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1 hour ago, DanR20 said:

Thanks, I missed that in the changelog.

Curious, what exactly were they "cleaning up"? Container tabs worked good and were useful. It wouldn't be a problem if the addon could replace them but it isn't functional and I tried all their versions. So I guess for container tabs I'll have to use 52esr.

You could always stay on last weeks version http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2019/03/weekly-browser-binaries-20190323.html in order to use that feature until you find a proper work around.  Having the latest bleeding edge is not always conducive to getting things done in my experience.  

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Hi Varis.

I uploaded them to Box.net for you.  See links below.

https://app.box.com/s/9u4i6f44qc7yg1amno0zsn0491nupz44 (20171223)
https://app.box.com/s/4we76w44eppes0t6o1py5v8e0xm4ejz7 (20180106)

 

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Hey Roy one issue.  With Basilisk 55 I can view the forums and do new posts but for some reason I can't quote anyone's post in a response.  Any thoughts on tweaks to make it work.  I have NoScript installed but the site is enabled.  I don't reply enough to know when it broke but I do know it work in the version I was using in November 2017.

Leland

 

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17 minutes ago, VistaLover said:

Hello again Roy

I did update back to the latest build, Basilisk (Serpent) 55.0.0 (2018-06-23) (32-bit) (buildID=20180623000710) and toggled the mentioned pref: SUCCESS All previously non-functional userstyles now work as expected! Cheers for finding the culprit! And I saw you've already pushed the necessary change to your forked Bk55 repo:

https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55/commit/81899e5

But (sadly, there's always a but...  ) :

... this issue is still there, in an annoying fashion .

Userstyles.org have made it all the more difficult to install a userstyle they host, if 1) you're not running one of the major browser brands, notably latest versions of Chrome/Quantum, and 2) you're not running the latest webextension version of Stylish. They do not provide an interface to install a specific style on its page, as I said the "Install with Stylish" button is just a lure to force Stylish WE 3.1.1 down your throat . With New Moon and Serpent browsers (Stylish 2.1.1), I have found clearing the browser cache and reloading the page several times will finally get you the "install style" pop-up prompt...

But the detection of an installed style is a very handy feature that doesn't work in Bk55; if I visit

https://userstyles.org/styles/94667/selected-tab-blue-font-color-for-ft-deepdark

with latest Bk55 (buildID=20180623000710) with that userstyle installed, I get:

In the case of latest Basilisk (Serpent) 52.9.0 (2018-06-23) (32-bit) (buildID=20180623010357), with the same userstyle installed and active, detection succeeds:

Possibly some javascript code which only works in Bk52/UXP but not in Bk55/Moebius Can you please come up with a solution for this? FWIW, it would appear that the detection of an installed userstyle also fails in both NM 27 [27.9.1a1 (2018-06-15) (32-bit)] and NM 28 [28.0.0a4 (2018-06-23) (32-bit), so this bug isn't unique to Bk55!

I think you meant a working WMF+EME (Widevine) Vista implementation - thanks for not throwing in the towel beforehand

I see this has already been taken care of in

https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55/commit/7042385

We'll have to wait for your next builds over the weekend to test

As ever, lots of 

Regards

Hey VistaLover,

 

I have had to use User Agent Switcher in order to set the user agent for Firefox 52 in order to install updated extensions and themes lately.  I suspect you may have to do the same to get certain functions working.

Leland

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22 hours ago, roytam1 said:

try enabling layout.css.moz-document.content.enabled and restart.

because it is not intended to use SQLite-format cert9.db and key4.db, which have bad experience when starting a profile over network drive, and it is caused by updating NSS. And finally it is reverted back to old DBM-format cert8.db and key3.db.

for MSE and JSON-based update manifest, I hope I can have time having a look on it.

for Auto Update issue, tag #409@UXP: https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/409

Thanks Roy that fixed the issues with dark user styles for me.  Gmail is back to where it was.  Hopefully this fixes it for VistaLover also.

Leland

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Hey VistaLover,

I noticed some of the same things except the ones that stopped working for me were google-calendar-dark-style by Devo and gmail-dark-1 by TheArkive.  I temporarily worked around it by changing my GMail theme but it is not a true dark theme because when reading emails they show in white background hence why I changed in the first place.  Instead of Stylish I was using Website Theme Manager 0.1.1.  Like you using the 6-16 version it still worked.  However I noticed Gmail is faster without the styles so I might go on the hunt for something better.  Either way thank you Roy for all your hard work.  It is appreciated. 

Leland

:D

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25 minutes ago, Jody Thornton said:

Great!  Now Facebook Reactions have stopped working on New Moon.  How decent is version 28 for day to day use?

 

I have no issues with Basilisk 55, 4-14-18 or 6-16-18 versions.  That has been may daily browser of choice for some time but of course memory and resources may dictate something else for you.  I have 3GB in one machine and 8GB in the other and it seems fine for my use.  I have stuck with 32 bit since I want the best compatibility.  Are you using NoScript by chance?  If so check the permissions.  Good luck sorting your issues. 

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On 1/25/2018 at 7:07 PM, roytam1 said:

please click "click here" and capture screens of scrollable text box (blame MS for not allowing that box being text-selectable)

Also, try installing update of msctfime:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb961503

Hi Roytam.

Do I need to capture every single window when scrolling?  I have already captures 222 images and am likely no more than 25% of the way through the list.  I am in the threads section but many of these pages are just a bunch of zero's at the memory locations.  Can I be more selective and only capture what is not zeros?  Anyway I should be able to send this off tomorrow.

BTW, I am now using the newer version which did take longer to crash though other than that the behavior was the same.

Please let me know what you specifically need as this is a lot of work to capture that many images.

Thanks.

 

Leland

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20 hours ago, roytam1 said:

please click "click here" and capture screens of scrollable text box (blame MS for not allowing that box being text-selectable)

Also, try installing update of msctfime:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=kb961503

I tried updating but no go.  See the updated version below.

You can download a zip file with the first 38 screen captures.  I will get more later.  Thanks.

http://cloudyfiles.com/ktpj3ev1fbnx

 

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Attached you will find some info I gathered from the last crash.  Not a crash dump but it might help pinpoint the issue.

Thanks.

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52 minutes ago, roytam1 said:

without a crash dump, it is impossible to debug.
for wild guess, something like anti-virus or non-standard input method editor(IME) may cause issue.

Roytam, is there a way I can trigger a crash dump?  I would be willing to do that so you can check.

The system has been running better since upgrading from Microsoft office from 2003 to 2007.  I am only using standard input editors.  I have tried with and without anti-virus for testing.  I have been using Avast Business antivirus in normal use along with WinPatrol. 

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14 minutes ago, apreese16 said:

I think I might know whats going on. But first I need to ask a few questions:

1. r u using physical hardware or a vm for windows xp?

2. if so how old is the hard drive?

3. how much memory does it say ur using in task manager?

My problem was that the hard drive was 11 years old and also had a broken copy of xp home on it. I bought a new hdd recently and reinstalled xp and everything is working awesome.

 

1. Physical system not VM

2. The hard drive is a couple years old.  500GB PATA drive.  Western Digital.  I have scanned for errors using multiple programs and found none.  Considering using SpinRite next as it can remap any bad blocks to never be used.

3. Do you mean Basilisk?  511MB physical memory and 887 MB virtual memory with all extensions enabled.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 will all updates. 

I am leaning more towards a bad memory stick.  But it had run the last few years with the same memory and no issues.

 

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16 hours ago, roytam1 said:

Please try starting New Moon in safe mode and try to type in that box to see if extensions causing issue.

I just tried and while it started faster it still crashes anytime you try to enter text into the browser.  I could not respond to this using Basilisk for example without knowing it will crash.  I can say it took about 10 seconds longer to crash but the crash was the same.

Leland

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On 1/10/2018 at 5:36 PM, apreese16 said:

i guess Im going back to NewMoon, i like the look of it alot better than the basilisk browser. Although there is a problem. Unlike basilisk, NewMoon will never let me post on this page, or any page for that matter. it will just stay on the loading screen and never change... Anyone else have this problem?

Anytime I try to type anything anywhere it crashes on me.  I am using the 32 bit version from 1/13/2018.  I had been using a December version before which did not have this issue.

Leland

PS I am not using a standard Windows theme.  I don't know if this would effect it but I suspect it might.  The theme I am using is called Tener VS.

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1 hour ago, roytam1 said:

it is always better to re-create your profile if something is changed and makes it crashes.

for the change of profile path, it is not done by me, but the moonchild people.

I know it is better to recreate it but this is a profile I have used at work for about 11 years and it has lots of tweaks I doubt I remember how to recreate.  So far it has been working great.  I just dropped the profile in and ran with it with no changes needed for the last couple of months.  The newer version does not crash but for some reason it crashes when I try to copy the profile to the new location.  It causes a BSOD.  It might be a permissions issue.  I will better troubleshoot it when I have the time.  After a holiday weekend is not a good time for this.  I understand the change in profile location it just threw me off when it did not properly start with my profile after updating my version.  Luckily I always keep the older files around until I am sure something works.  Thanks for all your efforts; they are greatly appreciated. 

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Profiles for Basilisk

Versions dated 12/16/2017 and before
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Moonchild Productions\Basilisk\Profiles

Profile location on the version dated 12/23/2017
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Moonchild\Basilisk\Profiles

I experienced a consistent crash when trying to copy the old profile to the new location.

Going back to version dated 12/16/2017 until the bugs are taken care of.  Other than that enjoying Basilisk on Windows XP.

I'm not sure what is happening yet but it is very strange.  I might try again in a couple days when I have more time.

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Is there a way to take your binaries and integrate it into the portable structure Palemoon uses?  I would prefer using this as a portable app for now if possible.
 

Thank you very much for making this and keeping us users who must use older versions of Windows for various reasons going. 

[does a virtual machine exist for windows 98/win me?]

There is a VMWare Converter that may be able to make a virtual machine out of your Windows installation. If it works then you could install XP or Linux, etc and use VMWare Server for free to run your WinME Virtual machine with all your programs inside of the host OS. This is the only way I see of getting though your issues. Even with Fat32, you are still limited to 2GB file sizes, not partition sizes. I have never heard of a way around this.

To answer one question I see VirtualBox can run many guest OS's, including Windows ME; though support is somewhat limited. I do not know if ME could host a VM in VB, but it seems unlikely.

I do know Sysinternals did a driver for Win 9x to read NTFS. I think it is free for personal use. This might allow you to at least be able to read bigger files in ME from an NTFS partition. I doubt you can buy a license for the version that allows writing back to the partition since Microsoft bought Winternals.

Have you considered using QEMU. It's not a typical VM, but rather emulates the hardware. I am unsure if it would work, but it may be worth looking into.

You might see if Microsoft still offers Virtual PC 2004, maybe it supports Win 9x? Anyway good luck with this project. I hope some of these ideas might help.

Leland

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I would more likely suspect something other than MSN in this case. You mentioned dial-up, has the provider done something to cause the breakage? What about a firewall? If you have one you may need to make some holes for MSN to work. 98 is a different beast than the NT based OS's, otherwise I would have you check services. Maybe use Autoruns from Sysinternals to see what runs on startup. Maybe you have something on your machine you don't realize is there that is causing the problem. I would also use Process Explorer from Sysinternals to see what is running on your computer. Have you tried a fresh install? I remember when I was using 98 this solved many problems. Have you tried http://www.meebo.com in a web browser just to see if you can connect that way? It might be a good step just to make sure you can connect. Good luck in solving your problem.

Leland