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The background images are all JPG files and already locally stored while installation.

It seems so. I've never had a scenario like this before. But one thing is clear. Panda must have used the proxy connection. No chance without it.

when you were running the proxy system-wide in the background. Right? On both of my Windows XP partitions, Panda Dome was definitively not able to activate the account without ProxHTTPSProxy. Neither for version 21.01.00, 20.02.01 nor 18.07.04.

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20260117-40a79c75-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20260117-40a79c75-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20260117-id-656ea98-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20260117-id-656ea98-ia-c642e3c-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-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-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-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-20260117-d849524bd-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20260117-d849524bd-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20260117-d849524bd-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20260117-d849524bd-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod.7z Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20260117-d849524bd-uxp-aace8fa8c0-w7plus-avx2.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #1636 - Part 1 - Decouple Gio from GConf and always build it with GTK (fc78eec911) - Issue #1636 - Part 2 - Disable Gconf by default (990f256885) - Issue #1636 - Part 3 - Remove Gconf (b04e3d93c9) - Issue #2895 - Part 1: Replace XorShift128+ with Xoroshiro128++ (d4341ea07a) - Issue #2895 - Part 1b: Update license block. (d23afa84e5) - Issue #2895 - Part 2: Remove incorrect debug asserts. (5a0f190104) - Issue #2895 - Part 3: Add manual test. (75ec48bc41) - Issue #2889 - Part 0: Relocate Mozilla-specific files from Expat source. (b81b97ee47) - Issue #2889 - Part 1: Prepare Mozilla's changes and extensions for Expat 2.6.4. (9567601675) - Issue #2889 - Part 2: Import Expat 2.6.4 source. (9ade98b4fc) - Issue #2889 - Part 3: Apply Mozilla's patches to Expat 2.6.4. (0b9e221b14) - Issue #2889 - Part 4: Fix build and runtime issues. (a2f8e66162) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Avoid conflicts with system version of libexpat (e0f8acddc7) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: void methods shouldn't return a value. (8956c61187) - Issue #2889 - Part 5: Rewrite patches for Expat 2.7.3. (a730f838c8) - Issue #2889 - Part 6: Import Expat 2.7.3 source. (d2acec73f7) - Issue #2889 - Part 7: Apply patches to Expat 2.7.3. (ca2ef5184a) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Allow generate_hash_secret_salt to be used. (acefed74fe) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Adjust Expat 2.7.3 local patches for removal of 3rd patch. (034eeaff97) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Remove fix for BZ 569229. (493169e227) - Issue #2895 - Follow-up: Fix JIT code generator for 32-bit targets. (d6e9c4d85b) - [gfx] Be more explicit when converting to cairo formats. (f6d18c7d78) - [gfx] Use better types for cairo image surface manipulations. (6ca8cf782b) - [DOM] Check worker script size (d8f7202951) - [Auth] Only set GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG flag when we confirm server supports delegation. (5321363a1b) - [NSS] Update NSS (464b24c608) - [XPCOM] Add hashkey helper classes for future use. (7b9eda3f69) - [gfx] Add some additional sanity checks to cairo surface creation. (3aff60e443) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. My changes picked since my last build: - application: remove gio from MOZ_EXTENSIONS_DEFAULT (69c17afbe0) - htmlparser: break when infinite loop happens (8201dadf41) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat and icu63.dll 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.

Glad you like Supermium, I've been using it for ages now on XP, and it's become my standard browser even on Windows 10. To answer your questions - 1. Unfortunately, Supermium has no internal mechanism to set itself as the default browser on XP. It can be done with a lot of tedious registry editing, or by using a utility like PortableRegistrator. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/portable_registrator.html 2. This one is easy! Just type chrome://flags/#custom-ntp into the address bar, enable it, and fill in the URL that you want your new tabs to display. Restart the browser and there you are! 3. All I can suggest for that is to try different themes. Hopefully one of them will make things more readable for you. I'm sure that almost everything can probably be customised if you know how, but I don't have that level of knowledge of Chromium customisation I'm afraid. Cheers, Dave.

But Firefox and all the forks (to this date) are one of the most notorious trackers, and they are nowhere near Ungoogled. So it just confirms my worries.

reverting changes in #2895 seems help. now 32bit builds are being compiled and same filename archives will be replaced later. EDIT: all today's 32bit build archives are updated.

Maybe DeLeaker could be useful ?. DeLeaker 2025.16 (Profiler for C++, C#, .NET and Delphi) C++ memory leak detection Deleaker is an extension for all major IDEs and a standalone application for memory leak detection - memory, GDI, and handles so far. Even the most stable of Windows applications are not immune to resource leaks. And of all the bugs and issues, memory leak detection tends to be the most difficult, especially when found in GDI objects and menus. And the golden rule of thumb is that the sooner bugs are found and dealt with, the less expensive they prove to be. While there's no shortage of tools and add-ons to help track down memory leaks, few are capable of tracking GDI resource leaks that can devastate Windows performance. Deleaker is one of the few tools capable of this, and will have a minimal impact on your application's performance. Deleaker is a memory leak detector that integrates with all major IDEs: Visual Studio, Delphi, C++ Builder, and Qt Creator.

Agreed. The earlier versions of Panda seem to use INTERNET EXPLORER's proxy settings (which you proxified when setting the proxy to run "system-wide").

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20260117-aa5eeba9b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20260117-aa5eeba9b-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - ported from UXP: Issue #1636 - Part 1 - Decouple Gio from GConf and always build it with GTK (fc78eec9) (522108f71) - ported from UXP: Issue #1636 - Part 2 - Disable Gconf by default (990f2568) (cb5b1cf63) - ported from UXP: Issue #1636 - Part 3 - Remove Gconf (b04e3d93) (c7c7666f8) - import from UXP: - Issue #2895 - Part 1: Replace XorShift128+ with Xoroshiro128++ (d4341ea0) - Issue #2895 - Follow-up: Fix JIT code generator for 32-bit targets. (d6e9c4d8) - Issue #2895 - Part 1b: Update license block. (d23afa84) - Issue #2895 - Part 2: Remove incorrect debug asserts. (5a0f1901) - Issue #2895 - Part 3: Add manual test. (75ec48bc) (1ba1395ca) - import from UXP: - Issue #2889 - Part 0: Relocate Mozilla-specific files from Expat source. (b81b97ee) - Issue #2889 - Part 1: Prepare Mozilla's changes and extensions for Expat 2.6.4. (95676016) - Issue #2889 - Part 2: Import Expat 2.6.4 source. (9ade98b4) - Issue #2889 - Part 3: Apply Mozilla's patches to Expat 2.6.4. (0b9e221b) - Issue #2889 - Part 4: Fix build and runtime issues. (a2f8e661) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Avoid conflicts with system version of libexpat (e0f8acdd) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: void methods shouldn't return a value. (8956c611) - Issue #2889 - Part 5: Rewrite patches for Expat 2.7.3. (a730f838) - Issue #2889 - Part 6: Import Expat 2.7.3 source. (d2acec73) - Issue #2889 - Part 7: Apply patches to Expat 2.7.3. (ca2ef518) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Allow generate_hash_secret_salt to be used. (acefed74) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Adjust Expat 2.7.3 local patches for removal of 3rd patch. (034eeaff) - Issue #2889 - Follow-up: Remove fix for BZ 569229. (493169e2) (ee15f2005) - application: remove gio from MOZ_EXTENSIONS_DEFAULT (d7440fac8) - htmlparser: break when infinite loop happens (c016f9cc6) - import from UXP: [gfx] Be more explicit when converting to cairo formats. (f6d18c7d) (7094d3f22) - import from UXP: [gfx] Use better types for cairo image surface manipulations. (6ca8cf78) (efc7747c2) - import from UXP: [DOM] Check worker script size (d8f72029) (a480b4db2) - import from UXP: [Auth] Only set GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG flag when we confirm server supports delegation. (5321363a) (4149b3514) - import from UXP: [NSS] Update NSS (464b24c6) (3381dabad) - import from UXP: [XPCOM] Add hashkey helper classes for future use. (7b9eda3f) (c627d5f28) - import from UXP: [gfx] Add some additional sanity checks to cairo surface creation. (3aff60e4) (aa5eeba9b)

You must have misunderstood something. Panda only needs ProxHTTPSProxy to activate the Panda account. After that, the proxy settings in Panda can be deleted and the proxy closed.

Here is a quotation from my main article: And I should add that it is very important to delete all dummy cerificates in the Certs folder when the cacert.pem file has been updated. And you won't lose anything. The dummy certificates will be generated the next time when connecting to servers. BTW, you are using the proxy system-wide. That was what I asked you in an earlier post. I personally do not.

I can't get it to ACTIVATE on 100% Native XP+POS. The ACTIVATION may be where HTTPSProxy becomes a must.

@Dave-H Do you regularly maintain your proxy? For ProxHTTPSProxy to function properly, it must be maintained. From time to time, the Certs folder must be emptied, and the cacert.pem file must be updated. Only then will it function properly and can connect to the Panda servers. Then you will finally see the connections established to their servers.

I can't confirm this statement. When I installed Panda Dome 21.01.00, I was only able to activate the Panda account with the help of ProxHTTPSProxy, using the necessary proxy settings in Panda. Connections to Panda's servers were immediately visible in the proxy console.

As a general rule of thumb, I historically REFUSE to download "trusted" content from http, especially "security" software! The version.ini does report v23. I will install into an XP *VM* later this morning. Several extracted-retain-timestamp files are dated from only FIVE DAYS ago.

i guess we'll never know

I found my complete FineSSE project from 2011 including a well-tested but unreleased version 30. It includes support for CC/Breakpoint and can be extended for other continuable exceptions. I also began a version 31 in 2013 that starts to add a process picker for easier attachment to any running process. For now, I'll create a version 32 from v30 that also handles exception 0x406D1388 (Name thread). I don't plan to support locales other than the system (maybe user) default at the app-level by either name or ID. There are name constants: LOCALE_NAME_INVARIANT LOCALE_NAME_SYSTEM_DEFAULT LOCALE_NAME_USER_DEFAULT and ID constants: LOCALE_INVARIANT LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT that I can use to fake/minimally implement the locale API's. (See LOCALE_INVARIANT.) KernelEx already has LCMapStringW, GetLocaleInfoW, and CompareStringW so I'll see how those are handled. The InitOnce functions need more study, but can be redirected to ReactOS for now. My WinME system is SSE-only. Which browser should I try testing with?

QUIC via UDP works as a direct connection, including bypassing VPN. Those IPs Chrome pings at the start is only what you see, and only the tip of the iceberg. Most firewalls (to this date) don't know how to deal with QUIC's UDP connections, QUIC was meant and developed to pass through firewalls unnoticed. There is a topic regarding those sneaky connections. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186094-google-quic-is-vulnerable-to-cyber-criminal-activity-creates-a-‘black-hole’-that-hackers-can-exploit/

Oh, just found this! It's indeed Google tracking. Someone even asked ChatGPT. "The sca_esv parameter is a piece of data in the URL that's likely internal to Google's system for tracking, sorting, or customizing search results. URL parameters like these are often used for various purposes including analytics, session identification, and to tweak the behaviour of the search. " "Asking ChatGPT to brainstorm what sca and esv could stand for in the context of a Google search:" https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/172215/google-videos-search-sca-esv-query-parameter-possible-tracking

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