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You have to back up the Thorium folder and its registry keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thorium for a later re-install. Otherwise you will lose the settings for which extensions have been installed.

thanks for your investigation. so basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210327 is OK and basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210320 fails? http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2021/03/weekly-browser-binaries-20210327.html EDIT: oh yea there is a commit missed in my repo! "Issue #1749 - Remove restriction of SVG width/height element attributes." is missed, will add it back and will be available in next build.

OK, this is off-topic, but things are getting weirder.... There is something on my system blocking me from launching any application named "firefox.exe." I have to rename Firefox to, say, firefoxx.exe for it to run! If I don't rename it, when I try to launch it, it says it doesn't exist! Anyone ever heard of such a thing? Edit 3: OK I found that problem. At one point I was experimenting with trying to run Mo versions >115 with VxKex (a Win 7 kernel extender). I had no luck, so I uninstalled VxKex. Unfortunately, the uninstall did not revert a registry key, so anytime I tried to run firefox.exe, Windows tried to load VxKex and of course, couldn't find it. That was the real missing file. Deleting the registry key fixed it. That said, I can confirm that Mo 68.9 ESR does not render AVSForum correctly. Same bug as Serpent. Clean profile. Edit: OK, getting closer. Mo 78.9 ESR does render AVSForum correctly. So Mozilla's fix was between 68 and 78 (and presumably backported to MyPal). Edit 2: OK, got it. Mo 68.9 ESR doesn't work, but Mo 69 does work. So Mozilla's fix landed in version 69. The date of the fix appears to be circa Oct. 2019. At least, that's the date on all the files in the Mozilla Firefox folder. Hmm.... Perhaps this? The SVG geometry attributes (such as width and height) can now also be defined as CSS properties (Firefox bug 1383650). Edit 4: The fix appears to have landed in official Pale Moon somewhat later: version 29.1.1, dated 26-Mar-2021. Version 29.1.0, dated 1-Mar-2021, does not render AVSForum.com correctly. So I have it narrowed down to one month. Edit 5: On a hunch, I checked @roytam1's St 52 build from March 2021. And sure enough, that same CSS fix landed in the last week of that month. So, I downloaded the St 52 build - and it does render AVSForum correctly! (Well, not quite; as feared, there are other issues, but at least those giant graphics aren't present.) So, it's a regression: been fixed, but somewhere along the line, it broke again. It's getting awfully late here, though. I'm going to bed now.

... A more in-depth analysis of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application A "portable" app installation is also called "stealth" when the portable app is being launched from an external (to the host) storage media (e.g. HDD) but when the app is exited and the media detached from the host computer, NO TRACE whatsoever related to the app is left on the host's file system and registry; I guess you can also call the app "stealth" even when "installed" on an internal (host) disk, when it doesn't leave any of its 1. associated files outside of its assigned "portable installation" directory 2. associated registry keys on the host OS once exited... Many apps can be made "portable", but it takes a lot of effort to additionally make them "stealth"; sometimes, that isn't possible at all, even with app virtualisation (e.g. Microsoft Office and most of the Adobe Suites); in those difficult cases , the application is very complexly intertwined with the OS it runs on ...

I do not use a portable loader for Thorium. And I assume @chermany4ever either.

Indeed it doesn't! It's now stuffed with so much bloat, they even managed to crapify it with "VK" app. From what I understand, it's some sort of a Russian dating website! The App is un-deletable, and Opera connects to Russian developers' website with very questionable content, not to mention that Russian social website.

What about Ungoogled?

I can take my PORTABLE browser anywhere and pick up EXACTLY where I left off. I can browse in XP at home and then take it to work and pick up EXACTLY where I left off in Win10. I do that via X-Chrome's "loader". I've never actually tried Thorium via the .bat (I use a "loader" for ALL my browsers, be it Chrome/Chromium-based or Mozilla-based).

If these registry entries weren't reverted and stored inside the Thorium folder, you can't expect to pick up where it was left off by using it on another computer.

That .bat file does NOT make Thorium "portable" because registry-writes are stored on the host computer. That is a "simplistic" way of setting two "flags" for "encryption" and "machine-id", but a true PORTABLE browser requires more than that.

Not if you use (and know how to configure) a "portable loader".

That's already been solved, along with other fingerprinting defences like Client Rects, I sent you a message. Writing here, too, in case you read without logging in. Regards.

Those two look also like the whole purpose of the accounts creation is far from technical aspects. https://msfn.org/board/profile/441008-c-care-preschool/ https://msfn.org/board/profile/440995-mike-lund-painting/

@NotHereToPlayGames, found this for you. "Windows Defender is acting like every other Anti-Virus ... I get the same thing with BitDefender. Saying "trust me it's fine" is not a way to reassure people. Please determine what in your code is flagging and get it whitelisted." https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win/issues/75#issuecomment-2062321661

Well, there's such possibility, of course! But then why doesn't the author of Thorium clear this whole situation? He simply ignores. Just read yourself. When Supermium had false positives, they cleared it up pretty quickly.

I no longer have Supermium on my computer. Everything removed. Unfortunately, Supermium ran poorly on my hardware, at least in the previous versions.

This is the scan result of the notification_helper.exe file uploaded to VirusTotal from my Thorium SSE2 122.0.6261.168 WINXP x32 installation: At least, the version 122.0.6261.169 of the file notification_helper.exe seems to be inconspicuous, but it is not version 123.0.6312.133 either.

To rebel against trends, against what seems to be imposed. Not bad at all. Sometimes I look at the guys who spend months making their Linux distro, I admire them. Sometimes I draw a parallel between what they do and what we do here. I don't feel we're that far apart. Sometimes I even fantasise about us releasing a new XP, completely free, fresh and modern for not so new machines. Bring your laptop back to life!

Shouldn't be so radical, yes. Happens when you're into customising the OS completely to your liking and something in the environment ruins it. Some of these programmes not only look great but add some functionality that I think is genius. Paradoxically they seem very sensitive and susceptible to the environment. Not a big deal anyway, with images you can go back. It's more laziness and the desire to avoid getting angry.

The effort to install complex programmes that need to access data in different locations in Windows is probably too great and probably in certain cases not possible, either. I therefore have no problem with certain programmes having to be installed correctly.

In my book portable is a program that you can run without installing it. Many and I mean many times installed programs and then when installed or uninstalled ended up with corrupted files, crashes, other programs crashing, etc. Don't care so much about being able to continue where I was but knowing that I can run the program only when I need it without that meaning a bigger problem, like now, that I have to go back to a healthy system image because a program somehow damaged it.

Personal preference. I run 50-some programs on my computer. Only TWO of them are allowed to write to the registry. I do that because Windows is NOTORIOUS for *mangled* registries. Uninstall a program, portions are still left in the registry, et cetera. 99 times out of 100, if your computer is "slow", it's because the registry is "mangled". Okay, call it 89 times out of 100, lol.

Just tested, and turns out i can (the browser opened to the same tabs). I think the USER_DATA folder (which is created inside the Thorium folder when you use THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat) is where all that is kept, not in the registry.

Thorium is not a truly portable application. If it were such one, it wouldn't change anything in Windows or revert all changes, which were done, immediately after closing the browser.

BTW it seems to be possible to create a small kernel32 wrapper (stubbing EncodePointer/DecodePointer/SetDllDirectoryW/GetProcessHandleCount, wrapping GetProcessId, hex-editing VC2010 compiled EXE/DLL replacing KERNEL32 to KERNELXP i.e. our little wrapper) to make it work on XP RTM: kernelxp src+bin+util: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/kernelxp.7z

I write through self-translation, so I apologize if I missed your English-language lines. Read more about the VK error here: https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/2508

You would get the equivalent of a nightly build or one of these automatically-built snapshots: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

To me, it was more of a tie-in to this -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%27_Money But that "didn't make sense" so then I assumed it was a new fork I've not yet heard of.

1. 32 GB is too small for a retail SKU IMO. The smallest (with newest) OS I have used is a 40 GB VM with Server 2008 R2. For that small size, you would use either an Embedded SKU or an older OS like Vista or XP. Or perhaps a non-Windows product. 2. Dell Recovery DVD for Windows 7 should install fine on another brand, but it won't activate on a non-Dell system. 3. In either case, you can attempt to activate with the old key, or a key from the shop, but you may have to use Telephone Activation (Slui 4) in both cases. You won't know until you try. 4. You can certainly run a small size hypervisor on a system. I don't know the names of any of those options, I've only use ESXi and Hyper-V. You can also look into VDI type or terminal setups. Do not mention the name of any warez on this forum. This includes modified Windows versions that are able to be downloaded from archive.org.

Good idea. Thanks! I will implement it in the next build. In 'version.py' I put: UPDATE_HINT = 'Do not update the XP build with -U. Instead download from GitHub Releases again when a new version is available.' Tested it and it works: C:\WINDOWS\system32>yt-dlp -U Current version: local@2024.06.01 Latest version: master@2024.06.01.185743 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds ERROR: Do not update the XP build with -U. Instead download from GitHub Releases again when a new version is available. C:\WINDOWS\system32> BTW, welcome to the forum.

we may need someone to check when is PM and/or MyPal-UXP "fixed" this thing to narrow down rev range to see if I missed something. (to me, I'm hard to believe that I missed changes from PM upstream since I have a branch tightly matching upstream's changes)

That is Retail. An OEM is not allowed to redistribute RTM media. See below. This is a recovery disc. The OEM (Fujitsu in this case) had created a bootable recovery using the RTM version as the base, then sent the DVD9 master to an Authorized Replicator who then pressed this disc. This was sold this way because the system was sold under OEM-facilitated Downgrade Rights, in which case the system must include a recovery solution for both the OS that is installed as well as the OS that was licensed. A recovery partition is enough to satisfy this requirement, however at a point during an OS transition, close to EOL (End of License) period, the OEM is likely to include the physical recovery media even if a recovery partition is present solely because they have stock of it and they need to get rid of it. After EOL, there is no way to distribute the physical media aside from an RMA, so after that point it just goes into the garbage.

Go to Tools ---> Preferences ---> Tabs Uncheck "Close the window when the last tab is closed". @AstroSkipper said: Yes, that also works.

Hey, where are you? Don't disappear! We miss you.

@Dietmar On ASRock motherboard is UEFI Variables Protection: https://github.com/ab3lkaizen/SCEHUB#ASRock Try one more time in UEFI Shell: AmiSetupWriter 0xCB3 0x0 then CSM Enable: AmiSetupWriter 0xCBE 0x1

There's a fix for that. Set dom.keyboardevent.keypress.dispatch_non_printable_in_content to true in about:config.

And that's why it makes no sense at all. Using ProxHTTPSProxy does it definitely better. Or a more recent Chromium version as, for example, Thorium.

Like this one? "Windows Vista Ultimate RTM Unboxing/Installation 2019" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4eC9NwwoQk

No, <ProductKey> is not supported with WinNTSetup's direct WIM apply. Maybe you can use FirstLogonCommands to run: slmgr /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D

Thank you very much, that's all we wanted to hear! Please understand, most of us neither have gihub nor gitlub, thus don't possess access to such official reassurances. Next time I'll simply ignore malware warnings regarding Supermium.

@win32, come back to MSFN, I promise we'll bust down all haters and create a pleasant atmosphere for you to return! I personally ask @Dave-H to supervise! Guthub dust bin doesn't deserve to have you! I promise I'll stop writing about brightness. And here we have a good place to collaborate.

This is getting interesting with each second! Now we can be sure it wasn't just a gihub takedown. @NotHereToPlayGames Basically, win32 erases himself from the internet. Guys, probably make a topic and ask win32 to make an annoucemnet?

I reported in Thorium topic that file, quite some time ago - chrome_pwa_launcher.exe Then @D.Draker suggested us to delete it, and we moved on.

"Thorium detected as threat by Norton 360 aswell..." "Suspicious process attempted to modify attributes of a file protected by Data Protector" "Target file was a system..." https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win/issues/75#issuecomment-1768473145

Re -update. The contents of the updroots.sst file have been changed; the contents of the other * .sst files are unchanged.

I'm using this one. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 122 version is already too old and sites shove captchas down our throats. With 124 I can visit them.

frizz

I'm sorry, I can't say whether he was German or not, it might be seen as PM leaks. But he seemed like a nice fella. And yes, I agree with you, less rumours is always better, people need their privacy. Again, I'm very glad you're with us and share your knowledge!

simmiliar here, tho i'm stuck in mid 90-ies to mid 2000-ies

Well I'm stuck in a time-loop somewhere between the 80's and 90's (I'm not joking here) For some reason, even though I firmly believe live for today, most of "me" got left behind somewhere and I can not recapture it - maybe I shouldn't even try. Yep, the "old me" VS this existence of just existing rather than "Living". This isn't living! I DO really wish I could just say I was talking about computers and technology, but I really wish I had a time machine and I'd gladly go back and appreciate what I had; now, I have just 'this' with nothing to look forward to. So I carry on as best as possible, maybe that is what we all do, I don't know. Just saying whilst everything changes and everything comes to an end, where is this fresh start people speak of because I can't see it - gonna be 51 this summer and time is not my friend and I feel if I can't change my state of being I'll forever be stuck. Sorry guys if that was depressing - just been struggling as of late.