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If the external servers that the browsers send info to are known then the IPs or domains should be listed so that people can add them to any firewall or proxy they happen to have. As a small example, in my Dev environment, it is completely isolated however I have a set of 10 IP addresses outside of the DHCP scope that allow internet access, but the firewall is configured to block all access to Microsoft websites from those IPs. People can choose for themselves whether they want to use the browser or not, and how involved they want to be in using it.

roytam1 and Chrome. Should've saved it for 1st April.

To be honest the only way to not get your data filtered to anything is to not use digital technology at all. There will be always something that can be extracted from us as long as we use a computer. That being said, when I first started modding this browser I was very scared of my data being sent to china and all that stuff. At the end I losed that fear because it is useless (and also maybe because I have nothing to hide). I reduced all the outgoing traffic of the browser to the internet I could see in the extended amouth of period I was testing the browser. AFAIK, the only thing that matters is the outgoing traffic as it is the data that can be sent to the internet, requested by servers out of the computer. With this I am not saying that you should not be afraid of your data being filtered but to address that being extremely fearful about data being filtered its not correct (its bad for health as well), we all have a level of comprehension with which we can tell if something is dangerous or not. Also, IMO malware/virus detection software is as paranoid as a person that is afraid of black cats because they are bad luck entities. In Linux OSes there are not such things (and if they are, they are very unpopular) because it is the OS itself that should be able to protect himself from external stuff. Regarding the loader of the browser of this thread, I believe it can be written in a BATCH file completely, if it loads the browser with arguments and deletes several folders at the end of execution then that can be acomplished with a BATCH file. I don't know about registry edits in BATCH but I know BATCH allows registry editing. Cheers. PD: Sorry for my english, I have not practiced in a while.

ArcticFoxie has sacrificed a lot of his free time to make all these builds, he doesn't have to share it with us but he chooses to do so. We should all be grateful for his work. I personally trust his judgement. We are not forced to use his builds, if someone doesn't like his builds, he is welcome not to use them. If someone thinks there is something bad about his builds, he should use constructive criticism, but please no bad remarks, ArcticFoxie doesn't deserve this. We should all consider ourselves lucky to have someone like ArcticFoxie. I am sure most of us would agree.

I wanted to report it works on Win7 32-bit.

How about Becky! 2.75.04 ? https://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm

This is a well thought opinion in my opinion! Completely agreed with all of your points!

You're welcome, and yes, I know you weren't aware, but the good thing is, you now know. Oh, so the feature was removed some versions earlier than I expected. And yeah, I know their made-up excuses every time when they want to remove such features. A mess indeed.

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Can I change my username to EpsilionDubwool as the name I currently have does not reflect my online identity?

Good one, this has cracked me up so hard.

When did those 3 years pass? One constant I'm experiencing with Win10 regarding memory usage, memory leak in kernel space especially apparent when not rebooting in months. Seeing it on different computers. Though I really only tried to analyze it on my home desktop and that didn't lead me anywhere. Another laptop at home is running 1903, I just rebooted it recently, last fresh boot was about 1 year and 4 months ago. Pagefile accumulated almost 5 GB of data if I remember correctly. Don't quote on exact GB regarding pagefile, but one svchost.exe hosting multiple Windows services was showing about 9 GB in Process Hacker's Private Bytes column. OK, that was user space, but regardless, non-paged pool was over 0,5 GB, it's about 0,1 GB on fresh boot. The laptop has just enough memory below the default threshold that makes Windows group multiple service in single process rather than split them in multiple processes, so didn't get to see the exact service that accumulated as much as it did. The only other instance when I've seen crazy values in Process Hacker relative to the actual available memory was when running games specifying 6 GB of minimum RAM in system requirements on a 4 GB system.

https://3dfxarchive.com/directx.htm

It works on Edge too.

The rationale for removing vanilla from the thread title was because Vanilla implies completely untouched and that such an OS is likely extremely rare. Modifying or adding things makes something no longer vanilla and it doesn't matter if it is a KernelEX or not.

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It was removed in Chrome 65, re-added to Chrome 66, then permanently removed in Chrome 76. See here:

I love it when you're being sincere.

As far as I'm concerned, as a user, not a moderator, all that matters to me is that this browser works on almost all sites, and runs fine on XP. If it's still sending telemetry to foreign servers, despite all of the efforts of @NotHereToPlayGames, then so what? I bet it's still no worse than using the 'latest and greatest' browsers on Windows 10 and 11, which millions are doing, sending masses of usage data to servers in the States and elsewhere. If 360Chrome is sending it to China and/or Russia, they can fill their boots as far as I'm concerned. I hope they choke on it! Unless and until anyone proves to me that 360Chrome can legitimately be considered to be any form of serious malware, I will continue to use it without a thought. There's a very fine line between legitimate security concerns and paranoia.

It would be very useful, especially Windows 8.0 and LTSB 2015 that have many artificial limitations that Windows 7, 8.1 and LTSB 2016 do not have.

Inflammatory and sneering remarks about other people's work are not welcome here. Please desist from this.

Thanks for your kind reply ; obviously, I wasn't aware ... Today, with more free time on my hands, I searched this further and it seems it was first removed in Chrome 65, then reinstated in Chrome 66, to be permanently removed, as you wrote, in Chrome 76 ; what a mess ; of course, all was done to cater to "user security", the usual "excuse" when useful features are being removed:

Was wondering why he was away from the forums. Dencorso was such a nice person, may he rest in peace.

no clue from me in the moment since my left hand is still in a splint so it is not very feasible to do some serious development. (thats also why my porting progress from pm26 to my fx28-vc8 repo is stopped since 12 Nov) EDIT: check out this bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82346 and for the issue that classilla/phoenix doesn't show up main window in win9x, I don't have any ideas for now. OT: I think I'm still lucky that my left hand had a cast for only about 48 hours then replaced with a splint so I can remove the splint and clean my left hand during my shower time.

I have to concur with you. Years ago, I was the same way as D.Drake about using XP as a daily driver on the Internet. It irked me that people here didn’t want to conform to the conditions of a Microsoft license. I embraced Vista and never looked back. And I wanted the “Luddites” on MSFN to follow suit. That is until ... Windows 10 I really love Windows 8, as many of you know. I came to see how my usage of an EOL product was misunderstood by some. Now I could see how self-centred I was to the XP fans here. I remembered that until Windows 8 came along, that my installation of Windows XP x64 Edition was likely the most stable and fastest environment I had ever worked on. Before that, I recall my years with Windows 2000 with equally great fondness. So, how could I be such a d—k head to those that wanted to run older environments? Sure, my idea of desirable vintage would be 2012 flat. So while I detest the Mozilla Proton interface and the look of Windows 10, I rather like the look of Windows 8 and Quantum. There was still some sort of dimension with the flatness then. Heck, I wish outlook.com web mail still looked like the Windows 8 style Metro client, like it did until 2015. And while daily Internet use of Windows 2000 and XP baffles me, I shouldn’t impose my feelings on others. Moreover, I’m amazed at some of the progress people here have made getting more recent browsers to work on past OS builds. Roytam1 is a big contributor in this arena, but myPal 68 is an even bigger achievement. Apparently, more modern attempts at browsers on Windows 9x are also being developed. I never thought I’d see that. I've come to realize that MSFN is a haven for vintage computing, plain and simple, and one should embrace that. I wish I had been more gracious years ago.

Sure you can. There are people, who still use Windows XP and Vista. First, I want to clarify that people come here, in order to help reviving these older operating systems. It‘s in no ones interest to treat them like „abandoned ware“ here. There are masterminds like @win32, who put so much effort into developing Kernels for older systems, so that we can run our favorite OS, no matter how old it is, nowadays. In my opinion, people who do nothing but repeat what the richy rich companies like M$ or Google say and oppositely try to make everyone not use those OS, have nothing to do here. No logic input, only helpless statements. If we wanted to hear „give up, move to Windows 10 everyone“, we wouldn‘t come here! There are tough times waiting for us now. As far as I know, Chrome 109 is really the last one for Windows 7 and no methods exist to run newer ones. I am not using Windows 7, but 8.1, which can indeed run Chrome 110. It took @win32 also a lot of effort to develop an Extended Kernel for Windows Vista, which made us run newer Chrome versions on it. You have to wait for an extended Kernel for Windows 7 as well and until then, I would simply use Firefox (or Chrome till February 2023). As far as Security Updates, you already mentioned PosReady 7

https://msfn.org/board/topic/180440-hard-disk-reliability-leaderboard/ Not if I can help it.

I will try this weekend, but if it requires a restart, we may never know if it works.

The Chinese did the main thing, you'd have nothing without them.

Unless extended kernel can support Widevine Content Decryption Module, video playback on such services won't be possible.

Yikes ... I've recommended Plex to folks here and just read this now. https://betanews.com/2022/08/24/plex-suffers-data-breach-third-party-gains-access-to-emails-usernames-and-more/ Hopefully nobody is affects by this breach.

Lol ... I guess Jason makes me chuckle, but I can see how others would find it scary.

a bit scary rather than funny. To me.

I believe Chrome removed --disable-infobars a while back, but if this is for the XP and Vista 'no longer supported' banner, you can hide it by setting your Windows version to 6.1 or above for Chrome in OSVER.INI (or alternatively, Application Verifier).

I've managed portable version of Telegram and latest Nightly build of Firefox to work with extended kernel. P.S.: 1. I'm Russian 2. Telegram Setup doesn't work

I forgot I messed with SecureUxTheme...I set it to load in Explorer and since it's loaded through a feature intended for debugging, the memory usage was high because of that.