.... and remember.,,.... if you computer goes slow or run out of memory... its cause you need to buy new hardware for internet browsing... Adblocking is just the top of the big iceberg...

How can I enable search bar in start menu on SAB 3.8.13? In the previous version there were two options for this under the "Start Menu" tab in properties. Now those options are not there. There are only "use large icons" and "use the drop-down menu" and checking both of these not enable search bar and my start menu looks like this. Pls help. 😕

Also, on a tip from MERCURY127, I started digging to the side HIMEM.SYS and I found another solution like this: https://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm#HIR And with it, it really turns out to free up quite a lot of memory and memory. IO.SYS from TBPPlus3 becomes less pronounced: but now there is not enough "EMS" memory. As it turned out, this HIRAM+UMBPCI eats up exactly the same area the amount of memory that WINDOWS normally allocated to maintain EMS. Here it is (Marked "PP"): and after applying HIRAM+UMBPCI, this area is already dealing with them: Accordingly, Windows cannot find the required space (a contiguous free chunk). So EMS it becomes no longer available and the game starts swearing again (and of course it doesn't work). I don't succeed place both at the same time..

Thank you for your answer, but what can actually be done in this situation? Rudolph's Readme doesn't say much about it a lot has been written: Yes, so far we have to survive just like that. When I roll back IO.SYS up to version 1.3 the game works no complaints. I haven't ventured to work with large disks with this legacy IO yet... This is the configuration purely temporary and only for running this one problematic game. For normal operation, I return IO.SYS version 3.0 is back in place. It's not very convenient, but at least it works.

For DOS games, use a slimmer boot sequence. Or LOADHIGH some things into upper memory.

yes there is alot of valuable windows software and fan extesion projects stored on there

this has nothing to do with that thread as its talking about the emergency server move situation not just that its down as its not down just very buggy to use right now

Whatever. Have a good day. Oh I forgot,best wishes for the coexistence and/or resolution of the “anomaly”.

This won't mean anything to you unless you also use PROXOMITRON, but uBO doesn't "see" googlesyndication because PROXOMITRON removes it before the browser ever has a split-second chance to even see it.

No I do not. "To each their own." I know how to test for list interference. My lists are fine, but thanks for the concern. You make the MISTAKE of assuming uBO is my only defense.

I'm at the age where I don't really have a use for the bloated modern web. I do not have a Facebook account. I do not have an Instagram account. I do not have a Twitter/X account. I watch news on TV instead of read online. Et cetera. So I guess from that paradigm, I kind of have no clue just what "bloated" really "is" and/or "means". Oh, wait, I do YouTube "nowadays", I can count that as "bloated". BUT... I disable the "chat" sh#t. I block the ads. Et cetera. So even YouTube doesn't feel "bloated" to me. I mean, come on, do we live in such a world of "social media" that people visit YOUTUBE to watch a music video and then post "comments" in some stupid "chat section" ??? If so, I guess it's official, I have turned into my grandpa and I'm "too old for this sh#t", lol.

Personally, I don't expect to be able to surf every website properly with UXP browsers. The bloated, modern and totally over-greedy websites simply have to be accessed with other browsers or devices. Since there's a lot of Googlised junk on them, such sites are thrown at my Android (Google) tablet. That works great. Spoken for me only, I don't like the modern web layout. In my opinion, the entire development of websites is going in the completely wrong direction. I would rather focus on fast page loading and compatibility than overloading pages with all kinds of bells and whistles.

A word of advice,you have too many rules. There is a high probability of conflicting rules in similar filter lists but maintained by different maintainers,which can give problems. Also try checking for errors in each filter list that lead to invalid and therefore unenforced rules. more rules = more errors It's simple to do this,just click your mouse in the eye icon in each filter list in the image you highlighted. P.S. I write the above because there is no blocking of an ads/tracker (googlesyndication) in your extension and instead in MSFN it should be blocked (so there is probably an impediment as I wrote above):

Sice the discussion is getting more and more ot, here is my ot contribution: there's a new hymn for Serpent: https://clementnourry.bandcamp.com/track/serpent-2

I really don't see anything different between this decade, last decade, and the decade prior to that. I bought my first computer in 1991 - and that predates the existence of javascript. Sure, prior to that it was a Commodore 64 - and yep, I had internet on that ol' C64 that dad bought us circa '83 or so. Web sites thought they were being "cute" if they employed Shockwave, or Flash, or Java, or ActiveX, or VBScript, or scrolling/blinking text, or background MIDI music. Even back then, there were 10% of us that knew how to block/disable these ANNOYANCES. Why did we hunt down ways to block them? Because they crashed our browser or consumed all of our RAM or pegged our CPU. Then javascript was introduced. And with it came the advent of pop-ups and pop-unders. With only 10% of us knowing the difference between a pop-up and a pop-under. Or even knowing something like a pop-under is even a thing. Very quick to the scene was "ad-blockers" to assist the 90% that didn't already know how to prevent them. But that 10% still had tricks up their sleeves that the 90% were totally clueless on. The 90% only cared about pop-up ads. The 10% knew about HOSTS files and third-party cookies. But it was still only 10% of the total global internet user. I say that even nowadays, it's only 10% of us. Where does that number come from? Sure, I admit that it's kind of plucked from my butt. But if I go to the Chrome Web Store and visit uBlock Origin, it cites 40,000,000 users (40 million). A Google for "how many internet users globally" returns an AI Overview citing 5,520,000,000 users (5.52 billion). 40 million is only 0.72% of 5.52 billion. But that's also just uBlock Origin. We also have Privacy Badger -- a tiny 1,000,000 users per CWS. And AdBlock -- 63,000,000 users per CWS (okay, I would have assumed uBO to be higher than AdBlock). 63 million is 1.14% of 5.52 billion. Ghostery -- a tiny 2,000,000 users ber CWS. Factor in that for every 72 CWS users (Chrome+Edge), there is another 28 using Safari, Firefox, or Opera. You can see where I'm going. Assuming that 10% of the global internet userbase is "debloating" their internet experience is probably a very *HIGH* estimate. Sure, some searches will tell you that 31% to 36% of users use ad blockers. But blocking an ad and "debloating" are not the same thing.

Group policies are rather easy when you have domain joined computers since you only change it in one place and it magically propagates everywhere else. But it does have specific requirements to setup, also including Windows Server on machine that will serve as domain controller. BTW, for future reference, Google hosts Widevine on specific URL: https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/versions.txt (list of available versions) https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/${version}-${platform}-${architecture} Replace ${version} with one of the versions from the versions file, ${platform} is win for Windows, $(architecture) is x64, x86 or arm64.

I still prevent components from updating via --component-updater=url-source=0.0.0.0

That page loads without JavaScript. Another reminder UXP doesn't struggle with JavaScript alone. Nice thing about UXP is NPAPI, so can re-use your favorite native PDF reader in a browser tab, PDF.js is just silly. Though it's true you can port various native C++ programs to web. I'd like to bring up d3wasm again, not only showing what you can do, but also how performance on web lags behind native, even on Chromium. But it was Mozilla that popularized the concept of being able to do anything on the web! Google just beat them at their own game and no one has resources or interest to do anything interesting with Chromium, that's why you only have re-skins with no substantial changes under the hood. And Google doesn't want you to be in control. Guess that's what you can afford when you grow too big. MCP crew is just riding on the high horse of being ethically and morally better than Google/Mozilla/Microsoft while no one takes them seriously, sure a lot of that probably stems from struggling of the platform to handle the bloat on the web, but I suspect some of it is also general closed-mindedness. And from perspective developers, developing for UXP can be easily seen as extra work without much payoff. Isn't this slowly changing with this decade? OK, if you insist on your older computer and you were cheap when you bought it, sure, but today a Raspberry Pi 5 (assuming version with 8 GB of RAM) is pretty competent for the web unless you really go overboard with web "apps". But in the 90s, your PC was obsolete in a matter of months! I don't know what's your "top-of-the-line" today and even if our perceptions differ, I'm sure anything along those lines is a big overkill if you just want to run a web browser. Edit: Assuming differing perceptions because I'm sure neither of us would go for the most expensive ones! I do have approximate specs in mind that are tempting, but I wouldn't go for a new computer because of web browsers, the current one easily handles those, though I wouldn't say the same for the previous computer from 2002 or so.

Yep, that's the one. I never realized that it turns off Widevine since I never really use it. But I do want to be able to fallback and be able to use it if the need ever does present itself. I tend to not use group policies since my browser(s) is(are) "portable" and may end up on any one of 300-some lab bench log-ins at work. Much easier to migrate a portable archive then to group-policy hundreds of lab benches where only a dozen of them have Admin Rights.

I'm not sure that I agree. At least not 100% agree. Maybe closer to like 60% agree. I remember the days when all websites basically looked like a "newspaper" rendered on my computer screen. Basically all web sites looked IDENTICAL. A picture or two here and there, everything else just text. "Creativity" only stemmed from if the text "overlayed" the images or if the text "wrapped around" the image. Or 3 or 4 columns of text instead of just 1 or 2. There were no "shadows" to frame borders, there were no "anti-alias" fonts, there were no fade-ins, et cetera. The only way designers could make there web design not look IDENTICAL to everything else out there was to use STUPID things like "marquee" to add something that MOVED (ie, scrolling text). If a web designer really got creative, they employed Macromedia Flash and Java applets. And if you don't remember Flash and Java pegging your CPU to 100%, then you kind of don't really remember what the web was like before javascript (invented in 1995, mainstream by the early 2000s). Yahoo Games was Flash and there were games that could lock up the PC of the era. Geocities was javascript. I don't recall ever being locked up by a Geocity web site. I began using Proxomitron way back in those days! Originally hosted on a Geocity web site. Also on some Yahoo Groups web sites. The web "pre-javascript" was also BLOATED and HEAVY. Early days of fade-ins, big animated .gif images, hi-res banners on 56k modem transmissions. No offense, but the web has always always always had content that would lock up a PC that wasn't "top-of-the-line". Has it gotten worse? I'm not so sure, to be honest. Because back then, it was 10% of the total consumer population that knew how to block that stuff and joined web sites to converse with "birds of a feather" that flock together. Is it really that much different nowadays? I kind of don't think so... It's still 10% of us, but today we flock together at cites like this instead of Geocity or Yahoo Groups.

Looks to be fixed in 3.8.13. I no longer see (very) recently opened pinned items in the Recent list for Word or Excel.

Um, neither? I have never used (nor have any plans to use) this so-called "Lite" version. So perhaps I should have started a new thread (no plans for that either)? And I'm not sure what "classic" means. I'm using 1.59.0 (since abandoning AdNauseam recently). There are probably newer versions, I intentionally stay a version or two behind. Ignore "blocked since install" - I see it as a form of "history telemetry" and my version "resets" at each and every browser exit. Though no, I have not monitored if this "data" is sent 'outbound'.

More importantly, that image has not been modified since 2016! You really really really should show us "proof" that you are being served a DIFFERENT image than this. This topic keeps hinting at this "Member" button being NEW - again, the header and even file name reveals that it is from 2016. I pulled directly from j7n's profile page.