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Ok. I understand that very well. Completing the new version is a much higher priority. But one thing is clear. A bug is a bug. Or call it an issue, an unwanted behaviour or whatever. Regardless of whether you don't consider it important or don't want to fix it. Calling the cookie GUI via its XUL file directly is faulty. I have investigated and documented it in detail. The script is the same, it is heavy obfuscated and refuses to work too if to block the connection to its site, very suspicious so not suitable. No need to block its connection. The script is simply great. Sometimes, one has to trust. Without trust you can't do anything when using software, scripts and similar made by others. Would be great to have document.loadOverlay() back in Mypal 68.

Hadn't Supermium declare itself portable? It would then be able to hook up with it from its root folder.

You're indeed a very lucky one! Many users report the spiking issues, esp. when using browsers, so it's not only Supermium, but I thought win32 would be able to somehow fix the issue. "I'm having the same issue with a 3070. Spikes to max all the time while idling or browsing the internet." https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/user/747572/

Probably a more fair comparison would be to run them both on Vista, Ungoogled runs on Vista ex-kernel up to version 110-111 or so. Supermium was made for Vista initially, that's what I mean.

Can be checked here: https://browserleaks.com/ip "Fingerprinting TLS Clients with JA4 on F5 BIG-IP What is JA4? JA4 is a subset of the larger JA4+ set of network fingerprints. JA4+ is a set of simple network fingerprints for a number of protocols that are intended to be both human and machine readable, and replaces the JA3 TLS fingerprinting standard from 2017 (Salesforce is no longer maintaining JA3). Currently, JA4+ includes JA4/S/H/L/X/SSH, or JA4+ for short. JA4+ Fingerprints JA4 — TLS Client JA4S — TLS Server Response JA4H — HTTP Client JA4L — Light Distance/Location JA4X — X509 TLS Certificate JA4SSH — SSH Traffic More fingerprints are in development and will be added to the JA4+ family as they are released." https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/fingerprinting-tls-clients-with-ja4-on-f5-big-ip/326298

I personally forbid any of my extensions (or my browser, or my OS, or my text editor, et cetera) from auto-updating. My hunch (without inspecting the script) is that the SaveForm branding is easily disabled directly from within the extension's .js files. Just monitor DNS traffic when that banner pops up then look for that URL within the extension's .js files - I cite as "purely for educational purposes".

It's about 4 GBP. (British Pounds) per month.

Google lens translates it as you need to pay them a fee of 400 Rupees each month for the "better video quality". Now, would you be severely punished (as many others already have) for saying that software is Russian, I wonder?! The local supervisor explicitly forbids to talk about Russia on this forum, which is of course strange, very strange,. I read it in several topics already, including the Yandex phone topic.

The latest version of EssentialPIM works in WinXP, although there is no official support. It supports Microsoft OAuth2. It is a complex system, but it has good documentation and a very active forum: https://www.essentialpim.com/features/overview/pro-vs-free At the moment I still use Outlook2003 as my main mail client, in Microsoft accounts I set up forwarding to a Gmail mailbox. In the Gmail accounts you can also set up an OAuth2 POP3 connection to an external account, also Microsoft; for each Gmail account only one external account (Gmailify): https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6304825 You can also import messages and contacts via OAuth2 and POP3 (ShuttleCloud) https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289 Regards

Introducing JA4+ "Optimise Network Visibility with JA4+ Fingerprinting!" https://netquestcorp.com/ja4-tracing-the-progress/

Don't you get relaxed, JA4+ is in the development already! They will take that into the account, "JA4+: The Next Leap in Network Fingerprinting" https://www.peakhour.io/blog/overview-of-ja4-network-fingerprinting/

The data archive is still offline, only wayback machine is back.

Wayback Machine is completely back!

WaybackMachine is provisional read-only online now. https://archive.org/

"...Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) to block traffic based on the "reputation"... " https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/fingerprinting-tls-clients-with-ja4-on-f5-big-ip/326298 https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/ja4-part-2-detecting-and-mitigating-based-on-dynamic-ja4-reputation/328663

"Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting Posted on: Oct 11, 2024 Amazon CloudFront now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. The JA4 fingerprint is passed via the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header. You can inspect the JA4 fingerprints using custom logic on your application web servers or using CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint contains a 38-character long fingerprint of the TLS Client Hello which is used to initiate a secure connection from clients. The fingerprint can be used to build a database of known good and bad actors to apply when inspecting HTTP requests. You can add the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header to an origin request policy and attach the policy to your CloudFront distributions. You can then inspect the header value on your application web servers or in your Lambda@Edge and CloudFront Functions to compare the header value against a list of known malware fingerprints to block malicious clients. You can also compare the header value against a list of expected fingerprints to allow only requests bearing the expected fingerprints. Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint headers are available for immediate use in all CloudFront edge locations. You can enable JA4 fingerprint headers in the CloudFront Console or using the AWS SDK. There are no additional fees to use JA4 fingerprint headers. For more information, see the CloudFront Developer Guide." https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/10/amazon-cloudfront-ja4-fingerprinting/

IP address can be shared. And or used by someone else (namely, "hackers"?), whereas your browser is you browser, period. Guilty, case closed

Ever heard of circumstantial evidence? That's exactly what all of those "canvas" are. Whereas the Unique ID is used to build a case. No judge will ever get that much into such side technical aspects. But he will take the dog tag as the main proof, don't be delusional.

Another two standalone reasons for this unique dog tag advocating could be: 1 - you're somehow affiliated with the police. 2 - simply don't know how to get rid of it.

That puts hard evidence on you. My mom's a criminal defence lawyer. In the meantime, an empty string may or may not be received due to a technical malfunction - that puts nothing on you. Telling a "unique ID is better" - giving bad advice to people. Enjoy my expensive but free advice. And yes, as I suspected, @Dave-H doesn't get "human" verification, just like me. This tells your location is already marked as "un-secure" by a spammers' database*, which are plenty these days, and the sites use their services to filter out spammers. *along with that MSFN member from Russia, the one we discussed before, with the same error.

So, you prefer to have a unique ID number of the tiny Supermium userbase, or an empty string? Ungoogled userbase isn't huge either.

What kind of drawback is it? @feodor2 Any information on that? @feodor2 Actually, this was a feature request. Any opinion on this?

No. Actually, these crashes can't be related to these two prefs settings. I use both for a longer time and didn't notice any tab crashes. TBH, I have never seen this messsge before. This must be caused by someting different. And the crappy eBay website doesn't work well in Mypal 68 for some time. I did an order on eBay yesterday using Mypal 68, and it wasn't a pleasure. You should use uBlock Origin in any case especially if accessing such bloated websites. Do you use Mypal 68 in single- or multi-process mode? Do you use a new, clean profile? Please provide more detailed information when posting issues!

Set both prefs dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_ext_content_script_run_time to the value of 0 via about:config!

Thanks! All further considerations regarding your request will be now done in my thread which I created especially for such things.

You're welcome. You can customise Mypal 68 to your needs using CSS stylesheets and UC.JS scripts. I already gave you a link to my thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/ There, you can find a lot about this stuff. If I understood you correctly, you want to completely get rid of the tab bar. Right? You can do such modifications via CSS code inside the userChrome.css file or via separate CSS files which must then be integrated into the userChrome.css via the import command. The latter is the way I prefer. But first, you should prepare Mypal 68 as described in the first post of my thread under "Reqiurements for custom buttons, other script-generated objects and CSS code implementations in Mypal 68". @tinman2000 Is that what you had in mind? Mypal 68.14.3b without tab bar and new tab button:

I'd like to post my fix to another issue, need to use --disable-hang-monitor flag, https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/347

I'd like to post my fix to this issue, need to use --no-first-run flag, https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/371

Just in: Critical mistake declared in Supermium with the SRW locks; they have been revised to no longer use handles. Please redownload the fixed files. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/372#issuecomment-1996252291

Here we can observe confirmations from multiple users: "45 seconds to start up Supermium..." https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/358 Like I said, this doesn't happen to me with Ungooggled. For me, it's not 45 seconds, but more like several seconds vs milliseconds in Ungoogled, still very high, especially if we consider the fact Supermium "greets" me with a blank white screen (despite the dark theme currently forced on), and it stays unresponsive for like 7-10 seconds. With extensions it'd be much, much longer.

Yes, but it's with every browser that has video acceleration switched on, not only Supermium. It's the joy I wouldn't want to get rid of yet, Like I said, I don't watch videos in browsers, I have a huge Philips TV for that purpose.

A fair guess is to assume Supermium already includes the kernel mod within the non-disclosed, close source parts, like progwrp.dll, for example.

1. No, we got a very cheap, green electricity, here in Holland, I'm more concerned with the unnecessary wear and log waiting times each start brings. 2. The same idi*otic voltage spikes each start brings, why would a browser need to bring my gpu to the full clocking state each start? Then it of course settles down, but it's simply not helping to let it survive longer.

I don't understand the question. I have a fast HDD - Raptor, a very old GTX titan (produced: Januray 2013).

No tests are needed since it's too obviously noticeable. Ungoogled opens up in a matter of milliseconds, while with the usual Chrome or even Supermium I have to wait for 3 seconds on my HDD. But then again, it may be different with your hardware.

Then you've come to the right place, I don't think Supermium will ever be fully ungoogled. With the rate the developer adds Ungoogled features it may only happen in the year 3047. Why? I don't know, probably the ungoogled demand is low.

Slower startup and heavier HDD usage. First and foremost, I disable everything GPU related, I don't watch videos in browsers.

For starters, even if we leave aside the data collection thingy, it's simply heavier. Ungoogled version has more useful flags for user's convenience, highly customizable. Are you sure you ever tried it?

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Thanks for your efforts! TBH, I think there is something missing in Windows XP 64 bit. But in the end, we have to accept that Panda Antivirus Free is not compatible with this OS due to problems in recognising an already existing .NET Framework 4 installation. Panda Antivirus Free can't be installed out of the box although .NET Framework 4 is installed apparently properly. Personally, I am glad that I use Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit (including all POSReady updates).

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You're welcome! Thanks to @WSC4 for reporting back! So, Panda really meant what was stated as the system requirements: Therefore, we now definitely know that Panda Antivirus Free is not compatible with Windows XP 64 bit editions due to .NET Framework 4 problems, confirmed by @WSC4 and @UCyborg. Accordingly, I noted that in my article. Cheers, AstroSkipper

... But now : Before I changed the link yesterday, I also checked it, as I always do. It worked perfectly. And today as well. No problem here to access the Malwarebytes box. Here is a screenshot as a proof when accessing this site via New Moon 28: I fear something has gone wrong on your side. Check the link again! Cheers, AstroSkipper