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  1. j7n
    I do not believe that a full row highlight is possible to achieve. The other columns are td.m, td.s and td.t, and are not nested under the anchor you use as the key. What could be the reason why New Moon 28 doesn't release the memory and stop using CPU if I close all tabs? Usually happens after browsing heavy sites. Memory usage still around 700 MB and occasional CPU spikes with everything inside the browser closed.
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    Do you encounter sites that don't work at all with New Moon 27, but work fine in 28? I prefer the most compatibility, otherwise I could just continue using an older version of vanilla Firefox. Simpler sites compatible with any browser are fast enough anyway. After switching from Opera the speed of New Moon seems excellent for me. : )
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    Thanks, uBlock0_1.16.4.26.firefox-legacy.xpi works well, and I can add items to a list without restart. The main reason I am looking into this is to attempt to trim down youtube. Is there a way, via extension or filter, to stop loading any videos at all? I want to browse and see comments, but watch exclusively with SMPlayer. With the old site I had managed to hide the video window entirely and browsing was quite fast. Setting /media.autoplay.enabled/ in New Moon gets me partway there, but the site still loads a few static advertisements and texts about being unable to load the video. Sorry for the offtopic.
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    What is the best extension currently working with Palemoon 28 for blocking advertisements? I want an easy access to the url filter list to amend it, and the least load on the processor. Something like the Opera browser. I am currently using a DNS server, but I want to block some very heavy scripts.
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    The Add to Search Bar plugin will be useful. I like that I can select the icon. What I do not see anywhere in that plugin is an ability to edit the URL of the search query, for example to change the scope, number or results, filters, and so on. Until now I went to the browser\searchplugins\ directory and added the search there, but getting an icon changed was hard because it is encoded. It does not seem to me that having a settings window is bloat. Most applications (other than web browsers) have that. And in its present form it is 50 KB. But I also won't argue about it. The dialog is a good aid for using visual memory to recall settings. After I install the browser onto a new computer, I can't remember which several dozen options I need to tweak from the flat list. Firefox with its extensions is very odd. If they (Mozilla, whatever) added a couple more textboxes to Manage Search Engines, it would take way less than 50 kb, and the program would be self-contained, ready to be used out of the box. Tell me about Youtube... I am trying to press Pause to launch SMPlayer, and it just keeps playing Simon and Joe and Doodahly.
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    Can you include Pale Moon Commander into the package? It is a small GUI in the style of existing dialogs for configuring preferences of about:config. A dialog should have been in the browser from day one. What is your position on extending the Pale Moon browser with functions that do not exist upstream? I am thinking for an easier way of adding search engines (searchable forums, databases, etc.). The Web, including modern MSFN, unfortunately is among the highest CPU load applications I regularly use. And yet one often can read claims that for web browsing one needs only an inexpensive, low power nettop/netbook... Very nice website Soggi.
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    What could be the reason why I can't install the extension "Tamper Data" by Adam Judson in Palemoon? It loads and its Settings page works. But I do not see an entry in the Tools menu to use it. I've succeeded transferring my other extensions from Firefox 28, without any BS about maxVersion or signatures.
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    I installed SMPlayer on Windows 2003 SP2 and it can't download streams over SSL connection. This applies to retrieving a YouTube page for video extraction, or direct links to media files. In the log it says that "SSL handshake failed". The program comes with its own SSL libeay32.dll / ssleay32.dll and should work like all good programs. I also tried it on a virtual machine with SP1. The Svr2003 has a couple updates relating to AES and RSA. SMPlayer works on old machines with Windows XP. I tried so far to revert to the original unpatched system DLLs, and changing the security settings for the Internet zone. What could be the cause of this? EDIT: Problem has been resolved by updating certificates inside Windows using RootsUpd and Cert Updater 1.6! I haven't used those in ages and didn't think external SSL depended on them.
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    Why must there be so much JavaScript bloat. It always gets justified with security, modern, clean and responsive. Does anyone remember "Feather", a light-weight front-end to the site? In New Moon, the "polymer" YouTube is slower than the previous layout in Opera (and Opera is very slow). The "mobile" layout loads fast. But I can't right-click on a link to bring up the context menu. It gets interpreted as a left click and the link is followed.
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    The world map is OpenGL accelerated. It loads nvoglnt.dll on my system. Maybe some configuration there prevents it from working. Angle, etc. The engine in Otter is much slower. I've given up on that browser. New sites tend to be loaded^2 almost always. https://i.imgur.com/Fy4Tl8R.jpg
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    Radio Garden "works" for me in New Moon. The map shows, moves and streams get loaded. But the UI has a high CPU usage, as expected, and audio output is unstable, choppy or replays a short buffer over and over again, possibly an incompatiblity with my audio interface. If you mean this by not working then I have to agree. Seems like a poor design to run the audio and the heavy UI in the same process of the browser... Seems like all the streams are normal HTTP downloads (icecast) that can be played in Winamp. But extracting the links from the network log is inconvenient.
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    There could be a situation that some components of the software don't load on WinXP while it appears to install and even start. Last version of SMPlayer for XP is 17.3; later versions have a new MPV module. Without a video codec, a player does nothing. IrfanView past 4.53 has a couple incompatible DLLs, one of them WebP. XnView also has a WebP dll. Maybe add a mark on your list for partially working titles. I've read back in the thread a reference about something being officially supported. Probably it is more important that the program works than if somebody on its developer's forum will answer questions about it ("support"). The very latest versions are usually not the best on XP... ugly flat design, require too much memory, slow.
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    The version of MPV that works for me is mpv-i686-20151029.7z (exe = 30,859,283 bytes). The version unfortunately has to be recent, to work with separate video/audio streams in the current format. Select "adaptive steams" on the network tab in preferences. It will probably stop working soon again as the system is changed. I'm surprised how long have the developers of SM etc., have had the patience to work around innovations from Google. It mostly works, apart from occasional video/audio mismatch after long seeks backwards. I didn't realize that there are gigabytes of extensions. The ones I had were quite small. But it doesn't surprise me. Open bookmark on new tab - one extension, view image onto a new tab - another extension.... Mozilla could have rolled the most popular functions into their browser instead of developing useless design stuff.
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    I don't understand the question. A number of programs, besides a web browser, can download (stream) files over network. This extension ("Open With") creates a menu where a direct link can be handed over to one of those programs for processing. SMPlayer also has a kind of a parser inside it for YouTube that can extract the actual link from a webpage. A video player has greater functionality, much lighter interface, runs isolated from other processes and contains all needed decoders without caring about patents. An example use case would be with own server where media files can be browsed by directory. https://superuser.com/questions/889965/ CAA is a collection of extensions for the browser. It was recommended to me by another member. Unfortunately, with Firefox, most customization requres an extension, even though the base package already is around 40 MB.
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    Keep a name that relates to either Firefox or Moon to accurately describe what the core of it really is. There already are too many flavors of Firefox that don't differ that much. Avoid wrong or silly NSFW associations: "bird" is a mail client and RT is Microsoft's OS for portables. Maybe Moon Whistler, but not Whistler alone as that is the whole of Windows.
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    I added external viewers using extension "Open With" by Geoff Lankow, which can be found in JustOff's extensions archive "CAA". This basic function should really be part of the base package, like external editors in graphics programs. Viewing video in the browser is an awful experience, as is digging through about:config. Another problem I encountered is a global ban (!) on Cloud Flare (many sites) based on the browser's "signature" and a failed "integrity check". I've customized it a bit for a few days, but have done nothing that would incur a ban. Anybody else getting this problem? I was getting this problem before adding any extensions, and noticed it again because the add-ons were hosted on CF. My IP is not banned, only the signature of New Moon. https://i.imgur.com/b53Ai0U.png Another question: Can the extended validation field in the URL bar be diasabled to extend the available space and avoid the text jumping when edited? I've succeeded removing the padlock symbol.
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    What options are available for adding external programs to a menu of the page (that is already open) and hyperlinks in Firefox, in particular New Moon? I want to open media files and YouTube pages in players such as SMPlayer or Winamp, as I can do for now in Opera. The program should receive the HTTP hyperlink as a command-line argument. This is a convenient simple function that should be in browsers. As I understand it, XUL extensions have been removed from the Firefox website.
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    I have not followed the scene for a couple years. Are there any replacement or shim DLLs available for enabling modern software to run on either Win XP or 2003? I'm only aware of KernelEx for Win98, the BlackWingCat's project and DLLs released for one or a few specific missing functions for some games (Crusader Kings), and to fix/extend xp SP1 (EncodePointer) and SP2. I'm looking for small updates that are safe and easy to copy to an existing system, not gigabyte compilations.
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    Thank you for your releases. Videos and plain sound files seem to work out of the box after I reinstalled the browsers again. I don't really watch news portals myself and tried a few test sites that dind't seem to load at first. I love how Borealis exposes so many options in the GUI.
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    What is the process for installing h.264 video decoder in recent Palemoon (28.9) or Borealis Navigator? The first post provides DLLs for older PM27/F45, which apparently have no effect when copied into the installaton of the new browser. Replacing mozavcodec.dll has no effect either. It doesn't even complain about wrong version. Nothing.
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    Unfortunately the QNX theme still has flaws as most of them do, which is why I made my post in the first place. There is quantity over quality, and over-abundance of choice. I made a few small tweaks that restore usability, namely made group box transparent when it's drawn over other controls in many programs, and added classic shadow to disabled buttons to make text readable and of the same style as static disabled text. In the unlikely event that anybody cares, I can provide a link. I noticed that themes include large text files of technical terms that are in Unicode for no reason, like most text on NT. 100 KB for each font size. Unfortunately Windows couldn't load ANSI text here. Original Adjusted
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    I don't make a distinction between portable or unportable software. A product may change the directory where it writes its settings file in an update, while continuing to work the same in other aspects. Most applications remain functional if they can't find their settings on a fresh OS. All software I have gets installed or manually copied into a directory called c:\bin or d:\apps; only system components that don't offer the choice go into Program Files. I avoid Microsoft-managed shell folders, and have done so long before NT6 and the complications it added. My archive of software is organized by category, such as "communications" or "text editors". I copy a compressed archive or installer in there after I've tested it, and don't run anything from this location. I don't use any 3rd party portability wrappers.
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    How do you manage file associations on Microsoft Windows? I enter them directly in the registry using Registry Workshop, which allows to copy entire keys in an Explorer-like interface. Earlier I used Regedit. I've defined file types for every extension beginning with "ZZ_" to organize them together. I've added three generic editors (emeditor, winhex, notepad) to the asterisk "*" extension. There is considerable redundancy in commands. Some file viewers are applicable to many types (IrfanView, media players). Other commands are specific to one or two formats. Merging all image or sound files into one file type is not convenient. This would also lose distinct icons for each format. Is there a tool that would allow one to define a command with its name, and then allow to quickly add it to specific file types via checkboxes or similar spreadsheet layout? The tool would be useful for setting up a new computer quickly. Association function in application software is mostly rubbish. They register themselves as the only program with the ambiguous "Open" verb. It is not easy to tell which program would be executed. Sometimes an association is stolen, and it is still called "Open" afterwards. Only some tools offer to add themselves as secondary types. I've tried "WAssociate", which is good, but not much more than Registry Workshop with a Browse function for commands and icons. I would probably use it for the registry tree copying functionality. I have to guess what "Default Programs Editor" does because it requires the NET Framework. These days computers are so obscenely fast that entire games run in Framework, but I don't have it. Looking at the screenshots, it seems that it doesn't allow to share commands between file types. What is the status of associations in Windows 10? When the system was new, word was that associations would only be managed by built-in OS tools. How exactly are they different there? Can you still set them via the registry, or have to do a dance with manifests or hidden accounts?
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    Thank you. The QNX is the best theme from this selection. The title bar has unique detailed design, and follows the usual convention of dimming the color when inactive. A Windows 2000 icon fits right in that frame. Xi01 and Cold Fusion 2 could have been good, but they look half done. Cold Fusion looks like it replicates some other system, and some colors have been left "undefined". The group boxes are invisible, leading to "flat" appearance. I see many familiar old applications that really whip the epa pollution preventer in the example pictures from "15 years ago". I still use Paint Shop Pro, Tweak UI, Winamp, MPlayer2, ACD See 3.0. : ) MindWood is a good recolor of the XP style.
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    This new version of the forum is very slow in Opera 12. Scrolling doesn't work work: scrollbar always indicates the top of the page and dragging it down causes a blank screen to show. I have switched to using Firefox on WinXP. I don't see why the forum dedicated to discussing and supporting old operating systems needs this bloated forum engine.
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