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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.

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'.

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").

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

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.

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.

Windows 10 and 11 users can and IMO should simply use Microsoft’s built-in antivirus protection. (No, I’m not the “Kaspersky salesman” as you-know-who likes to insinuate. If MSE was still an option for XP, then there wouldn’t be any Windows XP antivirus thread at all.) Of course every other antivirus product is struggling for a share of the Windows 10/11 pie, but the going is tough - which is why there have been so many mergers in recent years.

At the bare minimum, it has been abundantly clear that OVER 95% of the "likes" and "upvotes" in these XP antivirus threads come from "members" that not only do not run XP, but also do not run antivirus on their non-XP. I cite again the average age (don't care if you're not over 40, I cite the average), makes me think this is what the early stages of Alzheimer's looks like, all of us talking to ourselves and thinking others are listening. The vast majority of "likes" and "upvotes" have more to do with political spectrum agreeance than actual topic/post "content" - Ooh, Professor X just posted something, I better sign in and hit the Like Button!

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?

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 ...

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.

Good find, I had the same observations in St52 and St55.

I think the main culprit is this: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/vVqCiuMuYjtIEG4538PA7zjsBOXQi37pmfABOgXoEQY.css ...with its CSS Animations. This interests me as I really hate webpages that gratuitously consume CPU after they've rendered. Fair enough if its essential to the function of what's being displayed but not just to add some pointless effects. I came across this as a panacea to killing all CSS Animations: * { /*CSS transitions*/ -o-transition-property: none !important; -moz-transition-property: none !important; -ms-transition-property: none !important; -webkit-transition-property: none !important; transition-property: none !important; /*CSS transforms*/ -o-transform: none !important; -moz-transform: none !important; -ms-transform: none !important; -webkit-transform: none !important; transform: none !important; /*CSS animations*/ -webkit-animation: none !important; -moz-animation: none !important; -o-animation: none !important; -ms-animation: none !important; animation: none !important; } Which I reduced to this: * { transition-property: none !important; transform: none !important; animation: none !important; } It certainly improves that Reddit page. Ben.

Fellas, tell where you spent your summer holidays?

You’re right: It was not “odd” that only Sandboxie and not Kaspersky mentioned a conflict between the two. Speaking of Kaspersky: AV Test has recently posted test results for June 2023. It almost goes without saying that Kaspersky is still a “top product,” but I note that the German government has still not pressured the lab into parroting any FUD about Kaspersky. To me, this is a healthy sign that Germany is still a free country. 🇩🇪 https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/june-2023/kaspersky-lab-standard-21.13-231311/

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.

... Technically speaking, Sandboxie can't/shouldn't be regarded as a proper Antivirus/Internet Security Suite and/or a third party firewall application, as is the case with the software on the list you linked to ...

Incompatibilities are good news? I recall reports that Sandboxie was incompatible with Kaspersky. I only used Sandboxie 5.22 in combination with Avast 18.8 (and an old version of Malwarebytes Free) without any problems.

based off the windows xp antivirus thread this post will be for discussing antivirus that work only on windows 10/11/ and to bring more solutions for other options for better securing these systems and there software

... 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.

I used Norton Systemworks 2004 which included Norton Utilities and Norton Antivirus and was installed by me under Windows ME and XP. This antivirus version was unfortunately not very effective in preventing popups and malicious code injected by dubious websites I surfed at that times, especially if using the Internet Explorer.

Here's a blast from the past that I'm still using. ZoneAlarm. But not the later bloatware versions but back when it was lean and mean... v2.6 Its use as a firewall is mostly redundant as nowadays that kind of stuff is handled at the router, but as an egress filter I still find it very useful. I'm still routinely disappointed how the first thing some 'legitimate' software wants to do is to phone home. I also think it's a good protection against malware that rides on the back of another program and whose job it is to open the door to the fetching of the real nasty. ZoneAlarm will warn when a program you weren't expecting tries to connect to the internet. Ben.

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.

@legacyfan Psst, hey, check this out. Hit Like if you think this could be a good idea to revive the old MSN Weather for Windows 8.1.

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

I love animations, but what's even moving there? Needless to say, up-to-date Firefox and Chromium don't break a sweat without any CSS changes.

... Does that mean you have an account with reddit (assuming those are "reddit preferences") ? FWIW, the userscript I linked to allows for "anonymous" redirection to "old.reddit.com" ... FWIW, I, too, can confirm that when loading https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/15ogxfp/marker_stuck_on_void_teleportation_room/?rdt=47005 in St52 and that tab is focused, I have insane CPU consumption :

... And that's why I'm using: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/377047-old-reddit-redirect and Old Reddit Favicon : // ==UserScript== // @name Old Reddit Favicon // @version 0.1 // @include https://*.reddit.com/* // @icon https://i.imgur.com/veJX9o5.png // @run-at document-start // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function () { var link = document.querySelector('link[rel*=\'icon\']') || document.createElement('link'); link.type = 'image/x-icon'; link.rel = 'shortcut icon'; link.href = 'https://i.imgur.com/veJX9o5.png'; document.getElementsByTagName('head') [0].appendChild(link); }) ();

And here is an alternative solution without modifying the IP Geolocator xpi file. Just install the extension Classic Theme Restorer and set the navigation toolbar attribute 'iconsize' to large icons! Here is a screenshot: I could imagine that this solution could also help with other toolbar icons (especially provided by webextensions) that are too large. Cheers, AstroSkipper

@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

Here is a link for the old Sandboxie webpage describing Known Conflicts: https://sandboxie-website-archive.github.io/www.sandboxie.com/KnownConflicts.html Kaspersky was indeed listed (among other software), but IDK if this old information is applicable to SBIE 5.40, which Sampei.Nihira mentioned in a December 2020 post.

I’m glad that Hollywood finally stopped making those old things. Means both of you not only (how should I put it politely about your English?) rather off the charts with your English, but also know nothing (zero) about human psychology. Films (movies, how you call it), be it westerns, Rambo, Bond, are meant to let off steam, here, enjoy my wisdom, lol. Add bloody brutal games to that list.

People, chicken, children, hair, etc is already plural, lol.

I quit celebrating my birthdays at 18, so I'm always young. I still take gifts, though. Dating much younger women and going to the gym also helps. But the most important is to have the right mind set,

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.

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.

Bedlam is more like purely British, booby hatch is Transatlantic, I guess. I'm terribly sorry, we aren't really familiar with the nuances of Amercian English here. 100% schools in Europe = British English. AU, NZ, Canada, South Africa , India and pretty much the rest of the world = British English. I also understand it like it was my first language, similar spellings and words.

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.

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.

Well , they know how to use disguise , I guess , besides some of them speak English.

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.