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Yeah I know that title is not best in the world, but could not get better one into my head. And now it may feel bit clickbait too This board has not have yet any topics about Mozilla/Firefox problems and I decided to make one. This topic purpose is not to shill some firefox alternative like brave or say anything based on gecko engine is bad rather address real problems related Mozilla corporation. I used to be huge firefox fan but lot been going wrong since it. lets start with first and biggest one which is false claims. Mozilla is not people first not profit like they claim. Mozilla foundation sure exist but behind it is mozilla corporation that does profit with marketing deals and also they laid off 250 developers around same time when Mozilla ceo took himself nice paycheck (someone look article from that since was not able find it on quick search anymore). Also Mozilla pretends to be against Google and care from you privacy BUT website privacy policy says against it. so they implemented google invisible recaptcha and google and yahoo trackers on their site. That is caring from privacy right? Also firefox uses google as default search engine Now lets move to browser itself. I wont put tons of stuff here but if someone wants read more Spyware watchdog got good article about it. First issue is Firefox uses google analytics on browser (source) and developers ignored that saying they wont use it for datamining. Sure I trust google about not doing it. Then there is pocket feature which according privacy policy does allow insert personalised ads into stories saved to pocket. Also you need firefox account to use it. Then there is Google safebrowsing which make browser to download address database from Google servers. I explained on other thread why that feature is useless in real life and is only privacy threat. Also Firefox advertises addons during browsing by default By default Mozilla collects telemetry from following I think there is enough from Mozilla privacy issues and time to move for other issues. First one is addon blocking which Mozilla admit they wont care from your choice and want "protect" you https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-ons-blocking-process/ Then there was dropping XUL addons in favor of Webextensions. Problem with webextensions is they are way more limited than XUL addons were. Take example from Classic theme restorer developer if wont believe my word on it again they want limit what you can do and are ready to ignore what users want. Then there is issues related UI changes. Mozilla has been renewing firefox UI multiple times without giving option to go back old look. I absolutely hate new Bloatfox theme. It takes too much screen space for no good reason and removal of most icons on menu makes it harder to navigate. Before you were able to fix it but Mozilla killed XUL addons so not anymore Sure someone will pull you can disable them but why bother fixing something that turns more spyware on every update? Some alternatives I would recommend: Palemoon based browsers. I cannot recommend using vanilla Palemoon for multiple reasons that most here likely know but codebase of browser is solid and Newmoon/Mypal on Windows and webbrowser on linux. Those are best if you need lightweight browser without webrtc or other. Those forks also runs down to vanilla Windows XP Also Basilik is pretty good browser. I recommend disable addon blocklist on both of those If you really want to use latest Firefox based browser: Librewolf which is firefox with telemetry and propieraty blobs removed. Problem with that is they are depent on Mozilla and code grows all the time so it will be uphill battle If you want to use latest Chromium based browser Ungoogled Chromium which removes Google stuff from Chromium. That like librewolf is they are in uphill battle If you want to use chromium on XP: I cannot say anything here since only used goanna based browsers so @ArcticFoxieand @Dixel who got experience can help me out with this one Honorable Mention: Seamonkey I have been using that for while on linux to see how good it is and have to say it is very decent browser and not done by paid Mozilla Employees. It UI makes sense, support classic addons and theming. If you plan use it please follow mitigation guide for maxium privacy. That is way better than firefox on default options, but I recommend still do tweaks Browsers I cannot recommend at all. Waterfox: While it claims to support your privacy it spies on you as much or more as firefox and if that wont convince you it was sold to advertising company Brave: That gotta be absolutely worst out of all options analysis. It has fake cryptocurrency system that needs personal information, it got lot of telemetry, it offers it own "privacy respecting ad platform" which injects ads into webpage. Also it is shilled way too often and you should NEVER trust shilled products. If you want secure and private pick one that does actually well pick one that is as minimal as can and select your own addon set (tampermonkey, umatrix, ublock origin, noscript, decentraliseye) and you got pretty good setup Please add any findings or alternatives I missed

@Dave-H Great! I'm glad your system has got back all features you wanted to have.

Yes of course!

@Dave-H This can be answered easily. It depends on what the user has done when installing ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate. If you import ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate by clicking right mouse button it'll be installed under Trusted Root Certification Authority but for current user. If you import ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate by using Microsoft Management Console mmc or Internet Options Control Panel applet selecting "show physical stores" of IE you've got the option to point to Trusted Root Certification Authority but for local computer. Therefore all of us installed that certificate under Trusted Root Certification Authority physical store but some of us under account current user and others under account local computer. This is the reason why heinoganda's ProxHTTPS Cert Installer is working for all of us. His installer imports due to automatical selection the certificate PROXCERT.p7b (other format of this certificate) correctly but of course installing the old well known certificate valid until 2025 only. This installer is a modified Roots Certificates Update installer and you know these certificates it has to install are added under account local computer generally. Furthermore there is a general positive effect for those loving Windows XP (and 2000 or Vista). If correctly integrated into the system we are all now able to use a freshly generated 10 years valid root certificate of ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy as long as Windows XP, Internet Explorer access to WWW, TLS 1.2 functionality, Microsoft Update for Windows XP or the user himself still exists.

Lucky you! My update history on my XP machine was deleted last year since I had to reinstall XP. It had update history back to 2003. Great you got it working though.

is there a new version (02042022)? check the mega folder

You should select MSVCRT NT6 Series option. If Windows replaces older msvcrt.dll (2003 or 2005), Plese try to "move WFP Folder" Option or disable WFP.