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  1. Ascii2
    As I had referenced at https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1268699 , please provide the changes information between what roytam1 used as a base for his derivatives of the Binary Outcast applications and the Retired XUL Platform (RXP). Also, from what you posted recently and other times, I would recommend/warn/counsel/advise the following to you and others generally: At times, there is much bad by others that may be done against one (there are many reasons why such may happen) and one may desire and hope for particular things. It is important to not forsake such things and try to do what is correct. However, it is notably important not become prideful; wrathful (unreasonably or persisting in anger or vengeance), or envious, or lustful, in the process or otherwise, even against malevolence, as it is bad for the self and mind. It might be difficult at times, when in the momentum of such, but one should examine or rest and examine things clearly. Further, if one does not, one also may have tendency to engage in that which is unjust or unrighteous, and one might also become a similarly undesirable variant of what one was originally against. It is important to truly rest both physically and in terms of one's pursuits; it is helpful in achieving clarity. Even if the rest of the world becomes fallen, one need not and should not fall with it. One may wish to even prevent the world from falling; however, it is important to note that one does not have the resources or time (both in terms of mortality and opportunity cost) to do so oneself, and most likely will not without falling oneself. Should you heed this advise, things should improve for yourself (and potentially and consequently also for others).
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    @user57, that was also my conclusion, if I understood your post correctly. For the moment, your v3.4.6 release seems to be working well enough. I shall continue to use that for now. Thank you for your efforts.
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    Hello @Elkern 4926 Tobin. Thank you for making an appearance. I had noticed that you had a new(ish) GitHub repository with the Binary Outcast software, for which you referred to it as "Retired XUL Platform (RXP)", and that is different than than one @roytam1 had based his forks of the Binary Outcast software against. It appears that you had at least un-suppressed the Go and Search buttons (which makes using the functionality with mouse easier and reasonable). @roytam1 had examined the commits listing of the Retired XUL Platform (RXP) repository and did not find much. It would appear that the differences between what roytam1 based and the Retired XUL Platform (RXP) version does not have an obvious indication of the changes without examining everything directly. Please provide the changes information between what roytam1 used as a base and the Retired XUL Platform (RXP). For context of this issue, please examine the following posting information. They are in ascending order:
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    @user57, thank you for the quick attention to the matter. I was able to find other computers to test on. They were running Windows 10 Pro. With regards to the issue with dragging and dropping files into a window with an already open document, the problem does manifest with both the original and your releases of SumartraPDF 3.5.2. With regards to the GUI issue, neither your nor the original author release manifest the problem on Windows 10 Pro.
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    After testing on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3, I note the following problems: 1. Dragging and dropping to open files does not work when there is already a document open. Prerequisite: Use standard window mode (which also disables tabs). Problem Description: Drag and Drop to open document does not work when there already is an open document. Regular menu system to open document still works. Expected behavior: After dragging and dropping next document to open into window with already open document, another window should open with the dragged-in document. What actually happens: Open window becomes inactive and no new window with the dragged in document is shown. However, there is a new SumatraPDF.exe process created without a visible window and without the ability to terminate the process not forcibly. 2. Visual GUI display bugs. Toollbar items display is somewhat, wrong-looking. This is what it looks like: [COULD NOT UPLOAD IT]
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    Yes, it did appear that Tobin did not want the buttons initially (my guess is that he did not like that the buttons had a late 1980s or early 1990s appearance). However, it appears that Tobin's new repository includes the buttons and presumably with a new, more modern appearance as seen in his provided browser window picture. Regardless, I would propose that the browser is better with the buttons. The buttons are especially useful when the hand that is not on the mouse is busy (holding paper, telephone etc.) or when a keyboard is not available (or covered with papers). The buttons being omitted also results, cosmetically, as if the URL browsing functionality or interface is incomplete. Hopefully @roytam1 would provide the buttons.
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    Perhaps the changes are not included in that Commits listing (my impression is that changes might have been made prior to importing the code into GitHub). There do appear to be some changes between your repository and Tobin's retired-xul-platform repository. For example, in Tobin's retired-xul-platform repository the Borealis Navigator "Go" and "Search" buttons are provided for without commenting them out, while in your repository those buttons are commented-out. For Tobin's repository of the example, see https://github.com/binaryoutcast/retired-xul-platform/blob/BINOC_TRUNK/aura/navigator/base/content/navigator.xul#L352-L378 ; for your repository of the example see https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/blob/master/navigator/base/content/navigator.xul#L351-L377 . I particularly would really like to have the Go and Search buttons unsuppressed in BNavigator.
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    @roytam1, I request that you examine or re-examine the "Bug 1" and "Bug 2" items of my bug reports posting for Bnavigator, that is located at: https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1261055 Since posting it, I have updated it as best I can (the forum failed to fully update it). After discovering the various code that comments-out the display of the "Open Web Location..." menu item (see https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/blob/master/navigator/base/content/navigatorOverlay.xul#L234-L240 ) and the "Go" and "Search" toolbar buttons (see https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/blob/master/navigator/base/content/navigator.xul#L351-L377 ), then changing it by removing the code's comment markers, the features then work and display in the browser after refreshing the browser startup. I request that you also effectively make changes for future builds of the browser so that the items can display. Here is a picture of the browser window after the changes are made: (purposely also, exhibiting much of the same style as developer Matt A. Tobin's example picture (a derivative pictured below), but with all individual, customized toolbar items unhidden) I also wish to bring to your attention that developer Matt A. Tobin has since updated the Borealis Navigator project since you last forked it for BNavigator. The project is located at: https://github.com/binaryoutcast/retired-xul-platform Perhaps there are code changes that would benefit your BNavigator, MainNews, and your other projects. There might also be adverse changes. Please also take note that it would appear that Developer Tobin later decided to provide at least the "Go" and "Search" buttons. It does look like those buttons and the URLbar dropdown-marker have also been modified to look more modern (it was my impression that Tobin might have suppressed the "Go" and "Search" buttons because he did not like their cosmetic appearance at the time). Here is a picture of Borealis Navigator that Developer Tobin provides with his current code repository: (with size-reducing, format mod to allow compatibility with forum posting) It also notable that the picture does not include item icons area tray on the status bar. If there omission is mandatory, that would be an adverse change.
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    Months ago, I added the filters you describe to my uBlock Origin My Filters list, but only for it on BNavigator. I noticed the problem months ago, that YouTube would present the adblocker nag overlay despite uBlock Origin Legacy being used with filter lists that would normally filter that content on other browsers. The problem does not occur with any of the other @roytam1 browsers, including Iceape-UXP, which is, like BNavigator, a SeaMonkey derivative. Adding the given filters helps but is not without incontinences (page scrolling breaks (workaround is to put video in fullscreen and then restore) and video stop playing once after a second or few (workaround is to click the video or its play button to manually start playing the video)). Such is rather unfortunate. Out of all rouytam1's browsers, YouTube works best in BNavigator, notwithstanding the herein described issue.
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    I was trying to place the following text, between quotes, between the words "user" and "prior" of my previous post, but the forum would not allow it. Please treat the post as if it has the quoted information in the indicated place. The quoted information: "(which usually displays as white)"
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    No. My impression is that the issue is that the uBlock Origin Logger window is not being painted correctly (probably not being painted at all) upon a new instance of its showing, probably despite otherwise being rendered or loaded. While the window shows blank to the user prior to right-clicking the content area or resizing the window using its side grab functionality, its is still interact-able and otherwise works. Upon right-clicking the content area or resizing the window using its side grab functionality, the Logger window is repainted and its contents are visible to the user. Your driver configuration/hardware configuration might not be affected.
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    Thank you. The information appears useful. I shall better examine it later.
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    Does 7-Zip not have reliability troubles with the relevant ZIP extended formats (XPI, EPUB, APK, (I think also JA) etc.)? Particularly, for Mozilla files that use extended Zip formats, such as .ja (I think) and .xpi, it is my understanding that member file order in the archives matters and is optimized by Mozilla process. Mozilla has provided a disclaimer against using 7-zip in creating a singed XPI-file extension (see https://web.archive.org/web/20200105223104/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Signing_an_XPI#Prepare_XPI_file_for_signing ) because, as it alleges, 7-zip may change order of files. Have you found this not to be the issue? As a test of compression ability, I have downloaded and extracted https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/session_manager-0.8.1.14-sm.xpi then tried to re-compress the extracted content to Zip format with 7-zip, but the compression type and end archive file size is much greater (556,780 bytes is my lowest-size outcome) than yours (552,422 bytes). What am I missing?
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    @roytam1, I noticed that your zip-compressed files such as omni.ja and various provided *.xpi extensions, are compressed in a Deflate-compatible manner, but with greater compression than one usually is provided with typical ZIP compression utilities. How do you get that increased compression?
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    For me, on Mypal 68.14.1, with uBlock Origin 1.57.0, I also receive an empty uBlock Origin Logger until I right-click somewhere in the body of the logger window or resize the window using the window's side grab functionality. Left-clicking somewhere in the uBlock Origin Logger window dow not work to display the contents of the window.
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    Yes, I use single-process. Thank you.
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    @feodor2, I report a problem in Mypal 68.13.9b (32-bit) with frame page navigation that is available via the context menu. I use Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. The Problem: The frame page navigation options from the first section of the "This Frame" context menu item's cascaded menu do not work correctly. The "Show Only This Frame Option" and "Open Frame in New Window" items apparently do nothing, and the "Open Frame in New Tab" item opens a new tab to the frame URL, but the frame-page does not really display or seem to load in the newly open tab. An example frames test page is available at: https://ui.vision/demo/webtest/frames/ EDIT: Fixed on Mypal 68.14.1b and the issue no longer manifests.
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    Thank you for the information. I would note, however, that after examining your MYPAL_68_CB_requirements.7z package, a startup auto-configuration script is indeed used. The defaults/prefs directory defines startup preference overrides and sets a (also startup) configuration script "config.js". For reference, some documentation of the functionality may be found at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222973 . Also note its attachment at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=152002 . I do note code or know the details of the Javascript language; however, it is my understanding that styling can also be done in Javascript. While it might be possible to implement styling in Javascript, it is my understanding that browsers will tend to handle the CSS faster than the Javascript; it may be more efficient at runtime to use a Javascript and, where styling is desired, Cascading Style Sheet(s).
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    It appears that there might be some upstream code changes in the future for BNavigator and MailNews, as derived from an announcement on upstream's Binary Outcast website: A quote of the relevant portion on https://binaryoutcast.com/ :
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    It appears that you added an extra toolbar to Mypal 68.x to add a statusbar-like area. I also wanted to add a toolbar. Rather, a few toolbars: (1) one for most the various browser buttons, and (2) a statusbar. You stated that you implemented your statusbar using Javascript and Cascading Style Sheet combination. Did you rely on a startup auto-configuration script to do so? What other things do you think are worth noting?
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    I have often wondered how best to present an extension to the Mozilla or Mozilla-based applications. One may present an extension heavily compressed into an XPI archive, lightly compressed in an XPI file, not compressed (stored) but in an XPI file, or fully unpackaged/unpackaged. It was my understanding that it used to be recommended (I do not remember the source) that heavily compressing the extensions in XPI files and presenting them to the application is the best method. I believe that that was substantiated by the idea that the operations in RAM would happen significantly faster than on disk and copying the extension file to RAM and operating on it from there was the more efficient option. How it actually works and what truly is better, I do not know.
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    The forum is not letting me make a post. It is not clear why it is not working. Maybe this simpler post works and I can edit. EDIT: It did not work.
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    From what I can tell there have been a few forums for the Custom Buttons extension. The Mozilla Russia Custom Buttons forum is still available but is in the Russian language (unsurprisingly) and not English. My impression is that those "fixed" extension versions might also be sourced from those forums. The Mozilla Russia Custom Buttons forum pages of interest are: http://forum.mozilla-russia.org/viewforum.php?id=34 http://forum.mozilla-russia.org/viewtopic.php?id=9591 http://forum.mozilla-russia.org/viewtopic.php?id=41987 It is also live on Mozilla AMO on the addons.thunderbird.net domain (which is not just for Thunderbird addons) via: https://addons.thunderbird.net/addon/custom-buttons/
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    l have not yet used custom buttons. However, I have long wanted to have at least a way to easily toggle functionality that I choose that need not be already implemented in an easy or convenient manner. I have also wanted to have indication when certain conditions were true for things that might not be obvious otherwise and would need frequent checking to determine, derive, or deduce. Unfortunately, I historically have not had sufficient time to find solutions to that or other things due to performing on higher priories at the various times that would occupy the needed time to do so. Custom buttons appear to be a reasonable solution to the things I wanted and described hereinabove. I have never tried the Pref Toggler custom button or any modded version of it.
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    AstroSkipper, what is the original source of the "Custom Buttons 0.0.5.8.9.6-fixed8" version you are offering? Is the offering a mod?
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