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Look's like CloudFlare nightmare soon may be over, Pale Moon community reach out to press and CloudFlare team apparently noticed they negative coverage in press: Moonchild wrote: The Register article title is hilarious: Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers We finally know what browsers we using - a weirdo browsers.

still working with $DAYJOB, and for builds because there is lack of upstream changes. BTW I do plan for an update to my legacy browsers addressing some NSS related bugfixes and cert updates, but no ETA at the moment.

I don't know if it has already been noticed, VLC Media Player 3.0.20 has not been able to play YouTube video links under Windows XP for months. Due to YouTube's permanent changes, the youtube.luac file from 08.06.2024 is outdated. An updated youtube.luac or youtube.lua version has not yet been published. So, I did a research and found an alternative version of the youtube.lua which makes use of the downloader yt-dlp. The Lua script project is called yt-dlp4vlc and was developed by FalloNero. Here is a link to his GitHub page: https://github.com/FalloNero/yt-dlp4vlc. I have already tested this Lua script, and it works fine. The script calls up yt-dlp.exe and transfers the parsed link to VLC. Unfortunately, there is one small drawback. The Lua programming language does not have a command to minimise or to hide a console window. Under Windows, a console window is opened and only closed when the parsed link has been successfully transferred to VLC. I don't like that, so I modified the Lua code in this script. This is the code of the original Lua script: -- YouTube Link Resolver for VLC with Separate Video and Audio URLs -- Place this script in VLC's lua/playlist directory function probe() -- Check if the input is a YouTube link return vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https" and (string.match(vlc.path, "youtube%.com") or string.match(vlc.path, "youtu%.be")) end function parse() -- Construct the full YouTube URL local youtube_url = vlc.access .. "://" .. vlc.path -- Path to yt-dlp executable (modify as needed) local yt_dlp_path = "C:\\YT-DLP\\yt-dlp.exe" -- Construct the command to get the direct video and audio URLs local cmd = string.format( '%s -g "%s"', yt_dlp_path, youtube_url ) -- Execute yt-dlp to get the direct video and audio URLs local handle = io.popen(cmd) -- Read video URL (first line) local video_url = handle:read("*l") -- Read audio URL (second line) local audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() -- Trim any whitespace video_url = video_url and video_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" audio_url = audio_url and audio_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" -- Log the resolved URLs vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Original URL: " .. youtube_url) vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Video URL: " .. video_url) if audio_url and audio_url ~= "" then vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Audio URL: " .. audio_url) return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video)", options = { -- Add audio URL as input option ":input-slave=" .. audio_url } } } else vlc.msg.warn("[YouTube Resolver] No separate audio URL found. Playing single URL with both video and audio.") return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video + Audio)" } } end end And here is the code of the Lua script modified by me:: -- YouTube Link Resolver for VLC with Separate Video and Audio URLs -- Place this script in VLC's lua/playlist directory function probe() -- Check if the input is a YouTube link return vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https" and (string.match(vlc.path, "youtube%.com") or string.match(vlc.path, "youtu%.be")) end function parse() -- Construct the full YouTube URL local youtube_url = vlc.access .. "://" .. vlc.path -- Path to yt-dlp executable (modify as needed) local yt_dlp_path = "c:\\Programme\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\yt-dlp.exe" -- Hide window and ... (modify as needed) local cmd_hide = 'c:\\Programme\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\nircmd.exe win hide stitle "Lua" &' -- Start cmd, title the window and ... local cmd_title = 'cmd /c title Lua &' -- Construct the command to get the direct video and audio URLs local cmd = string.format( '%s %s %s -g "%s"', cmd_title, cmd_hide, yt_dlp_path, youtube_url ) -- Execute yt-dlp to get the direct video and audio URLs local handle = io.popen(cmd) -- Read video URL (first line) local video_url = handle:read("*l") -- Read audio URL (second line) local audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() -- Trim any whitespace video_url = video_url and video_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" audio_url = audio_url and audio_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" -- Log the resolved URLs vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Original URL: " .. youtube_url) vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Video URL: " .. video_url) if audio_url and audio_url ~= "" then vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Audio URL: " .. audio_url) return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video)", options = { -- Add audio URL as input option ":input-slave=" .. audio_url } } } else vlc.msg.warn("[YouTube Resolver] No separate audio URL found. Playing single URL with both video and audio.") return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video + Audio)" } } end end For hiding the console window, I have used nircmd. The script has to be adapted to the location of both files yt-dlp.exe and nircmd.exe. The advantage of this script is that from now on, the interaction of YouTube and VLC no longer depends on an updated youtube.lua script which is only carried out at very irregular intervals, but on the downloader yt-dlp.exe maintained by @nicolaasjan. Long story short, VLC Media Player 3.0.20 is again able to play YouTube videos from their links. And now even without an annoying console window. Cheers, AstroSkipper

... Yes, this is really insane of them ; it's not as if discourse-based forums, mostly containing text, need the top-of-the-line JS/CSS features released with "yesterday"'s Google Chrome version ... ... Mozilla have extended Win7's support with Fx115esr until September, but discourse will cut this support 4 months prior, on May 1st! I soon got bored reading the linked announcement and the comments that followed it, their basic reasoning couldn't hold water if it wanted to: (and, correct me if wrong, but "they" can't use English properly, I think "including" should've been "include"); what "improved experiences" for crying out loud? People just post questions (in plain text), sometimes they attach a screengrab, and they expect a helpful reply (also mostly in text); why discriminate against older rendering engines? https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-may-2025/358131/33 Will have to wait and see how much "broken" UXP will be after May 1st on discourse-based forums/"communities" (quite a lot of them, actually) ... (above is St52 with the ! Discourse-based forums ||*/browser-detect-$script,important custom uBO-legacy filter...) EDIT: Discourse's browser-feature-checking script is, apparently: https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/assets/chunk.e772cb6376a12f35fc11.d41d8cd9.br.js:139:266343

I removed in all batch files the PowerShell commands for downloading and extracting the yt-dlp, youtube-dl and ffmpeg archive files. As a replacement, I added wget.exe for downloading your releases respectively @Reino's release and 7z.exe for extracting the downloaded archive files. Then, I rewrote the corresponding code in different batch files. Now, all batch files for updating work again under Windows XP. The yt-dlp, youtube-dl and ffmpeg archive files are downloaded, extracted and then removed including all unwanted files. So, your yt-dlp can be checked by the -U option at any time. After checking for updates, I added an option to decide whether an update of the yt-dlp file or the youtube-dl file should be carried out or not. Now, everything is running the way I wanted it to. Project finished.

I also used the Open With extension in the past. It is indeed a nice extension. ytBATCH is not only one batch file but a couple of batch files. I changed the code of some batch files to avoid PowerShell commands which do not work under Windows XP. Now, ytBATCH is able to download the most recent versions of @nicolaasjan's yt-dlp and youtube-dl releases, and @Reino's last ffmpeg release, by itself. And here ytBatch's Preferences: And this is the main window where a command or the YouTube link has to be entered: This script collection is cool.

@Multibooter Just a little tip. If you want to mention and reach someone from this forum, then for example @AstroSkipper is not enough, it should look like this: @AstroSkipper. Otherwise it would only be pure coincidence if your enquiry was noticed.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20250802-3219d2d-uxp-3553319265-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20250802-3219d2d-uxp-3553319265-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-20250802-3219d2d-uxp-3553319265-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-20250802-d849524bd-uxp-3553319265-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250802-d849524bd-uxp-3553319265-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250802-d849524bd-uxp-3553319265-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20250802-d849524bd-uxp-3553319265-xpmod.7z Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20250802-d849524bd-uxp-3553319265-w7plus-avx2.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #2835 - Part 1: Expose nsCSSRuleProcessor::CascadeSheet (be3d8491c7) - Issue #2835 - Part 2: Implement processing of import rules based on order of appearance (37230e7b21) - No issue - Regenerate devtools CSS database (2c39bb7901) - Issue #2489: Add CSS color-mix keyword support (055a685c2e) - Issue #2489: ColorMixValue support and structure (7800eb0126) - Issue #2489: Add color-mix serialization support (b42cca5fa5) - Issue #2489: Add color-mix computation support (58d7206259) - Issue #2489: Include color-mix to avoid filtering (6b938c48a5) - Issue #2489: Update enum class syntax (99d7fb8e95) - Issue #2489: Create ColorMixValue structure (cb60df2169) - Issue #2489: color-mix function parsing (7899850a19) - Issue #2489: Fix CSS color-mix() percentage parsing (a3cb799126) - Issue #2489: Remove unnecessary initializations (eb7eacc565) - Issue #2489: Improve color-mix() computation algorithm (ff5f3b2b2d) - Issue #2489: Adding RGB to HSL function (cb2547efa3) - Issue #2489: Allow color-mix() to differentiate color spaces (01b0b8251d) - Issue #2489: Allow HSL with alpha mixing (22be9f7fc6) - Issue #2489: Allow SRGB with alpha mixing (5fe574de22) - Issue #2489: Disallow percentage overflow and underflow (052b5d1ffa) - Issue #2489: Produce more accurate computations (2855cd6ded) - Issue #2790 - Part 1: Add: event state, pseudo-class mapping, SetAutofilled methods (13d1054046) - Issue #2790 - Part 2: Address BZ bugs: 1355438 and 1341230 (d99eab0d9d) - Issue #2790 - Part 3: Address BZ bug 1849122 and resolve build issues (4cdfb9e16b) - Issue #2790 - Part 4: Working non persistent autofill highlight (bf8cfcc980) - Issue #2790 - Part 5: Persistent highlight despite blur click (156c755085) - Issue #2790 - Cleanup: Remove debugging lines (459ed6ea85) - Issue #2790 - Cleanup: Remove whitespaces (70cbf0dfd3) - Issue #2790 - Part 6: Highlight color change and remove important (61ad3b8d6e) - Issue #2790 - Part 7: Setting of contrasting color and fixing of last commit's issues (61f92f89ea) - Issue #2790 - Cleanup: Correct whitespaces (429e05c8a1) - Issue #2489 - Follow-up: Add `color-mix()` manual test. (cea125a01d) - [DOM] Fix crash in `<object>` scheme checking code. (838be26145) - [DOM] Simplify `<object>` scheme check code and fix plugin handling. (ace2c1c1ee) 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.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20250419-3219d2d-uxp-42e13fd8bf-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20250419-3219d2d-uxp-42e13fd8bf-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-20250419-3219d2d-uxp-42e13fd8bf-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-20250419-d849524bd-uxp-42e13fd8bf-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250419-d849524bd-uxp-42e13fd8bf-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250419-d849524bd-uxp-42e13fd8bf-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20250419-d849524bd-uxp-42e13fd8bf-xpmod.7z Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20250419-d849524bd-uxp-42e13fd8bf-w7plus-avx2.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - No issue - Various updates for Mac buildability with XCode 16.3 (59977aa358) - No issue - set UXP to dereference links in file open dialogs. (17031f216b) - Issue #2726 - Remove obsolete FirefoxOS MMS prefs (d13c759467) - No issue - Update Twemoji font to unicode 16.0.0 (9ff0c63602) - Issue #2729 - Add missing jsonifier interfaces to DOM{Matrix|Rect|Point} (8bacedc9a9) 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.

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.

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

I have reviewed Supermium versions 122 through 132 R1, and I believe that even if the theory about the older engine is true, it uses the same as Supermium 124, not 122. The 122 version differs too much in my opinion, if only in the imports and wrappers used (e.g. since version 124 uses APIs such as DiscardVirtualMemory) . Besides, going into chrome://versions on Supermium 122, 124, 126 R7 and 132 R1, I discovered that the latest version of Supermium probably uses the --no-sandbox flag by default under Windows 8.1, and in the version for older systems, as well as the version for Win 10 and 11, which interestingly continues to work after replacing DiscardVirtualMemory with VirtualAlloc.

I have changed the title of my publication of ytBATCH for Windows XP. It is currently to be understood as a pre-release. My fork has moved further and further away from the original script and is becoming more and more independent. Therefore, I havel changed the version number assignment. Consider my pre-release ytBATCH for Windows XP 2.9.2 as version 1.0! This means: ytBATCH for Windows XP 2.9.2 = ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.0. Although I have made ytBATCH compatible with Windows XP, some things do not work. This is due to the fact that the algorithm in the original ytBATCH script was not quite correct or not really thought through and programmed to the end. The original script from eppic has the following shortcomings: The youtube-dl and yt-dlp downloaders are not considered and used separately. The download of subtitles can only work with yt-dlp, but not with youtube-dl. The script would not work with youtube-dl in general. The queue does not work at all. A globally defined variable causes problems in some cases. Various bugs in various places. Some actions are illogical or incomplete. This means that the original ytBATCH script only has limited functionality and won't work at its fullest on its targeted, higher OSes. I also have the feeling that eppic has given up its ytBATCH script in the meantime, as it has not been updated for three years. Updated on 29.3.2025: Today, I have found this on eppic's GitHub page: So, my feeling was correct. Nonetheless, eppic's script ensemble ytBATCH is great and worth developing further. In the meanwhile, I have already found the reasons for these issues listed above and was able to correct all of them. I have considerably changed the algorithm and modified or rewritten a lot of code. I also added new functions to make the script more informative and effective. Including a new window management and styling. Unfortunately, I can only test yt-dlp because @nicolaasjan's youtube-dl does not work with YouTube at the moment. However, the final release of ytBATCH for Windows XP will be prepared for the return of youtube-dl, whenever this will be. Cheers, AstroSkipper P.S.: Unfortunately, this all means that those using Windows XP on a computer with an SSE-only CPU will not be able to download video or audio files from YouTube using ytBATCH for Windows XP or other programmes also depending on youtube-dl at this time.

I abandoned Thorium when it became very clear that there weren't going to be any more versions in the near future, if ever, which would run on XP. A version based on Chromium 122 doesn't really cut it any more. Why that decision seems to have been made I have no idea, but thank goodness that we still have Supermium!

Just going back to Browsermetrics for a moment, someone here has reported the same issue with Edge, so it looks like it's something that can probably happen with all Chromium-based browsers. A new profile was recommended there too, and apparently fixed it.

Did I say that? I said: Look at the second screenshot under (Y)! This is the Preferences window, and there you can change the use of yt-dlp to youtube-dl. The latter is a YouTube downloader compatible with SSE only CPUs. When pressing the key Y and setting the value to youtube-dl, the youtube-dl.zip file will be automatically downloaded, unpacked and saved. Then, you can use it. And to finalize the SSE topic, the ffmpeg release from @Reino is also SSE compatible. So, there shouldn't really be any problems.

Pre-release of ytBATCH for Windows XP - A fork of ytBATCH by AstroSkipper ytBATCH is a YouTube video and music downloader script (actually rather a batch script ensemble) developed by eppic on GitHub: https://github.com/eppic/ytBATCH. Therefore, credits to eppic for his great work! Unfortunately, the original ytBATCH is not compatible with Windows XP as it uses more recent versions of youtube-dl and yt-dlp, and even failed to download any of these releases under Windows XP due to commands which do not work under this OS. Additionally, it needs ffmpeg which can't be downloaded any longer by this script, either. I changed and added a lot of code inside the batch files of this script ensemble to get it working under Windows XP. For this purpose, I implemented the use of youtube-dl and yt-dlp releases created by @nicolaasjan which will now automatically be downloaded by ytBATCH and updated when needed. At this point, logically credits to @nicolaasjan for his great releases! Furthermore, I implemented the last ffmpeg release in version 7.1-2362 created by @Reino which will now also automatically be downloaded by my ytBATCH fork. And therefore, credits to @Reino for his great releases! An updating of this version by ytBATCH is not needed as @Reino unfortunately abandoned creating XP-compatible ffmpeg releases. To make the download of these files by ytBATCH working again under Windows XP, I added the last XP-compatible version of wget to this package. Additionally, I inserted the 7-Zip command line tool in my package for unpacking the downloaded files. When starting the original ytBATCH script, another issue happens under Windows XP. The script needs the DOS command CHOICE which is not part of ytBATCH and doesn't exist under Windows XP by default. At least, it is the case on my Windows XP installation. Therefore, I added the choice.com file to this package. All in all, I changed many different things but now, ytBATCH is working fine under Windows XP. The advantages of ytBATCH are the low consumption of resources, the high download speed, the custom settings such as preselecting the video and audio formats, their quality, the download of subtitles, the embedding of metadata and thumbnails and so on, and most notably the possibility of adding command line options to youtube-dl or yt-dlp which all can be saved inside ytBATCH. I personally love this script ensemble which can be modified to the needs of the users at any time since batch scripts are fully editable. I rebranded my fork of ytBATCH and called it ytBATCH for Windows XP. Most probably, it will also run under other OSes like Windows Vista or Windows 7 but I didn't test it. The current version of my fork is based on the latest ytBATCH version 2.9.2. Here are some screenshots: And here is the download link for the pre-release of ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.0 (aka 2.9.2): https://www.mediafire.com/file/6c9hfkfpiwextf0/ytBATCH_for_Windows_XP_2.9.2.7z/file The use of ytBATCH for Windows XP is actually self-explanatory and well documented on ytBATCH's homepage: https://github.com/eppic/ytBATCH. Extract the downloaded archive file to a location of your choice and start the ytBATCH.bat file located in the main folder. A prompt appears asking to install ytBATCH. You can now either install ytBATCH to AppData and generate a shortcut or keep ytBATCH as a portable programme. I personally prefer the latter. The download of all necessary files will then automatically start. All files will be unpacked and saved in a freshly created exe subfolder. I have to mention at this point that the user of such scripts should not only be able to click with the mouse. This script is mainly controlled by the keyboard. Solely the YouTube link to be downloaded can also be inserted using the mouse. My recommendation is to check all options inside this script by pressing corresponding keys to set it optimally. I did that, and it works simply great, especially on my old, weak computer. To make even better use of it, you should be a bit familiar with youtube-dl and yt-dlp. The latter is documented in detail on its homepage https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp. Any opinions, questions or experiences on my fork 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. In any case, I hope ytBATCH for Windows XP can be useful for YouTube users under Windows XP. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper P.S.1: If ytBATCH should be updated on GitHub at some point (the last update was in June of 2022), you are well advised not to perform such an update, as otherwise all my changes would be overwritten, and ytBATCH for Windows XP would become non-functional under Windows XP. To be honest, there is no reason for such an update under Windows XP. Maybe, I will deactivate this function in ytBATCH for Windows XP in general in a further release. P.S.2: I have changed the version number assignment. Consider my pre-release ytBATCH for Windows XP 2.9.2 as version 1.0! This means: ytBATCH for Windows XP 2.9.2 = ytBATCH for Windows XP 1.0.

Very interesting investigation! It's about time we took a closer look at these social media platforms. And especially those like X/Twitter, whose misuse urgently needs to be exposed. I hope that European law and national law will be sufficient to put a stop to such platforms.

Why do I report here in terms of my ytBatch for Windows XP mod? I have decided to make my mod available for all users. Since YouTube Downloaders compatible with Windows XP are rather rare and ytBatch is simply great, everyone should be able to download YouTube video or audio files in Windows XP. Especially when such great releases are made available by @nicolaasjan. Everything can be set in ytBatch for a very individualised media download. And ytBatch is very light in consuming resources and very fast. When my test phase is finished, I will publish ytBatch for Windows XP here in this thread. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Additionally, I filled my second post in this thread with some recommendations for YouTube Downloaders still working under Windows XP (and presumably under Windows Vista, too) and updated the content. Originally, I posted it in @roytam1's browser thread and created this thread short time later. Now, it is in the right place to find it quickly if necessary. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Great news about 3D Youtube Downloader 3D Youtube Downloader has been updated to the version 1.22.2. Starting with this version or one before, this downloader now uses the awesome yt-dlp provided by @nicolaasjan. Unfortunately, they forgot to add some credits to him and a link to his GitHub page. That is a no-go and has of course to be corrected as soon as possible. Because the same applies as always: Honor to whom honor is due. At this point, I say once again thanks to @nicolaasjan! Cheers, AstroSkipper

That's why I usually avoid to modify the hosts file. The more configuration files are involved in establishing network connections, the more difficult to find the causer of issues. On my computer, only the firewall is responsible for the network connections. And Windows 10 Firewall Control Plus XP has been doing a great job without any problems. All configurations can be done with it. Enabling or disabling specific, self-created rules is very easy. No need to do it via the hosts file.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20250222-3219d2d-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20250222-3219d2d-uxp-e43876ec84-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-20250222-3219d2d-uxp-e43876ec84-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-20250222-d849524bd-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250222-d849524bd-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250222-d849524bd-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20250222-d849524bd-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - No issue - avoid potential underflow in StructuredClone. (3bac3ab0b5) - [DOM] Honor security.csp.reporting.enabled pref in more places. (c41c1c63d5) - Issue #2693 - Disable CSP reporting by default in the platform. (8b41e53028) - Issue #2693 - Don't reflow children if they have 0 width. (cb233feea0) - Revert "Issue #2693 - Don't reflow children if they have 0 width." (2da039daac) - Issue #2694 - Improve nested grid layout performance by caching. (25570dc572) - [layout] Always reserve 64 bits for frame property value (cc8e336172) 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: - dom/security: remove terse static assert from upstream changes (0d63037e56) - Revert "Issue #2693 - Don't reflow children if they have 0 width." (594a360cbf) - import from mozilla: Bug 1591366 - Always reserve 64 bits for frame property value r=dholbert (19499821190) (97534886ae) 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.

IMHO, a very simple and clean way is to unpack the new Mypal 68 archive file to a new folder, open the browser from there and create a new profile with the same name of your old profile to be imported by using Mypal 68's profile manager. Then, close the browser. Now, delete all files of your just created profile folder and copy the old ones from your backup into it. Now, start the browser again with this new profile. Done! At the moment, I have 10 different Mypal 68 programme folders and many, many profiles, only for the purpose of developing and testing, of course. No problems here.

Your expression of interest has been recognised. So, you are the second one who has clearly stated his interest in my custom button. The PMT - Process Mode Toggler has not yet been published by me or made publicly accessible in any other way. The generally expressed interest in legacy custom buttons has so far been almost imperceptible in this thread as well as in my other thread for UXP browsers. The same applies to the technical interest in UC.JS scripts and CSS stylesheets. That doesn't motivate me much. Since @feodor2 is really interested in his browser Mypal 68 and was kind enough to restore compatibility with the legacy Custom Buttons extension, I sent him as the very first one my PMT custom button as a small gift. It made sense to me, especially considering all the effort he put into developing this browser. As far as I'm concerned, I can put it in mathematical or statistical terms. There is a clear, linear correlation between the statistical features of user interest and willingness of a developer to publish with a correlation coefficient r of r > 0.95.

Ever heard of a typo? Happens even to the best. If you had read my posts carefully, you would have noticed that I had written it correctly in the post before: The part to which you refer came in the next post: If you're not interested in the content of my posts, and you're just looking for spelling mistakes, have fun with it! You will certainly find one or two more.

Eassos DiskGenius (formerly PartitionGuru) has been my favourite partition manager for years. As far as I know, the last XP compatible version is 5.5.0.1488 from 2023 and works very well under Windows XP. Many, many features, and you get very detailed information about your drives. It is even able to create images of partitions. In any case, I no longer allow any other partition tools to access my hard drives. And I tried a lot of them in the past.

StartAllBack 3.9

3.9 beta 2 https://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe New taskbar perk: Slightly larger bloated swollen plump classic taskbar to match Win11 aesthetic (or adjust vertical spacing or make taskbar float), with optional size bulk heft / padding pillow buffer / margins floating aura option. Other notable changes:

Don't you always do browser builds every week every time there's a change to the source code? I'm only just ordering cause you always build every week I can hardly believe what I'm reading here. A user of browser versions for which no money is charged and which have been developed on a purely voluntary basis for years (and this is of course very time-consuming!) has zero rights to order anything. I regard such comments as impertinent and disrespectful. What you can do with it is actually just this: And to give such claims a real reference again, new versions will come when they come. Be happy if something comes at all! AstroSkipper

you don't even pay me why you order me to do the work?

StartAllBack 3.8.12

I got a crash log with proper pdb file supplied in https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55/issues/10#issuecomment-2408527740 so the problem is thread local storage introduced in https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/f579cc11b33e5bfeb9931e37cc74b4a33c95d2e6 , and I'm going to `#define THREAD_LOCAL ` to turn this off. EDIT: alright all gkmedias.dll are replaced in today's release

StartAllBack 3.8.10

@Dietmar @reboot12 @Mov AX, 0xDEAD I discovered this today. https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap Hopefully this means we can boot XP x86 on UEFI class 3 systems now.

I have completely changed and rewritten the original ytBATCH from eppic so that it now works perfectly with both YouTube downloaders youtube-dl and yt-dlp. All bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed by me. Especially the fact that the command line options of both downloaders are not identical, I have taken into account by assigning separate configuration files to each downloader. This allows the user to enter the desired options for each downloader and then receive the media files exactly as desired. ytBATCH for Windows XP is totally customised for the use of youtube-dl and yt-dlp, and ideal as a user interface for these two YouTube downloaders. And due to the new update module, the user can easily get the most recent versions of these two YouTube downloaders compatible with older OSes like Windows XP when ever wanted. This is very important regarding the permanent changes which are done by YouTube.

While testing my further developed fork ytBATCH for Windows XP, I also tried to use youtube-dl for downloading YouTube videos and audio files. Unfortunately, without success. Eppic, the author of ytBATCH, uses the same command line options for both downloaders youtube-dl and yt-dlp. That does not make any sense. The way of setting subtitles internally, for example, only works with yt-dlp, but not at all with youtube-dl. The command line options for subtitles are unfortunately different. youtube-dl uses the command line option --write-sub where in contrast yt-dlp uses the --write-subs option. Their negations are also different. Therefore, I have changed the script ensemble considerably and made the internal setting of flags, if different in both downloaders, dependent on the downloader that is currently active. The same applies to the youtube-dl.conf configuration file. Eppic uses one and the same file for both YouTube downloaders, although the command line options are by no means identical. This is not expedient. I therefore have now changed this too and assigned a separate configuration file to each downloader. Now, each of the downloaders can be assigned its command line options stored in its own configuration file. These are major changes to the script files, and the development and testing phase continues.

Alright! I must have mixed it up. Sorry for that! BTW, my other Windows XP computer is equipped exactly with this CPU on an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. And it's still alive.

FYI, an update check of @Reino's ffmpeg SSE release is not necessary in ytBatch since his ffmpeg 7.1-2362 SSE release is the very last one. Unfortunately, his old Pentium 3 SSE AMD Athlon XP 3200+ computer has died which prompted him to stop creating new releases. This can be read here: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=2014523#post2014523 Therefore, my ytBatch for Windows XP mod downloads this last ffmpeg 7.1-2362 SSE release if it does not exist, and that was it. All that means ytBatch for Windows XP only looks for updates in terms of itself and @nicolaasjan's yt-dlp/youtube-dl releases if triggered by the user. However, an update of ytBatch for Windows XP itself should only be done manually otherwise my modifications will be overwritten mercilessly.

I removed in all batch files the PowerShell commands for downloading and extracting the yt-dlp, youtube-dl and ffmpeg archive files. As a replacement, I added wget.exe for downloading your releases respectively @Reino's release and 7z.exe for extracting the downloaded archive files. Then, I rewrote the corresponding code in different batch files. Now, all batch files for updating work again under Windows XP. The yt-dlp, youtube-dl and ffmpeg archive files are downloaded, extracted and then removed including all unwanted files. So, your yt-dlp or youtube-dl can be checked by the -U option at any time.

If you can't click it, then it's broken ... That's the problem when total convenience has taken hold, knowledge does no longer exist and thinking is far too strenuous. And modern operating systems, which do everything for the user, including AI, are also responsible for users' ignorance.

DreamMail Pro - Update information! DreamMail Pro has been updated again and is now available in version 6.7.1.8. It is still XP-compatible, and the development is ongoing! I have not been able to find a version history on their homepage. Therefore, I generated an official version history translated to English and provide it here: And here is the download link of DreamMail Pro 6.7.1.8: https://download.cy-email.cn/dmpro_setup6.7.1.8.exe To force the updated installer of DreamMail Pro 6.7.1.8 to use English instead of Chinese as the installer language, I updated again my small loader that does this when it calls up the setup program. It must be executed in the same directory in which the setup file is located with its original file name dmpro_setup6.7.1.8.exe. Here is the download link of my loader Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6718.exe: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7qb6k0l2lohhse1/Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6718.7z/file Although some virus scanners detect this file as malicious, it is just a false-positive as always. Use my loader to force an English install, only if you trust me, of course! Cheers, AstroSkipper

And what about that? Did you already try to insert your custom argument there? You can get there by clicking on Options in the main window.

You are running the New Moon 28 SSE release. I assume your CPU does not have the SSE2 instruction set and is a very old one like mine although my Pentium 4 CPU is equipped with the SSE2 instruction set. The website https://www.auf1.tv can be accessed with New Moon 28 (palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250222-d849524bd-uxp-e43876ec84-xpmod.7z) but on old, weak computers, it's more of a pain than a pleasure. You should avoid this website, at least on old devices. The page is overloaded with media, loads terribly slowly and uses around 200 MB of RAM. The CPU load is high due to all animations and transitions. I can block them via CSS, and the CPU load immediately becomes normal. But then the news ticker is no longer running, of course. I think such websites should be accessed on modern devices, and the reason for your issue is most probably the lack of the SSE2 instruction set in your CPU which might be necessary to correctly load this website.

Where did you see that this switch is only for automatic definitions updates? BTW, I have not only linked a screenshot, but also quoted from the online help: That sounds to me not only like definition updates, but also like programme updates. I cannot judge what is ultimately meant by this, as I do not have a licence.

Thanks for the hint! Since the version 5.2, I have been using the portable version exclusively. The installer version stopped working as you also noticed. I have now installed DiskGenius 5.6.1.1580 under Windows XP. However, on my old computer, this version needs much longer for starting as the previous versions. I am not sure if it is really fully compatible. I have to observe this version over a longer time.

@NotHereToPlayGames BTW, such a legacy Custom Buttons extension I have already provided in September of 2022 in my thread "Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations" which can be found here: Custom Buttons - The extension for installing custom buttons. As already said, this version cannot be installed in Mypal 68. And here are more of those old Custom Buttons extensions you are referring to which are all incompatible with Mypal 68: https://sourceforge.net/projects/custombuttons/files/ Can be checked very easily. The good is you won't "have to dig through stacks and stacks and stacks of DVD-Rs" to find your Custom Buttons extension because with a probability bordering on certainty, those old versions, if you ever find any, won't either work in Mypal 68.

Yes. Very interesting. Which version of the Custom Buttons extension did you install in Mypal 68? And which method of installation did you apply to get this version fully working in Mypal 68? And since we're on-topic now, you're welcome to be as detailed as possible. In any case, I'm very curious to read what you will report. BTW, the UXP browsers New Moon and Serpent are of no interest here as Mypal 68 is a Quantum browser.

I've found some useful javascript tune-ups: The Last days I was forced to use an older machine for browsing while my main rig beside it was busy or unusable due to repairs or upgrades or whatever. Espescially I wanted to watch some youtube and found it being overloaded by the scripts. It wasn't even able to play 360p properly. Most of the time it ended in an endless spinning wheel until it failed with an error. That machine is able to play 1080 inside a native player. - CPU is a AMD sempron3000+ @ 1,8GHz. Single Core - Version: New Moon 28.10.7a1 (2024-06-28) It appeared that the javascript engine went completely bonkers. So I looked into the config to find some settings to play with and toggled the following entries: - javascript.options.parallel_parsing = false - javascript.options.wasm_baselinejit = true This made a HUGE diference! I don't know what the second option does but for me it is obvious that the parallel pre-loading and parsing and compiling overloads the CPU, precisely the caching of data and scripts. This parallel processing is helpful if you have at least 2 cores and some L3 cache, but it utterly destroys the pipelining of single-core CPUs. Of course this raises the latency a little bit, but it forces to process pages and scripts in a more serialized way. Now I can even switch the playback to 720p inside youtube, though with some framedrops but it can reach this level I also once found a site with palemoon x86 SSE2 and non-SSE2 compiled as deb-packages for linux. (Got dual-boot on this machine) Here it is much worse, obviously these miss some single-core tune-ups that roytam includes in his builds. Need to investigate that further

In general, it's always a good idea not to make too many changes at once when it comes to software development. You don't want to end up like Mozilla, which breaks compatibility almost with every release. @feodor2 Here is my wish for Christmas: Please, recheck your changes and revert those which break compatibility! None of your previous releases caused any breakages to UC.JS scripts, CSS stylesheets, extensions or custom buttons. There was only one breakage in terms of language packs in the past. But all other things worked in every of your releases. Do not follow Mozilla's way of destruction!