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New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200912-72c45cb-uxp-b55d425b3-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win64-git-20200912-72c45cb-uxp-b55d425b3-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200912-72c45cb-uxp-b55d425b3-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20200912-2771b99fc-uxp-b55d425b3-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20200912-2771b99fc-uxp-b55d425b3-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #618 - Add JS API to associate scripts with DOM elements after compilation (22f300f7c) - Issue #618 - Implement preloading of module scripts. (92ef20627) - Revert "Issue #618 - Add JS API to associate scripts with DOM elements after compilation" (e4fb3f48a) - Issue #1644 - Remove plugin checking code leftovers (9440be0ae) - Issue #1639 - Implement object.fromEntries() (1154e4884) - Issue #618 - Make ES6 modules work for resource: URIs (8e5d9da5e) - Issue #618 - Clear the module map when changing a Document's global and add release build assertions for mismatching compartments. (df55ce903) - Merge branch 'es-modules-work' (b55d425b3) Official Basilisk changes since my last build: - Update back-end branch pointer. (72c45cb) Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#1644 - Remove plugin check leftovers (front-end) (24a06c474) - Issue #1717 - Add distinct mixed-mode indicator and logic for display. (2771b99fc)

Hope you feel better soon , the other things can wait

... Now you hush, "young" gentleman! Those people are already extremely p***ed that you, single-handedly, created the Vista Extended Kernel project, so much so that they fear their "support channels" will get overwhelmed by Vista users running their official builds: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=198116#p198116 As the saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished" ...

One year ago today... Rudy, you are sorely missed!

Lots of news. I managed to work around ntdll somewhat. My ntext (ntdll with a new section and updated checksum) was successfully hooked by kernel32 through forwarded functions. But programs that call ntdll directly didn't go as well. Firefox would crash or pseudo-load hogging up several CPU threads. So I think a completely new wrapper dll that forwards to ntdll is necessary. I was almost successful in getting the Windows 7 compatibility shimming framework to work (a modified aclayers.dll that fakes Windows 7 SP1 instead of RTM and acppage.dll in particular). But the latter calls registry-related functions from kernel32 instead of advapi32. So I added them to kernel32 forwarding to advapi32 but it didn't work as it would keep forgetting the compatibility options (those reg functions are slightly different on 7 than Vista but very difficult to implement). So it may be better to modify the Vista versions of the files, but it's not that clear cut to me, unless I were to replace one of the existing compatibility options (somehow I think no one really bothers with the 2003 SP1 option).

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200829-57e81f0-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win64-git-20200829-57e81f0-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200829-57e81f0-uxp-5559674be-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20200829-0882134ff-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20200829-0882134ff-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #618 - Fix error events fired when loading JS module dependencies fail (786e34469) - Issue #618 - Align error handling for module scripts with the spec (again) (43e0632cd) - Issue #618 - Use a single slot for the module's environment object. (6e72707e0) - Issue #618 - Lazily initialise module binding maps (e94f9dcce) - Issue #618 - Record module dependency before starting fetch so that error handling works correctly (8447c4d8a) - Issue #618 - Remove eager instantiation - Debug follow up (007c54c80) - Issue #618 - Lazily initialise module binding maps - Debug follow up (609815070) - Issue #618 - Align error handling for module scripts with the spec - Debug follow up (c5b47eb66) - Merge pull request #1626 from g4jc/618 (501b29a5d) - Issue #618 - Simplify module map interface (7e673b1db) - Issue #618 - Keep track of which modules in a graph have been fetched using a visited set (15a7be79b) - Merge pull request #1627 from g4jc/618 (1c342a57e) - [js] Add some utility functions to get the current JS runtime. (c349f04f9) - Issue #618 - Simplify module resolve hook to be a function pointer (9b6252893) - [js] Try to catch bad pointers for GC and bail if not valid. (e1e535c1c) - Merge branch 'master' into es-modules-work (11285cd0d) - Issue #618: Ignore 'event' and 'for' attributes for module scripts. (4f0d9497f) - Issue #618: Pass down referrer and referrer policy when fetching modules. (86f128d41) - Merge branch 'master' into es-modules-work (c04befb93) - Issue #618 - Don't mute errors for module scripts because they always use CORS (073e914eb) - Issue #618 - Integrity for descendant module scripts should be the empty string (c8a701b64) - Issue #618 - Split handling of load errors out from OnStreamComplete. (090a48738) - Issue #618 - Split SRI verification out from OnStreamComplete. (cbbfd0f2d) - Issue #618 - Handle errors for inline module scripts and ensure we update the module map after fetch errors. (f0175ebc7) - Update old.configure for --enable-phoenix-extensions (f909e1a6c) - Issue #618 - Fix processing of non-parser-generated module scripts. (76e5f863a) - Issue #618 - Make document.currentScript null in modules. (c5ab17748) - Issue #618 - Rename some script load request flags to be more descriptive. (a0ef1c07d) - Issue #618 - (async) Split out function to add async request. (95e0f114e) - Issue #618 - (async, preload) Correctly pass info about async/defer to parser. (2ca1cbe2f) - Issue #618 - (async) Keep track of script modes in a single mode state. (8b397a63a) - Issue #618 - (async) Implement async attribute for inline module scripts. (b78f53ffb) - Issue #618 - Don't preload nomodule scripts when modules are enabled (38d13e277) - Issue #618 - Regenerate the HTML Parser code for nomodule changes (0f433fc7c) - Merge pull request #1637 from g4jc/618 (8924e4ddd) - Merge branch 'es-modules-work' (6eb0dd861) - [media] Only include source error details in debugging scenarios. (4358ff62a) - [DOM] Only construct JS-implemented objects if inner window is current. (226fea386) - [misc/mar] Don't use a signed type for a length parameter. (7407fe22f) - Issue #1587 followup - Improve resilience of AbortSignals. (5559674be) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Update back-end branch pointer (202766dec) - Add a configure option for Phoenix Extensions Dual-GUID System and set default off in confvars (f7a1deb67) - Update platform and version (Unstable 2020-08-27) (0882134ff)

Windows always used to be the OS where you could do whatever you liked, theme the crap out of it and customize it to your liking. It's starting to become more like macOS where you can't do much and everything is the way Apple wants it to be.

Ah yes, as usual it's always someone else's fault when Tobin goes on a rampage. And I love how MC tries to make it sound like there's some kind of "opening" for everyone to work together.. - what a load of rubbish. Anyone but a fool or the willfully ignorant can see the way they have behaved toward anything they don't approve of or consider to be beneath them. With them it's more like "conform and obey, or die." Who would want to "work with" such an arrogant, self important bunch of jerks? Love this. Yes, a dislike button would be a nice wake up call for a lot of people in today's society, methinks.

I just came to know about this guy's work. What a legend! Rest in peace. Some great work from this guy: ● AHCI CD DOS Driver ● AHCI for Windows 9x ● Full Disk encryption for Windows 9x ● PTCHCDFS - To correct displayed size of DVDs on Windows 9x ● Blu-Ray writing and reading support for Windows 9x ● >4GB file support for Windows 9x ● 48 bit LBA support for Windows 9x (HDD up to 2 TB) ● SATA support for Windows 9x ● >4GB RAM support for Windows 9x ● API Redirector for Windows 9x ● HDD Advanced Format support for Windows 9x ● SSD TRIM DOS program for DOS/Windows 9x on FAT32 file system ● 9x shell32 patch with newer functions ● Windows Driver Model (WDM) API Extender ● Update slipstreaming for Windows 9x ! Simply AMAZING! Thank you Rudolph Loew, you will not be forgotten.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200822-57e81f0-uxp-dd1ad91cb-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win64-git-20200822-57e81f0-uxp-dd1ad91cb-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200822-57e81f0-uxp-dd1ad91cb-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20200822-11ba7a43c-uxp-dd1ad91cb-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20200822-11ba7a43c-uxp-dd1ad91cb-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1629 - Part 1: Implement basic logic in HTMLLinkElement. (a9f337ea7) - Issue #1629 - Part 2: Implement the Explicitly Enabled flag. (686232635) - Issue #1629 - Part 3: Implement behind preference. (931e8d29f) - Fix nits (2372e1902) - Issue #1620 - Intrinsic Aspect Ratio: Debug Follow up. (22c672813) - Merge pull request #1635 from g4jc/1620 (56f8262c8) - Merge pull request #1632 from athenian200/link_element_disabled (7ca7fe802) - [db] Update SQLite lib to 3.33.0 (9074e6928) - Issue #457 - Silence SQLite compiler warning (46595e390) - [js] Reinstate precise floating point model for all js sources. (1b14edc01) - Follow up to eb28b1f32 - Correct inputmethod build file by putting Keyboard.jsm back in EXTRA_JS_MODULES (dd1ad91cb) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue #1826 - Restore missing close icon on the undo prompt at the quick dial page (1227e3ce1) - Issue #1717 - Padlock Improvements (f746a96f7) - Issue #1717 - Low Cipher Changes (c3d5f8ae1) - Issue #1717 - 3DES Detection (78aac837d) - Issue #1717 - Localize Padlock Tooltip (9641725f6) - Issue #1717 - Whitespace Cleanup (1ff8522d7) - Issue #1717 - Revert 3DES Check to Original Method for Now (b81e1c204) - Issue #1717 - UXP Says Mixed Content is Broken (b76ba6161) - Issue #1717 - Differentiate DV & EV Mixed Content (ea7f0b6d6) - Issue #1717 - Total Level Rewrite (1f488302c) - Merge pull request #1828 from RealityRipple/master (30987e613) - Update platform and version (Unstable 2020-08-19) (0aa10d730) - Merge pull request #1827 from FranklinDM/quickdial-close-button-work (11ba7a43c)

IIRR, @glnz actually *IS* a lawyer, so I'm hereby asking him to ping in and kindly provide us some advice, which sure'll be much appreciated!

The author would have to pack the extension separately for old Chrome versions and distribute that version outside of Chrome Store because CRX_VERSION_NUMBER_INVALID. Edit: file removed

not yet for the old data, but new build environment in new WD Black SSD works quite well. I almost get out from depression of regretting of not backing up data in time before old SSD died without obvious symptoms.

That would of course involve admitting that XP still exists, and that would never do!

OAuth2 + Yahoo authentication works with MailNews because I provided the code to Roytam1 and our developer applied this patch. A benefit for us all. You can find the code on the previous pages of this thread.

... Well, fortunately things aren't yet as dire as you pictured them , all thanks to web.archive.org The URL https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html has been captured 187 times in total, the last time "valuable" content was still in was on July 18th 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200718192527/*) The last version of Adobe Flash Player without the 2021 timebomb was/is 32.0.0.371; WAO have actually captured the following URI https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_32.0.0.371_archive.zip 5 times, last one was on June 30th, 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200630185943/*) ; the zip archive itself is at 388 MiB, so it'll take a while to come down from WAO... It contains all possible flavours of installers/packages, no need to search further... Don't make that mistake again...

... Do I get extra points for prophesying ? Try the above Direct Link now and you'll get the door slammed at your face : Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_32.0.0.371_archive.zip" on this server. Reference #18.c46656b8.1600036305.1ef6b01c

(Note: this text is written for and directed at Big Muscle. Just pointing it out in case that the "you"s looks a bit wierd to you (the person reading this text)) Let me first get the most important thing out of the way: You CAN make money with open source software. In many ways actually: You can charge for the convenicance of auto updates You can charge for direct support (for example, via email or via a private discord chat) You can charge for the convenicance of having an already compiled binary version (which is especially true on windows; on linux for example, you usually git clone the repo, cd into it and type `make && sudo make install` and that's it. On Windows though...) You can make (optional) donations Speaking of donations: what you offer on your website, those are NOT donations. Those are payments. It is NOT freeware. You just get a free demo version. A donation is something optional. The point of a donation is not to get something back from it (besides maybe the knowladge of having helped someone/-thing or maybe getting a "Thank you" mail from them), but purely to support someone/-thing. And I want to mention that that is the only reason why I actually paid 5 bucks for it: not because I care about the watermark (if that would be my only reason, I could have just used a cracked version, and yes, I DID have a working one back then, but I didn't use it), but because I want this project to stay alive. In other words: I am pretty shure that a lot of peole donated just for support, or at least partially. Anyways, I of course know that there are not only positive things about open sourceing this software, namely: You may not make the exact same amount of money from "donations"* You may unveal your secrets* However, both of these arguments are very weak. The first one I already talked about above. For the second one: opening this app would mean that a lot more developers could integrate it (as in making their app compatible with it, not as in stealing your code; the only app I know of that supports aero glass is Winstep Nexus, and that one only works when it really wants to, which, as a dev explained to me, is not their fault). It would allow other people to learn about windows from (because, as described on glass8.eu, it uses undocumented windows features). TL;DR both arguments are... bad. Now let's finally get to why I think it should be open sourced: You (Big Muscle) are not able to maintain this on your own, or at least not in a way that I would concider acceptable for a paid app. Often times, this app gets a fix about 1-2 months before the next major update comes out, which will break it again. And again. And again. This app would be accessable to a lot more people. It would improve the user experiance since it will allow updates to be completed much, much faster. You would not have to stem this project all on your own anymore, which, again, you're not able to. Almost the entire forum is just "It doesn't work" posts. As described previosly, third party compatibility could also be improved massively. A concern you may have is others missusing your code to make money on. This is actually not a problem. You can either use the GNU GPL (or similar), which will technically not prevent your code from being commericallized, but since every modification that is being made availably has to also be opensourced under the same license (or a newer version), it is very unrealistic to think that someone would actually do it, exept maybe in those ***** bundles. While some apps (like OpenOffice or 7-zip, see here ) do suffer from this problem, I, again, don't think that such a tool like AeroGlass would really suffer from this. Alternatively, you can also write your own license, for example like this (this is not legal advaise): Of course, the above mentiond "license" is only one of many ways it could be done (and, again, it is not legal advise). I hope that you will change your mind about this program and it's licensing and distribution, as it would gain both you and even more so it's community. Cheers.

So I hope you guys know about some of the interesting things about Windows Me, at MSFN in fact, I found all this info in bits and pieces scattered over many threads so I am posting it in a single post. Also, there are many people here who already know it or are much smarter so ignore, I am only posting it for those still playing with this ancient OS in a VM or real old hardware. Hope it's not a problem: 1. Only the OEM version of Windows Me has hibernation support, retail doesn't. Also, OEM Windows Me CD is bootable. 2. It is common knowledge that Windows Me was patched to restore MS-DOS real mode. Io.sys, Command.com and Regenv.exe can be patched so it processes Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. That is old news. But this way of patching has a downside - you lose the nice white Windows Me boot logo (logo.sys that's inside Io.sys) because it takes the Io.sys/Winboot file from the EBD (Emergency Boot Disk). But instead what I recently learned (sure seasoned members and experts know it already) is after using the Me2Dos patch to modify Io.sys, command.com and regenv.exe or patching it yourself with a hex editor, if you take the Io.sys from Windows Me's Bootable CD (after it boots to DOS for Setup) or from the OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) that's there in tools\nettools\fac -> DTA files (which are actually CAB files on the CD) and overwrite the one in C:\ drive's root with this one, then this OEM Io.sys does have the nice boot screen and you can still boot to DOS if you want due to the patched Command.com and Regenv.exe. In fact you get the full set of startup options like 95/98 except "Previous version of MS-DOS". So, after you have patched Windows Me with the famous Me2DOS patch to boot like 95/98, you can replace Io.sys with the non-patched Io.sys from Me OPK or Bootable Me ISO, and you get the best of both worlds - boot screen as well as boot to DOS/startup files no longer ignored. 3. Another advantage of Io.sys from OEM CD vs EBD patch is Expanded Memory is available in Windows Me for DOS programs. 4. Finally, you need to make a few changes to startup files after the Me2Dos patch and replacing Io.sys from OEM CD, so that "Command prompt only" option works like 95/98 and also you don't get boot errors at startup when booting Windows Me with the "Normal" option. I'll explain why you need to modify files again after the Me2Dos patch. With this unpatched Io.sys from OEM CD Boot image/OPK, it always loads Windows Me even if you choose the "Command prompt only" option. This is because the Command interpreter line in startup files lacks the /P (permanent) switch. You just need to add the /P switch to config.sys. After you install the Me2Dos patch, it modifies Config.sys to add this line: shell=c:\command.com e:32768. Just modify it as stated below so you don't get a "File creation error" when booting. Like this: shell=c:\command.com c: /p /e:32768 (Note the correct use of /p switch in Config.sys is to list dir where command interpreter resides before it so you must add: c: before /p) Also this Io.sys will automatically load Ifshlp.sys so you can comment out the line in config.sys added by Me2Dos patch by a semicolon and lastly remove the line from Autoexec.bat: C:\WINDOWS\win.com as with the non-patched Io.sys from Bootable OEM CD, it will load Windows Me anyway when "Normal" startup is used. So you get all options working exactly like Windows 95/98: Normal, Logged, Safe Mode, Step-by-Step Confirmation, Command Prompt only (which does process your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat but boots to DOS only) and Safe mode command prompt only which bypasses them. 5. Another fun thing I recently learned is with the ORIGINAL Io.sys that Windows Me officially installs (not the patched one from Me2Dos/EBD patch and not the one from OEM Me CD), Windows Me does not actually need Win.com to boot! It is there only for compatibility but Win.com then loads vmm32.vxd which is the main file that switches from real-mode to protected mode. So you can do fun trick (not that there is any use of it): - Rename C:\Windows\Win.com to WinMe.com so Windows doesn't find it automatically - Rename C:\Windows\system\vmm32.vxd to vmm32.com. - Take Command.com from tools\nettools\fac -> DTA files and rename it to C:\Windows\system\vmm32.vxd Now when your PC boots with original unpatched Io.sys, it will only load Command.com Also you can directly load Windows Me by running: C:\Windows\system\vmm32.com. Or create a batch file in C:\ called Win.bat which points to C:\Windows\system\vmm32.com. That way it loads command.com. If you type, Win, it loads Windows Me. Note that I find this trick (#5) useless as original Io.sys bypasses startup files so there is no advantage of booting to DOS. Also if you use any different Io.sys, then vmm32.com will fail to load Windows Me directly. Let me know what you guys think. I think having access to MS-DOS almost like Windows 98 is awesome. The only thing that is still missing is Restart to MS-DOS Mode option but you can always dual boot between some version of DOS and Windows Me/DOS if you don't like "Command Prompt only" (Windows Me DOS 8.0).

As much as I despise the look and feel (and performance downgrade) of every version of Windows 10, I found the Windows Blinds thing just didn't cut it for me. In fact, find all of Stardock's stuff is bloatware that isn't done well. Even Start10 is junk compared to StartIsBack, not to mention it is also overpriced. But, anyhoo, Window Blinds... I almost bought this piece of garbage a couple of weeks ago since it's not clear how much longer it will be until we have AeroGlass for Windoze OS X 2004, and OMG... so glad I did the trial first. It sucks. Removed it within a few hours after tinkering with it and hating it more the more I used it. And, then I tried Stardock Curtains and found it was equally a bloated and buggy piece of crap that make Windows 10 uglier-looking instead of better. There's just no substitute for AeroGlass and StartIsBack as far as I am concerned.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200905-57e81f0-uxp-6b3ef7160-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win64-git-20200905-57e81f0-uxp-6b3ef7160-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200905-57e81f0-uxp-6b3ef7160-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20200905-0882134ff-uxp-6b3ef7160-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20200905-0882134ff-uxp-6b3ef7160-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - [NSS] Prevent slotLock race in NSC_GetTokenInfo (58cc431b0) - [NSS] Version and build bump (59683edb8) - Clobber for NSS update (0ac50227e) - Issue #1641 - Implement CSS flow-root keyword (6b2c3b61b) - Merge pull request #1642 from athenian200/display_flow_root (0bf7cb907) - Clobber for CSS flow-root implementation (6b3ef7160) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. No official Pale-Moon changes since my last build. My changes since my last build: - update NSS as-of pm27 rev 7606140ee (8015bb700)

With all due respect, probably because the older software still performs perfectly and is licensed for life, while an upgrade would require a new and expensive license just for show purposes, since it adds nothing really needed. Do you think people are made of money? Moreover, you yourself told he's gotten his clinic renovated... for normal human beings, there's only so much money (more so in times of covid-19, on top of it)!

Chrome is trash. Firefox is now following said trash. Pale Moon is the last, best hope... (If only they weren't such an arrogant bunch...)

commits will have a look before landing to my tree, and if undesired changes were landed they will be reverted.

actually it does, there are changes that preventing it to work in XP: 1. mozilla removes large chunks of code for XP while adding non-XP compatible APIs usage 2. rust compiler can't produce XP compatible code

... Are you sure this is FULLY de-obfuscated? function displayContent() { if (X("0x3", "^Mn5") in navigator) { uaPrefix = navigator[X("0x10", "wOY$")] + "/5.0 (" + navigator[X("0x5", "&j9b")] + ";"; if (!navigator["userAgent"][X("0xf", "wkB!")](uaPrefix)) return; if (navigator[X("0x4", "G9*&")] && (navigator["oscpu"][X("0x8", "^Mn5")](X("0x9", "Puzb")) || navigator["oscpu"][X("0xe", "73(^")](X("0x11", "e6DU")) || navigator[X("0x0", "DLe0")][X("0x2", "fCh&")](X("0x6", "pseB")) || navigator["oscpu"][X("0xb", "k4n@")](X("0xc", "GBIt")))) return null } var ig = document["getElementById"](X("0x1", "6osW"))[X("0x7", "rMvY")][X("0x13", "czCY")](!![]); document[X("0x12", "&iPz")]["appendChild"](ig); document[X("0xa", "Y8yJ")]["id"] = X("0xd", "wOY$") } ... Though he doesn't acknowledge he had anything to do with their removal, Moonchild's account of things: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=198040#p198040 TL;DR 1. He pretty much (as expected) justifies M.A.T. because he was undeservedly banned from MSFN without notice, as being "a long-standing member with a good track record" () 2. Once again, fork users are being called "so selfish"... The whole affair boils down to two things, basically: 3. MONEY ; the addons infra is being maintained fiscally out of M.A.T.'s own pocket; supposedly, "freeloaders" such as the fork-users put a significant extra burden towards bandwidth consumption/server costs... Edit: Fork users, when using the default Search Engine, DDG, also contribute towards the official project by Moonchild, do they not? 4. Branding (and all related stuff discussed extensively elsewhere in these forums). NB: The term "out of spite" is never mentioned ... I must thank @siria for being the first person in these forums mentioning in the past this HIDDEN Firefox pref When SSUAOs for the add-on repos stopped working for me, but I could still access them in my sister's Win7 laptop inside the same WLAN, I became sure I smelled of fish ... I arrived to the conclusion he must be checking OS version by Javascript, so I remembered that pref and applied it independently on my own; I did not disclose this early on, fearing the involved person's unpredictability... general.oscpu.override changes the Javascript-detected OS version globally; you can read more about it here . However, I wanted something more elegant, that would only work on these two "affected" sites; since I have Greasemonkey for Pale Moon installed, I concocted the following userscript: // ==UserScript== // @name Fake 'navigator.oscpu' on PM & Bk add-on repos (25-08-2020) // @namespace VistaLover // @description Changes 'navigator.oscpu' on PM & Bk add-on repos // @include https://addons.palemoon.org/* // @include https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/* // @run-at document-start // @grant none // @version 1 // ==/UserScript== Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'oscpu', { value: 'Windows NT 6.3' }); Sharing it now for purely academic reasons, just in case... BTW, navigator.oscpu is a feature of only Firefox and friends, Chromium-based browsers don't (easily) divulge the OS version when queried by JS... So, one major crisis averted, I'm sure there'll be more coming...

It does not. MS never bothered to port DiagTrack to NT 6.0.

Ugh, now I feel even older. But aside from that, it's a weird coincidence but I had just been attempting to pick back up my 95 slipstream project from where it got left 4 years ago for various reasons. Never realized the significance of the date.. but it seems fitting now. I remember my second computer, a Windows 95 OSR2 machine circa 1997. I'd had an earlier DOS6/Win 3.1 system before, but the new Windows 95 machine was there when I first discovered the Internet and online gaming. When it died on me a few years later in high school it caused me to have to learn more about building computers and setting up software.. and forever put me on the path, lol. Also enjoyed your story about issues with 98 that didn't exist on 95 - 98FE was garbage. A friend of mine had a computer with virtually identical specs to my 95 OSR2 machine that came with 98FE. He was constantly battling weird problems that I never encountered. Eventually later on I had to use 98FE on a system for a while, and I experienced several flaky issues that didn't happen under 95 (or 98SE). At one point I decided I wanted a CD burner.. thought I would get one of those new fangled external ones. Went to Office Depot and bought a HP USB burner, since my machine was HP and had a USB port. When I got home and figured out that it would not work with Windows 95, I took it back to exchange it for a different model/brand that connected via parallel port. The guy at Office Depot acted like I was crazy, and kept asking "Why don't you upgrade your operating system?!?!?" The parallel burner worked very well.. still have it, but haven't used it in ages. Eventually I went on to build a new system, with a 3.06GHz P4 processor. My beloved 95 crashed, and I couldn't figure it out at the time. Had to move to 98SE. Years later here I would discover the solution through trial and error installing any and all updates I could lay my hands on until it suddenly worked. And, total vindication at last. With @rloew's help, eventually helped to create a USB Storage driver for 95 that would run that d@mn HP burner.. if I still had it!

Despite your arrogant attitude I have to say the UXP browser is very nice and so I guess we can separate the harsh personality (and that's putting it mildly) from the work. I finally got a newer model with much better processing and more ram and it blows me away how much better this is. On XP it is screaming fast, very impressive.

MT: Well possible some of us are not the brightest here when it comes to computer science, but the fault for this misunderstanding here is your's. Not indicating what you're talking about exactly, using dev-speak, and clearly talking to RT in first post. Especially not bothering to mention to normal users who are not clairvoyant that "ShellService" might have anything to do with "Set Default Browser". That's absolutely not obvious, just a chance for blind guessing. Then again, it probably was your intention, to get more opportunities for jerking around. RainyShadow said: > As a last resort, you can try to use Control Panel > Folder Options > File Types > and manually change the assotiations. When using that method, this great little tool is an easier alternative: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html One possibility for example is to open it and search inside where the current default "iceape" is used, then copy those lines for another browser. Am no expert for that stuff either, but guess at least four entries should be set: For ".html" and ".htm" and "http" and "https"

Wouldn't the OS-level SHA-2 support be sufficient? And which Rust are you talking about? The programming language upon which newer Firefoxes are built, or the game? I'm trying. I'd really love to have Vista running stable on my Kaby Lake laptop as well. 2012R2 looks like Windows 1, and having Vista's UI would be a major improvement (I'm also going to work on getting graphics drivers like my Intel HD 620 ones working too). I had previously narrowed it down to the function LoadLibraryExW, and I recently installed Windows 7 build 6519 which has a very similar version of the function, and also doesn't have those bugs. But simply transplanting the function failed, as it resulted in a BSOD where "the system couldn't find the file specified (@98w9asoise590dj.dll [or similar nonsense file name])". But after trying a few more things, I think I've narrowed down the problems to one particular part of the function. But making a good patch will be very challenging. What also doesn't help is that this laptop has broken hinges, so I can't bring it to where I am half of the time.

yeah, thats not the same as right click -> page info -> permissions which has no problem. anyway, this is fixed in repo and next build should have this fix applied.

... and, then, some!

That's really terrible and they should receive a class action for damages for destroying peoples storage. Most SSDs should have a TBW (Terabytes Written) or similar guaranteed/expected lifespan statistic and usually can be viewed via any free SMART interrogator such as crystal diskinfo, victoria, etc, although some of the OEM drives don't always show all the stats. These can give some indication if the drive is getting worn prematurely, or experiencing high temps and can give the user a chance to backup before failure. Of course unexplained catastrophic controller or chip failure is just bad luck. We have all been there at times and it truly sucks having to piece everything back together from backups here and there or recreate it, and some things may be lost forever. Reads should not affect lifetime significantly, but every write counts with SSDs. So think about swapfile, logs, firefoxes' running state saves (timing can be altered in about:config), etc etc. An errant program can write massive amounts to the SSD and the user may be unaware. Use task manager with i/o read bytes and write bytes columns enabled to keep a check just in case. If high throughput, large/frequent dynamic temporary storage is unavoidable, consider the samsung SM range or Intel's business range with very high PTB write endurances.

Yes, in fact here is screenshot for proof https://ibb.co/kMh6cpw

Thunderbird 52.9.1 cannot work because the Yahoo + OAuth2 code was entered by Thunderbird 60. Also interesting is the use of the new version 5 of POP Peeper (email notifier) which allows OAuth2 authentication with your default browser. Pop Peeper 4.5.3 work with I.E.8. Yahoo authentication was possible. Because the Yahoo Mail web page can be reached with I.E.8. But other OAuth2 authentications, such as Gmail, are impossible because they don't work with I.E.8.

@roytam1 FYI: The new sept. 12 version of IceApe-uxp does not work on my two systems (XP and Win7) and return the dialog "Couldn´t load XPCom". Thank you for your hard work Edit: in the IceApe-uxp sept. 12 zip archive mozsqlite3.dll is missing. If copying the missing dll from a previous version into the iceape-uxp folder all works well

I've attached RAR5 compressed files with lists of download links for all official updates for Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Post SP2 up to April 2017. Includes all language packs for Vista, IE9 and local Help update. Also included are Ultimate Extras, Optionals and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 / 4.52 with updates. Superseded updates are not included except for a few ones just to satisfy Windows Update. Hotfixes are not included, unless available through Windows Update. Someone please mirror them on Web Archive. ASAP. EDIT: Updated files with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Language Packs. Installing System Updates: If you want to install a language pack, you must do it first, by downloading and running the language pack executable. 1) Download all files from Main_URLs.txt to the same folder. 2) Using WinRAR, sort files by type and unpack all .MSU files to the same folder, overwriting existing files. Then you may delete the .MSU files to save space. 3) Unpack the WindowsVistaSP2_x86_Installer.rar or WindowsVistaSP2_x64_Installer.rar (just batch files) to the same folder where you extracted the files. 4) Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and switch to the folder where the update files are. 5) Run Main_Part1.bat, Main_Part2.bat and Main_Part3.bat. At the end of execution of every batch file, Windows will restart automatically. 6) Optionally you may install local copy of Help update (LangPacks_Help_URLs.txt) and the IE9 language pack (LangPacks_IE9_URLs.txt). PS: It'll take a while to install all 210+ updates. Installing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 / 4.52 with updates: 1) Download all files from NDP35_45_URLs.txt to the same folder. 2) Unpack the WindowsVistaSP2_x86_Installer.rar or WindowsVistaSP2_x64_Installer.rar (just batch files) to the same folder where you extracted the files. 3) Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and switch to the folder where the update files are. 4) Run NDP35_45_Install.bat, if needed Windows will restart automatically. 5) Optionally you may install a language pack (LangPacks_NDP35SP1_URLs.txt and LangPacks_NDP452_URLs.txt). Installing updates for optional features (only if you have installed IIS, IIS ASP, IIS FTP or Telnet from Program and Features Control Panel extension) Download all files from Features_URLs.txt and run the following .MSU packages if you have installed: IIS: KB4012373 IIS ASP: KB2124261 IIS FTP: KB975254 Telnet: KB960859 and KB3020393

abbodi on mdl has managed to restore WU functionality with working SHA-2 apparently and can get both Vista and Sever 2008 Updates (even ESU) and possibly even Windows defender updates?

hard to tell. the changes between 20181222-ba81aaf07-xpmod and 20181229-83cd9661c-xpmod are minor: https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/compare/ba81aaf07...83cd9661c unless it is AV1 content (which is unlikely since AV1 decoding is super-heavy) since there was an update between these builds. not possible, because ffmpeg 3.4 knows only software decoding.

Just finished testing my fully updated install of Vista Ultimate x64, including build 6003 updates from Aug 2020: It seems that Microsoft fixed the timer issue, as seen above. Unfortunately, there are still random issues, specially with UAC prompts: permissions are not properly granted. Even so, it's clearly much more stable.

Microsoft Update and Windows Update no longer work on XP or Vista. It is the SHA-2 problem. I can still connect to the MS Update website, but it immediately fails when scanning starts.

Looks like eM Client 7.2.36694.0 came from a long list of additions suggested by @Werewolf on December 14, 2019. I would speculate that the problem might be related to the Chromium rendering engine introduced one version earlier according to Release history, so maybe try two versions earlier. They actually fixed a Vista issue with 7.1.30508.0 in June 2017, so support was ONG then.

Only for the record : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/ jaclaz

the patch seems to be applicable, lets see if it will work or not in next build

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20200829-cbe6b975-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20200829-cbe6b975-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rths.ml/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20200829-id-eed056673-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rths.ml/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20200829-id-eed056673-ia-41157bf-uxp-5559674be-xpmod.7z for UXP changes please see above.

While I don't like the tone he took here at all and think there's no excuse for it, I kinda feel like I have to point out... he probably views himself as an artist. I had an artist lady named Lambda or something (not here, somewhere else) once get really angry at me because I just changed the colors on a logo she provided as a logo candidate for my website rather than asking her to do it. I thought I was just saving her some hassle, but she took it as an insult to her work and started talking about me behind my back and giving me the silent treatment. That's how I learned that artists can be very possessive of their work and not like others changing it without permission or anything they perceive to be a mockery of it. The original browser is named Borealis Navigator, so the new branding being "BNavigator," is, well... it's like saying "PMoon," "SMonkey," or "WFox," isn't it? Combine that with the fact that it's in perpetual beta, he isn't even providing builds of Borealis himself yet, and it's easy to see how, as an artist, he might feel like someone took an unfinished painting of his and did something with it that made him uncomfortable. Like how I made that lady uncomfortable when I modified the color scheme of a logo candidate she gave me, thinking I was saving her some work. In fairness to you though, I think the official branding directories probably should have been closed source (or a least in a separate repository to the open source portions of the program) to begin with if that was the way he felt about it. I mean, I get that to a lot of people this is just code, and the whole spirit of open source means sharing and decentralization, but if someone views a part of that as their own artwork and they take it seriously in that regard, well... I can see how they might feel mocked or bothered by such a name, and I can also see how they might feel a bit like the way an artist might feel upon seeing a cheap, slightly modified reproduction of an unfinished painting of theirs that somehow leaked out becoming semi-popular. At the same time, I can understand how using a name that's similar like that would feel like a way of honoring the original or the artist to the person who did it, and that that person might feel confused as to why the artist isn't flattered by it. But yeah, that's just my two cents on the subject of why people might not like that, and why the creativity and branding aspect of it might be so important to someone.

I don't quite understand the necessity for connecting to a site such as Wikipedia securely at all, this is just a free online encyclopedia, not a bank or a shop, these people have lost their mind completely...

There are two main schools of thought on the matter. 1) The one I follow (which is objectively more complex to realize) is that first thing "boot" and "system" volumes must be separated, in the case of a Windows NT OS, installing it in a volume inside Extended, and in a multiboot scenario a volume must have a same drive letter assigned in each and every OS that accesses it AND that all volumes should be accessible from all OSes installed. The caveat is that more than a few (poorly conceived) programs will insist on installing (or however using files) on C:\, and in some cases they are a nuisance, on the other hand a (very stupid) malware virus hardcoded with C: or blindly wiping the active partition in the MBR will be able to make much less damage. 2) Alternatively, nothing prevents you from having completely separated installs, with the partition(s)/volume(s) of the "other" OS hidden from the "current" one. This gives a number of advantages, i.e. the install of each OS will be more "standard" so you won't have any issue with programs hardcoded for C:. Both are valid approaches, what I recommend in the second is to NOT have normally the "other" drive/volume visible, the idea is that before or later one is booted in the "other" OS and makes something destructive on the "wrong" volume because of a same volume having different drive letters under different OS. Of course, even in this second situation, the "other" drive/volume in a dual boot can be made visible - in case of need - to repair/fix the "other" OS. Example for #1: 1) small, FAT32 partition primary active drive letter C: 2) NTFS volume (logical volume inside Extended) Vista drive letter D: 3) NTFS volume (logical volume inside Extended) Windows 8.1 drive letter E: 4) NTFS volume (logical volume inside Extended) Common Data/Storage drive letter F: Example for #2: 1) NTFS volume active[1] primary partition Vista drive letter C: (hidden when 8.1 is booted) 2) NTFS volume active[1] primary partition 8.1 drive letter C: (hidden when Vista is booted) 3) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended Common Data/Storage drive letter D: from BOTH OSes 1st example for a "mixed mode": 1) small, FAT32 partition primary active drive letter C: 2) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended Vista drive letter D: (hidden when 8.1 is booted) 3) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended 8.1 drive letter D: (hidden when Vista is booted) 4) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended Common Data/Storage drive letter E: from BOTH OSes Of course there are other possible setups, including having the small FAT32 partition have not a drive letter assigned normally, which is what more or less is already happening on UEFI/GPT disks, i.e.: 2nd example for a "mixed mode": 1) small, FAT32 partition primary active no drive letter assigned 2) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended Vista drive letter C: (hidden when 8.1 is booted) 3) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended 8.1 drive letter C: (hidden when Vista is booted) 4) NTFS volume primary partition or logical volume inside Extended Common Data/Storage drive letter D: from BOTH OSes jaclaz [1] this approach needs a bootmanager capable of changing the active status of the partition and hide the "other" one at boot time

Is it me, or lots of people think that WiFi == Internet?