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  1. Mathwiz
    Important note about the latest Basilisk release (both "official", released today, and @roytam1's released last weekend): https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=21091 TL;DR: The PM team is anticipating that Mozilla will soon shut down Basilisk's access to the Firefox "Sync" service, so the new builds preemptively remove support for Firefox Sync and replace it with PaleMoon's Sync. What this means is, if you use Sync you'll need to sign up again on PaleMoon's server; but more importantly, you'll need to upgrade browsers on all your platforms at the same time. Otherwise some of your browsers will be syncing to Mozilla's servers, while others will be syncing to PaleMoon's servers, which of course means they won't stay in sync with each other! Edit: BTW, it also occurs to me that if you have Basilisk 55, your version isn't being upgraded to the new Sync server, so the concern which prompted this change in the first place applies to you: Mozilla could "cut off" your access to Sync from Basilisk 55 at any time. Also, one of the things you can "sync" between browsers is your add-ons; but Basilisk and PM differ significantly in the add-ons they support; therefore, if you already use Sync with PM/NM, you may want to set up a different Sync account for the Basilisk browsers on your PCs so changes to PM/NM don't mess up your Basilisk browser add-ons. Of course that means that passwords won't sync between browser families, so you may want to consider an alternate solution (such as Abine's Blur add-on) to keep your passwords in sync.
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    But won't the previous Android version keep working, since it's presumably 8.something?
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    I guess it's important if you actually use IE8 these days.... Edit: Looks like the vulnerability exploits Javascript in IE8
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    Not a fan of Metro myself, but the OP may be! Thanks! Edit: BTW, I usually use Basilisk 52 but if I'd bothered to check my Basilisk 55 installation, I would've seen that it had already updated its Empty Cache Button add-on to version 3.4. I thought its icon looked a little different
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    That's interesting. I'm guessing the "Microsoft Viewer" option uses the IE8 rendering engine, which is pretty outdated; but probably not nearly as outdated as Eudora's internal HTML viewer! Anyway, maybe the 30-second delays have less to do with security, certificates, and the like, than with the IE8 rendering engine just being slooow with modern HTML emails.
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    It's not surprising that Micro$oft used their purchase of Skype to "proprietize" it so that only they could release working Skype clients. As you say, that means more $ for them. And of course it's not surprising that after a major protocol change requiring updated clients, M$ isn't going to back-port the updated Skype client to OSes like XP they don't support any more. Just a little more pressure on us XP diehards to fork more $ over to them to upgrade to W10. (I suspect they'll be waiting a while for that from most of us. I'll switch to W7, or even W8.1 and its dreaded Metro interface, if I have to - but the day I have to upgrade to W10 will be the day I move to Linux.) I'm sure in a year or two, after W7 support ends, M$ will change the Skype protocol yet again and announce EOS for Skype 8 - and of course Skype 9 won't run on W7.... Similarly, Skype 10 will require W10 and won't run on W8.1, and all M$'s version numbers will finally be in sync....
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    Not perfect, though: the first menu option still calls my "Trash Can" the "Recycle Bin:" But if @FranceBB has the English menu now, it should be good enough; just rename the "Cestino" to the "Recycle Bin" and everything's in agreement.
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    I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/empty-cache-button/; however you will need a legacy version. Not sure where to find that now that Mozilla disappeared all legacy FF add-ons. The linked version may work with Basilisk 55, which AIUI was forked from a pre-release version of FF 53; I haven't tried that though.
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    That would just cause the captcha to be presented every time, since Google would suspect you were a bot. It wouldn't explain why the captcha doesn't come up at all in XP but comes up fine in Win 7.
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    It's worth trying, I suppose. If by some chance it works, it'll give @roytam1 something to look at.
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    You have to add it yourself; you can give it a try but I don't think it will help. It used to be needed for NM 27 but @roytam1 changed the default in newer NM 27 builds so it's no longer needed; I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that "true" is already the default for NM 28, Basilisk, etc. so it's not needed there either.
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    I see the site refuses to load with an adblocker on, so I won't test; but based on the above, have you tried spoofing W7 in your user agent? E.g., Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 (replace both '52.0's with the FF version you want to spoof)
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    KB4461579 was re-issued today. Not sure what was changed
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    I agree there should be a fix for volsnap.sys to ignore shadow copies from later versions. But I guess there's not. Since you do want to write to the USB drive from XP, but don't use system restore on XP, it sounds to me like the best solution @w2k4eva had was this: On W7, it appears you'd use the command "vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On = C: (assuming C: is your W7 system drive) /For = D: (assuming D: is your USB drive) /maxsize = 3GB (or whatever)". Which, if I understood the article correctly, would place the shadow copies of D: on your C: drive. Then there's nothing left on D: for XP to mess up.
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    @Dave-H, keep in mind there are two things going on with a typical email client: Sending and receiving the emails themselves. This is done by connecting to your email service using protocols like SMTP (sending email), POP3 or IMAP (receiving). Displaying the received emails. Since many emails are HTML this is done much like a Web browser. For example, images are often fetched from a Web server via HTTP. STunnel helps with #1 if your email client can't connect to your email service. Since most folks only have one email service, you just set up a non-secured connection to localhost. STunnel looks like a non-secured email service to your client, and like a secure email client to your service. (If you have more than one email service you can add connections on other ports, as long as your email client lets you specify the ports to connect to.) But it sounds like your problem is related to #2. That's a harder problem because images and like content can come from pretty much anywhere on the Web. The best solution is probably ProxHTTPSProxyMII, which you have, but your email client needs to be configured to use it. I'm not sure how to do that with Eudora - some clients share the Internet connection settings with IE8, but other clients have their own setup. I'd bet someone around here knows how to configure Eudora though.
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    This was a problem for a long time.... ... but was finally corrected in June with cumulative IE8 update KB4316682: The latest cumulative IE8 update was KB4366536 and it should also include the fix. Maybe that got removed somehow, or was never installed for some reason? If that update doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs under Windows Internet Explorer 8 - Software Updates, try downloading it from the Catalog and installing it. Then see if the Office 2007 updates are found in a reasonable time.
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    Micro$oft has made similar claims themselves, but all evidence I've seen to date is that it's a completely bogus claim: The differences between POSReady '09 and vanilla XP all appear to be purely cosmetic (startup screen, default wallpaper, etc.). There was never a reason for PM to support one but not the other. And there, they mixed up two things: XP "SP4" is just a convenient collection of all post-SP3 updates, hot fixes, etc. for "vanilla" XP. There's not even a registry key to test for SP4 and AFAIK it includes no POSReady '09 updates. None of this speaks to the question of whether anyone should stick with XP (or Vista) or move on to a "supported" OS like Win 7 (or, technically, POSReady '09, for a few more months at least). But it strikes me as odd that the PM team is so willing to (ab)use PM's popularity to try to dictate others' choices. We programmers are often a strange lot. Some of the most talented of us also seem to have some of the most difficult personalities.
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    It's often hard to judge intent, but @VistaLover makes a good case. Those apps were forked from FF 52, which did target XP/Vista. I could see adding code that wasn't compatible with those OSes, like FFmpeg 4.0, and I could even see removing code that enabled compatibility with those OSes, without deliberate ill intent; the goal could be to add features, improve performance, address obscure bugs (like the 7-week browser session limit) or even reduce the size of the final product, and losing XP/Vista compatibility was just the cost of achieving those goals. But do those "revised compiler optimizations" really improve performance and/or reduce code size enough for anyone to notice? Or do they just break XP/Vista compatibility for the sake of breaking XP/Vista compatibility? Luckily, since these are all open source, it's possible to recompile with compiler settings targeting XP/Vista. Dealing with the other issues is harder and is probably the bulk of @roytam1's work. But the compiler settings probably speak to intent more clearly than the other changes.
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    New update available today: KB4461579: Blackwingcat, at least, will find it useful.
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    From the second link: Obviously 1 doesn't apply, but the others could be used by Windows XP.
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    OK; so, I installed the update and added the registry key & DWORD value specified on the info page. But IE8 already used TLS 1.1 & 1.2 before the update. So what software uses WinHttp.dll? OE6? Windows Live Mail perhaps?
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    And that's why I chose to make the leap to Basilisk, even on Win 7. Much smoother/simpler upgrade path.
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    "Quantum" sounds so fast too (even though the term has nothing to do with speed). So much for marketing
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    My Win 7 still looks like Win 98! I hate CPU/GPU-gobbling special effects like transparency and the like, and the one thing I never liked about XP was the Luna theme. I always thought it made my windows look "fat." OTOH I think Win 8+ went too far in the opposite direction with the "plain box" look. Metro reminds me of Win 3.1 and the Program Mangler! It's OK @Jody Thornton; it's an opinion thread. Being neutral would kind of defeat the purpose I'm on both sides of this debate. I use Win 7 but also have Win XP mode running in a VM. Originally I just needed a 32-bit OS for older apps, and XP mode comes free with Win 7 Professional, so it was the obvious choice. But I find myself using XP mode a lot for newer apps too, like when the corporate-mandated Symantec antivirus gets a bit too aggressive and deletes Snadboy's Revelation and Opera Password Viewer from the Win 7 side . (Symantec doesn't "see" what's in my XP .vhd .) I often forget passwords and need help from those "hacking tools" Symantec doesn't want me to have.
  25. Mathwiz
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it....
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