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My system seems to be more stable with "Accelerated 2D canvas" set to disabled. I am not sure what it does exactly if anything in this version. I have an issue with the video driver weirdly glitching in Windows GUI on Server 2008 R2, such as scrollbars flashing, and I suspect this acceleration triggers similar problems. Acceleration seems to be completely superfluous and an opportunity for webmasters to cram even more bloat into sites. Not sure if I have completely disabled acceleration with this setting alone. New Moon's acceleration is already off for me under Advanced > General. I noticed a non-intuitive behavior with Delete Browsing Data -> Last hour. It does delete the history as expected. But if I have also visited other sites within the hour, their login cookies will get deleted too. They apparently get updated to the last visitation time, which falls into the period of deletion.
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I was able to load forum.zdoom.org with User Agent Switcher in Supermium 132, but not in New Moon where it keeps cycling on "finished TLS handshake". The site is focused on an old video game. Having it require the latest software to work rubs me the wrong way, which is also consistent with their new versions require modern Windows. It is not essential for me to read this site. But I suspect how this may happen with more servers soon.
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Where do the SSL certificates in New Moon come from? I have never had to add missing certificates in this browser unlike other old browsers. -
I found the Open With extension by Geoff Lankow for Chrome, but it is now old and doesn't work in Supermium ("Specified native messaging host not found."). I tried to install it in Opera 93, but it says that it requires Python to work, which is too much. Without it, nothing launches when I add a preset. https://chrome-stats.com/d/cogjlncmljjnjpbgppagklanlcbchlno?hl=en I use the extension by this author in New Moon. There I can add any program I want. If such a customizable extension doesn't exist, then I will accept it. What is wrong with this website? https://forum.zdoom.org/ In Supermium it gives the error: ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR. In New Moon it doesn't open with the error "the authenticity of the received data could not be verified". It does open in Opera 93. It is possible that I have disabled something related to HTTP/2, but nothing releated comes up. Have we moved on to new basic HTTP protocol that this site have embraced?
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I have changed the user agent and get big Google again now. Another downside of the new lightweight Google is that I can't see the target URL where I am about to go in the status bar. All URLs go through Google for spying but they show the real url until one clicks on the link. I also found that I need the page zoom one notch down with the new big one. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Google just switched to a simplified style for search results in New Moon. It likely is based on my user agent or perhaps other properties. The font is large, the page displays faster, but it lack navigation to a specific page of results with only a Next link showing. -
Dancing? I previously said: "I want to download YouTube with YouTube-DLP. The Open With preset has to be able to save various command-line parameters." So I want to run program: youtube-dl.exe With arguments: -f 299/137/298/136/22/bestvideo,140/bestaudio[language=en]/bestaudio --fixup never --restrict-filenames --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-tv_simply" -o "t:\working\%(title)s- %(id)s .%(ext)s" What good is giving such specifics when tomorrow I may change the arguments.
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Oh they have an extension for each individual program. With this philosophy you would soon drown in browser plugins. Open With in New Moon allows you to enter the name of any program you want in the same extension.
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I am not an extension programmer. Hoping something already exists that is meant for Supermium and works in as similar way. The program I want to call is not that relevant. I also want a media player on the menu for the occasional direct link stream.
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Give an exa,mple of a good extension I can install in Supermium. I want to download YouTube with YouTube-DLP. It is very sluggish with New Moon that I use normally. The Open With preset has to be able to save various command-line parameters.
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Is there an equivalent of the "Open With" extension in Firefox, which allows to pass an URL to programs from a menu?
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The hate for the Ribbon toolbar died quickly. I remember how initially there was even a paid add-on to put a normal toolbar into Office. I don't even have Office 2010; it is fairly chunky. My operating system is Windows 2008 R2, so those updates are not applicable. Well, I hope it can at least recover some text that I can reformat if needed. My only other alternative is Office on a Xiaomi smartphone, which can open X and save to another format. I don't even get how that program could be used productively.
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I had a compatibility pack v4 from 2009 and was unable to open this example file. Registering ole32.dll didn't resolve the problem. The event log has a report saying that Wordconv.exe had crashed every time I try to open a DOCX. Unfortunately on my system crashes are silent like that. Installing this older compatibility pack v2 from 2006 was sucessful. I can now open the files I have on hand including this test file with my avatar. I do remember this pack v4 actually working because it is the only one I have. But that was on 32-bit WinXP. I was not able to open a new thread in this forum, which I initially wanted to do. I remember that was discussed some months ago. The error from the forum was "something went wrong".
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I have installed Office 2000 SP-3 and the XML format compatibility pack for opening DOCX and XLSX files. The operating system is 2008 R2 x64. Lately this setup cannot open anything. I remember it worked in the past, but I used it very rarely. "There was an error opening file." from Microsoft Word. Has the DOCX format changed recently or is my installation broken? What is the talk of updates here? Can I get a new version that works?
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So it seems to work again without resorting to the Safari HLS method despite showing an error "nsig extraction failed". It downloads anyway and in h.264 not in VP9. One positive from the Safari method is that it yields one video+audio file instead of two.