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As I have very recently re-posted, Be that as it may, for probably the last time: 1. Latest version of Mypal is 28.17.0 2. There have been no locale string changes since much previous version 28.13.0, so LP for that older version should be compatible with the latest version of Mypal. 3. This is general advice and I lost count of how many times I've posted about it, but in Mozilla-type browsers, for the language pack to take effect, you have to a) visit about:config and search for pref general.useragent.locale The default value would normally be en-US b) change the value to the one corresponding to your locale en-US => it c) restart browser Tada!

Just one lone update from Server 2012 to apply for December 2020: KB4592497 Still going strong with Windows 8.

Microsoft teams after some tinkering does work with the extended kernel. I cant believe that! https://prnt.sc/uyh387

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM76.3.1-Goanna-20210109.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 1f141d568..66fe67625: - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1184965 part 4 - Factor MacroAssembler::callWithExitFrame. r=jandem (440d5aa18) - Bug 1179502 - Remove extraneous MacroAssembler ARM64 code. r=efaust (3bf9dd8be) - Bug 1184965 part 5 - Factor MacroAssembler::buildFakeExitFrame. r=h4writer (c8e5b07d1) - Bug 1184965 part 6 - Move MacroAssembler ExitFrameFooter function in the check_macroassembler_style section. r=jandem (764b847db) - Bug 1184965 part 7 - Factor MacroAssembler::callAndPushreturnAddress on architecture where this is efficient. r=sstangl (5c299f1a3) - Bug 1179047 - Implement new.target in ARM64 trampolines. (r=sstangl) (2a8bc9947) - Bug 1179047 - Remove a redundant AND from ARM64 arguments rectifier. (r=sstangl) (e184121ab) - Bug 1184965 part 8 - Remove MacroAssemblerSpecific::ma_callJitHalfPush. r=bbouvier (d5fbe6c4d) - Bug 1199719 part 0 - Add jit/<arch>/MacroAssembler-<arch>-inl.h files. r=jandem (b3ba913c2) - Bug 1199719 part 1 - Move MacroAssembler::and32 into the generic macro assembler. r=h4writer (0ee558f1a) - Bug 1199719 part 2 - Move calleeToken functions to the Jit Frame section of the MacroAssembler. r=sstangl (ab5e620bf) - Bug 1199719 part 3 - Move MacroAssembler::andPtr into the generic macro assembler. r=djvj (e9b988e45) - Bug 1199719 part 4 - Move MacroAssembler::or32 into the generic macro assembler. r=hev (6562b365a) - Bug 1199719 part 5 - Move MacroAssembler::orPtr into the generic macro assembler. r=lth (cb48698d6) - Bug 1199719 part 6 - Move MacroAssembler::xor32 into the generic macro assembler. r=jandem (c2dad5342) - Bug 1199719 part 7 - Move MacroAssembler::xorPtr into the generic macro assembler. r=bbouvier (22411d0f7) - Bug 1199719 part 8 - Move MacroAssembler::not32 into the generic macro assembler. r=h4writer (01fbbcb56) - Bug 1199719 mips - Add missing return in Assembler::haltingAlign. r=hev (d3908123c) - Bug 1186107 - Require curly braces for derived constructors. r=efaust (39e014ee6) - Bug 1168769 - Simplify parser's LexicalLookup function r=waldo (c1815f212) - Bug 1184597: Remove redundant condition checking; r=efaust (0b165af6c) - missing bits of Bug 1143704 part 10 (383c95573) - Bug 1018628 - Part 1: Support default parameter for destructuring. r=jorendorff (ca548501e) - Bug 1164768 - Remove PNX_GROUPINIT and obsolete references to PNX_CANTFOLD and PNX_STRCAT, rename PNX_SPECIALARRAYINIT to something more descriptive. r=evilpies (58faf3e29) - Bug 1018628 - Part 2: Generate AST just like syntax for default and destructuring parameter. r=jorendorff (c084cf4ed) - revert unidentified check coming from PaleMoon (0290fef0b) - Bug 1172895 - Handle chains of if/else statements without overrecursing in the parser and bytecode emitter, r=jorendorff. (7f0ddb3a6) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: make StmtType an enum class. (r=efaust) (141ee285d) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: remove superfluous StmtInfoBase::isNestedScope. (r=efaust) (f4ad474f6) - bit of Bug 1023609 - Remove SpiderMonkey support for nonstandard let (8af281b06) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: use an RAII struct to manage the parser statement stack. (r=efaust) (9c5f1f20b) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: use StmtInfoStack inside BCE and remove templated StmtInfo helper functions. (r=efaust) (4428be382) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: remove topStaticScope in favor of using topScopeStmt. (r=efaust) (fa7b10f65) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: rename top -> innermost, down -> enclosing in StmtInfoStack. (r=efaust) (b372d3a87) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: remove dead argument to Parser::parse. (r=efaust) (8bc1ca8ad) - Bug 1182428 - Refactor common trace logging code in bytecode compiler r=luke (dc32bf025) - Bug 1181799 - Allow use of Rooted with arbitrary, fully static structs; r=sfink (933a6830e) - Bug 1181862 - We no longer need Rooted<TypeSet::Type>; r=bhackett (e341c951e) - remove obsolete MOZ_MUST_USE stuff (49ecade5d) - Bug 1182104 - Refactor code for sweeping a compartment after minor GC r=terrence (c0f1f8c20) - Bug 1182104 - Part 1: s/mark/trace/ on relevant JSCompartment methods. r=jonco (65a3bf464) - Bug 1182104 - Part 2: Consolidate JSCompartment roots tracing within JSCompartment::traceRoots. r=jonco (0c113f82c) - Bug 1182104 - Part 3: Consolidate CCW edge fixing after a moving gc into a single method. r=jonco (b2a65634a) - Bug 1182104 - Part 4: Consolidate CCW root tracing for per-zone GCs into a single method. r=jonco (199dd66ef) - Bug 1198606 - IonMonkey: MIPS32: Fix build failure caused by Bug 1192786. r=nbp (5c8008dcd) - parts of Bug 1136597 - Mark all relevant cross compartment debugger edges when sweeping r=terrence (83de6aa2f) (21e490a9b) - commonjs: url: fix missing curly braces (bb287cf73) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Backout 7959ffacd30f (Bug 1176090) for being on top of a regression. (f8632c82b) - Bug 1182658 - Add TraceNullableRoot and use it to simplify RootedMarking; r=jonco (bb254f08f) - Bug 1202138 - IonMonkey: MIPS32: Fix callAndPushReturnAddress with Label. r=nbp (e5526a11f) - Bug 1161362 - When initializing a trivial script, also initialize its call object shape to the empty shape. (r=jimb) (13ba0b7b6) - Bug 1181155 - Use a common root list definition between JSContext and JSRuntime; r=jonco (4b354d4d7) - Bug 1163740 - Paper over qcms crashes due to NaN values in qcms_transform::matrix. r=dmajor (ea0c3a328) - Bug 1168480 - Fix potential leaks in qcms_transform_create. r=seth (a2a18a393) - Bug 1176551 - Don't reject valid profiles with no CLUT offset. r=jrmuizel (abfb97ac7) - Bug 1166252 - Reject lut8/16Type with empty CLUT grid. r=jrmuizel (104576c27) - Bug 1063486 - Track current point in _cairo_path_bounder_curve_to r=jmuizelaar (769f802bc) - Bug 1170983 - Re-enable gfx gtests that were skipped on Windows. r=ted (553a70112) - Bug 1132467 - Adjust qcms lut inverse binary search of non monotonic TRC. r=jrmuizel (b0046a41c) - Bug 1148479 - Unify string conversion methods in MozAccessible, r=surkov (0156f7d4d) - bug 1109891 - part 1 - use an accessor method to get mGeckoAccessible r=tbsaunde (23b8b4cf4) - bug 1109891 - part 2 - Allow mGeckoAccessible to store pointers to proxies and do some trivial cleanup r=tbsaunde (052e50845) - Bug 1177378 - Fix control type announcements on OS X by checking if subrole is not NIL when calculating role descriptions, r=surkov (285184494) - no bug - cleaning up trailing whitespace in mac a11y code rs=tbsaunde (abcc31b53) - Bug 1172577 - Handle proxies in mozAccessible method customDescription r=tbsaunde (0b0b1a08f) - Bug 1150510 - Crash [@ nsStringBundle::GetStringFromName, r=marcoz (d4ed71113) - Bug 1128143 - Add ATK roles for MathML fractions and roots, r=surkov (7bbcbada2) - Bug 1175269 - Add MathML roles/subroles for NSAccessibility. r=surkov (b9290c145) - Bug 1001641 - Provide equivalent support for MathML as WebKit for NSAccessibility. r=surkov (b67b98c48) - Bug 744790 - Expose basic NSAccessibility attributes for tables. r=surkov (a447db87b) - Bug 1182395 - Don't error out when -p is not given an argument in RemoteCommandLine. r=bsmedberg (85a44233a) - bug 1162621 - proxy Accessible::IndexOfEmbeddedChild r=davidb (0d28cdbfe) - bug 1167358 - use ProxyAccessible::Parent() a little more r=lsocks (29f47e76d) - bug 1107337 - implement ProxyAccessible::EmbeddedChildAt r=lsocks, davidb (bd3baa6b3) - Bug 1171995 - Part 1: Add FocusedChild to proxy accessibles r=tbsaunde (7dd082d65) - Bug 1171995 - Part 2: Add IsTable, IsTableRow, IsTableCell to proxied accessibles r=tbsaunde (dbc64a9f1) - Bug 1171995 - Part 3: Handle proxies in mozAccessible accessibilityIsIgnored r=tbsaunde (f8820a47b) - Bug 1171995 - Part 4: Handle proxies in mozAccessible accessibilityAttributeNames r=tbsaunde (478383686) - Bug 1176973 - [NSAccessibility] Expose attribute AXMathLineThickness for fraction bars. r=MarcoZ (391cf9da0) - Bug 1171995 - Part 5: Handle proxies in mozAccessible accessibilityAttributeValue r=tbsaunde (d7ddf8002) - Bug 1165486 - Rebase yield offsets when cloning scripts. (r=jandem) (3c2a58ccb) - Bug 1183191 - Avoid relazification in CloneFunctionAndScript, to fix a sudden cgc orange on a CLOSED TREE. r=shu (e3b38c65c) - Bug 1183191 followup - Fix AutoDelazify to not enter the self-hosting compartment, it can race. r=shu CLOSED TREE (b9bc06247) - Bug 1183191 followup - Always null script_ in AutoDelazify::dropScript. r=me (c770e8622) - pointer style (cb59b30c3) - Bug 1153165 - Make |operator bool| methods in js/src explicit. r=luke (a0b73de85) - Backout e0e69237df5b (Bug 1174873) for causing intermittent failures. (3c4e602be) - Bug 1181279 - Allow Rooted to handle generic Traceable entries; r=sfink (f73366ee6) - Bug 1195163 - IonMonkey: MIPS32: Fix boolValueToDouble and boolValueToFloat32. r=rankov (acf17d8e0) - part of Bug 1150855 - Remove uses of the curly syntax. (cdfd532b1) (0cd57e80c) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1150654 - Add CantInlineNoSpecialization to distinguish natives for which there is no Ion specialization. (r=jandem) (f886e8c59) - Bug 1030095 - Remove restriction on inlining recursive calls. r=hv1989 (c17518646) - Bug 1030095 - IonMonkey: When deciding to inline don't check for a common inlining path on the first builder. r=h4writer (616d37493) - Bug 1187511 - IonMonkey: Make use of callsite type information when refining |this| parameter. r=jandem (dca7f309e) - Bug 1187094 - Part 1/2 - Move Lowering's visitConstant() to shared code. r=nbp (4c2adbfc3) - Bug 1187094 - Part 2/2 - Fix non-unified build. r=efaust (d9b48063f) - Bug 1138693 - Check if Loads can be optimized by Scalar Replcement. r=jandem (0c2c0d9fb) - Bug 1193043: Check for oom in ScalarReplacement.cpp; r=nbp (b9d23b3aa) - Bug 1191756: Prevent one OOM in jsop_if; r=jonco (f8bfcee01) - missing parts of Bug 1135708 - Implement es7 exponentiation operator. (b169ec14d) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey: Use tryXXX structure for jsop_binary in IonBuilder, r=jandem (06c6bbdf2) - Bug 1123383 - SIMD (interpreter): remove Clamp. r=bbouvier (a81851c68) - Bug 1183522 - SIMD: Make toSource use the new capitalization and give it the SIMD prefix. r=bbouvier (32bd2d460) (e8820b1e6) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1165912 - Ensure HelperThread().ionLazyLinkList() is only used from the main thread. r=h4writer (65d05f3b7) - Bug 1178834: IonMonkey - Always lazy link code, r=jandem (00e0095a5) - pointer style (9da561684) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey - Part 2: Add platform in ionmonkey for sharedcaches, r=jandem (1cab275e9) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey - Part 3: Move BinaryArith from Baseline to Shared stubs, r=jandem (121374529) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey - Part 4: Make changes to BinaryArith to work with ionmonkey, r=jandem (ad957714a) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey - Part 5: Make it possible to use BaselineDebugMode in ionmonkey context, r=jandem (a0c7d27e4) - Bug 1171945: IonMonkey - Part 6: Use binarystub in jsop_binary_arith, r=jandem (79b29b05a) - Bug 1197665 - IonMonkey: MIPS32: Fix build failure caused by Bug 1171945. r=h4writer (b4ad6608c) - Bug 1168756: Add shell flags to enable shared stubs, r=jandem (89d340ad6) - Bug 1194139 - IonMonkey: MIPS: Split shareable code to mips-shared in Architecture-mips32. r=nbp (cfcc06933) - Bug 1170782 - Do not rely on the presence of a MATH table to use typo metrics. r=karlt (b4c9051e0) - Bug 1194139 - IonMonkey: MIPS: Rename Architecture-mips to Architecture-mips-shared. r=nbp (af4693799) - Bug 1194139 - IonMonkey: MIPS: Split shareable code to mips-shared in AtomicOperations-mips. r=nbp (3318773cb) - Bug 1199535 - IonMonkey: MIPS: Implement AtomicOperations shared. r=lth (4bb51d883) - Bug 1182647: Move setGCCallback to TestingFunctions.cpp; r=sfink (4aaf428db) - Bug 1184887: Add a setARMHwCapFlags testing function for the shell; r=h4writer (db4175474) - pointer style (b58e4e960) - Bug 1178793 - Throw on atomic OOB access, asm.js parts. r=luke, r=sstangl (1f901f458) - tweak style for patch compatibility (18c23b0ac) - Bug 1172470 - Remove unused unboxed case from GenerateDenseElementHole. r=jandem (98adb7e8c) - Bug 1172453 - Use TypedOrValueRegister instead of ConstantOrRegister in GetElementIC. r=jandem (2de276bf5) - Bug 1175976: IonMonkey - Part1: Move unaryArith from baseline to shared stub, r=jandem (8686e767d) - Bug 1175976: IonMonkey - Part2: Get the UnaryArith stub working in ionmonkey, r=jandem (6a8168d80) - Bug 1176288 - SharedStubs: Part 1: Move compare baseline stub to shared stub, r=jandem (32fad3674) - Bug 1176288 - SharedStubs: Part 2: Fix compare shared stub to work in ionmonkey, r=jandem (2d3102392) - Bug 1185957 - Properly handle known derived class constructors in ion. (r=jandem) (e05e94ea4) - Bug 1200560, IonMonkey: Part 1: Get tailCallVM working in shared stubs embedded in ion on arm, r=sstangl (6bc00653c) - Bug 1200560, IonMonkey: Part 2: Get VM calls working in shared stubs embedded in ion on arm, r=sstangl (efaec55aa) - Bug 1183375 - Cope with constant objects that are in the nursery when the code is initially compiled. r=jandem (a9863b1d4) - Bug 1184945: Increase the default MatchResult size of a regexp, r=bhackett (fb2bb0b97) - pointer style (9b2d3e613) - Bug 1202650 - split common code into platform variants. r=nbp (9f7b6d903) - pointer style (b1547efa8) - Bug 1141121 - Immediate operands to atomics, x86 and x64. r=h4writer (775972fdd) (66fe67625) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20210109-22e23d5-uxp-c1825acab-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win64-git-20210109-22e23d5-uxp-c1825acab-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.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20210109-22e23d5-uxp-c1825acab-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.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210109-7818edcce-uxp-c1825acab-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210109-7818edcce-uxp-c1825acab-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20210109-7818edcce-uxp-c1825acab-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #61 - Reinstate buildability with shared gkmedias dll (babeb5c55) - Redundant code path cleanup (#1702) (84fa3f9f7) - [NSS hotpatch] Hard disable AVX2 in NSS Build System (a625decfc) - Issue #61 - Add missing #endif in symbols file (b713575ca) - Issue #61 - Place Skia in libxul (39cebe99e) - Issue #61 - Add configure option for non-windows platforms (46ca396f8) - Issue #61 - Add missing external symbol cubeb_set_log_callback to gkmedias symbols.def (3f1ed0357) - Issue #61 - Add missing external symbols for gkmedias when WebRTC is built (1a4abb5d9) - Merge branch '61' (5af0c434b) - Issue #1699 - Part 1: python/psutil: Support recent FreeBSD versions (87aa6b230) - Issue #1699 - Part 2: libevent: Remove 'evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes' (da217348d) - Issue #1699 - Part 3a: mozjemalloc: Memory barriers on 'malloc_initialized' (f76695c1c) - Issue #1699 - Part 3b: mozjemalloc: Bootstrap allocator, early diversion for FreeBSD (91f7c9d30) - Issue #1699 - Part 3c: mozjemalloc: FreeBSD: Ensure early initialization (3e2dcaf7f) - Revert "Issue #1699 - Part 3a: mozjemalloc: Memory barriers on 'malloc_initialized'" (5d95844f4) - Merge pull request 'Add modern FreeBSD support' (#1706) from OlCe1/UXP:FreeBSD-support-reformatted into master (c1825acab) Official Basilisk changes since my last build: - Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#61 - Add gkmedias to package-manifest (85a4560) - Update back-end branch pointer. (9619e1d) - Update about box link to point to rpmo. (929237a) - Clean up x86 (143b0ff) - Stop restricting the initial heap size. (5cc3547) - Update comment. (22e23d5) Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#61 - Add gkmedias back to package-manifest (c20b533ca) - Back-end branch pointer update (Unstable 2021-01-05) (7818edcce) My changes since my last build: - Reverted UXP#61 - Reverted "Redundant code path cleanup (#1702) (84fa3f9f7)" - Reverted "[NSS hotpatch] Hard disable AVX2 in NSS Build System (a625decfc)" - Basilisk: Reverted "Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#61 - Add gkmedias to package-manifest (85a4560)" - Basilisk: Reverted "Clean up x86 (143b0ff)" - Basilisk: Reverted "Stop restricting the initial heap size. (5cc3547)" - Pale-Moon: Reverted "Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#61 - Add gkmedias back to package-manifest (c20b533ca)"

WinNTSetup 4.5.0 Beta 2 - removed NT5 uxtheme patch - fixed mounting boot partition regression - improved bootice darkmode

Advance Notice: Due to scheduled power equipment inspection in the building where my server locates, power outage will occur on 19 Jan 2021 10:00-14:00 (UTC+8)

Hi guys! I am getting really fed up with this Windows 10 ****....I have set up indexing to add the drives I want and it says all done but quick search isn't finding half of the information related to a customer.... I restarted indexing again and once again it is finished....BUT quick search isn't finding all files... If I go to the drive and the directory...then it finds them.... Any suggestions..... bookie32

As you all will see I have changed my profile to show Windows 10 x64. And yes...most of you know why I started this thread...but because of restrictions för bank tasks via older versions of Windows I was forced to update.... But it is still CRAP!

Hi Noel! Thanks as always for your updates... I still look for something that I can find positive with Windows 10....but sadly I can't...Windows 10 has shown so many things that do not work and it varies from version to version what (if anything) has improved (or got worse). I have seen such simple things as "plug and play" not work at times....One aspect of Windows I have never liked is One Drive. People start there new computers and come to connecting to there network and nearly everyone connects to their Lan or Wifi and then you have to log in with a Microsoft account....it causes so much problems for the elderly that have short term memory problems. Even if you don't connect to your network and create a local account...Microsoft is forever asking us to finish off our settings and create a Microsoft account....as soon as folks do this and get conned into One drive...it ***** up their system folders and it is a pain to fix...Never liked One Drive and if I want to use it I login to my Microsoft account to transfer stuff I want on line for support. I had a customer the other day that had forgotten their login password and had no Idea of how to fix it....most of my pensioners are just not any good at writing up passwords etc ...and even if they do...they forget where they have written them....Of course I fixed this now with a local account and no password so they do not have to try and remember them... My partner likes Microsoft Teams and thinks that works well...several other customers have commented about that ...but I won't even waste energy on Microsoft and stick to third party software..... I upgraded my work computers to Windows 10 a while back and that is 1909. I froze all updates...removed all apps....and it has been OK...still prefer Windows 7 over this rubbish! The downside of this is going to the next update and going through the procedure again....just wish Microsoft could respect their users settings and leave them alone....

Don't find the REPORT / EDIT Links anymore? They are now behind a 3dot-icon, in headline of postings, right side. You can try if clicking it works for you, or if not: https://msfn.org/board/topic/182240-missing-buttoncontrol/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-1193841 (there's also a workaround for the menu on Login name, if broken) .

Broken ICONS in page header, post editor, 3dots-menu? Most such icons need a special icon-font, called FontAwesome A) either installed locally AND added to browser prefs (font.name-list....) B) or let browser download fonts from web when visiting a page (needs permission prefs) HOWTO: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176837-disable-web-fonts-in-google-chromemozilla-firefox/ example for A) pref("font.name-list.sans-serif.x-western", "Arial, Microsoft Sans Serif, FontAwesome, Symbola, OpenSansEmoji"); But use your own fonts, and copy pref for "x-unicode", "x-cyrillic" etc, And then the same for ...."list.serif.", and "list.monochrome." etc. pp.... .

The latest release of @roytam1 's fork of FxESR 45 has been the one from last November: http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-browser-binaries-20201128.html ... so you can at least update your one-year-old installation to the latest one... BUT (sadly, there always seems to be a "but" lately ), if you, like me, prefer your browser to be localised, then v45.9.29 (buildID=20201008212525), package file name: firefox-45.9.29-20201010-7391af2bb-win32-sse.7z is the last one that supports the original FxESR 45.9.0 language packs: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/win32/xpi/

I'm not the creator. One more sarcastic comment and you will be banned. Period.

Speaking of "where's the advancement", can we start a discussion or make a list of the features that Windows 10's dozen releases have that are a significant/notable/actual improvement over Windows 8.1 (note: not Windows 7). I have started a list in my Notepad but would like to expand it (if I can find any worthwhile features) Note: such a list should not have bogus crap, lame features or gimmicks like Cortana or Fluent design etc. Just solid advancements. - Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX) is nice to have for me for running emulators that take advantage of it, since 1803 - Wi-Fi Hotspot performance and implementation in Windows 10 is better than Windows 7/8.1's Hosted Network, it's better at assigning DHCP addresses etc too and allows choosing frequency band (there since 1607) - Webcams/webcam stream can be shared between apps/passed from one app to another due to the frame server/webcam proxy they have since 1607. - GPU-PV (GPU Paravirtualization) and PCIe Direct Device Assignment (DDA) in Hyper-V Virtual Machines is useful, available in Windows 10 also, not just Windows Server. In general, there have been some good improvements in Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM 2.x releases). That's 4 features that I find of value in 5 years, 11 releases. And we have already discussed dozens of pages of regressive changes and will continue to discuss them. I'd like to hear others' perspectives on this, although every time someone mentions a feature, I always find that Windows 7/8.1 did it just as well. Yes, technically, Windows 10 has "hundreds" of features added in each release but most of it is just fluff. Update: Of course, Windows 10 is incredibly bloated and filled with too much gunk most people do not need. Full of deal breaking feature regressions and performance regressions too. And in no way I would say, it is faster or efficient. My only way of dealing with the bloat is throwing more powerful hardware at it since Microsoft had a genius evil idea to blackmail us into "upgrading". I am just trying to find out if there's anything really worthwhile.

<semiOT> The new forum layout caused real havoc to me... 1. The "primary" and "secondary" colour settings (in "Colour Picker") are no longer stored in cookies. My personal preference was Marble (not the forum default) for both, and then I would protect these cookies with a specialised cookie extension, so that everytime I logged-in, those custom colour settings of mine would stick... 2. The newly instituted "sibebar" unnecessarily takes up horizontal screen space and the new "Customizer" wizard only allows for displaying it on the right (default) or left side of the page ... I ended up removing it altogether via uBlock Origin: msfn.org##.ipsLayout_sidebarright 3. We no longer have "Theme" choices, my preferred "IPS default" theme has vanished, while the only one available theme currently is a poor relative of the former default, "Swift"... 4. In Chromium based browsers, basically 360EE, the Dark Reader Chrome extension no longer yields the excellent dark result it used to with the previous MSFN Forum iteration... 5. The new layout is largely unusable in older browser engines, e.g., as posted already, in Tycho-based browsers like NM27 (Goanna 3 based KM should also be affected, can people check?) . Not only the "reaction" button is just a huge grey circle there: but now the Edit (post) button has been hidden inside a post header ellipsis (...) button, that doesn't work at all in Tycho ! To add insult to injury, to sign-out in NM27 I have to delete MSFN cookies, because the <myusername> button does not respond to clicks! If it was up to me, I would revert the layout changes without second thoughts... But perhaps it's just my middle age revolting against any type of change... If I had to guess, the new IPS forum software is specifically "improved" for the teen-aged users on the latest model of their hyped, touch-screen, mobile device, whereas on desktop devices, basic compatibilty with recent Chromium is all the IPS devs cared for... EDIT: And I just freakin' hate the fact that e-mail notifications now only display a truncated version of the post they refer to, whereas in the previous forum software ALL the relevant post was included in the body of the e-mail; VERY convenient for when the forums go off-line for days (has happened in the past) or for archiving/recovering content when, God forbid, the forum's huge database gets corrupted and months' worth of users' posted content gets forever lost (has already happened once during the time I'm a member here... ) <semiOT/>

In latest 360EEv12 (12.0.1592.0), when one opts to hide the extension's toolbar button, e.g. to unhide it afterwards one has to load either chrome://extensions/ or chrome://myextensions/ and then locate said extension, where a "Show button" button () should be present: Isn't this the case with 360EEv13 ? If not, then I guess this is a regression/bug of v13, which is still in a BETA testing phase... I have NEVER used the official Chinese installer on any version of 360EE, only the portable repacks... I think the redistribution from lrepacks does offer the option to do a "proper" installation, but I've never attempted that... To be honest, it's not quite clear to me what you wish to achieve, but you can specify a path to a custom 360EE (user) "profile" via the option --user-data-dir= and set as value the custom path to a directory used as the profile (provided, of course, you have write permissions there...); you can then launch the browser via an accordingly modified shortcut... I don't have Windows XP to answer your query, but under this old (2008) Vista SP2 laptop, the blacklisted GPU can be force-enabled by the #ignore-gpu-blacklist flag (like you wrote): chrome://flash/ informs me that: GL_RENDERER: ANGLE (Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0) By default (with software rendering), this is how things look:

Today, the official Adobe Flash Player "version check" page no longer shows up; it was still working yesterday, Jan 1st, 2021, successfully detecting the last release, v32.0.0.465 ... https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/ => https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html ... And it's the very first time they're revealing details about the time-bomb (included in versions > 32.0.0.371) set to go off on 12/01/2021

Screenshare works, but audio does not. In browser it works and when you use app verifier and spoof windows 10, audio works too. It is intentional

Also, I really need to update this, but lazy

It's basically embedded Chromium, if screenshare only works on 10, something is either broken in Chromium or on Discord's side

... Thanks ; I arrived there independently myself, as posted here: Have a Happy New Year, I hope you weren't affected by that recent, strong, earthquake in your region...

As reported already by others, NM27 27.9.7 (32-bit) (2020-12-25) effectively kills several of previously installed extensions, below follow the status/addon bar of the same dirty profile first loaded in 27.9.7 (32-bit) (2020-12-11): and then loaded in latest 27.9.7 (32-bit) (2020-12-25): Missing icons, from L->R, are for: Dismiss The Overlay 1.0.3 Age Unlimiter for YouTube 1.0.2 (currently broken...) [TEST] Reload PAC button 0.1.2.1 [TEST] HLS Stream Detector 0.4.3 [TEST] HDS Link Detector 0.7.2 [TEST] My IP Now 1.2.0 [TEST] = Jetpack extension, force-installed via MTT EDIT: Additional extensions which are killed, but their icons were placed in the address bar (thus not shown in the attachments), are: CookieKeeper 1.9.3.1 ImTranslator 10.52 I keep that NM27 portable installation for legacy/testing purposes though, my daily drivers are either NM28 or St52...

Mypal and Centaury related queries should be best directed at: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/issues https://github.com/Feodor2/Centaury/issues (you need a GitHub free account... )

Latest versions of UXP browsers should have this issue fixed, e.g. latest Serpent 52:

I'm still using winamp 5.65 (not anything newer) due to some weird bugs appeared in newer builds.

In all honesty, I don't quite see why I'm being mentioned by @ArcticFoxie, since in that other thread I clearly stated: ... and everything includes, of course, Adobe Flash Player (their updater has been deleted, I only update at will, manually, my portable (PAF format) browser installations, except for IE9, for which I install the ActiveX globally... As for what @siria mentioned, ... this is still doable, as I already detailed in the dedicated Flash thread last summer: Kind regards

You can always report this on the Nvidia driver forum (I'm only guessing because I don't have a desktop to test these GPUs on or an rtx 20xx or 30xx GPU). Customer is always king, as @xpclient rightly said somewhere on this forum

Well, that told me....lol...thanks jaclaz....can always rely on you.... Thanks for the information...will have a look and stop trusting Microsoft....lol....hang on was it me that wrote that.......lol bookie32

Well I randomly ran into this thread so why not to share my desktop too https://prnt.sc/w4n5am

UXP browsers like NM28/St52 are no longer supported by Microsoft-owned GitHub, as they now only target the four "major" browsers, all some form of Chromium forks (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox[Quantum] > 68.0, Opera, Microsoft [Chr]Edge) ; they're now using Chromium-only frameworks like WebComponents/Custom Elements/Shadow Dom etc, that the UXP platform doesn't support currently, and is, to be realistic, still far away from supporting in the (near?) future... In the specific case of GitHub, a true life-saver is the legacy extension referenced just three posts above by @Sampei.Nihira, github-wc-polyfill, currently at version 1.1.7 ; unlike NM28, in St52 it would install (and eventually update) right out of the box, without tinkering with its install.rdf file; you have to be, though, on a fairly recent version of Serpent 52, as it relies on APIs found in relatively recent UXP snapshots (anything within the last 4 months should be OK, if you ask me...).

BTW, you're misspelling my name

... More details available below: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins#Plugin-container

Yeah, probably the last one before the inevitable death... It's been a long run... It will forever be remembered... So, as a recap: OS updates are over, Silverlight is over, Flash is now over and Java is living on borrowed time with unofficial version made with a Frankenstein approach that could break any moment. At this rate, we won't have any reason to come here and comment anymore, which was one of the few things we had left in terms of updates...

Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.465 (possibly the last one...) is out!

Oh I remember my old laptop with AMD turion 64 x2 tl-60 running windows 8.1 just fine

Hear, hear @Dixel I wanted to keep the Server 2008 updates and also the extended kernel, so I thought the best solution to my problem would be uninstalling the Meltdown and Spectre patches that I carelessly installed. Turns out, it worked! Tested this with the latest November build of the extended kernel and also Opera browser, worked just fine (though I have deleted opera browser as I don't use it)!!

But who uses pentium 4 as their daily machine anyways? I don't want to wait 5 minutes just for the browser to load.

windows 8.0 vanilla user here, no problems on ryzen 5 1600x, gtx 1060, seems super stable also for some reason ms supports 8.0 with the new edge chromium, so I use that browser as well

Well yes, but last one is from january 2020 so you still need WUFUC to function. For example reliability updates to support new browsers: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4534297/windows-8-1-kb4534297

Actually sometimes they are not only security fixes. Windows 8.1 received nvme updates and usb-c reliability updates. They are important for new systems.

Most thankfully , you decided not to merge official issue #1684 changes, so perhaps, for clarity, you should've added that in the "reversals" of your latest UXP builds, e.g.: - Reverted "Issue #1684 - Move global user-agent override to networking component. (b863bd2ed)" Your praiseworthy efforts are highly appreciated once again !

You can directly bypass this with a neat script. Here's all the details: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3190832/bypass-microsofts-update-block-for-windows-7-8-1-pcs-with-kaby-lake-ryzen.html And even if that script didn't exist, I'm gonna tell you right now, I've been forgoing Windows security updates for YEARS. Never had a single malware issue since... What... A decade ago? But having said that, I'm a home user. For anything enterprise at all, you should be using Linux, or if you can't do that, Windows 10 with all sec. updates. Also, running without sec. updates does require that you just be smart about what you download and install of course. Employ regular backups and don't click on rando links in emails.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20201205-11839e2-uxp-fd576c427-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win64-git-20201205-11839e2-uxp-fd576c427-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.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20201205-11839e2-uxp-fd576c427-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.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20201205-df9c9fb1a-uxp-fd576c427-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20201205-df9c9fb1a-uxp-fd576c427-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1690 - Part 1: Fix MacOS version detection above 10.15. Changes based on Mozilla bug 1616404 but supporting back to 10.7. (b1ac886a9) - Issue #1684 - Move global user-agent override to networking component. (b863bd2ed) - Issue #1691 - Part 1: Provide a way of associating a private value with a script or module. (15914ec57) - Revert "Issue #1691 - Part 1: Provide a way of associating a private value with a script" (060e3eb0c) - Issue #1624 - Exclude function scopes from Ion compilation. (bb31c1c65) - [NSS] Update root certificates. (cca3b9062) - [NSS] Version and build bump (958205f4d) - Clobber for NSS update. (1683d012e) - Issue #1690 - Part 2: Update MacOS Blocklist support from 10.13 to 11.0. Changes based on Mozilla bug 1678061. (e43b01e58) - Merge pull request 'Fix macOS version detection above 10.15 and update blocklist support to 11.0' (#1692) from dbsoft/UXP:Big_Sur_Version into master (b1bbc9286) - Revert "Issue #1624 - Exclude function scopes from Ion compilation." (433ed209b) - Issue #1624 - Globally disable inlining optimizations in the JS JIT compiler. (b66816426) - Merge branch 'nss-patch-work' (7f619fa9b) - Issue #1624 - Make ion inlining optimizations a pref. (1a21b5269) - Nuke erroneously added vim line. (7fda700f9) - Issue #1624 - flip the inlining pref. (fd576c427) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue #1851 - Part 1: Add warning and reset option to preferences window. (df9c9fb1a) My changes since my last build: - import changes from mozilla nss repo: - Bug 1641480, TLS 1.3: tighten CCS handling in compatibility mode, r=mt - Bug 1672703, always tolerate the first CCS in TLS 1.3, r=mt - Bug 1663661 - Guard against NULL token in nssSlot_IsTokenPresent. r=jcj - Bug 1607449 - Lock cert->nssCertificate to prevent data race. r=jcj,keeler - Bug 1679290 - Don't hold slot lock when taking session lock r=bbeurdouche - Bug 1670769 - Remove 10 GeoTrust, thawte, and VeriSign root certs from NSS. r=kjacobs,KathleenWilson - Bug 1678166 - Add NAVER Global Root Certification Authority root cert to NSS. r=bbeurdouche,KathleenWilson - Bug 1678189 - December 2020 batch of root changes, NSS_BUILTINS_LIBRARY_VERSION 2.46. r=bbeurdouche (c87e0c17a) - Reverted "Issue #1684 - Move global user-agent override to networking component. (b863bd2ed)" - Reverted "Issue #1851 - Part 1: Add warning and reset option to preferences window. (df9c9fb1a)"

@we3fan currently has Chrome 49 on Windows XP, 49 being (as you might already know) the last version to support that OS... Chrome 49 only supports the deprecated CRX2 type of Chromium extension packaging ; however, evil Google have stopped publishing new and updated extensions in the Chrome Web Store (CWS) in that package (.crx) format since the end of last May 2020, making only available the newer format package CRX3, which isn't supported by old Chrome versions (NB: Chrome v64.0.3242.0 is the first one with CRX3 support). The following is an excerpt from an unpublished article of mine: The following depicts what happens when one attempts to install GOYT 1.16.0 on Chrome 49: Previously installed versions won't auto-update, either... SSUAOs in Chromium browsers can be enabled via, e.g. User-Agent Switcher for Chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg 1. First set a Custom UA and add it to the "Chrome" category (under default, this assumes the newly created UA impersonates some other form/version of Chromium), then 2. Permanent Spoof List => domain => youtube.com => choose the previously set custom UA =>add 3. When you load yt, the extension's tab icon will alert you a SSUAO is being used... DISCLAIMER: This was obviously OFF-TOPIC, as it doesn't pertain to any of Roytam1's browsers...

Well back in 2013 I absolutely hated that os. It was weird for me at the time. Windows 8.1 improved the metro ui, added start button and for me at least improved my pc performance (especially ssd io). Telemetry can be removed, so that’s why I asked that very question. I absolutely don’t want to make anyone angry or anything, just being curious.

Windows 8.1 does this as well. I really hate Windows 10 UI in general. I like aero, but I also like colorful borders that Windows 8.1 has. Windows 10 is just ugly.

On Firefox 41+ you can disable the 'normal fonts' download only by using this combination in about:config: browser.display.use_document_fonts = 0 gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled = true https://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/21/firefox-41-mozilla-modifies-how-icon-fonts-are-handled-by-the-browser/ All icon fonts will still be downloaded this way. Tested on Serpent 52.9

Just to make things easier, I created an installer for it http://nojus.trexion.com/local/tmp/SumatraPDF_3.3XP.exe

Also because Vista was just too ahead of its time, and had a far too damaged reputation by the time SP1/2 had ironed out most of the early launch issues. Doesn't help there was crap like the NVIDIA 8600M (which I'd had the displeasure of dealing with) and Pentium Dual-Cores.