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BTW which emoji you prefer? (vote "Like" for current, "Up Vote" for another) Current(Twemoji-v14.1.2): (the rendering issue of those redesigned emoji is reported here: https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji/commit/dbb2a105307932399402c5333001e82ba67af016#commitcomment-124376242 ) Another(msemoji flat version, based on Fluent Emoji): if you want to test each one yourself, you can download them here: http://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/TwemojiMozilla-14.1.2.ttf http://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/TwemojiMozilla-msemoji.ttf

Off-topic posts removed. Any more personal bickering here, and all of those involved will be punished, immediately, with no questions asked. This has gone on quite long enough, and this will not be tolerated in future in what should be purely technical discussion thread. Thank you.

I spent my vacation at a nice hotel located on a charmingly beautiful island Sint Maarten. The islands in the Dutch Caribbean, part of the colonies, now Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as such the Monarch of the Netherlands is head of state, represented locally by a governor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten I've been there several times before, and always liked it! So far, I visited many, but my ultimate goal would be to visit all islands in the Dutch Caribbean.

Just to give you all a laugh, I'm still using Norton Utilities 2002 on XP (and Windows 98), but that's a bit off-topic as that never actually included an anti-virus option. It all still works though! BTW I don't think that list on page 1 is a 'blacklist', it's just a list of abandoned programs, which there's no point in using anyway, and Kaspersky which has well documented security concerns about it so 'use at your own risk'.

Greetings. Sorry. My English is bad and getting worse... https://mega.nz/folder/68dj2YTY#As2w31IO4Smr7gy6p1ciSg ProxyMII_230813.7z. But i didn't know how to get ProxyMII to work with WebSockets. And, please, take look at Privoxy3.0.35_231208.7z - looks like it open onlyfans.com normally. Thanks for You. Official releases of Cryptography (at least >=40.0.0) didn't work in Windows XP. Cryptography 40.0.2 for XP i can compile from sources with rust 1.48 (with i7-4770/Win8.1) - but it requires SSE2 instruction set (from some prebuild library?). Theoretically it's possible to build rust compiler "from scratch" - but i get lots of errors. So i can't test Cryptography 40.0.2 on my primary system (Athlon 2000+/WinXP). Cryptography 41.0.0 use rust 1.56. Even "Hello world!", compiled with rust 1.56, fails on XP. Best regards.

To add to Roy's reply, Mozilla's "BugZilla" doesn't only contain "bugs" in the sense most of us we'd use that term for ; "bugzilla.mozilla.com" has many entries for purely "new features" (these days, mostly backported from Chromium) or new "executive decisions" implementation; e.g. Mozilla dropping support for NT < 6.1 was "bug" () #1130266: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1130266 When a Bugzilla "entry" is being cited in the UXP repo/changelog, this means that relevant code from that "entry" was used (as a starting point, at least) to implement a similar feature/fix a similar "bug"/etc. in UXP itself; after all, Mozilla is UXP's "upstream"... I hope this clears things fully now ...

Fellas, tell where you spent your summer holidays?

You're welcome! I thought you perhaps wanted to see a correctly sized "Hellenic" flag. You see, I can always learn something new. This thread here is the absolutely correct place for such discussions. That was actually the reason I created this thread. And I think you already know this, I love extensions.

The reason I suggested to use CRT's iconsize attribute setting to large icons was that it might fix problems with other extensions in terms of correct toolbar icon sizes, too. In such cases, there would be no need to modify the affected extensions. The Photonic theme is unfortunately buggy. Therefore, you have to do a lot of trickery to correct any display errors of pop-up windows or anything else, as they do not actually occur when using the default theme. Actually, these extensions are working properly for themselves. I fear the truncated pop-up window of IP Geolocator can't be fixed easily. Using the Photonic theme, changes in IP Geolocator's file main.css are not really taken into account. Many settings are simply overwritten by this theme. I already tested that. I believe a proper fix can only be done to the Photonic theme by the author. Inside its xpi file, there are tons of css files. Trial and error would be a never-ending story. And TBH, I personally haven't used any themes at all for a long time, neither in New Moon nor in Serpent. Themes cause very often display errors sooner or later. At least, that's how it was for me.

For those trying to follow the XP antivirus/firewall thread(s), may I ask which program you are using? I have given Windows 10 Firewall Control Free XP a trial-run and it seems okay and LIGHTWEIGHT. I have "never" been a fan of antivirus because they have always SLOWED DOWN MY COMPUTER (afterall, we are talking older computers). I would like a "small list" of antivirus programs that the followers of the antivirus/firewall thread IS ACTUALLY USING and I'd like to perform some actual "performance comparisons" (ie, effect on actual computer "speed").

... As a side note, the extension natively supports the official Basilisk browser application; the XML block below: </em:targetApplication> <em:targetApplication name="Basilisk"> <Description em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}" em:minVersion="52.0" em:maxVersion="52.*"/> </em:targetApplication> suggests it should install (and auto-update, as needed ) on Serpent 52.9.0, too ; FWIW, should you wish to install on St55, you'd have to "raise" em:maxVersion to "55.0.0" ... Greetings.

Update notification! GetEmAll! has been updated and is now in the version 1.2.4 available. I mention it because the automatic update function in New Moon 28 won't offer it. For this browser, the extension has to be downloaded manually, and its compatibility has to be adjusted in the file install.rdf manually, too, such as shown here: Original: </Description> </em:localized> <em:targetApplication name="Pale Moon"> <Description em:id="{8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4}" em:minVersion="29.0" em:maxVersion="32.*"/> </em:targetApplication> Modified: </Description> </em:localized> <em:targetApplication name="Pale Moon"> <Description em:id="{8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4}" em:minVersion="28.0" em:maxVersion="32.*"/> </em:targetApplication> Here is the link: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/getemall/ Cheers, AstroSkipper

Now that that’s finally been settled, I would like to suggest adding Norton to the blacklist on page 1 as another “Should be avoided” product. This should not cause any controversy, since no one at MSFN has admitted using Norton for as long as I can remember. I believe the final maintenance mode version was 22.15.5.40, and definition updates were never cut off AFAIK, but it’s hard to be certain when you don’t know of any XP users with a Norton licence. https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-update-announcements/norton-2215-windows-xp-windows-vista-windows-7-sp0-now-available

I use the tool USBDLM. It is freeware, developed in Germany by Uwe Sieber, still updated and compatible with Windows XP. The latest version is USBDLM 5.5.9 from 09.07.2023. This is a quotation from the English version of the homepage to get an idea what this tool is about: Additionally, it reports successfully (connecting and) disconnecting of any USB drives via a systray balloon tip to let the user know when the drive can be unplugged safely. Therefore, I do not need an extra tool for a safe remove of USB drives. Homepage: https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html Cheers, AstroSkipper

https://mega.nz/folder/68dj2YTY#As2w31IO4Smr7gy6p1ciSg ProxyMII_230813.7z. But i didn't know how to get ProxyMII to work with WebSockets. And, please, take look at Privoxy3.0.35_231208.7z - looks like it open onlyfans.com normally. @cmalex! Thank you very much for your quick reply and especially for your upload! I will test your package as soon as possible and report back here in my thread. And I will take a look at Privoxy 3.0.35_23120 for trying to access successfully again https://onlyfans.com/ with its help. I am very curious and excited. You are simply the best. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Here's how I did it a few months ago: 1. I unpacked the contents of the English version of KEX into a separate folder. 2. Went through every single .dll and .exe of the package with Resource Hacker, replacing the contents of "Menu", "Dialog", "String Table" and "Message Table" with the contents from already localized system-native versions of these .dlls. 3. In update.inf I changed the "LangTypeValue=" so that the installer worked. And that's it. Didn't even repackage it back or anything, just ran setup.exe and installed it. Editing all the files took me awhile, but it worked in the end.

I personally do not think actual threats even exist! Not for the net-savvy MSFNer. I also don't think anybody here uses those antivirus threads to actually pick an antivirus product and start using it. I am in the camp that nobody here at MSFN (aside from maybe THREE of us) actually run antivirus. But what do I know?

Definitely bad web design. But it's not like we can blame "modern web" for that design. https://caniuse.com/?search=css animation

There's also USB Disk Ejector, lightweight and open-source USB removal tool, another good free alternative to the USB Safely Remove. https://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/usb-disk-ejector Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32 and 64 bit)

For those who don't wanna pay, try ProEject "is a software tool whose purpose is to aid people in dismounting removable drives faster, by closing running apps and opened windows, as well as in cleaning the registry and device" https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/ProEject.shtml Get back with your thoughts. I also want to try. Thanks. Full XP support is claimed.

no, they use gitea's issue tracker. dbsoft is referencing mozilla's bugzilla entries.

You're probably right, but Serpent gobbles CPU on that page even under Win 7. I should say that I don't know enough about GPU programming to know what it would take to bring down the CPU usage on an XP- (or even a Vista-) compatible browser. Even if it's possible, though, it's probably not worth doing since it's so easy to just kill these animations.

On my Win7 quad-core at the moment and you can see the CPU drop as soon as I turned off that STUPID animation.

I see it. It's sort of like clouds or smoke or the like slowly drifting left over a grey background. (But if you scroll down the page too far, it goes away.) Serpent uses 37-38% of my CPU (an old 2-core AMD A4) when I switch to the tab with that page. That seems like an awful lot for a purely cosmetic effect. I'm guessing the more modern browsers use the computer's GPU vs. its CPU for this effect. While that's a drawback of our browsers, the page is fully functional without the animation, so I'd say just kill it as @Ben Markson suggested.

it's stupid to leave it scanning your computer nonstop if you don't download software programs I have yet to find a website with malicious JS code that would infect my computer with a single mouse click. AVAST is by far the BEST AV for XP these days, fast and efective enough

[ie/youtube] Fix consent cookie (#7774) Fixes #7594

Perhaps it needs a dedicated topic here? I'm pretty positive most don't even have github accounts to ask questions.

XP can't properly read, decipher modern certs, even though the import was a success. It's just can't. No matter what format used. As for Manifest V3 to Manifest V2 https://docs.automationanywhere.com/bundle/enterprise-v2019/page/enterprise-cloud/topics/product-feature-lifecycle/switch_mv3_to_mv2_manually.html

@VistaLover Here is a fixed version of IP Geolocator when using the Photonic theme in Serpent 52. I resized all flag images from 48 x 48 to 24 x 24 and saved them in a new folder img/flags/24/. Then I changed the code inside the file main.js in the folder js/: Original code: function setIcon(country_code) { var showFlags = lp.isSet(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) ? lp.get(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) : true; if (country_code == "ERR" || !showFlags || !(countriesSupported.includes(country_code))) { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/icon48.png" }); } else { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/flags/48/" + country_code + ".png" }); } } Modified code: function setIcon(country_code) { var showFlags = lp.isSet(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) ? lp.get(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) : true; if (country_code == "ERR" || !showFlags || !(countriesSupported.includes(country_code))) { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/icon.png" }); } else { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/flags/24/" + country_code + ".png" }); } } Screenshot: Now, the toolbar icon and the flag images are shown in a suitable size. Here is the download link of my mod: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xkha44rjidj5maw/ip_geolocator-2.1.0-Photonic-mod.xpi/file Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Kaspersky is a Harmful Software, US government report. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8286 @VVallter BrenekaPlease keep in mind, Vistapocalypse is not a windows user, since long time ago, but rather iPhone exclusive. link More to the point, Vistapocalypse never used "Kaspersky" himself. link

Now we talking! So get your arse off the sofa and start resisting! Before it's too late! Form a movement, get support from businesses who are fed up with the agenda crap and just want to make money in a free and safe state. Make up a short and sweet name, like WLM (white legacy matters) or smth. The indoctrination of kids is imported from the well known commie countries. Don't you get it ? Read history, it's how any totalitirian state begins to emerge. Be prepared : up to 75 percent in your movement will be working for the FBI (whio aren't on you side now), but that doesn't mean you will never get sympathies from them. Just be on your guard and act with caution. Later on, when you get enough money - start recruiting pros. (ex-CIA, for example). Some foreigners would do good, take only those who aren't infiltrated by chinorussia, I can help you with the screening. If you ever need my help, just call D.Draker, my boys and me, we are always ready. Your FBI/NSA has no jurisdiction over us. I shan't post any more details here, publicly. P.S. I do consult, also. Strategies, PR, joint force tactical operations command, cyber ops/security - all well within my area of expertise. Later years - psy ops (as a hobby), though I still consider myself a novice in that regard. And, maybe, some day we meet, I'll teach you the proper English spelling personally, while we both protect America from the aliens of all sorts.

I do. That's why I'm busy and don't sit here often.

Joking in a subforum called Funny Farm? No problem! That's the actual goal of such a location. I agree with you that everything is changing in our world. Much faster than in the older times. But unfortunately, there are many changes I don't like. I am a bit old school or maybe more. One of my main goals here on MSFN is to make Windows XP fit for the next few years, to maintain it, to support it and keep it alive as long as possible. So much for Legacy Windows.

Excuse me, I'm just curious what made you think Astroskppper may have some sort of diagnosis?

I'm glad you don't always agree with me. Otherwise that would also be a little strange and not at all desirable. I prefer people with a genuine, but also well-founded opinion.

In English it's "legacyfan and I". Now you owe me 50 bucks for the English lesson. So it should be like this. "legacyfan and I are not that stupid, sir. Please, excuse us, sir." Here, fixed it for ya.

Oh, leaving the forum! Will both of you be selling your accounts then? Definitely a good idea to profit from this. Don't want your hard work of tireless upvoting of every word each of you write to die in vain.

Hello , i'm sorry I don't quite understand the purpose of this build. One won't be able to play with GT710. It's weak even for office use. If you insist on bying from Amazon.in only , then I'd suggest to replace it with GTX 950 2GD5 OCV1 , they are available there and it is fully supported on Vista. Also , maybe I'm a bit of old school , but I don't like SSDs , any of them. WD Blue 10EZEX is fast enough for this build. 550W (if it is a true 550W PSU) would be more than enough for this whole system with the replaced GPU.

Whaaat !??! It is way too expensive. Some prices are the same as here (like WD 1TB) . Don't buy Corsair. This model is cheaply made , the best PSU ever is FSP ATX 450PNF (this one can work for a decade without breaking a sweat) or FSP600-80GHN also good. As for the video card , the best is GTX780/Titan (7th gen.) I didn't like GTX970 , 1070 . Soon I will test GTX980 and if it is also bad , I'll find a used Titan.

I was looking for these items in the US , with shipping to my country , the prices are for US , yes that ridiculous 50 bucks for G3470. By the way , our local second hand market is cheaper than used items on ebay , much cheaper . I'm so glad I bought everything I need back in the day. Regarding Amazon , it's not conveneint for me . Their shipping policies are awful . For exanple , I order several items in one order . They can easily send it with several deliveries ! And if ordering from the abroads , one can never know which company they will use for delivery ! I have had hard times with Fedex , so I do not want to use it ever again , yet I can't choose when ordering from Amazon , besides our local stores are much cheaper and they are close.

There's nothing cheap nowadays . If you see a "cheap" price , that's for locals only . Ebay's "global shiping" price is just outrageous , it also has whooping fees , like for example , search for Intel G3470 , it costs somewhere between 40-50 USD , plus shipping (30 - 40 USD) , plus ebay fees "See import charges at checkout" and my country's VAT , it will be way over 120USD. I bought it NEW seven or six years ago for smth like 60 Euro (about 80 USD at that time). This used should cost no more than 20 bucks shipped. Will you find you find such price ? No . Edit : just checked videocards . OMG : 7- 8 y.o. GTX780 for 130 - 250 USD , plus shipping, starting from 70 and up to 180 USD !!! (plus my country tax)

well , I thought so, but thanks for checking. I don't actually think I'm gonna need any of those . I play old games .

Yes , it is blazingly fast. No need for expensive hardware.

5.9 all , I beleive it's the maximum . But I have 5.9 even on much older PC with Core Quad.

I mean the patch PAE by wj32

Well , I would've try , but it's not making any sense now . 72 is old already. Besides ,what are the features of plain chrome , Opera has hide IP (at least). Besides , I'm still fighting for DTS HD , kinda busy . Perhaps I will try later and inform you.

Went down to Opera 42 , nothing works , now without any errors , just won't start at all . Someone here using Opera ? Oh. and Chromium ungoogled 84 , 85 , 86 won't launch at all too , those files din't help ... Someone here using Chromium ungoogled ? I can't stand Firefox (just my preference, sorry). It's not that I'm a fan of chrome , just chose between the two evils. Thanks

Hi , 1 - the “manual update” I did from these official links supplied by MS. http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/disallowedcertstl.cab It added some , but too few. And, yes , I also did the update from the post you linked a long time ago. It helped a bit , yet “the browser” still asks for more certificates . 2 - “the browser” is 36O Explorer with manually removed telemetry from the original (yes, I do not trust patches and russian repacks). It is based on Chromium 86 with TLS 1.3 and works fine with Vista , much faster than Chromium 86 on Win7. Also, I manually blocked almost all tracking features like "safebrowsing" and a ton of various IPs.

Thank you very much , really appreciate.

Hi , I've tried x64 Chromium ungoogled 84 , 85 , 86 and nothing happens , yep that's right , no errors shown. Also , I've tried some games with this method with zero luck . For example, games with "mono" engine simply tell : cannot load mono. Others just quit in silence, like their process shown for a sec., then quits. By the way , could you please tell me where to read about certificates updating . Much appreciated ! Edit , I had a manual update from MS links done, still the browser tells I don't have the needed certs.