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I have already complained to Google about their dubious behavior against operators of websites of certain nationalities. The impertinence of simply blocking sites on suspicion and without any real justification Maybe they should revise all their AI garbage and let living individuals check dangerous websites again

Are you sure? More like it's windows 10 emulator, no chrome after 109 can run on Windows 7.

I got the same issue in New Moon 28 in the profile where my German Language Pack was installed. Eight obsolete entities have been removed, and one new (<!ENTITY aboutSupport.appBasicsCPUCaps "CPU Capabilities">) has been added. Therefore, all Language Packs have to be modified. I have just fixed my German Language Pack. The file which has to be compared to the English original one is aboutSupport.dtd located in chrome\en-US\locale\en-US\global\ and to be fixed in your Language Pack. Simply delete all experimental entities from line 28 to 35 and then add the new one to line 50! If you need help or more information, don't hesitate to ask.

I usually do not use the YouTube interface in New Moon 28 or other browsers under Windows XP. It was just an experiment to see whether it is possible at all on my underperforming, old machine in these days. And it is still possible and above all, without ads or anti-adblocker messages. As I already said, I normally send YouTube links to one of my external players or download them with one of my YouTube downloaders. For watching them in legacy browsers under Windows XP I use Invidious or the extension uTube.

I was trying 32-bit version, 64-bit obviously couldn't possibly load 32-bit DLL. The thing is programmed to call undocumented API NtCreateKeyedEvent with an object name \KernelObjects\SRW_WakingEvent, which fails unless the calling application is run with administrative rights, as KernelObjects namespace is restricted. Why would I run a buggy web browser on a buggy insecure OS with unrestricted access to everything?! I live by the principle_of_least_privilege. I modified the DLL to use BaseNamedObjects instead. Also changed DesiredAccess parameter of both NtCreateKeyedEvent and NtOpenKeyedEvent calls from 0x2000000 to 0xF0003. Don't know what former is supposed to mean, but the latter has been documented to translate to KEYEDEVENT_ALL_ACCESS, which sounds about right. Browser was unusable crash fest with the original. chrome-xp-api-adapter_x86.b5044.zip There was an error on launch that said: The application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003). Click on OK to terminate the application. That was with DLL build 5041, in the latest version 5043, he put a block on XP x64 and most other OS...an error saying it's not supported. Not supported my a**, I removed the block. Can both XP x64 and XP x86 users here check the modified the DLL above and see how it works? If it's broken, should be apparent right away as new versions are about new synch code using keyed events, kinda important. Edit: Well, non-NT 5.x systems are still blocked, not sure how much mess is in there that it would be needed to prevent the user from getting crappy (non-working) experience...I could throw the check out entirely. But now it's really late here, so time to sleep.

No such problems but I use my mod uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 together with a BPCF script. And when additionally using the extension uTube 33.1, no ads anymore here in New Moon 28. I made an experiment. Watching YouTube videos on their native interface in New Moon 28 in May 2024, all on my very weak hardware with Intel Pentium 4 single-core processor and only 1.5 GB SD-RAM. I reset my mod uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 and activated only some further default lists (Adguard Base, uBlock Annoyances, BPCF + script and my German locale filter lists). Additionally, I installed seven YouTube scripts from Greasyfork to get rid of crap and to style YouTube to my needs. I created one additional rule to cut off all comments when playing a single video. YouTube is completely free of ads. Videos are playing fine without any comments and playlists, isolated in single tabs in 360p quality. Always with autoplay off as I don't like such automatisms. Higher quality does not work well in browsers on my system. In any case, pure YouTube without any ads, ad blocker warnings or other crap. PS: Perhaps, I should mention at this point that I normally never watch videos in browsers on my old Windows XP computer, but in an external player directly or downloaded beforehand. Then I am able to watch videos in 480p or sometimes even in 720p quality. Sometimes, however, I watch very rarely YouTube videos in New Moon 28 with the help of the great extension uTube.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240511-3219d2d-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240511-3219d2d-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240511-3219d2d-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240511-d849524bd-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240511-d849524bd-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240511-d849524bd-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240511-d849524bd-uxp-fffa564c0c-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: (can't post due to forum restrictions, you can view it in my blog or in eclipse thread) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. Official Basilisk changes picked since my last build: - [Basilisk] Add error handling to MIME type processing in prefs. (51091fd760) - [Basilisk] MoonchildProductions/UXP#2510 - Unprefix -moz-fit-content CSS keyword in Basilisk frontend (3fface9c03) My changes since my last build: - layout: fix source code mojibake in nsCSSParser (9df06e86a2) - [Basilisk] preferences: fix preprocessed lines (fffa564c0c) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

Nevertheless, it's still close source. I can tell what to try for those willing to disassemble it, but I shan't give precise instructions, I respect win32's choice to make it close source. A small hint. JetBrain's free .NET Decompiler and Assembly Browser, and off you go, it might help those willing to dig.

... Since you're low on RAM, why did you disable disk cache? I might be wrong , but doesn't this mean that the browser cache is now stored solely in RAM?

... Provided you already have installed a St52-compatible Userscript Editor (XUL/WE, see the recommendations by AstroSkipper ), you should've scrolled down to: and clicked on one of the three offered options; ALL 3 work fine here (St52+VM) ; first option is the GH direct link, already provided in clear text by @AstroSkipper ; the "mirrors" will get you to the respective UserScript Portals, where you have to click appropriate "Install" buttons; FWIW, direct links below : https://update.greasyfork.org/scripts/423851/Simple%20YouTube%20Age%20Restriction%20Bypass.user.js https://openuserjs.org/install/zerodytrash/Simple_YouTube_Age_Restriction_Bypass.user.js If none of the links work for you, then something particular to your St52 profile may interfere...

Try the 32-bit build of Thorium, see if (with Chrome-xp-api-adapter) it's quicker than the 64-bit build. Oddly enough, for me, it is (on x64 SP2). Works on my machine™ (Thorium/XP x64)

YouTube videos in their native interface in New Moon 28 on low-performance computers in 2024 I made an experiment. Watching YouTube videos on their native interface in New Moon 28 in May 2024, all on my very weak hardware with Intel Pentium 4 single-core processor and only 1.5 GB SD-RAM. I reset my mod uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 and activated only some further default lists (Adguard Base, uBlock Annoyances, BPCF + script and my German locale filter lists). Additionally, I installed seven YouTube scripts from Greasyfork to get rid of crap and to style YouTube to my needs. I created one additional rule to cut off all comments when playing a single video. YouTube is completely free of ads. Videos are playing fine without any comments and playlists, isolated in single tabs in 360p quality. Always with autoplay off as I don't like such automatisms. Higher quality does not work well in browsers on my system. In any case, pure YouTube without any ads, ad blocker warnings or other crap. Perhaps, I should mention at this point that I normally never watch videos in browsers on my old Windows XP computer, but in an external player directly or downloaded beforehand. Then I am able to watch videos in 480p or sometimes even in 720p quality. Sometimes, however, I watch very rarely YouTube videos in New Moon 28 with the help of the great extension uTube. Here are two screenshots taken from YouTube in New Moon 28 when all configurations have been done: My new homepage of YouTube only for searching videos (Bye, bye unwanted videos ): And here is a tab when playing a single video: All is loaded relatively fast on my old machine. One of the installed scripts let me select the size of the player myself. Here it is set to the 480p size. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Important. @AstroSkipper The fact Supermium and Thorium still need these flags can only tell one thing, the portable patch is NOT applied by the author, the information on the site is misleading, to put it politely, so the browser is not fully portable, and if you start this browser without these flags, your old profile is gone! --disable-machine-id --disable-encryption

Screen for @AstroSkipper EDIT: Note, spaces 20 20 20 ... starting at offset 170CA4 are simply reserved for short testing flags like --no-sandbox flag, so you can start typing right there. My loader is unified, and will work for Supermium, also.

More likely to reduce the amount of work they would've to do each time the new version is released. I mean, no need to constantly cut out the unneeded code parts from chromium itself. Basically, the file consists of wisely stubbed/redirected APIs. (a compliment to win32)

Yes, a good suggestion to block rumour spreaders.

It would be odd to simply publish all of the source code of something which has *subscription mode* and paid Patreon versions, yes, I'm aware about the free github versions, too.

HDD gone bad, but don't run CHDSK, it will do more harm, I recommend to make a backup ASAP.

That's also happened for me when one of the VRAM chips on my GPU began to slowly die.

... But you were given named (and versioned) options already: ... Let's start with the most trouble-free option, the XUL ("legacy") UserScript Manager Greasemonkey-for-Pale-Moon (works on St52, too): https://github.com/janekptacijarabaci/greasemonkey/releases/tag/3.31.4Fork https://github.com/janekptacijarabaci/greasemonkey/releases/download/3.31.4Fork/greasemonkey-3.31.4-pm_forkBranch.xpi ... And don't take this personally , but at my older age I refrain from "spoon-feeding" others ... Take good care and good night!

This is about https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/427 Some people get crash but I don't, made a patch for them. codeberg file was wrong, now it is fixed

I noticed compatibilities issues to the Tab Utilities extension in New Moon 28 and some other problems with crashing or not correctly unloading tabs as in the PM fork Suspender.

Just a guess, but nowhere. The typically cached elements are simply re-downloaded, again and again, as if the page was visited for the first time. If @Kmuland's internet bandwidth is greater than HDD bandwidth, disabling the cache makes sense. Again, just guessing, no idea how browsers work.

Fixed. Uploaded to Dropbox: Link

This link worked for me: https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass/raw/main/dist/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass.user.js In Serpent 52, you can, for example, use Tampermonkey 4.11.6120, Violentmonkey 2.14.0 (needs a small fix) or Greasemonkey 3.31.4 from the fork branch.

Although, I also just saw this. So clearly nothing to do with MyPal 68.

I have an issue again with my custom Dutch language file. (it doesn't happen in a clean test profile) Clicking Help ---> Troubleshooting Information (about:support) gives: Translated: XML Parser error: undefined entity Location: jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files/palemoon/omni.ja!/chrome/toolkit/content/global/aboutSupport.xhtml Line number 123, column 15: &aboutSupport.appBasicsCPUCaps; I kind of forgot how to fix this in my language file.

Many thanks @VistaLover for your explanations, @basilisk-dev for resolving the glitch, and @roytam1 for not inheriting it (at the last moment)

I think I was clear : Linked binaries are of the official Basilisk browser application (by Basilisk-Dev), built on the official UXP platform (by MCP); requires Win7 SP1 at minimum to launch, has ALL support for Web Extensions, multiprocess, Container tabs and EME removed (compared to Serpent 52); thus, usability-wise, it's like official Pale Moon+Australis interface+WebRTC; I keep a copy of it myself in my household's Win7 SP1 old laptop, just to check/verify if St52's bugs are also present there, too ...

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Ok. My first time. Confirmed. This video is definitely blocked until the age of the user has been verified. Greetings, AstroSkipper

... Age-related YouTube blocks can be successfully circumvented, while being logged out of course, by using below userscript: https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass?tab=readme-ov-file#userscript I did my little experiment while being logged out of course but without any YouTube Age Restriction Bypass script. I never had such age-related blocks on YouTube here.

Start with a clean profile, add a short amount, starting with --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run --disable-breakpad --disable-machine-id --disable-encryption Add a bit more, try, and so on. Don't touch its own flags page as of yet! We need to determine what exactly is the reason for possible conflicts. P.S. You don't need to add user agent string and user directory --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" It's already in the loader! Obviously, now your current profile starts only from the loader. No "bat" or whatever he included.

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20240511-f9c86a922-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20240511-f9c86a922-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: (can't post due to forum restrictions, you can view it in my blog or in eclipse thread)

Thanks for clarification! I will edit it to my needs.

@Dixel Thorium is not fully portable. I know that. When installing extensions, there are corresponding entries written into the registry. I always use the flag --disable-machine-id but the flag --disable-encryption only if I move my profile folder.

I am working on a fix right now. You are welcome to contact me here or on the Basilisk GitHub mirror if you are unable to contact me on the Pale Moon Forum or Pale Moon repo. There is also an official subreddit at https://old.reddit.com/r/basiliskbrowser

No such problems but I use my mod uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 together with a BPCF script. And when additionally using the extension uTube 33.1, no ads anymore here in New Moon 28.

I've no idea what people are talking about when they're talking about ads on YouTube. Regarding uBO's blacklist, non-issue as far as I'm concerned. If I want ABP's lists, then I'll use ABP. Don't see the point in feeding uBO with a list that contains crapload of ABP specific filters. If something useful is in there, it can be implemented in uBO's lists.

There was a leak, my first release wasn't protected with X-prot, so someone, someone I shared my app with, had hacked it and made another launcher app based on my knowledge, but it's nowhere near as good as the original, that person didn't know all secrets. Clearer now?

Use in conjunction with --component-updater=url-source=0.0.0.0 Otherwise it would still check for available updates at certain intervals. It won't update them, but these checking connections is better to avoid.

I believe that updating Chrome components in the background on Windows XP may now be more of a problem than a benefit. It's been so many years since support for Chrome on Windows XP was discontinued that components for this operating system are no longer being developed, let alone checked for compatibility. Thus, using the flag --disable-component-update seems to me a logical consequence.

... Archived in Oct 2023 - the GH repo that is ... Development has been migrated to GitLab : https://gitlab.com/eyeo/anti-cv/abp-filters-anti-cv https://gitlab.com/eyeo/anti-cv/abp-filters-anti-cv#installation https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/abp-filters-anti-cv.txt Kindest regards ... EDIT: It would appear this ABP list is compatible with uBO-legacy : but incompatible with the WE version of uBO (latest DEV here, i.e. 1.57.3b8):

In 7-Zip directories are added as items separate for any files they may contain. You can see they have dates and attributes. Most archivers do this. The XPI contains only files. Each file header in the Zip central directory has a 36 bytes long extra field. With many files and directories, this adds up. Old archivers like RAR do not add this, but the Deflate compression there is worse.

Yes, looks very weird it's still not there, I mean for a fifteen years old totally out-of-support buggy OS.

In theory, those that are "oem" .CAT, should be.

A bit off-topic is no problem. But keep in mind I created this thread to be no longer off-topic in @roytam1 thread regarding YouTube Downloaders! But that conversely should not mean losing sight of the goal of this thread. Talking about a browser that you can't really use because it's not available to the public makes no sense at all in this thread and is totally off-topic. Please, contribute within the generously set framework of the topic of this thread! Here, we want to know all about YouTube using under Windows XP in these days. Thanks in advance! Greetings, AstroSkipper

Still, in a perfect world, it is in theory possible to emulate BIOS in UEFI, not entirely unlike what CSM does on most "dual" UEFI/BIOS firmwares, at least for the basic functions that DOS requires. A sort of "reversed" Clover. The whole point that the Intel (and associates) guys used to sell us[1] the stupid EFI/UEFI crap[2] was that it was essentially an operating system on chip and that *everything* was possible in this environment. Now, more than 10 (ten) years have passed (actually almost 15), and we evolved from a very limited boot environment that could only execute a bunch of assembler, consisting ONLY of MBR code, PBR code and bootloader/bootmanagers to a powerful environment that can run *anything* BUT for which essentially only bootloaders/bootmanagers exist (and was it not for our friend PBatard - Author of Rufus among other things - we would also be limited to FAT32 ): https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs In a nutshell, the possibilities are out there, and hopefully - before or later - someone will take the challenge. jaclaz [1] please read a "force down our throats" [2] not only crap in itself, crap worsened by arbitrary overlays of uneeded complications and limitations, the perfect example of "committee design" worsened by the de facto monopolistic power of some of the components of the committee