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Thanks. I enable this flag now by default as this is the 2nd or 3rd time a web site issue has been tracked down to this flag.

The latter is due to reliance on Chromium-only experimental feature - https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_text-transform_math-auto - officially enabled since Chromium 109, but otherwise can be enabled by turning on web platform experimental features (chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features). Not sure what to say about the first, I only notice fonts being edgy, but that's Windows XP. Maybe a screenshot would help.

That was probably me. Have a look here: All 360 Extreme Explorer editions have to be excluded in WiseVector StopX. But unfortunately, this program was abandoned. Anyway! Thanks so far! You are very helpful here.

As we all know, MSFN is already represented on Twitter and Facebook For the future case that MSFN is not available for a longer period of time (several days), a short message there would be desirable. You don't have to have a Twitter or Facebook account to read such a status message. Personally, I am not a social media fan, but if such accounts already exist, then perhaps they should be used. Unfortunately, when MSFN was down on 03/06/2023, there was no message. Nor on the following days. The last messages were from 2019. Such accounts are then of course useless.

You may be right, but when the MSFN status thread was set up on RyanVM (by dencorso I think) it was a nice place to be able to go and check in with others when MSFN was offline. Of course it's not essential to have somewhere like that, but I always thought it was a good thing to have.

For the members of this topic/project: Windows 95, NT 4.0 and 98SE are now working properly with all necessary updates in French and English. If you have eny errors, let me know (I will need the Fiddler log, otherwise I won't be able to help you). Update your computer at http://v3.windowsupdaterestored.com

For reference copied from another thread (so I don't lose it and can experiment during free-time):

Oh, didn't notice.

This was posted by @nicolaasjan a few weeks ago.

First of all, thanks for sharing your knowledge! And, of course, no one can be an expert in all matters.

I looked at this again, they have classic <link rel="stylesheet" ... /> elements with links to CSS files further down inside <noscript> tags. Web browser only processes those when JS is disabled, that's why the page looks OK with JS disabled. I can't see what they were suggesting in that PM forum thread (server is down ATM), I remember messing about with Proxomitron since that's the only thing that came to my mind at the moment, I also remember there is an extension for manipulating network request responses, which I'm not familiar with, but anyway, another way around the problem is with a user script, something like this: document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="preload"][as="style"]').forEach(e => { const n = document.createElement('link'); n.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet'); n.setAttribute('href', e.getAttribute('href')); const m = e.getAttribute('media'); m && n.setAttribute('media', m); e.parentNode.replaceChild(n, e); }); Put the code in your favorite user script manager and make it run on document-end (should be default). Edit: One more thing, might be even more important, these link elements have attribute onload="this.rel='stylesheet'". On Chromium, this code runs and successfully replaces rel attribute. But why not on UXP? Edit2: OK, onload simply doesn't run if rel isn't initially set to recognizable value. According to the example at MDN, MS should just leave the links to CSS files in the separate tags with rel="stylesheet" (not enclosed by noscript tags like they did).

Seems inset-inline-end support can be enabled in Chromium 86 by turning on experimental web platform features (chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features). I think more technically correct approach in this case in the absence of support for that property would be having another 2 selectors checking HTML document (text) direction, like so: html[dir="ltr"] .ipsWidget .ipsDataItem_main.cWidgetComments .ipsCommentCount { right: 0; } html[dir="rtl"] .ipsWidget .ipsDataItem_main.cWidgetComments .ipsCommentCount { left: 0; } Regarding replacing, I'm not sure it's possible to directly intercept the network request initiated by web browser when it encounters links in page's HTML to external resources from user script, extensions can do that, but what can be done: document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="stylesheet"], link[rel="preload"][as="style"]').forEach(e => { fetch(e.href) .then(response => response.text()) .then(data => { const s = document.createElement('style'); const m = e.getAttribute('media'); m && s.setAttribute('media', m); s.innerHTML = data.replace(...); // replacement logic here - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace e.parentNode.replaceChild(s, e); }) .catch(err => console.log(err)); }); Basically replacing link elements linking to CSS files with style elements, embedding content of linked CSS files, which may be manipulated before put in place.

Here's how it works: [Functions] <existing lines> FileDelete=%Profile%\Default\Cookies FileCopy=%Profile%\Default\Cookies_org|%Profile%\Default\Cookies Cookies_org is in the same folder.

No extension needed, you can change the browser's default user agent string in 360Loader.ini. Make no difference I'm afraid.

Kind-of On-Topic Notice: Hong Kong government applies for injunction against protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ may in a result making Hong Kong's internet be walled like other china cities. If this really happens, I may not able to do any further actions. See also: Blocking Google? Hong Kong internet providers express concerns over enforcing possible protest song ban

Either of you tried to spoof the UA (user agent)? There are plenty of extensions for that matter.

Mypal 68 is not a fully portable browser. It writes additionally entries in the registry, needs files in the folder c:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername\Application Data\Mypal68 to find its profiles and uses of course profile folders where ever you created them. To make this browser fully portable you have to make a research in the internet. There are many sites which provide detailed instructions or tutorials for creating fully portable applications.

One user reported possible compatibility issues between Wise Vector X and Chrome. I can say that on many occasions that I had WiseVector StopX installed, 360 Extreme Explorer closed, reporting rare errors.

PC Tools Firewall Plus PC Tools Firewall Plus is a personal firewall for Windows that helps to protect computers against unauthorised access via the Internet or a network connection. By continuously monitoring all network applications, Firewall Plus prevents Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging a computer or stealing private information. PC Tools Firewall Plus is XP-compatible and free. Comprehensive protection against attacks and known abusive programs is enabled by default. Experienced users can additionally create their own advanced packet filtering rules (including IPv6 support) and customise the network security mechanisms to their specific needs. Features: Filtering of incoming and outgoing network connections; Using global rules for ports and protocols that are set separately for each network; Creating network access rules for programs that are already known; Creating rules for programs that have a valid digital signature; Control components and hidden processes and process memory; Setting limits on network activity for individual programs and processes, and for incoming and outgoing connections separately; Ability to visually alert you to a variety of events through pop-up windows; Ability to visually display network activity through an icon in the notification area; Availability of programme activity log; Possibility of displaying information about the network activity of each programme; Two modes of operation: basic and advanced; Possibility of hiding one's computer from intruders; Minimal use of network and system resources of the PC, so it is not an obstacle to playing games on the PC or watching streaming videos on the Internet. Homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20111002054823/http://www.pctools.com/firewall/ Version number: 7.0.0.123 Date of release: 17.05.2011 System requirements: Windows 7 (32/64bit) Windows Vista (32/64bit) Windows XP (32bit) Release notes: Reviews: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/a-review-of-pc-tools-firewall-plus.180365/ https://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/107746/ Download link: https://web.archive.org/web/20110904214707/http://www.pctools.com/mirror/fwinstall.exe Screenshots: PC Tools Firewall Plus seems to be an interesting firewall. It is supposed to use less system resources and it is free of charge. After my research, I think PC Tools Firewall Plus is an option for Windows XP. Unfortunately, I personally never used it for a longer time, so there is nothing more I can say. Cheers, AstroSkipper

"What Is Happening to Chrome's Built-In Google Translate Feature? In a community post on the Chrome Support page, Google announced its plan to disable Chrome's built-in translation service on version Chrome 95 or older. If you try to use Google Translate on an outdated version of the browser, you'll receive an error message stating that the page cannot be translated." https://www.makeuseof.com/older-chrome-losing-google-translate/

I thought it was an issue on my side.... XP is dead why do these f****** at google keep nailing the XP coffin ?

[YouTube] Important fix for yt-dlp: [jsinterp] Fix division (#7279) * Fixes nsig decryption for Youtube JS player `8c7583ff` Thanks @VistaLover for reporting. 👍️ [Edit] Fixed youtube-dl as well (applied diff by @bashonly)

Definitely not essential, if you want my opinion (opinions are like butts, everybody has one, doesn't mean everybody wants to hear them). I can't think of any forum I've been on in 30+ years that had an "alternate" location for the admin to discuss status if the primary went offline for a day or two. All I can think of is a hypothetical comparison - I don't have a Facebook or Instagram account but I do hear via news and even doctor friends that they are highly addictive platforms. The whole notion (in my opinion) of seeking a downtime status and when will we be back up again via an alternate location would be because MSFN Members started having "withdrawal symptoms" because they couldn't feed their addiction. I guess I "kind of" get it, visiting MSFN is part of my daily routine. But I didn't need medical attention for withdrawal when it went offline. Life went on. I guess I also see it as "more important" for the owner to bring the system back up as opposed to, "Wait, I can't do that yet, I have to visit our alternate location and submit a status report every hour or so." I kid... Kind of... edit - I was a member of RyanVM and also WinCert, if there was an "MSFN Status" thread, I never saw them, lol.

No hack was required that I am aware of. Rather, we had to become more precise and selective with telemetry removal. If you read through Humming Owl's "notes.txt" files, you will see that ALL occurrences of "googleapis" and "gstatic" were replaced, "without prejudice". My builds started out that way also, but then the more familiar I became with the program code, the more precisely I was able to remove telemetry without casting a "catch-all very-wide just-catch-EVERYTHING" net that caught the fish we weren't trying to catch. One of the unintended consequences of that "just-catch-EVERYTHING" net is that things were BROKEN all in the "name of" preventing unwanted telemetry. One of those unintended breaks was the translation feature (which I myself do not use, so can't speak toward - other than maintaining functionality for the users that do/did use that feature).

With previous-to-latest Serpent v52.9.0 (2023-05-25) (32-bit), on a SSE2-capable Vista SP2 32-bit host, Web Console is more "verbose" : Most sadly, it appears marktplaats.nl have recently implemented another Chrome-ism (), BigInt: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/BigInt This JS feature was first introduced in Google Chrome 67 (later portions of it in Chr76) and in Firefox 68 (with later portions in Fx70); there's a currently open UXP issue about it, https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/1240 (first opened 4[!] years ago), that is seeing some recent activity undertaken by the UXP MacOS developer, dbsoft, but, unfortunately, nothing concrete has come out of it as yet ... So, for now, "BigInt" is another UXP killer ... Commiserations @Reino ...

You didn't answer my indirect question. Your video is not helpful at all. Mypal 68 closes when uBlock Origin is installed. And now? Do you run Mypal 68 in single-process mode? This is the only stable mode. Anyway! Running Mypal 68 under Windows 11 is not a good idea and actually nonsense. Try this browser on a computer with Windows XP or Vista! More recent OSes do not need this browser. Here is a quotation from @feodor2's GitHub page: Cheers, AstroSkipper

A cookie (or other fingerprint) must tell it you are a registered member. I'm not and have never been able to view any Facebook content. Until today. By using an Android phone with no blocking, I am able to reproduce the read-only version displayed after dismissing the Logon nag overlay.

But under your profile photo, it says "OS: Windows 10 x64". Do you use Windows 11 as your main OS, or do you use it under a VM on Windows 10?

Avast Free Antivirus The most used and very often recommended antivirus program for Windows XP is probably Avast Free Antivirus, and that for years. It is supposed to use advanced algorithms for detecting viruses, malware, spyware and other threats in real-time. The Core Shields are: File Shield, Behavior Shield, Web Shield and Email Shield (only Outlook and Thunderbird are supported). Furthermore, it is supposed to protect against rootkits, and it offers additionally a Software Updater and Wi-Fi Inspector. Avast Free Antivirus still protects Windows XP owners with regular virus definition updates. But Avast no longer provides program updates, new features, bug fixes, or support for Windows XP. It was tested by AV-TEST and achieved a detection rate of almost 100% in November and December 2018 (see below). Key Features: Real-time protection against malware and online threats. Automatic analysis of suspicious files with CyberCapture. Network scanning and Wi-Fi security with Wi-Fi Inspector. Behavioral monitoring with Behavior Shield. Comprehensive scanning with Smart Scan. Creating a Rescue Disk for emergency use. Browser cleanup to improve online security. Password management with autofill feature. Game Mode to optimize computer performance during gameplay. Homepage: https://www.avast.com/windows-xp-antivirus https://web.archive.org/web/20181120211126/https://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download Version number: 18.8.4084.0 (18.8.2356) Date of release: 15.11.2018 System Requirements: A PC with 256 MB+ RAM and 1.5 GB of hard disk space. Avast Antivirus is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP SP3. Version history and release notes: Review: https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/1406757/avast-free-antivirus-2018-review-the-best-free-security-suite Tests: Avast in general: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/manufacturer/avast/ https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/summary-report-2018/#avast Screenshot with the final test results from AV-TEST: Screenshot with the Product of the Year 2018 award from AV-Comparatives: Avast Free Antivirus 18.7 & 18.8 in detail: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/december-2018/avast-free-antivirus-18.7--18.8-184902/ Download links: Online installer: https://install.avcdn.net/av/avast/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup_online.exe Offline installer: https://install.avcdn.net/iavs9x-xp/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe Avast VPS update for versions 12+: https://install.avcdn.net/vpsnitro/vpsupd.exe Avast Uninstall Utility (Avast Clear) in the correct version of 18.8.4084.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20181116091922if_/http://iavs9x.avg.u.avcdn.net/iavs9x/avastclear.exe How to uninstall Avast using Avast Clear: Sometimes it's not possible to uninstall Avast the standard way using the Add/Remove Programs in control panel. In this case, you can use the uninstallation utility Avast Clear: Download avastclear.exe on your desktop. Start Windows in Safe Mode. Execute the avastclear.exe. If you installed Avast in a different folder than the default, browse for it. (Note: Be careful! The content of any folder you choose will be deleted!). Click REMOVE. Restart your computer. Screenshots: I only used Avast Free Antivirus for a very short time. The version of Avast I had installed for years was Avast Premier. Unfortunately, I have a split opinion about Avast. On the one hand, it's great that Avast offers such a program for Windows XP at all, although this operating system was abandoned by Microsoft in 2014. And then also free of charge and with real-time protection. That is rather rare. Avast continues to roll out definition updates for this old version on a regular base. Furthermore, it has an excellent detection rate of almost 100%. On the other hand, I had various problems with Avast. Exceptions that were set for alarms of the background guard were simply ignored. Avast partly operates according to its own standards and does not always respect the user's settings, which I rather consider as disenfranchisement of the user. I don't like that, and it's simply a no go. Another bad habit of Avast, and unfortunately that of many other manufacturers, is to offer features that are apparently free. For example, SecureLine VPN. In fact, you have to pay for it. I find something like this to be more of a cost trap. That's why I didn't list this feature above. And I had serious problems to uninstall Avast completely. That was actually another no go. Furthermore, I don't like the disk space consumption of Avast products which is always very high. One main reason for that is probably the implementing of (unnecessary) features or those which only can be used if you pay for them. More details about problems in terms of Avast, you will find here: Despite all points of criticism, Avast Free Antivius is a program offering a very good protection and definitely an option for Windows XP, but I personally can't and won't recommend it here due to my reservations and experiences from the past. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

And I totally forgot to mention that all what I do here is very time-consuming and needs a lot of reading and detailed research. Unfortunately, the internet forgets, much has been deleted. Therefore, you have to search the archives to get the information you desire about old, abandoned programs such as Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1. All that just to let Windows XP live forever, or at least as long as possible.

Well then, everything is fine, and I can finally get back to the real thing. AstroSkipper

I didn't say you started or recommended anything. But I said you mentioned the VB100 test results regarding Vir.IT eXplorer. Nothing more, nothing less! So what's your problem? If you don't want to be mentioned for what you wrote yourself, then it isn't a problem of mine but yours. AstroSkipper

@Cixert Here is a link to the homepage of WiseVector StopX via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230208110858/https://www.wisevector.com/en/ There you find more information. The homepage wisevector.com has been cleaned almost completely. No information there anymore except the manual (for the version 2.70). The admins there seem to have overlooked deleting this document as well. Here is the link to the last manual: https://www.wisevector.com/wisevector_stopx_user_guide_en.pdf The developers of WiseVector StopX had not really disclosed in-depth information on how this program works in detail. It is somehow a mix of artificial intelligence (machine learning), cloud support and local database. And here is a review: https://malwaretips.com/threads/wisevector-stopx-anti-malware-v3-07.115443/ But I'm not quite sure what you want to do with such a program. Unfortunately, it has been completely abandoned, no more program or database updates, no cloud support. Therefore, no entry in my alphabetical list of working antimalware, firewall, and other security programs for Windows XP but in my list of programs that have recently been abandoned. BTW, what about my recommendation in terms of Malwarebytes Free? You didn't say anything about it. So what do you think?

or i just put you on my s*** list as that is where you belong and game over for you

you need to tone down your ***** behaviour

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