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New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.2.win32-git-20190615-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.2.win64-git-20190615-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.6.0a1.win32-git-20190615-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.6.0a1.win64-git-20190615-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Add Atomics.notify instead of Atomics.wake according to revised spec. (284b4cffd) - Add Yandex (ru) search plugin (c9edf588e) My changes since my last build: - import change from mozilla upstream: Bug 1384330 - Blocking the mozAddonManager when pref 'privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager' is true. r=arthuredelstein,mossop (f05d85ff6) - Move app.feedback.baseURL pref to branding (a7d2a6260) - Move app.feedback.baseURL into branding prefs (f4b8b0d90) - Move app.feedback.baseURL here and point to MSFN (8584b233f) - Merge pull request #4 from Mathwi/custom (044e258d9) - revert "Remove e10s code from browser widget. (083d322b7)" to keep e10s useful. (ef715102e)

I can control myself, therefore no public download links! Honestly, MS can integrate even more censorship modules and other nonsense in their current "permanent construction site", which goes past me. I continue to use Windows XP!

Here's some repository updates. Seems like the new June updates haven't caused any issues compared to the May updates(?). Replaced Monthly Rollup with the new KB4503273 (located on the root directory of the repository) Added Security Only Updates, KB4499180 and KB4503287 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Replaced Internet Explorer Cumulative Update with KB4503259 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Replaced .NET Framework Security and Quality with: -KB4495604 for .NET 2.0 SP2 (located in "/NET 2.0 SP2/Security and Quality Rollup") -KB4495596 for .NET 4.5.2 (located in "/NET 4.5.2/Security and Quality Rollup") -KB4495588 for .NET 4.6-4.6.1 (located in "/NET 4.6-4.6.1/Security and Quality Rollup") Added .NET Security Only Updates with: -KB4495609 for .NET 2.0 SP2 (located in "/NET 2.0 SP2/Security Only") -KB4495593 for .NET 4.5.2 (located in "/NET 4.5.2/Security Only") -KB4495587 for .NET 4.6-4.6.1 (located in "/NET 4.6-4.6.1/Security Only") Added a new folder into the root directory of the repository named SHA2 with the Servicing Stack update KB4493730 and KB4474419 (new version that fixes SHA2 support for MSI files) and a readme explaining why these updates are needed Added Extra updates KB4501226 (located in "/Extras") with an updated readme file Guess this could also count has the changelog for updates released this month. If there are any issues do post to warn others. BTW, should I include the .NET Framework 4.7.2 installer and instructions on how to install it? Could be interesting. https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w

New New Moon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190615-b33dced90-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190615-b33dced90-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190615-b33dced90-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win64-git-20190615-b33dced90-xpmod.7z source repo: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 repo changes since my last build: - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1143412 - Make sure that we run apt-get update. Otherwise, the install of packages will fail (1fae884ff) - Bug 1143014 - fix header sort order in mfbt/ (5b0797dee) - Bug 1142586 - avoid asking the link service for online status on CHANGED. (7f265c51b) - Bug 1134942 - Whitelist fstatat and unlinkat for B2G content processes. (18fda02ce) - Bug 1140111 - Whitelist readlinkat along with readlink. (45ab582d9) - Bug 906996 - Remove unlink from B2G content process syscall whitelist. (94e89c020) - Bug 1141885 - Make readlink() fail instead of allowing it, for B2G content processes. (12c3bb9a2) - Bug 1136221 - SIMD (interpreter): relax type requirement for Int32x4Bool. (148a97f37) - Bug 1141629 - SIMD: Clarify that reciprocal and reciprocalSqrt are approximations. (964c6dbc5) (b33dced90)

@i430VX, that would be great. It was fairly easy downloading an index page from the server and filtering the lines of HTML code for the files I was interested in, but it was pretty tricky figuring out how to parse the file name out of the HTML; I was hoping my solution would be of use, especially after your possible server compromise. (Glad that turned out to be nothing, BTW.) Regarding choice.exe, I was lucky to have upgraded from 98 to XP, so I still had 98's old choice.com to fall back on. (That explains those odd lines near the top of the batch file.) But folks who never had a DOS-based version of Windows and started on 32-bit XP, 2000, or NT were out of luck. It's hard to write user-friendly batch files without it; although I do remember reading about a trick from an old issue of Computer Shopper: you have the batch file display the menu, then change to a directory specifically for that menu, then just drop back to the command line - but in the menu's directory, you have batch files named 1.bat, 2.bat, etc. So the user just types their choice and presses Enter, and the PC runs the batch file for that menu choice! Oh, the hoops we used to have to jump through....

JRE 9 and JDK 9 x86 - https://mega.nz/#F!gD41iCjQ!YMoTWKGtiJyym7bWDuj7kQ jre-9.0.4_windows-x86_bin.exe and jdk-9.0.3+9_windows-x86_bin.exe :)

In fact, regarding the Wayback Machine, it's actually easy to request a webpage to be saved! Checking the "Save Page Now" form, it uses the URL "https://web.archive.org/save/" prefix, followed by the URL of the page to be saved. Tried manually (yep, one by one) with the links on the "KB3124275 IE6 Cumulative Update" section of the .txt file (BTW, thank you @ED_Sln! ) and it works! Here's an example So a little help in archiving the rest would be useful for everyone here. Thanks! (In fact, it's possible to create a script and do this automatically, but I guess the feature has a request limit, like modern APIs.)

@Vistapocalypse, I just now installed Windows6.0-KB4474419-v2-x86.msu successfully, rebooted, and haven't any issues, at least for now. The initial version of the update gives in the result the issues I mentioned. At least - on my computer. So good news :)

The way they're keen to kill XP forever, they'd just throw it straight into the memory hole. It's not worth the effort!

While I don't know why It's like this, I saw this problem myself in xp and 2000. The "easy" way is to bring your own choice.exe from the 32 bit folder (SYSWOW64) from XP x64 edtion, which works on x86 and x64 xp, and later. Looking at your code I see how you did the downloading of the browser build, I may try to integrate that idea into my installer instead so i don't have a server file to update. I only have one day of school left until fall, so I should be able to get a new and vastly improved installer out very soon. My installer will grab the latest builds now btw

Good: Help / Submit Feedback in Serpent 52 now opens this thread instead of forum.palemoon.org. Welcome to the thread, Serpent 52 users!

I'm running a registered MBAM 3.5.1.2522 (thus with real-time scanning) and the old MSE 4.4.304.0 with the 1.293.2807.0, which seem to me to be a tight enough security, at this point. And I've just added @Ben Markson's cosmetic fix, just to keep the icon green, for the sake of my tired eyes...

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20190615-f12228c-uxp-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z Browser-only Suite Win32 https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20190615-f12228c-uxp-c9edf588e-xpmod.7z source patch (excluding UXP): https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/boc-uxp-src-xpmod-20190223.7z No official repo changes since my last build. For UXP changes please see above.

@roytam1 has built KM 74 and NM 26.5 for Win2K. Forked from FF 24 IIRC, both should use fewer resources than NM 27 but work with more sites than Retrozilla. I'm attaching a batch file I use to download & extract @roytam1's browser builds each week. It's not a full installer like @i430VX's - it doesn't create any shortcuts - but it runs through the directory listings provided by Roytam's server and finds the latest file. Requires wget 1.18 to connect to Roytam's server using https: and download the files, and 7-Zip to extract them. Still needs a little work; if I make any changes I'll re-upload it. Edit: Made a few small changes: The choice.exe in Win 7 requires a slightly different syntax than the choice.com from Win 98 I had been using. New .bat file should now be compatible with either version. (BTW, why doesn't Win XP have a "choice" command, requiring you to import one from an older or newer version?) Also fixed a bug: Navigator and MailNews were downloaded into C:\Program Files on a 64-bit system; now they're downloaded into C:\Program Files (x86) as they should be since they're 32-bit programs. And finally, added some code to clean things up at the end, by deleting the .7z file after extracting it. Edit 2: A few more cosmetic changes. Also fixed batch file to work even if current drive isn't the same as the %ProgramFiles% drive. Edit 3: Added an option to download the latest K-Meleon build. This was a bit tricky because the filenames for those builds don't follow the same pattern as the others. Also added a "safety valve" so 7-zip doesn't go nuts if no matching files are found (due to a bug, for instance). Edit 4: This little batch file project is getting more complicated. I added an option to download the latest Firefox 45 ESR SSE-only build. This was the trickiest one so far! One problem was that I couldn't just download the last file name in the listing any more, because that would be firefox-45.9.9 while the latest is firefox-45.9.16 or so. (The file names are sorted alphabetically, so "9" follows "16.") I realized I might soon have the same problem with palemoon-28 if it gets up to 28.10, so I wrote some new batch code to parse out the file date and download the latest file by date. That should future-proof this. Also added a feature: if a "myuseragents.js" file is in the same directory as the batch file, it will offer to install it after downloading & extracting the browser (except mailnews, of course). Tried to make it modular so I can add more "installations" of this type later. (Even this was a little tricky because K-Meleon uses a different path for .js startup files of this type than the other browsers.) Edit 5: Minor fix to above changes to get the latest K-Meleon build by date. Edit 6: Added code to install about-background.png and/or about-wordmark.svg if found in same directory as the batch file. Requires zip.exe from Info-Zip in the batch file directory or path. Final (hopefully) Edit: Batch file is now part of the .7z downloadable at http://i430vx.net/files/mathwiz/Browser Installer.7z

This is not true: if by "official" site you mean https://noscript.net/ then change to the "get it!' tab and scroll down a bit:

If you want links to the (English only) 2000 and XP service packs, and Internet Explorer, you can use the page I created a few years ago. It automatically downloads the SP's from the Internet Archive. http://sdfox7.com/dl2kxpie.htm The SPs are also in the http://sdfox7.com/2000/ and http://sdfox7.com/xp/ directories. IE 6 for Windows 2000 isn't on that page, but all the versions are in the FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/ie/win32/ (older 16 bit versions for Windows 3.x are here: http://sdfox7.com/ie/win16/)

To be frank, I don't think they ever intended this for a massive consumption outside of mainland China; their site does provide rudimentary English localisation and the app, once installed, does have the option of a (poorly translated) English locale, but, beyond that, the browser is heavily China-centered (pre-installed Chinese search engines, default links to their own proprietary extensions store*, NPAPI+PPAPI flash [older version 29] downloaded straight from Chinese servers[IIRC, these are specially modified versions to allow better user tracking by the regime ], pre-installed Quick Dial with popular Chinese sites, support forum in Chinese only, etc., etc.)... What little English support exists is probably targeting foreigners already in China, for whatever reasons... Just my 2c, of course (*): While you can install most extensions directly from the official Google Store when you're outside of China, do note that the installed extensions can't access it for update checks, so no auto-update for said extensions is possible ; for those ones that have such a feature, you should first export to file their configuration/settings, uninstall the outdated version and then install from Google Store the updated version (unlike addons.mozilla.org, Google don't offer previous versions of an extension, and the new, updated, version can't be installed on top of the outdated one, retaining already existing configuration ); finally, import previous settings from file...

@TechnoRelic just posted the link you need over at the New Moon thread; here it is: https://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/722/index.html

Hello yoltboy01, I share your fondness for Windows Vista, but the obvious answer to your desires is to buy a Windows 7 product key and upgrade (except the browser versions you mention are very old for use on Windows 7). Chrome is not a developer's project. As you already know, developers were able to backport a few open-source Chromium versions that did not support Vista. I tried Slimjet 11 and 12 (based on Chromium 51 and 53 respectively) on Vista x86 when they were new, back in 2016. If no developer's project is satisfactory to you, then you could always become a developer yourself. Regarding IE10 for Vista, see https://msfn.org/board/topic/176927-internet-explorer-10-on-vista/. Regarding Office 2013, see https://msfn.org/board/topic/177934-install-office-2013-on-windows-vista/. Regarding Firefox forks that are still being actively developed (including a build of Basilisk based on Firefox 55): https://msfn.org/board/topic/177125-my-build-of-new-moon-temp-name-aka-pale-moon-for-xp/.