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I have used Proxomitron to *ADD* client hints to 360Chrome. Sure, agreed, Proxomitron is "not for everyone". But if one has to live in a world paranoid of things like client hints, then one must learn the tools of the trade. Personally, me myself, to each their own, yaddy yaddy yaddy, I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CLIENT HINTS. They're not the "privacy doomsday" that this thread wants to make them out to be. Said it a thousand times, what's ONE MORE TIME, IF YOU ARE "THAT" PARANOID OF ONLINE FINGERPRINTS, THEN GET OFF OF YOUR COMPUTER AND PHONE AND LIVE IN A CARDBOARD BOX IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH NO ELECTRICITY OR RUNNING WATER!

Sending "empty strings" is the WORST IDEA EVER !!! DO NOT send "empty strings" !!! If the "intent" is to reduce your fingerprint, then why in Hades would you STAND OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB via an "empty string" ??? We've been over this a "thousand" times, you must use something like PROXOMITRON to fake Client Hints with the string of your choosing, sending an empty string is "dumb". You must "blend in with the crowd" (ie, fake Client Hint strings), *not* "stand out like a sore thumb" (ie, an "empty string").

Most of us don't. If you have some time, probably make a list of the garbage files? like I did here. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186741-firefox-and-chromium-running-on-windows-7-by-e3kskskoy7wqk/page/2/#findComment-1278902

Also seems like a piece of junk. Replace with an empty file with the same extension. (from TXT file)

@nicolaasjan Thanks for updating your release of youtube-dl to version 2025.04.01! I have tested it with my fork ytBATCH for Windows XP, and it is working again with YouTube. . Now, I am able to deeply test my latest version in all its functionality.

Yes, but it was me who tried it on a G3420, not D.Draker, and it worked on a desktop PC. Again, Pentium G3420, 32bit XP. I assume they did something to that driver since it'smarked as "FORCED", but I hadn't dig deep enough to be sure.

I can't compare with the current ungoogled 127, but the last one I made comparisons (v.111) with either of the famous Chinese forks, they alll rendered much better on all OS.

Just to be clear> I'm not suggesting you to remove the US string, I perfectly understand you most likely don't know all English words, like "bugger off". But to blend in, you need to get that order the developer pointed out to. And finally change your system locale to GB.

You do, I assume you still send your favourite US locale string, whereas almost no one does. accept-language: en-GB https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-may-2025/358131/12

Before, you wrote you don't use CAPSLOCK, I already asked you. What changed? You parrot D.Draker? Client Hints have more to do with tracking than "content based on device", content based on device works perfectly fine by using the standard UA.

ytBATCH for Windows XP - A fork of ytBATCH by AstroSkipper ytBATCH for Windows XP is a YouTube video and audio downloader script (or better a script ensemble) forked by @AstroSkipper from eppic's original ytBATCH script on GitHub. A lot about this project can be read in my post Pre-release of ytBATCH for Windows XP - A fork of ytBATCH by AstroSkipper. It is now available in version 1.6 and a big leap forward with many changes and corrections compared to the pre-release 1.0. All changes can be found in my very long changelog. So, I'll spare you a lot of words at this point and let a few screenshots speak for themselves: ytBATCH for Windows XP - Changelog: ytBATCH for Windows XP - Pre-release version 1.0 (aka 2.9.2): wget dowloader added. 7-Zip command line tool added. Missing DOS command choice.exe added. Non XP-compatible PowerShell commands removed. New, compatible code added. @nicolaasjan's youtube-dl and yt-dlp releases implemented. @Reino's latest ffmpeg release implemented. Update module in terms of youtube-dl, yt-dlp and ffmpeg changed. ytBATCH for Windows XP - Inofficial development builds 1.1 -1.4: Autoupdate module for ytBATCH completely removed. Update module for ytBATCH converted into a version check one. Command line tools cecho, window and nircmd added. Specific sizes and positions for all windows established. All menus reworked and key commands coloured red. Several new menu items added. Several bugs fixed. ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.5 - Final release: Complete review of ytBATCH's algorithm. Due to changes in pre-configurations, installer module fully reworked. Some illogical or incomplete actions fixed. New batch files created and added. New menu items added. Beside others, links to the homepages of youtube-dl, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, ytBATCH for Windows XP and an About ytBATCH for Windows XP menu item to inform users and to give credits to the creators of programmes used. Non-functional download queue restored. New queue menu item added. A problematic and actually unnecessary, global variable completely removed. A new, global variable added. The handling of the download history changed. Config files for youtube-dl and yt-dlp created and assigned to each of them. The respective, desired command line options are permanently saved there. Wrong command line options for youtube-dl corrected. Some important command line options have been preset by me in the new config files of youtube-dl and yt-dlp. Among other things, the video resolution is limited to a maximum of 480p. If other resolutions are required, please change this default setting in these new config files! The ability to download subtitles via youtube-dl restored. youtube-dl is now correctly implemented and working in ytBATCH. Install and update module changed to implement @Reino's ffprobe which is needed in some cases. Update module for youtube-dl and yt-dlp fully reworked. A version check created and preceded. A further module for a direct update of youtube-dl, yt-dlp and ffmpeg reworked and made accessible as a menu item. Help for youtube-dl respectively yt-dlp added for a quick access to all available command line options. Further bugs, flaws and imperfections fixed. Command line tool shortcut32 added. During the initial setup, a desktop shortcut to the ytBATCH.bat start file will be automatically created. Different shortcuts added to a new subfolder lnk with specific colour schemes which will be automatically adjusted during the initial setup. The user can copy the desired one to the desktop. Menu item Generate ytBATCH for Windows XP shortcuts adapted to recent changes. ytBATCH icon file created and added to the main folder for use in shortcuts. ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.6: Version number bumped to 1.6. yt-dlp update module completely reworked. Now, a correct version check is performed first. When the update has been completed, the new version is shown once again. youtube-dl update module modified accordingly. Direct updater for yt-dlp and youtube-dl changed to show the new version number when the update has been completed. Config files for youtube-dl and yt-dlp modified to download YouTube videos with a resolution 480p and the h264 codec at maximum combined with the audio codec mp4a for all Windows XP users on old, weak hardware like me , and to embed subtitles. These config files can of course be edited by the user to use higher codecs and resolutions at any time. A no longer required batch file removed. Compatibility notes: ytBATCH for Windows XP does not have special system requirements and should run everywhere. However, it was developed under Windows XP Professional 32-Bit but should actually run under other legacy OSes like Windows Vista or Windows 7, too. I couldn't test this but the users can do it and report here. If you run Windows XP on a computer with an SSE-only CPU, however, you can only use youtube-dl as the default YouTube downloader. Download links: Download link for the ytBATCH for Windows XP - Pre-release version 1.0 (aka 2.9.2): https://www.mediafire.com/file/6c9hfkfpiwextf0/ytBATCH_for_Windows_XP_2.9.2.7z/file Download link for the final release ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.5: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7qljpnbzsxk1yn5/ytBATCH_for_Windows_XP_1.5.7z/file Download link for the new release ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.6: https://www.mediafire.com/file/eukray6px9h9bg6/ytBATCH_for_Windows_XP_1.6.7z/file ytBATCH for Windows XP is fully portable. It does not write any values to the registry and does not store any settings outside its programme folder. That means all settings are located only in its programme folder. Only a shortcut is placed on the desktop during setup. Nevertheless, the initial setup should be carried out with my original archive due to the adjustments in terms of the desired programme location that are automatically performed by the script during the initial setup and are necessary. A simple move of the programme folder after initial setup to another location would therefore make all shortcuts useless. If you do yet such a move after initial setup, you have to call the Installer.bat in the bin directory separately to re-adjust all shortcuts to the new location. The download folder for media files can be preset in the Preferences window via the menu item Change Output Path. I recommend to check all options inside this script by pressing corresponding keys to set it optimally. As far as I have noticed, all is working fine under Windows XP. And I have deeply tested all functions there. The general use of ytBATCH for Windows XP is actually self-explanatory and well documented on ytBATCH's homepage: https://github.com/eppic/ytBATCH. Of course, some features are only available in my fork. Any opinions, questions or experiences on my release ytBATCH for Windows XP are of course welcome here in my thread. If you encounter any issues with my fork, please post it only here and not on GitHub! This fork is unofficial and not supported on GitHub. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper P.S. from 04.04.2025: Please redownload the final release ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.5 if you have already downloaded it! I forgot to adapt one menu item to a very recent change. P.S. from 21.04.2025: FYI, all releases of ytBATCH for Windows XP have been fixed by me so that the setup routine does not only work correctly on drive C: but also on any other drive. Please, re-download the desired release! ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.6 is currently the most recent, final release and recommended by me.

I finally got to what's messing up the Chromium 110-126 sandbox on Windows 8.1, and it's the UpdateProcThreadAttribute feature. When I redirected it in the original kernel32.dll to the pwrp_k32.dll included in Supermium 132 R2, the sandbox started working. Just find a 100% sure solution to the RAM and virtual memory usage problems, and you will be able to use any Chromium-based browser (except Edge) up to version 126. I still don't know what is causing the problem with Chromium 127 and newer preventing the browser from running. And fixing the sandbox in version 126 is just a milestone. It is 17 versions higher than 109, but it is also 9 versions older than the latest official Google Chrome.... If anyone knows how to debug, I would greatly appreciate your help. All I know is that the problem is definitely in chrome.dll. 126 also worked on 8.0, but the sandbox after the repair still does not work, the browser starts up, but with the error SBOX_FATAL_CLOSEHANDLES, and does not display any page, of course.

FWIW, that's not what I said...

I'd try to blindly replace it with anything and everything containing CPU "affinity". https://documentation.ubuntu.com/real-time/en/latest/tutorial/5-cpu-affinity/

I am just a one-man band. ytBATCH is not only one script but an ensemble of scripts. Things take as long as they take. And as you know, haste makes waste. And Google and their damn changes can go to hell...

I would never have noticed such things. I would never think of reading something on a Microsoft page about Windows 11 in a legacy browser under a legacy OS.

Created Issue.

Thanks for confirmation and clarification! So, we'll have to wait until it is fixed if it is possible at all.

No. But no unnecessary security bullying when I use self-modified or unsigned extensions or themes. I don't need such Mozilla checks. They don't exist in New Moon, either. So in my case, I prefer to get rid of them. However, for the normal user, such security checks are completely ok and in certain cases even sensible.

You are absolutely right. If any security patches can be applied by @feodor2, then this should be done in any case. Of course, one should also be aware that activating user scripts or using certain hacks has unfortunately a negative impact on the security of Mypal 68. I, for example, use both. But I also know what I'm doing.

Securom was removed even in Vista with updates since it's officially considered to be an exploit and unsafe. So, I'd suggest to run your old games on un-patched Vista, not 7/8. For that purpose buy a PC made in up to the year 2012. And a GTX Titan 6GB card (or GTX780). If you are you going to run a 32bit Vista, then all 2013 Haswell/Skylake/Kabylake* systems would do just fine, too. *Skylake/Kabylake would need a PS/2 port for an easy install.

Important to note, this says the man who generally don't use China soft. See? I'm being objective and not biased.

A set of good vitamins usually helps,