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it is unimplemented at the moment. anyway it seems to be trivial to implement (thanks classilla) and a PR is created in retrozilla.

An interesting (or annoying) thing started happening on 12/20/2021 (as best I can tell) is that if I try to visit any page on twitter (an individual tweet or just twitter.com) then the tab will crash. Some twitter embeds (that aren't being blocked by extensions, such as those that appear on substack or some other pages) do appear inline on non-twitter sites and cause no problem, but i never tried to click on any of those embeds. There doesn't seem to be any way I can determine as to why the crash is happening. Having inspector open then trying to go to twitter doesn't show anything useful unless I am not looking at the right things. Now this is Firefox Quantum 69.0.3 (64-bit) and these extensions: - DDGo Privacy Essentials - HTTPS Everywhere - NoScript - uBlock Origin - Web Developer If I go into about:crashes, I can see a list of the crashes. All are listed under Unsubmitted. If I try to submit one it says failed. I know I can find these actual crash files, is there a program that I can open the dump files in or are they usable in windbg? It is not critical to fix this issue with twitter, as I can use another browser to look at those links. I just don't like having an error occuring and not knowing why it is happening.

@Dave-H Once again I have reflected what additional steps I'd performed to solve MU related error codes. And the winner is: flushing the DNS cache which means clearing the DNS cache. Reasons for doing this: "It's important to flush a DNS cache for a few reasons. The first is the cache may contain outdated information. You might experience this as difficulty accessing websites or applications. If the domain name in the cache points to an old or incorrect IP address, the website won't return the correct information." quoted from https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dnsstuff.com/clear-flush-dns-server-cache-windows&ved=2ahUKEwjpz-K4utD1AhWO3KQKHdpBCWoQFnoECAUQBQ&usg=AOvVaw1UbhoAs53jSD5-BeNl42B4. Command in cmd console: ipconfig /flushdns Don't know if it can help in your case but I did it definitely.

JFYI, you need to also change the font to a suitable one to be allowed to call that "The Matrix" credibly. Namely you want to use the White Rabbit font: https://www.dafont.com/white-rabbit.font jaclaz

I will forever miss the Bill Gates' Microsoft and the personal computing decade from 1995-2005. Those were happier times for Windows users.

I apologize if I sound a bit blunt, but I am the wrong person to ask. Browser "certificates" have been flawed ever since the "web" decided to use httpS "everywhere" instead of only on banking web sites (circa May 2000). Chrome did not start "nagging" its users that http pages are not "secure" until version 68 [July 2018]. Mozilla followed Chrome's footsteps with the "nagging" with the release of Firefox version 70 [October 2019]. Firefox did flag password fields on forms with version 46 but was not enabled by default until version 51 [January 2017, at which time Chrome also flagged password fields that where not https). But as far as blocking access based on a "padlock", that started in 2018 with Chrome and in 2019 with Firefox. I have personally always disabled these "nags" and I find the "padlock" in a web browser's address bar to be a complete and utter waste of time - so again, I apologize, but I am not the person to ask. That's not to be "misread" or "misinterpreted". I do have "blocking" means employed for "security", but that "d@mn" 'padlock' is NOT one of them. Malware web sites have GREEN PADLOCKS! [also the very reason I started telling Proxomitron users to filter HTTPS way back in 2004!]) https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-chrome-begins-flagging-all-http-pages-as-not-secure https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-follows-in-chromes-footsteps-and-will-mark-all-http-pages-as-not-secure/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/18/malware-and-https-a-growing-love-affair/

It was a 1996 used IBM business model bought directly from them that I only paid $75.00 for 20 years ago when IE6 was still functional. I can't imagine what anyone would want with that today other than as an antique. Never even considered the idea but now wish I had, you might be right.

so far Kafan minibrowser is working very well.. hoping you continue translating it for new incoming versions if works with heavy pages like facebook and others including youtube, that means it truly Works

Why? There are a lot of people (like me) collecting old hardware, you even could have made some money out of it. kind regards soggi

Thank you so much for this tutorial, TSNH. It's very useful to me.

@BlackWingCat should know about this error, in order to fix it

replace the msvcrt.dll by the v3.0f msvcrt.dll

Roses are red, your glasses are blue ... I don't sleep at night 'cause I'm thinking of you'.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/438991-download-extension-from-chrome-web-store "Script meant for Ungoogled Chromium, but may be used with any browser to directly download Chrome Extensions from Chrome Web Store. It adds a floating button in the bottom right corner which let's you download an extension directly."

Clean Flash Installer version 34.0.0.211 is now available at https://gitlab.com/cleanflash/installer/-/releases/. Confirmed working on Windows XP. Don't forget you need JustOff's GitHub-wc-polyfill add-on installed to access GitLab from a UXP browser; also Serpent 52 must be in single-process mode. 360EE should work without issue.

This thread is a little bit confusing especially for people looking for help. So I have made a complete guide with all tips and steps which have to be performed to restore access to Microsoft Update web site and are working for me. Of course at your own risk without any guarantee! And just to clarify: I am not the author or contributor of these patches and tools. I am a user and have examined my problems while restoring MU in Windows XP. This guide is the result of my examinations to help other users. Of course I did some modifications due to the fact that some patches don't work properly or something is missing. If you want improvements of these tools and patches, please contact the authors! Complete guide for restoring Microsoft Update in IE To be successful in restoring of access to MU web site, you have to keep the order of following steps. Please, do not change this order! 1. Check BIOS and Windows date and time incl. correct time zone. Perform a time sync! 2. If you have used "WSUS server" in combination with "WUMT" in the past remove it completely by "Remove_wsus.cmd". This batch file does not work properly, so you have to remove this registry key manually: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate. You can let "Remove_wsus.cmd" perform this by adding following line (without quotes): "reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /f". Start Automatic Update service. In system panel Automatic Update may not be shown greyed out. 3. Go to Windows Services. Three system services are absolutely important for MU: bits, wuauserv and cryptsvc. These services should have been started and set to automatic. 4. Configure Internet Explorer. Internet Zone to standard, Trusted Zone to high with only these three urls related to MU: http://www.update.microsoft.com, https://www.update.microsoft.com and http://update.microsoft.com. Credits to @maile3241 and @AstroSkipper. Go to Internet Explorer Options, Advanced. Check if TLS 1.2 is enabled. Uncheck entry "Check for server certificate revocation". 5. Before installing updates apply "PosReady.reg" if not already done. 6. Install these four updates KB4467770, KB4019276, KB4493435, KB942288-V3. Credits to @maile3241. 7. Apply "Tls 1.2.reg". Credits to @maile3241 8. Execute "rootsupd.exe". 9. Install the latest Windows Update Agent 7.6. It's version 7.6.7600.256. Download link: http://download.windowsupdate.com/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/7.6.7600.320/WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x86.exe 10. Install "ProxHTTPSProxy". Download link: https://i430vx.net/files/XP/ProxHTTPSProxyMII_REV3d_PY344.7z, credits to @heinoganda. Here you have to edit the config file "config.ini". Under section [SSL No-Verify] I added fe2.update.microsoft.com and deleted update.microsoft.com under sections [SSL Pass-Thru] and [BYPASS URL]. This is working for me. 11. Download and install one of these packages: an English all in one version, credits to @Windows7fan from MDL, @xpandvistafan, @maile3241 and @AstroSkipper from MSFN: https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1z5NGORov8OS7iBkoFVsvWOTOE1_LCjoQ&export=download or a German all in one version, based on version above, modified and updated by @AstroSkipper: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0y1zmwv8z4lch9s/Restore_WU_XP_DE.7z/file. Credits to @Windows7fan from MDL, of course. Here you have to check if "install.cmd" did its job properly i.e. all commands in "install.cmd" should have been performed completely. Additionally you have to verify the existence of patched "wuaueng.dll" in both folders system32 and system32\dllcache in form of a binary comparison.. Be aware of SFC which tries to restore an original old version of this file! After patching restart your computer and recheck! Verify if really all registry entries have been added.i All bold files mentioned here are in these all in one versions included. They can be installed manually (all registry entries of "install.cmd" have to be added manually too) or automatically by applying "install.cmd". 12. If you have problems in configuring ProxHTTPSProxy, or you get error code 0x80072f8f while trying to access MU web site, have a look in my thread: 13. Use "CAupdater" or "Certificate Updater 1.6" to update your root certificates. Download link of Certificate Updater 1.6 can be found here: 14. If the button "Check for updates" doesn't work on MU, close Internet Explorer, open MU from Start Menu again and in most cases it will load successfully. 15. If you have a fresh installation or a reinstallation of Windows XP, it seems to be necessary to install MU ActiveX Control manually because it won't be downloaded automatically any longer. Without any confirmation by me (no opportunity to check it), here is a guide how you can do that. Credits to @maile3241: 16. If on MU web page error code 0x80072F78 appears, turn off your firewall temporarily. If MU is working now, add the program "wuauClt.exe" into the exception list of your firewall and turn your firewall back on. In any case ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy must not be blocked by your firewall. Same for Internet Explorer, of course. If on MU web page other error codes appear, rename the windows folder "SoftwareDistribution" to "SoftwareDistribution.old" and let MU generate a fresh one. Maybe you have to disable a "HTTPS scanning" feature of your security software temporarily or make exclusions for MU related sites. 17. Do not use the same "DataStore.edb" in "SoftwareDistribution" for WSUS server/WUMT and MU web version. I have two DataStore.edb files, one for WSUS server and one for MU. One for all doesn't work in my system. 18. Use only http-links to open MU in IE. Direct link is http://fe2.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en or http://fe2.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en&g_sconsumersite=1 19. MU is only working if ProxHTTPSProxy is enabled. 20. For testing I add a link of my working ProxHTTPSProxy's config.ini: https://www.mediafire.com/file/vr1klatuzjh6v5c/ProxHTTPSProxy_-_config.ini/file 21. If completing all of these steps didn't help you at all, even after repeated execution, you may have a rather general problem relating to MU in your Windows XP installation. In this case you can try to manually reset Windows Update components. Here is my post how you can do that: After that kind of reset I recommend to perform all steps once again (from step 1 to 20 inclusive). Of course, some steps won't be necessary any more but checking which to perform or not will cost a lot of time, therefore senseless. Although I am not a friend of automatisms, I also offer a tool here to perform this reset of Microsoft or Windows Update automatically. Anyway, I recommend to backup your system partition completely at first. This tool called Reset Windows Update Tool (Script) is said to be working properly, but it has not been tested by me, so no guarantee of success and use at your own risk. The last XP compatible version is 10.5.3.7: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k48ll6e41eypogy/ResetWUEng10.5.3.7.zip/file and a less recent version 10.5.3.4 with a help file included: https://www.mediafire.com/file/wl0yrq98me8dfkj/ResetWUEng10.5.3.4.zip/file 22. If unfortunately none of all these 21 steps helped you, then you should presumably think about a complete reinstallation of Windows XP. I did all these steps (except steps 21 and 22) and for me MU is working flawlessly in my Windows XP Professional system. For further detailed instructions and missing files perform a search in this thread and enjoy the screenshots we all have uploaded! If you enjoyed this guide or maybe you found it interesting and helpful, I would be pleased about any reaction by liking or upvoting. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper PS: This guide will no longer be maintained. It will stay here just for historical purpose. The new, maintained and up-to-date version can be found here:

For sure on IME @Mr.Scienceman2000, vulnerabilities have been found. Plus if the hacker requires hands-on, how many of us have acquired used hardware without knowing who handled it. Good for you with the walking. I cycled to work for a few years, winter too -30 Celcius, until it became impractical. IMHO if people truly realized how much energy it takes to get from A -> B, or how much more energy is needed even to carry an extra 10 kg, maybe they would drive (or fly) less (or not). To me the world is doomed, i still do my part but have no optimism. We're all food containers, consumptive until we die. The best people can do to counter climate change is nothing. Technology or government policy isn't going to be enough. Truly, stay at home, have less kids, retire early, eat less, plant trees, enjoy low impact activities, turn down the heat and lights, low energy computing, shop local, don't buy new stuff. Not even the worst pandemic in 100 years slowed things down, more busy-work than ever. I often watch old television (1970s). In no particular order, drug abuse, police brutality, crime, racism, pollution, corruption. Most of this is worse than ever, we've been talking in circles for at least 50 years. "Net zero, blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral, blah, blah, blah. This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: words -- words that sound great but so far has led to no action," said Thunberg. "Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises." - Greta Thunberg For a while YouTube has been throttling download speed. This affects the Quick and Dirty YouTube script (eg. 740 kb/s down to 50 kb/s) and my personal 9xweb script. It will also affect the Mega-pack (can't remember proper name) available here for kernel extension users, since youtube-dl has not been updated for several months. Fortunately yt-dlp works using an Android API work-around but requires a newer version of Python, most applicable to newer Windows or GNU/Linux users.

If your CPU has SSE(for NT4, you'll need a SSE kernel driver as well http://x.rths.cf/nt4sse.zip), you can use my QtWeb NT4 port. https://code.google.com/archive/p/qtweb/issues/182#c2