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No such issue for me, I noticed MSFN works better/faster with Chrome 108-111 and the such, not the latest.

Sounds very much like your monitor is over-contrast to begin with. Try lower your contrast first, as full RGB looks amazing and shouldn't put strain on eyes.

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For those aren't willing to read all. Take note. "... even the Retail versions of Windows (without the bloatware) start receiving ads."

by btarunr Apr 24th, 2024 10:38 Microsoft over late-Tuesday started distributing the KB5036980 optional update to Windows 11 users, which effectively makes the operating system adware (software that displays ads to support its author). The update gets the Windows 11 Start Menu to display ads in the "Recommended" section that suggests apps and games for you to download from the Microsoft Store, subscribe to Copilot Pro, etc. While the update is currently optional, the changes contained in it will be made part of next month's "Patch Tuesday" update. This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft is advertising software, the OEM versions of Windows 11 can be customized by PC manufacturers to pre-install bloatware, or suggest apps or services for users to buy within the Start or Apps menus. You usually uninstall the pre-installed bloatware, and dismiss recommendations. Today's update is different, in that even the Retail versions of Windows (without the bloatware) start receiving ads. Luckily, these ads are not inescapable, you can disable them. Head over to Settings > Personalization > Start, and uncheck the toggle that reads "Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more." source: https://www.techpowerup.com/321849/windows-11-now-officially-adware-as-microsoft-embeds-ads-in-the-start-menu Members' thoughts on this?

AMD Radeon HD 8750m was launched on February 26th, 2013 ! Are you sure it didn't have Windows Vista officially? https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-8750m.c1968

In China, we'll talk to you : This is a disease, it needs to be treated...

@win32 How close are we to being able to use Windows 7 WiFi/Ethernet drivers with the Vista Extended Kernel? A friend of mine wants to know as his Intel WiFi/Ethernet support 7 at a minimum, not Vista. TIA!

Weird that I can post here, but not in his XP UEFI Class 3 thread... I keep getting 403 Forbidden when I try to reply. Anyhow, I'm gonna take this and the XP one and port them both to my website if that is ok. MSFN has been finicky as of late, and I do not want these to be lost!

You'd think if that were the problem, the forum could at least be a little bit less opaque and just say, "you can't say '<whatever>' here!" There were no swear words, so next time it happens, I'll just post a screen shot and let someone else explain to me what I said that was 403 forbidden. BTW, on my Chase.com issues, I discovered that, sometimes, it does work in Serpent, although that's rare on my home PC. I now suspect Chase has some kind of timeout, and since my home PC is slower than my work PC, the timeout rarely happens at work. (So now Chase is trying to require not only a modern browser, but also a modern-enough PC to run its Javascript-addled site quickly enough for its taste!)

... and for pm2796-vc10 NSS failures, it is due to the reordering of codes. still can't finish fixing freebl as amount of code is huge. putting them back to original places and group declarations to top of block should be the proper way to add support to C89 compilers.

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... You're most welcome ! ... On the contrary, I became an avid fan of them since my beginnings in web navigation ; it was an era when full-blown VPNs were mostly unavailable to non-enterprises or too pricey for individuals, while open (read: misconfigured) HTTP(S) proxies could be easily found via a web search ; PACs offer a convenient way to selectively proxy only certain hosts/domains/etc. out of your total of web requests; was very handy on geo-fenced media portals/services in the ealry 2010s, where you had to (first identify and then) only proxy their geo-location checking scripts, with the media streams themselves (video and/or audio) being accessible "DIRECT"; now, 99.5% of these same media portals, free and paid for, geo-block fully their streams and also encrypt them with DRM ... PACs were also useful when you were employing a paid-for Proxy, but charged by proxy traffic or had quotas imposed on your use of it; by selectively proxying only those hosts that were inaccessible from your physical location, you could use less proxy bandwidth in a given time frame or squeeze more out of your proxy quota... This scenario involved use of proxies to unlock geo-fenced services (or ones regime-censored); if you were using a proxy for privacy reasons, then PACs were less applicable... Already known to me ; below, just for you, some PAC-related documentation, retrieved from my huge set of bookmarks: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_(PAC)_file https://learn.microsoft.com/el-gr/archive/blogs/ieinternals/understanding-web-proxy-configuration https://superuser.com/questions/191037/local-pac-file-url-format-that-works-with-ie-and-safari-windows https://blog.mikejmcguire.com/2014/05/07/using-proxy-auto-configuration-scripts-with-internet-explorer-11/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-disable-automatic-proxy-caching-in-internet-explorer-92735c9c-8a26-d0d8-7f8a-1b46595cbaba http://io.mysq.to/pac-file-and-proxy-auto-switch-for-firefox-ie11-and-chrome https://calomel.org/proxy_auto_config.html https://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v76/pac_file_best_practices/pac_file_best_practices.pdf The IEx articles relate to configuring a Windows "system proxy" (which can then be used by Chromium and its derivatives) ... End of off-topic ...

Are they somehow better? For me, they look pale, washed out, bright. Probably, because of my Titan oldie (made in Jan. 2013). But then again, H264 looks fine on it, please explain.

That's the error I get after installing the Windows Legacy Updater thingy and double clicking on the WLU file. Granted, I've got like 5 gigs free, so I'm pretty sure it's not that. I tried everything, like reinstalling the OS, reinstalling the Updater, installing the IE6 update some threads mentioned, running as Administrator, yet I still get that EXTREMELY unhelpful error. Anything I might be missing here? Using version 31IM in case that helps.

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I wanted too see if it would be running as terrible on my end on single core as others here have been saying.

Thanks for the information and the linked documentation! Personally, I never used a PAC file. But one thing is clear you never stop learning. And here are some further PAC file examples: https://findproxyforurl.com/example-pac-file/

@Anbima : It is still unclear to me (and probably to the rest of the members trying to help you ) what exactly you're trying to accomplish here ... 1. Are there specific HTTPS URLs that fail to load on your 360EEv13.5 copy under your XP set up? 2. Are you concerned that the browser will load HTTPS sites under plain HTTP (and you're afraid sensitive/private info of yours will be sniffed?) - it's my understanding that a secure connection will either succeed or fail altogether... AstroSkipper has provided you with one-click sloution(s) for when you want to go through the HTTPSProxy and when NOT (however, the proxy should always be running, you do get that ) ... As already told, the proxy comes with a "[BYPASS URL]" section inside its "config.ini" file, but this serves just to exclude a small number of sites from being accessed via the Proxy (the purpose of this tool being to access the overwhelming majority of the internet through it ). Can you be so kind as to link to that documentation? This is a local PAC file you're talking about... 1. Internet Explorer, unlike Mozilla Firefox "legacy" browsers (I have no idea what the case is with recent Firefox), has poor support for local PAC files loaded from disk (and configured via the file:/// protocol) - so, you can still try to configure IE8's proxy settings via pointing it to your local PAC file, then configure 360EE to use "IE proxy", but YMMV ... 2. Since Chrome v68, native support for loading local PAC scripts via the file:// protocol has been revoked: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=839566 Some mitigations are offered inside comments on that bug, e.g. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40574814#comment9 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40574814#comment23 You can learn more about configuring Secure Proxies in Chrome/Chromium by reading this excellent documentation: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/net/docs/proxy.md#HTTPS-proxy-scheme Since HTTPSProxy is a secure proxy, used to access HTTPS URLs, the PAC syntax you quoted is wrong; change PROXY to HTTPS, e.g. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { alert('url: \'' + url + '\', host: \'' + host + '\''); if (shExpMatch(host, "example.com")) { return "HTTPS localhost:8079"; } } The "alert" line can be omitted, but it's there to generate a message in the (browser) console when a site is being successfully proxied... In conclusion, I've offered lots of relative info you could have found yourself already by "fine-tuned" web searches ... TL;DR; Use a proxy extension inside 360EEv13.5 that has support for (correct) local PAC files, if you wish for some form of automation...

No. That is not the case. When closing the main window of ProxHTTPSProxy from my package ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3, its entries are automatically removed from the system proxy settings. If not, you did something wrong. Close the main window of ProxHTTPSProxy and check the system proxy settings by "Open IE Proxy Settings" in the PopMenu!

Even if I use ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3, there seem to be leftovers in the system when I exit, as various programs no longer have a connection to the Internet after exiting. Which settings are changed in the system?

I have seen on a page that a PAC can be created for Chrome, which can then be integrated with a start parameter. But I can't get it to work. The code in the PAC file should be as follows: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (dnsDomainIs(host, "example.com")) { return "PROXY localhost:8079"; } } Do you know how that works?

I prefer Proxy Switchy Auto version 1.2.2. With it, if a web site is "sourced" by three different servers, I can send each server through its own Proxy, none of the three servers know they each served content to one end-user.