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Yep! My Windows XP computer is equipped with a single-core CPU. Thus, I will notice immediately if a website places a heavy load on the processor. Such websites will be usually avoided by me.

Please, don't forget that Check My IP Address & Location is not "my programme", but my fork of a good old extension that was unfortunately abandoned and brought back to life by me! I have changed and modified some of the code, and enhanced its functionality. But thanks for your kind feedback!

I suppose there are a few ways to look at this. The font "fingerprint" is basically a javascript MATHEMATICAL function that detects the available fonts on your system and the MATHEMATICAL OUTPUT is a thirty-two digit number. It's that 32-digit number that is your "fingerprint". Just send a completely RANDOM 32-digit number that has NOTHING TO DO with your actual installed fonts! Note also that each "slot" of the 32-digit number is not limited to 0 thru 9. It also contains HEXADECIMAL digits. So each "slot" can be 0 thru 9 or A thru F. That's sixteen available "digits". That's "only" 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 different available fingerprints. 16^32. You could just as easily not use a RANDOM number but just sequentially send in sequence. 000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000001 000000000000000000000000000002 000000000000000000000000000003 000000000000000000000000000004 But DO NOT DO THIS! Why? Because the resulting 32-digit number is then DECYPHERED and I guarantee that a very VERY large number of those 16^32 "fingerprints" result in a DECYPHER ERROR. Look at that this way. A credit card only has SIXTEEN numbers. But there are NOT 10^16 different credit card numbers because the first four digits must correspond to an actual bank and is a FINITE SET.

I'm terribly sorry, I never tried those, from some extensions I tried earlier, they randomise your fonts, and those, do they have a function of fixed, default font sets, let's say from win11? Thanks.

Not only, it's used by "security" services, especially in countries with oppressive, self elected regimes. No one says to block all trackers, @NotHereToPlayGamesalready explained to you, and I always agreed, you have to blend in, which is very hard with Supermium.

Last I checked a few weeks ago (my old motherboard died, and am now replacing my system with linux-mint+Xen+XP but XP will take me a while to get back to, and more likely than not not for browsing), jshelter worked in supermium, and does a very good job preventing fingerprinting, fonts included..

@hidao Already contained inside the SE entry posted by D.Draker, you can test your own browser's font fingerprint by loading: https://browserleaks.com/fonts (depending on your setup, the font scan and fingerprint calculation may take up to 15s; YMMV...) If you're really concerned about font fingerprinting (actually, only a fraction of browser fingerprinting techniques), some extensions are available: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/font-fingerprint-defender/fhkphphbadjkepgfljndicmgdlndmoke and a more powerful one (designed to tackle broader fingerprinting attempts, not just the one based on installed fonts): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/font-fingerprint-defender/fhkphphbadjkepgfljndicmgdlndmoke Read more: https://jshelter.org/fpd/

get it out of your head, it doesn't work.

Actually, "Black Monkeys" is waaaay more "racist" by the American standards. And in Europe, at least in France, we don't draw that much attention to one's skin colour. I served with a guy who had a bit yellowish tan on the skin, so, how was I supposed to call him? Hey, yellow male? No, I called him by the name. And in America they call Negroes (which is their official race name) "blacks". It's hard to understand why it's not considered "racist". It's almost New Year, and you, my friend, you're overthinking the whole situation too much. Just go and celebrate! Black males was simply the first suggestion when I started to type "Black M...." in the search window. I congratulate everyone in advance! @hidao Supermium has a lot of unique identifiers, besides fonts, you're better off making a standalone topic.

By scanning and exposing your installed fonts. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/163376/why-do-browsers-expose-installed-fonts

Thought so, as a member of this wonderful site, and a fan of the old OS.

Could he just catch a virus? Dark Power Ransomware Abusing Vulnerable Dynamic-Link Libraries An Ongoing Investigation into Emergent Cryptolocking Ransomware Strain updated on November 28, 2024 Association to documented CVEs and similar malware family WannaCry. BlackByte ransomware. LockBit Green ransomware. Ranzy Locker ransomware. Conti ransomware. bcryptprimitives.dll

I wish this latest version supported Vista. Happy Holidays!

But hey, I heard they restored in some forks, so try it. As the last resort. GB Times / October 2, 2024 https://gbtimes.com/how-to-stop-videos-from-automatically-playing-chrome/

I'm back to testing with GPT. Starting from the same point where I left off some time ago. I think I partitioned the 6TB hard drive with Windows Seven and then unfragmented it. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp/page/5/#findComment-1251406 It's working fine on Windows XP (BIOS mode IDE-legacy) with a new installer I found for the Paragon 10.5.0.95 driver. I installed it from Paragon Partition Manager 15 (aka 2015) Professional x86 v10.1.25.779 (2015-09-18) This is the last version that contains Paragon GPT loader, in later versions it is not included. Please suggest me what tests I can perform to verify that it works fine on Windows XP. The disk is divided into 6 partitions. 1-NTFS 1.42 TiB 2-exFAT 1.19 TiB 3-FAT32 107 GiB 4-FAT32 976 GiB 5-FAT32 488 GiB 6-FAT32 1.29 TiB With version 11.0.0.175 the GPT hard drive does not work well for me, Windows XP does not recognize FAT32 partitions.

I personally would have preferred a WARNING of that web site's CONTENT. I just leave it at "ouch"...

I'm not going to patronise you, just being Captain Obvious is sometimes fun, so my advice is to upgrade, Supermium will only get heavier, trust me. I mean, seriously.

Not really surprising. Every time it hits an AVX instruction a software interrupt occurs; interrupt handler has to save everything, do what the AVX instruction would've done (if you actually had an AVX processor), restore everything and return to Pale Moon. Then a few nanoseconds later, it all happens again - over and over. Only reasonable solution is to use the build of Pale Moon without AVX instructions that you discovered above. Not really clear why MCP did this (as opposed to why they say they did it); perhaps by limiting Pale Moon to AVX processors, they're effectively limiting it to newer processors, and thus (indirectly) to faster processors that can handle the Javledygook on modern Web sites without bogging down.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20241228-3219d2d-uxp-e5fa99d83c-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20241228-3219d2d-uxp-e5fa99d83c-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-20241228-3219d2d-uxp-e5fa99d83c-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-20241228-d849524bd-uxp-e5fa99d83c-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241228-d849524bd-uxp-e5fa99d83c-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20241228-d849524bd-uxp-e5fa99d83c-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20241228-d849524bd-uxp-e5fa99d83c-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #2672 - Part 1: Load nsCookieService OMT and use sync reads. (aec27853c6) - Issue #2672 - Part 2: Auto-close `syncConn` for edge cases. (fe53a0bb1c) - Issue #2672 - Part 3: Ensure thread lifetimes are in tandem. (032b0ae0d8) - Issue #2672 - Part 4: Prevent db access while rebuilding is underway. (d69e2a3779) - Issue #2672 - Follow-up: Remove unused telemetry variable. (d935c4f54c) - Issue #2670 - Compute baseDomain when cookies are read from the database (2e1c487563) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. 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.

I can only guess the same's happening with Supermium, that would be a perfect explanation why Brave is on the normal level of brightness, and Supermium isn't. One of the reasons I'm not getting back to it. sadly/

Please check your inbox, I found the right driver for you.

Thanks for your feedback! No problem for me to replace the EasyList Dutch by EasyDutch. I am German as you surely know. Therefore, I do not check other language-specific lists. Such changes will only be made by me if reported here such as you did. And I'll check if the Online Malicious URL Blocklist has to be replaced by the Online Malicious URL Blocklist (AdGuard). Thanks again for reporting! Cheers, AstroSkipper

I was blocked on the XDA-dev site in exactly the same way as it was on the How-To-Geek site. And the same trick via Block Element works there, too. Thus, both rules are identical: ! 2024-01-13 https://www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com##.bOvWNQ ! 2024-01-13 https://www.xda-developers.com www.xda-developers.com##.bOvWNQ

This is always to be expected with old, no longer really further developed extensions for UXP browsers & co. and is generally unavoidable. If it only affects a few pages, it's easy to get over. I will also test the two websites with my upcoming release uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31. @UCyborg First of all, the How-To-Geek website is a bit clumsy in New Moon 28 and leads to high processor utilisation on older, weak systems. For comparison purpose, I checked this site first in Mypal 68 with uBlock Origin 1.49.2 activated. Here is a screenshot with the filtering results: As you already stated, no problems there. The How-To-Geek website does not block uBlock Origin 1.49.2, and uBO does its job properly. Then, I checked this website in New Moon 28 with uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31 activated. Here is a screenshot with the filtering results: The How-To-Geek website recognises uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31 as an adblocker and prevents the loading of the actual content. That means uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31 works but it is simply blocked. Thus, one has to make some special settings in uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31 to get this website loading but without allowing all ads. Here are my settings I have made to block as many ads as possible: And that's something I can live with.

This is always to be expected with old, no longer really further developed extensions for UXP browsers & co. and is generally unavoidable. If it only affects a few pages, it's easy to get over. I will also test the two websites with my upcoming release uBlock Origin 1.16.4.31.

This is the version I am using and the last XP-compatible one as far as I know. Many manufactures haven given up on Windows XP like, for example, MediaHuman. But any deeper discussion about that kind of stuff should be done here only in connection with extensions. Otherwise, we would go off-topic. And I'm not in the mood for that.