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I'd also add that *NONE* of us MSFN XP Users have a "setup" like that BIASED video used. They opened all ports, set everything to lowest security possible, didn't NAT on LAN behind a router, you name it. They *WANTED* to be *INFECTED* and so they "configured" their XP to *BECOME* infected. By all means, DO THAT TYPE OF SETUP in 7, 8, 10, and 11 and "report your findings".

In standard (not internal developer coding) names it's either VC1 ot AVC (without the "1"). Or it's simple to confuse with AV1, then. What Are HEVC and AVC? H.265 and H.264 Video Codecs Explained HEVC = H.265 AVC = H.264 Details: https://www.tomshardware.com/reference/h264-h265-hevc-codec-definition

AV1 and VP9, both, smooth out stuff, H265 keeps more detail (8 bit), H264 is behind, trying also keep up. x265 (10 bit) is over-contrast.

Are they somehow better? For me, they look pale, washed out, bright. Probably, because of my Titan oldie (made in Jan. 2013). But then again, H264 looks fine on it, please explain.

You have to log in to view that forum. Could you summarize for those of us unwilling to do that? But even without reading the above, my theory is, Tobin trained them to hate us - how dare we presume to do anything differently than them - don't we understand they're perfect and all their decisions, including refusing to support XP/Vista, are correct? And that feeling lingers, even with Tobin out of the picture.

Nvidia driver debugging (full instructions, very rare!) Huge PDF file, 44mb. https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/nvidia.pdf

Same works for Back 4 Blood: Ultimate Edition Build 14216215 (Zombie game).

No such issue for me, I noticed MSFN works better/faster with Chrome 108-111 and the such, not the latest.

That's exactly why I support the idea of MSFN, and actually the reason for all my efforts here. In my case, let Windows XP live forever or at least as long as possible.

I have no problems to post links that link to the MSFN forum itself. A very fresh example is here. https://msfn.org/board/topic/185045-supermium/?do=findComment&comment=1264614

Chrome 109 from 2022 might be too old. Works fine for me on 119.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, huh? I really doubt that was the case. It wasn't long ago another lost soul wandered to the wrong forum, though. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=31164 Firefox folks hate on Pale Moon folks, Pale Moon folks on hate New Moon folks and the Earth keeps on spinning. Nothing new. Edit: @DanR20 @roytam1 Aye, that x.com user agent override works. Weird redirects.

I don't think I'll be far from truth saying that the Copilot is just a Microsoft rebrand of ChatGPT with modified GUI. The article suggests that this so called "Notebook" is an extension to Copilot, I don't see a reason why Microsoft/OpenAI wouldn't be able to implement this feature in ChatGPT too.

... Not a coincidence, for sure , but this very same YT clip was the topic of a Pale Moon Forum thread that soon escalated to name-calling and bad-mouthing MSFN members using the New Moon browser on WinXP today ...

I don't know what exactly you are going to take my word for. But I know exactly what I'm talking about. This guy likes to write disparagingly, especially when it comes to MSFN, old operating systems and New Moon. Rudeness and negativity are the pillars of its character. Guys like this trollbat were the reason why I gave up my account in the PM forum and never posted there again. Good decision.

"The comment" looks exactly how this poor soul generally thinks, hates and writes comments about all MSFN related. It never ceases to amaze me what certain intellectual low-flyers are allowed to write there. Apart from that, the ignorant has no idea about Windows XP. And then it also wants to be a developer ...

... If you don't want to use a dedicated extension (and I simply find you're just being obstinate without a reason), I'll point you again to: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40574814#comment23 For a PAC script like the one below: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "example.com")) { return "PROXY localhost:8079"; } } go to an online base64 encoder and the result you'll get is the string: ZnVuY3Rpb24gRmluZFByb3h5Rm9yVVJMKHVybCwgaG9zdCkgewogaWYgKHNoRXhwTWF0Y2goaG9zdCwgImV4YW1wbGUuY29tIikpIHsKIHJldHVybiAiUFJPWFkgbG9jYWxob3N0OjgwNzkiOwogfQp9 Then, you should add to whatever 360 Loader/launcher you're using below cmdline parameter: --proxy-pac-url="data:application/x-javascript-config;base64,"ZnVuY3Rpb24gRmluZFByb3h5Rm9yVVJMKHVybCwgaG9zdCkgewogaWYgKHNoRXhwTWF0Y2goaG9zdCwgImV4YW1wbGUuY29tIikpIHsKIHJldHVybiAiUFJPWFkgbG9jYWxob3N0OjgwNzkiOwogfQp9 WFM: Caveats: You'll have to re-encode the PAC script and re-modify the switch whenever you add new domains; once the length of the cmdline switch gets too big for Windows Command Shell, this method will quit working... IOW: Use an extension! Addendum: I have verified myself the fact the Chinese must have done something wrong with their 360EE browser ; when you correctly configure IE (9 in my case - requires "unhealthy" syntax, i.e "file://", and NOT the "healthy" one, "file:///*") to use a locally hosted PAC file: and then instruct 360EE to "Use IE proxy", this configuration isn't applied ; OTOH, if you configure IE to use ProxyMII (FrontServer): and then instruct 360EE to "Use IE proxy", this configuration is applied (360EE uses ProxyMII - of course, for ALL secure URLs) ; in this latter case, you can avoid IE completely from acting as a MITM by configuring 360EE to use directly ProxyMII's FrontServer: and selecting this option from its Proxy Context Menu:

Wow! The Pale Moon team has to be so nasty (especially Moonbat) towards New Moon users. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=31168

Yep! I noticed that too during my tests. I will correct my post accordingly. Here is my working script for passing only example.com to the local proxy: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "example.com")) { return "PROXY 127.0.0.1:8079"; } else { return "DIRECT"; } } This script can be enhanced to pass more than only one URL to the local proxy, of course. So, your question has to be answered with yes. It's me.

... Apologies are in order , it appears to be a "mea culpa" case; I have edited my original post accordingly :

Proxy Switcher and Manager 0.5.0 is the last compatible to 360Chrome due to the manifest change from 2 to 3 and works great. I tested Direct, Manual Proxy (set here the local proxy 127.0.0.1:8079) and PAC Script, and all worked as it should. So, a working PAC script (not a PAC file but a PAC script under the section Inline) can be inserted directly in 360Chrome. No need to do that in IE8 and no need to activate ProxHTTPSProxy in the system proxy settings of IE8 by inserting 127.0.0.1:8079 there. Simply call up ProxHTTPSProxy.EXE directly from the main directory of my package instead of StartProxy.exe! And that means by using this extension you can also use @cmalex's ProxyMII if you prefer a pure proxy without any comfort. BTW, all that was done in 360Chrome in a few minutes.

And @Anbima, IE8 is very old. I wouldn't implement a PAC file there. As @VistaLover already explained, IE8 has poor support when it comes to PAC files loading from disk. Install instead a proxy extension with PAC scripts support in 360Chrome as this browser doesn't seem to natively support it any longer. For example, this one: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy-switcher-and-manage/onnfghpihccifgojkpnnncpagjcdbjod, and there are others, too.

I have now integrated the proxy.pac in IE8 and it also works in IE8. In 360Chrome I have activated “use IE proxy”. But it does not work in 360Chrome. If I set a fixed proxy in IE8, this is also adopted in 360Chrome. The proxy is not used. What am I doing wrong? function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "*.example.com")) { return "PROXY localhost:8079"; } else { return "DIRECT"; } }

If that's supposed to be a joke, then it certainly wasn't your best. If you meant it seriously, then I'm afraid you're completely out of place here. Just a hint. Supermium -> Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes. So, either old browsers for old hardware under old OSes or browsers (not the newest ones) for more modern hardware under old OSes. Your choice, old or old.

There used to be an old MyPal browser which was based on Pale Moon, but Mypal68 is based on Firefox, not Pale Moon, so you should install Firefox versions of extensions on it.

In France one can get seriously beaten up for a talk like that.

Sounds very much like your monitor is over-contrast to begin with. Try lower your contrast first, as full RGB looks amazing and shouldn't put strain on eyes.

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Personally, I use very few extensions in Thorium. And those which are only used from time to time have been disabled by me.

In the meantime, I have made various performance improvements to Thorium, on the one hand by selecting suitable flags for my hardware, and on the other hand by generally using a mobile user agent from Android with the help of the ingenious User-Agent Switcher and Manager extension. Today, I have found an additional flag to reduce the FPS when it comes to media which is --max-gum-fps=30. Here is a screenshot from MotionMark which runs now at 45fps and not 60fps.

Most people probably find this rather boring. But the mainboard of this computer is from 2000 and the CPU from 2004, and I assembled almost all the components of this old computer myself. I rebuilt the case, repaired the mainboard and due to air cooling improvements, no hard drive has died since then. I have a very personal relationship with this computer, so to speak. It runs super stable and just won't stop working. And to be ontopic again, Thorium runs amazingly well on this computer in contrast to Supermium, where the page load behaviour is much worse. Very often the loading process simply hangs with 100% CPU utilisation.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-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-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-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-20240518-d849524bd-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240518-d849524bd-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240518-d849524bd-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240518-d849524bd-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - PR #2514 - Don't split up happy emoji sequences (52d7e4f3db) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. Official Basilisk changes picked since my last build: - [Basilisk] fix bug with preferences not working (4a95f9d418) 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.

Do you talk about their X-Launcher? In the case of the paf version from PortableApps, these entries are only written temporarily to the registry. After closing the browser, they are written back to a local reg file and then removed from the registry. So, nothing to be worried about. Unfortunately, Supermium does not run fluently on my old hardware.

No, I don't. You wanted to know for which extensions would be written entries to the registry. And I answered that all Supermium (Chrome) browsers do that, when installing extensions, either permanently when installed by installer or temporarily when fully portable. So, it doesn't matter whether you use or prefer installers or not.

Terrible, painfully slow "saving..." process, took a screengrab.

No. Maybe if you can root the phone and the kernel's USB gadget still supports USB Mass Storage mode and is configurable through files, you could access FAT32/exFAT SD card that way, if you have it. Of course, you don't get to configure that through menus. Not sure about internal storage, as this is usually just a folder on an ext4 formatted partition. There's supposed to be VFAT emulation taking place, but I'm whether this means it could just be exposed to the PC through USB is another question, I never tried and can't say I have a clue what file (if it exists) would correspond to a block device representing internal storage. As @windows2 said, you'll definitely need WMP11. Judging by Samsung Galaxy A15 I'm testing, you might have to convince Windows to configure it as MTP device. Out-of-the-box, it was detected as a camera. This is is the content of one of the folders listed through phone shell's ls command: And this is how the folder appears in Explorer: Besides default layout being centered towards working with cameras, eg. Date Taken and Picture Size columns, Camera Tasks on the left, no full path is shown in Address bar and folder names are truncated. Not good. Likewise, its appearance in My Computer and its properties: Anyway, head to Device Manager to find "the camera", open its Properties, then on Details tab, select Hardware Ids and note the first ID. You will need the part after USB\. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB, there you should find the key that corresponds to the ID noted earlier, inside that key, you should find another key (folder, if you like), if you select it, you should notice CompatibleIDs value on the right. You have to open that value and insert the following line at the beginning: USB\MS_COMP_MTP To be able to do that, you'll probably have to temporarily grant Administrators group (or your user) permissions to the key/folder containing CompatibleIDs, so right-click it->Permissions...->Add...->type Administrators->OK->tick Full Control->OK. After you're done modifying CompatibleIDs, you can remove the permissions. Now you just have to go back to Device Manager, open "the camera" and trigger driver update, so Driver tab->Update Driver...then just accept the defaults to let the wizard configure it properly. Final result:

It doesn't matter which one. When the Supermium installer is used from GitHub, it writes for each extension which is installed an entry under HKLM and HKCU -> Software -> Supermium. In the portable PAF version from PortableApps, these entries are only temporarily written into the registry and are stored locally in the programme folder when Supermium is closed as it is usual in PAF versions from PortableApps.

If someone is interested in Supermium as a fully portable application, then have a look here: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/supermium-portable It was already mentioned here in this thread and has just been updated. In any case, extracting the Supermium executable from GitHub (win32) and using the starter script to call up the main programme does not lead to a real, portable installation, especially when it comes to extensions whose entries have to be written into the registry. And Thorium isn't fully portable, either.

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Interesting! Shouldn't Iron 109 correspond to the exact same Chrome 109 version @Cixert uses? Probably his adblock (or something else) interferes with the site, then?

Notepad3 6.24.309.1 RC3 (2024-03-09) The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad3 tries to follow this principle, it’s a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs. Features include code folding, bracket matching, automatic indentation, word auto-completion, convert character encoding between various formats (ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16), newline format conversion (between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF), and Macintosh (CR) formats), multiple undo or redo, bookmarks, and regular expression-based find and replace. Notepad3 changes and improves upon many of Notepad2 and Notepad2-mod's features. Author's site: https://www.rizonesoft.com/ Download: https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/ Changelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/master/Build/Changes.txt RIZONESOFT SOFTWARE If you experience issues with our software or have some suggestions, report it on: https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues Changes in version 6.24.309.1 RC3 (2024-03-09):

I check some programmes for updates from time to time. Regarding UniExtract2 I maintain an own article about such tools: No more and no less. And tools like WinRAR, 7-Zip and UniExtract2 are very important, especially for me.

Great tool! I use it on a regular base. FYI, the most recent version is UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 from 15.10.2023, though.

My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP — Part 2 — File extractors and packers 7-zip: 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The main features of 7-Zip: - High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression - Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. - For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip - Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats - Self-extracting capability for 7z format - Integration with Windows Shell - Powerful File Manager - Powerful command line version - Plugin for FAR Manager - Localizations for 87 languages The latest version 24.08 from 11.08.2024 still supports Wimdows XP. Homepage: https://www.7-zip.org/ Download link of 32 Bit version: https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2408.exe Download link of 64 Bit version: https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2408-x64.exe WinRAR: WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives. WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip). WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example. WinRAR is a trial product, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days! Last version compatible with Windows XP is WinRAR 6.02. Higher versions don't support Windows XP anymore. Download link of 32 Bit version: https://dl.filehorse.com/win/compression-and-backup/winrar-32/wrar602.exe?st=SbzTXEEXkA-QIyqb3giTsg&e=1656381022&fn=wrar602.exe&x-clickref=1101lvURYqNr Download link of 64 Bit version: https://dl.filehorse.com/win/compression-and-backup/winrar-64/winrar-x64-602.exe?st=MBUaNQiVXmgEmCOyR9_WSg&e=1656381255&fn=winrar-x64-602.exe&x-clickref=1101lvURYwRa UniExtract2: Universal Extractor 2 is a tool to extract files from any type of archive or installer. After the release of UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 3 in 2020, a new nightly build has been uploaded last month, UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly (06.07.2024). Below are the download links of both versions: Link to UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 3: https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/releases/download/v2.0.0-rc.3/UniExtractRC3.zip Link to UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly (06.07.2024): https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/files/nightly.zip innoextract: Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows extracting such installers without running the actual setup executable. innoextract currently supports installers created by Inno Setup 1.2.10 to 6.2.1 The current version of innoextract is 1.9. Download link: https://constexpr.org/innoextract/files/innoextract-1.9-windows.zip KB_Extractor: KB_Extractor is a special extractor for Microsoft updates. The last version is 1.2 from 26-06-2011. Simply drag the update you wish to extract onto the pre-saved executable, and wait for the extraction to complete. Download link: https://www.vistax64.com/attachments/kb_extractor-exe.23613/ A list of all parts of my My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP can be found in my post of Additional Resources. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183498-general-and-specific-solutions-for-problems-regarding-auwumu-in-windows-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1216513