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Regarding the recent discussion about discourse-based forums being BROKEN under UXP-based browsers (NM28/St52/possibly also St55/moebius), I found a related thread in the official PM forums: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=29327 The point in the thread where the recent breakage happened (i.e. implementation of the "??=" operator by Discourse) is this one ; the approach savvy members there took to address the breakage is to use JustOff's Modify-HTTP-Response (legacy) extension below: https://github.com/JustOff/modify-http-response/releases/tag/1.3.8 Once installed, go to "about:addons" and access that extension's options; locate the "Filters" input field; in the initially empty field, paste the code below: [["/global\\.discourse-cdn\\.com|community\\.(frontrowcrew|cartalk)\\.com|forum\\.(manjaro|openwrt)\\.org|forum\\.italia\\.it/",["/browser-detect-/",["/.*/g",""]],["/vendor-/",["/(t\\.discourse\\.hoisted|t\\[e\\]|r)(\\?\\?|\\|\\|)=(\\{\\}|\\[\\])/g","$1$2($1=$3)","n??=[]","n||(n=[])"]],["/discourse-/",["e.draft||=t.draft","e.draft||(e.draft=t.draft)","/(t\\.__registry__\\._typeInjections\\.service|[ne]|f\\[e\\])(\\?\\?|\\|\\|)=(\\[\\]|\\{\\})/g","$1$2($1=$3)"]]]] NB: You'd better use a proper code-editor to copy/paste, to avoid any errors... Then "tick" the "Enable" setting above the "Filters" input field... @msfntor : If you now visit https://community.brave.com/ in your UXP-based browser, (hopefully) the forum will load OK (it does here, with St52): I do hope you're happier now ... The inner-workings of the method is that the extension intercepts the UXP-incompatible JS code sent by Discourse and then transpiles it on-the-fly, based on the Search-and-Replace RegExp filter specified... All credit for the filter code belongs to PM-Forum members Kris_88 and adoxa ... @Art7220 : The procedure I detailed above seems to also work for your "own" Discourse-based forum: https://forums.mst3k.com/

We understand that this is frustrating for our users, but as others have pointed out, we've been hit with many posts with crypto-currency spam. They are even taking over regular member accounts to post spam. These attacks were originating in Russia so unfortunately, we had to take steps in order to prevent this from happening. This isn't just MSFN specific but other forums are experiencing this as well. The last thing we want is the board to become compromised to the point where someone causes major damage. Therefor, xper employed a few tactics to help curb these attacks. We're not blocking Russia due to anything political, because of their beliefs or current events surrounding them, it's simply to keep the board safe.

The new Inventory system works now on all Windows versions. The last update available is from March 2002 on Windows NT4.0.

Good to know that there's a solution for Discourse breakage. Thanks.

1 - It has a fresh look, cool graphics , it will look good if you're on Vista, I can tell you what to mod via PM. 2- Caution ! This is a very dangerous point where some people might wanna use drugs on their daily basis, be strong, don't do it.

What is ViStart? ViStart is Start Menu replacement that works with Windows XP or modern systems like latest Windows 10! This application is here for a long time, I remember back in 2007 it was very requested as fully working Windows Vista Start Menu with real search bar. During time ViStart evolved to version 8.1.5208 compiled 14.2.2016. After long delay was 31.3.2021 released version 8.1.5254 and Lee Chantrey decided to make it Open Source and released source code on GitHub Now I created fork 26.1.2023 with v8.1.5254 and during my testing I realized many features that I need are unfinished or missing. For example even with fully translated Language file translation in app was incomplete. 3.2.2023 I have released v8.1.5258 as my latest attempt to improve ViStart to another level. I started with my changes with my first release at 28.1.2023 with v8.1.5255 To make installation easy as possible I have created two silent installers for ViStart. One which handle application that is installed to %ProgramFiles% and one which extract skins related files to %AppData%. You need both of them to launch ViStart. These links always points to latest version it can be updated frequently than official release on GitHub. I have done various improvements to the code. Here is list of main changes, for more details see changelog. Improved translations, every visible element under Windows XP / Vista / 7 host can be now translated using Language.xml Added new context menu in "Navigation Pane" on custom items - Open, Rename and Hide Added new context menu to "Computer" - Manage and Search Added new context menu to "Computer" / "Network" / "Control Panel" - Show on desktop / Hide from desktop Added new context menu "Explore" when browsing All programs to be able open whole folder Removed ViPad context menu when ViPad is not running or not installed. No more "online" feature in context menu Realigned all items in Control Panel to make UI more clear Added new option to change Skins Rollover icons similar to Start Orb Skins settings Updated application icon with older better one from v1.6 era Non existent "Frequent programs" / "Pinned programs" loaded from settings.xml are not displayed Added 18 optional items than can be displayed in "Navigation Pane" from settings.xml Added Libraries, Downloads, Printers and Faxes, Set Program Defaults, Search support for settings.xml - Windows XP related options are set as default in settings.xml - Added Games folder support which points to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Games - this is not dynamic and on each XP language you need to manually fix this path in settings.xml if would like to use this option - Windows Vista / 7 options Libraries, Downloads, Games, Help are commented out, you need manually fix settings.xml on other systems than XP / 2003 Added Windows XP Luna Blue, Windows XP Luna Olive, Windows XP Luna Silver, WIndows XP Embedded, Windows XP Zune, Windows XP Royale, Windows 8 Beta Concept, Windows Vista, Windows Vista 5270 Skins Added option to control "Navigation Pane" display items limit, see Windows 8 Beta Concept Skins layout.xml ViStart translations are now really unfinished as everything is now translatable. But I adapded all languages founded over internet and all of them are included. Feel free to improve current translations or provide new one! Every language have all needed strings inside to make it easy for you, translators! Brazilian Czech - 100% Dutch English - 100% French German - 90% Hebrew - 100% Italian Korean Polish Russian Spanish Turkish Download ViStart-all.exe https://www.mediafire.com/file/bgra4u1jgh02v1j/ViStart-all.exe/file ViStartSkins-all.exe https://www.mediafire.com/file/a2tw9bj6pph2my4/ViStartSkins-all.exe/file Preview Currently included Skins Windows 7 Start Menu Windows Vista Windows Vista 5270 Windows XP Luna Blue Windows XP Luna Olive Windows XP Luna Silver Windows XP Royale Windows XP Zune Windows XP Embedded Windows 8 Beta Concept Ideas and improvements that come in future releases Windows 11 support Skins SubSkins support - Skins creator can specify Skins variants, like different Start Menu size or Light / Dark mode etc. I have currently implemented these changes which were accepted by author to merge into main ViStart branch. Changelog ViStart v8.1.5258 [*]Removed broken fix for bug 2] in "No programs match the search criteria" is never displayed "No programs match the search criteria" is never displayed #10 as it caused issues [*]Removed start_button.png depency in FileCheck, now can be loaded skins without start_button.png [*]Added new option to select custom Rollover, place _rollover directory near _skins and put your favourites rollovers inside [*]Updated Language files with latest strings [*]Updated default settings.xml [*]Added support to display "Search" option in Start Menu [*]Increased settings.xml items limit to 18 [*]Added Windows 7 Rollover [*]Added default Start Orb ViStart v8.1.5257 [*]Fixed "Files" string translation doesn't work "Files" string translation doesn't work #8 - "Files" string translation doesn't work #8 [*]Fixed Bug 2] "No programs match the search criteria" is never displayed "No programs match the search criteria" is never displayed #10 - from "No programs match the search criteria" is never displayed #10, Bug 1] still remains [*]Fixed incorrect translation loading on ViStart Control Panel for "strStartViStart" and "strStartWinMenu" [*]Improved "Pinned programs" loading from settings.xml, non existent items are not displayed [*]Improved "Navigation pane" limit again. 17 items are choosable and are parsed from settings.xml, now in Each Skin's layout.xml can be specified limit which should hide items that can't be displayed. For example user preconfigure 15 items to be displayed in Start Menu "Navigation Pane" in settings.xml. But I have specified in My Skin layout.xml which will hide 4 last incompatible items when is performed Skin change. User can always break this rule when manually selecting Start Menu default items visibility. This tweak is here to improved initial skin load to avoid buttons overlap [*]Realigned almost all items in Control Panel to make UI more clear [*]Changed various English labels according to UI polishing [*]Added option to disable Splash Screen [*]Added Turkish + Polish translation created from old various finds [*]Updated all languages with all needed strings [*]Added Windows XP Luna Blue Skin, Windows XP Luna Olive Skin, Added Windows XP Luna Silver, WIndows XP EMbedded, Windows XP Zune, Windows XP Royale, Windows 8 Beta Concept, Windows Vista, Windows Vista 5270 Skin - Start buttons needs to be created, feel free to improve these Skins I'm not graphics guy. In many Skins are correct credits. For some themes I don't know from where was found original images that was touched when adapting for ViStart 8.1! [*]Added fixed connect.png to Windows 7 Start Menu roolover instead of Homegroup icon [*]Added PNGs for Printers, Downloads, Libraries and Userfolder rollover to Windows 7 Start Menu ViStart v8.1.5256 [*]Removed "Recent" word from Skins/Windows 7 Start Menu/startmenu_expanded.png [*]Removed ViStart.manifest [*]Added ViStart.exe.manifest [*]Updated application icon with older better one from v1.6 era [*]Improved "Frequent programs" loading from settings.xml, non existent items are not displayed [*]Increased limit from 12 to 17 items in Start Menu "Navigation pane" [*]Added Libraries, Downloads, Printers and Faxes, Set Program Access and Defaults support for settings.xml [*]Added new default settings.xml into main directory and RES - Windows XP related options are defaults - Added Downloads folder support (Downloads folder must be placed in CLSID {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103} know as My Documents , so this is dynamic for all languages when you create Downloads folder - Added Games folder support which points to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Games - this is not dynamic and on each XP language you need to manually fix this path in settings.xml if would like to use this option - Fixed Help and support option - Windows Vista / 7 options Libraries, Downloads, Games, Help are commented out, you need manually fix settings.xml on other systems than XP / 2003 [*]Added all needed strings to all language files. Fully translated in only Czech.xml until translators finish other languages ViStart v8.1.5255 [*]Improved translations, every visible element under Windows XP host can be now translated using Language.xml [*]Added new translatable elements into all available languages [*]Added Czech.xml [*]Added new context menu in NavigationPane on custom items - Open, Rename and Hide [*]Added new context menu to "Computer" - Manage, Search [*]Added new context menu to "Computer" / "Network" / "Control Panel" - Show on desktop / Hide from desktop [*]Added new context menu "Explore" when browsing All programs to be able open whole folder [*]Added Windows XP Luna Blue theme [*]Removed ViPad context menu when ViPad is not running or not installed. No more "online" feature in context menu [*]Removed More themes and More Orbs online buttons. No more "online" features from Settings [*]Realigned buttons on Style configuration page [*]Realigned elemens on About page and added current build visibility [*]Updated settings.xml with new defaults [*]Fixed "No skins available", if doesn't exist %APPDATA%\ViStart use current EXE dir if _skins folder exist there

Same reason here.

Helping others "Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if you see someone lacking clothes, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own kin? Then your light will blaze out like the dawn and your wound be quickly healed over."

I didn't find it funny, but glad I made you laugh. There's no CSS, it's set in the script through the call to the PIXI library. fps-compare-html5.html, line 170. The idea behind is that resizing frames is costly, though on the other hand, larger resolution results in having to decode larger frames. YMMV.

I'm in a big family and I can definitly say it is a little chaotic (there are 8 of us) but also a blessing at the same time there may be a little bit of fighting every now and then but we still love each other like family

Admins/moderators have already DELETED THEM and have already FIXED the forum from getting future BS. We had a "software update" early January or so largely in part to keep this BS from POLLUTING our neighborhood. I witnessed a good dozen or so of these BS cryptocurrency NUISANCES and our awesome admin/moderator teams was very quick to remove them. The ones that I witnessed seemed to always occur between the hours of 3am and 7am Eastern Standard Time. (between 9am and 1pm Central Europan Time [France])

I visit Pale Moon forum sometimes. Also tend to lurk on Reddit (few non-tech related subreddits). I might have over-done them in the past. IDK, s*** gets old and there's not much of anything interesting in this world for me. Got some crappy news here too recently. They say my home country has reached the new low on corruption index, so most corrupted at this point in its entire short history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index It's indeed Better Never to Have Been. Unrelated rant, but why does Windows always have to go corrupt on me in subtle ways? It's been' doing that crap in XP days and it's doing it now, countless revisions later...no matter how careful I am in setting it up. Windows Error Reporting refuses to show crash dialogs (which also serve as the prompt to launch the debugger), even for normal applications that weren't specifically excluded by Microsoft, despite DontShowUI=0 setting. WerTweak's logging says WER_SUBMIT_QUEUE flag is always passed when WerReportSubmit is called, but this is only supposed to happen in case of explorer.exe crash...and of course, it works right in a fresh installation in VM... And then ExplorerPatcher's weather widget is causing unexplainable crashes of explorer.exe after some time...when I check the stats in Process Hacker at time of crash, it shows USER handle count as 10000, which is the default limit after which it's reached no more can be created, but it doesn't look like handles are leaking during runtime, they just explode in number at some point...one minute it's OK another it's crashed... And what the heck is one supposed to do in such cases other than nuke everything and start over...

You may have to consider that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". MSFN has been hit HARD with cryptocurrency spam BS. It is entirely possible (though admins would need to chime in to verify) that what you call a "bug" is NOT a bug but the best method available to keep the BS spam off of MSFN. I would rather have a spam-free MSFN and "hinder" a few rule-following Russian users then revert to a non-hindering setup plagued with cryptocurrency BS.

This is very cute.

Yes.

@AstroSkipper Rule 7.b "This community is built upon mutual respect. You are not allowed to flame other members." Consider yourself informally warned.

Yes I did; please understand I don't harbour a "negative disposition" towards you, nor am I out there to insult you ... But what was the point in the context of this recent discussion to mention that the homepage https://www.sitepoint.com/ loads (scrolls) OK in DCB? "Discourse" is a "forum" platform, so I had expected you to link/refer to their actual "community" page, https://www.sitepoint.com/community/ which is indeed broken in DCB (I assume? ) and UXP...

... Wrong again ; their Homepage doesn't use "Discourse", but their Forum does : https://www.sitepoint.com/community/

Sort of hard for me to say anything helpful as that would be hypocritical of me as I feel the same right now. I'm just existing and not "Living". I am a bad example of a MAN.

Nah, I'm not going down that hole.

Look at it this way, you are a member of another forum that does NOT allow new members to post LINKS. MSFN does not restrict new members from posting LINKS. At the start of the year, MSFN was hit MASSIVELY by NEW MEMBERS posting LINKS for cryptocurrency BS.

I'm positive that you HAVE if you log in often enough and at the correct times of day. The admins/moderators are VERY FAST to DELETE/REMOVE the cryptocurrencty BS so you haven't seen them because the admins/moderators are VERY FAST.

NVMe support has been added in updates KB2990941-v3 and KB3087873-v2, but you need to have them integrated in the image. The USB3 universal driver has a signature, not WHQL, but enough to be able to integrate and install this driver. I installed Windows 7 on a computer with a B660 chipset and i5-12400F processor, also on NVMe, no problems with the installation. Updates for NVMe support and the universal USB3 driver were integrated in the image. But this processor without efficient-cores, no integrated GPU, and I also disable UEFI.

Your iso should have usb 3 drivers integrated. but I’m not sure if windows 7 is able to boot on NVMe drives. I think it was added in 8.1. Try sata ssd?

I absolutely agree with you ! Also they could just be following the world sanctions (declared by all normal countries). MSFN is under European (Danish ? Dutch ?) jurisdiction. So MSFN ought to comply with the Euro sanctions (ie - ban everything Russia). It's a very serious matter, since the russkies are not allowed to use any western tech (software/hardware). I have a friend in Germany, he once told, russkie tourists buy drones for their military use, and the German customs is on high alert. Here they can read some pretty useful info, so no good, no good at all. P.S. Sorry can't put a reaction, maybe you already read. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183266-pretty-detox-posts/?do=findComment&comment=1237478

Well, I allowed everything (see the screenshot right next to your post), all the same !

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hiker-captures-video-of-rare-ice-disk-vortex-spinning-in-scottish-winter-weather-phenomenon-watch/ Hiker Captures Video of Rare Ice Disk Vortex Spinning in Scottish Winter Weather Phenomenon–WATCH

The newest version of KernelX is from October 2022?

Good night :)

AstroSkipper, your bad response is reported.

No not painful, but RED, uh. Thank you Mina, and to you too nice dreams!

Ouch, that's painful, good night, sweet dreams!

... And: https://community.brave.com/ (courtesy of @msfntor ) ...

... What it says on the tin: a) We (intend to) ONLY support "last week's" iteration of the Chromium engine ... b) You can forget "the previous 10 years of the Internet" , thus ALL browser engines that are still compatible with that Internet "snapshot" ...

mostly peaceful chinese balloon https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64514120

"Personally", I'd stick with whatever browser on Win7SP1 is based on Chromium 109 (EoS for that OS), for as long as it still meets my browsing requirements ... ALL the forks to be found here in this thread basically target WinXP/Vista and even the UXP-based ones (NM28/St52) still fall considerably behind, web-compat-wise, Chromium 109 (and are very unlikely to catch up with it in a timely fashion, if ever...). I'd also keep an eye on the Win7 "communities" and the Chinese browser market (), as was the case with XP until recently , some Chromium 109+ codebase is bound to be backported to Win7... Additionally, there's promise in the air for a "Win7-Extended-Kernel", so not all things are "doom-and-gloom" ... FWIW, Mozilla Firefox still supports that OS, with no official cut-off date announced yet...

... Is this some kind of contest? Does one get a prize if one can render the site? ... Joking aside , it would've sufficed to just say the site doesn't load as expected for you... Supplying (Web|Browser|Error) Console output would've been nice, too... The linked "site" is just another web app tailored for Chromium-based browsers ... Web Console in latest St52 reeks of multiple CSP errors; if you temporarily disable CSP in one of the UXP-based browsers, "security.csp.enable" => "false" then the "numbers", at least, for that Stocks-Exchange site will load and display "fully": Even with CSP disabled (poses a security risk), that site has other "rendering" issues in UXP, because of missing JS features: XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location: https://wsjstream.wsj.net/bg2/signalr/abort?transport=webSockets&clientProtocol=2.1&connectionToken=15c256c8-9be0-46b4-8f02-7df8f2457d77%3A&connectionData=[{"name"%3A"mainhub"}]&_=1674749518810 Line Number 1, Column 1: ... TypeError: e is undefined[Learn More] djcmp.min.1.0.37.js:1:36053

Looks like the NHS is still very much based on Windows XP. This was spotted at St George's Hospital in London: p.s not my CT Scan, it's the one of an old woman I think

i really agree with you saying Windows Vista: "The "Wow" Starts Now" Windows 10: "The "Ow" Starts Now"

A friend of mine was going to get the tube in Catania, Giuffrida Station, Italy, and he sent me this picture: and we're both pretty sure that it's Windows XP or one of its derivatives

Actually, Windows 8.0 is kinda it's own thing. 1: It has its own NT number at 6.2 (Windows 8.1 is 6.3) 2: Windows 8.1 drivers crash Windows 8 3: im out of reasons lmao

I've seen google only mentioning windows 7. Windows 8.1 was not even mentioned. Important: We will continue to fully support Chrome on Windows 7® for a minimum of 24 months after Microsoft’s End of Life date, until at least January 15, 2022.

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Oh God... 1 GB with Win10 means no RAM whatsoever is left for the user to open up programs and so on: everything is put on the paging files and moved back and forth from the HDD to the RAM and vice versa. Not only it's gonna reduce the life of the Hard Drive, but it's also going to be extremely slow...

Well, it's been working for 19 years and it's still doing its job, why should they change it? XD

And another one from television, namely a fuzzy image of the unmistakable Luna guiding fire fighters to an emergency in St. Louis, MO, as seen on the August 19 episode of the American TV series Live Rescue: And here's a bonus sighting, one that could get me banned: What would the world do without Windows NT 5.x?

At a local supermarket: I had also stopped at an office with a beige P!!!/4 tower complete with two CD-ROM and two floppy drives. It wasn't on though or else I would have grabbed two XPs in one day!

I doubt it. According to statcounter, XP's market share was 1.75% in March; Windows 98SE's share was 2.7% in July 2006 when it ended support. Nonetheless. there is still the possibility that later today (4/1) M$ may make the decision to extend XP support forever...

This is Windows XP at the U.S, Customs and Border Protection checkpoint at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, as shown on a new episode of the TV series Border Security: America's Front Line. The episode did premiere this month, though there's been a 2 1/2 year gap between seasons, so this was likely filmed in 2017 or 2018.