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  1. AstroSkipper
    CAupdater - An alternative Root Certificate Updater There is an alternative tool for updating Root Certificates in Windows XP. I totally forgot to mention this here as a single program. The creator was @Thomas S.. It is called CAupdater and is available in version 1.0.0.1. I use it for years, and it works great. Here is the link to its original post: It is also embedded in @Thomas S.'s HTTPSProxy package which can be downloaded in the section 11.2.1.2. Downloads related to HTTPSProxy of my main article "ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use". In his original post linked above, the download link of CAupdater as a single archive file doesn't work anymore. Therefore, I will provide here a download link of this single archive file as soon as possible. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    We should not forget that there is a further tool for updating Root Certificates in Windows XP. The creator was @Thomas S.. The tool is called CAupdater. Here is the link to its original post: It is also embedded in his HTTPSProxy package. In his original post, the download link of CAupdater as a single archive doesn't work anymore. BTW, both versions of my self-created Root Certificate and Revoked Certificate Updater are meant to be used in case no internet connection is available. Generally, @heinoganda's Certificate Updater 1.6 or @Thomas S.'s CAupdater is completely sufficient. All facts about Root Certificates can be read in the section 5.2 of my article "ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use". Greetings, AstroSkipper
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    When using my Android tablet, and I use it very often (as for example in this moment), I haven't experienced such heavy CPU usage in Opera, Kiwi, Brave and Firefox, either.
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    My primary browsers in Windows XP are New Moon 28 and Serpent 52/55. I use 360Chrome 13.5 only for testing purpose in my Windows XP installation. It is great to have alternatives but I prefer UXP browsers under Windows XP. I am also an Android user, and there you have a pure Chrome/Chromium world offering the most recent browsers. Or I use Windows 7/10 to surf the internet with the more/most recent Chromium browsers. But no need to do that in my beloved Windows XP system, and 360Chrome 13.5 is not recent anymore, either. When starting my Windows XP system, I dive into another world and enjoy the recreation of all this Chrome/Chromium stuff. All Chromium browsers are extremely restricted, especially in terms of extensions, custom buttons, customizations and modifications. That's one of the reasons I love and prefer my UXP browsers New Moon and Serpent. And to have them at all, I am very thankful to our creator @roytam1! Welcome back and of course, a good decision! Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    In my quite clean testing profile, I opened your testing repo and performed continuously soft reload. After more than 20 times I stopped. In this profile, setting both dom.webcomponents.enabled and dom.getRootNode.enabled to the value true with Palefill 1.26 enabled works on your testing repo, i.e., GH timestamps are shown each time. In my main profile, unfortunately not as I already mentioned in a previous post.. However, these strange differences between my profiles keep bothering me. And I have to correct my statement from a previous post which I already edited. You're right, setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false does not lead to a 100% CPU utilization on GitHub (but on VirusTotal ). The site was continously loading the assets from the not visible part down below. Scrolling down to the assets normalized the CPU usage. I didn't notice that in my first test. So theoretically, I am able to set dom.webcomponents.enabled to false, but I'll leave it at its default value. In any case, I have to test all of that over a longer period of time. Best regards
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    And here is a screenshot taken from @roytam1's commits on GitHub two hours later:
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    In my quite clean testing profile, setting both dom.webcomponents.enabled and dom.getRootNode.enabled to the value true with Palefill 1.26 enabled works on GitHub, i.e., GH timestamps are shown in New Moon 28. Here are two screenshots taken from GitHub:
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    Setting the preference dom.webcomponents.enabled to the value false in New Moon 28 is no option for me, unfortunately. Due to a permanent 100% CPU utilization on VirusTotal, for example, described in a previous post of mine. Therefore, this preference will stay here to the value true as long this abnormal behaviour exists, and presumably I'll just have to do without the GH timestamps in New Moon 28. Ok. I tested this GH timestamps behaviour a bit more deeply. It looks like I won't have to give up the GH timestamps after all. I've been using the extension Lull The Tabs for a long time in all my UXP browsers. This extension seems to interfere on GitHub sites which results in lacking of GH timestamps. Only disabling this extension or excluding the website GitHub.com in Lull The Tabs'options solves the problem. Edit: But only temporarily. There are more problems in my main profile. I need to investigate this strange behaviour much deeper.
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    Setting the preference dom.webcomponents.enabled to the value false in New Moon 28 is no option for me, unfortunately. Due to a permanent 100% CPU utilization on VirusTotal ,for example, described in a previous post of mine. Therefore, this preference will stay here to the value true as long this abnormal behaviour exists, and presumably I'll just have to do without the GH timestamps in New Moon 28.
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    BTW, to mention here tests of recent Bitdefender and Avast versions is absurd and not helpful at all. Both have not supported Windows XP for a long time. The last, XP-compatible version of Avast, for example, is from 2018. Anyway! This thread is about antivirus or security programs that still target the Windows XP operating system.
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    And to reject MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit as one of the few, free, up-to-date antivirus offline scanners for Windows XP due to font preferences speaks against all reason and for itself.
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    None of these negative statements here about Panda Dome can be confiirmed by me, and such kind of presenting "facts" are rather meaningless. Panda Dome has been tested many times in the past and the protection found to be good. In any case, I trust such tests much more than any "data" presented here in a highly dubious manner. Here are some links to form your own opinion: https://www.av-comparatives.org/vendors/panda/ https://www.lifewire.com/panda-free-antivirus-review-1356582 And here are the last tests of Panda by av-test.org: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/manufacturer/panda-security/ And one thing In general. A program is only as good as it is installed, configured and operated. And logically, that also depends massively on the user.
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    Thanks! Of course, I could revert to a previous build, but as a Frisian I am a very patient person. I'll wait for your next releases.
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    this is an old problem since feb uncovered by https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/9824659d3c6b1c4fdc2616f789f0696d1cbe2ef8 and https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/b7e4530861fcc971aee9d867b3b376e31263486c and they said it is fixed by https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/1f0df8f421626bcbc397512773f3043d72d96a4f but I still need to revert first 2 mentioned commits in order to make it not crashing. Thanks for the information! It would be great if reverting these commits really fixes these crashes. In the meanwhile, I had a further crash in mozglue.dll.
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    BTW, TUP's feature "multi-row tab bar" also works again in the latest releases of New Moon and Serpent.
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    For me, as a simple, temporary workaround, eMatix is helpful. In eMatrix, I blocked 17 scripts, and the website "Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool is available" becomes readable again in New Moon 28. Additionally, uBlock Origin (used in normal mode) is also enabled on this site. Here is a screenshot taken from my New Moon: All is completely readable again. I don't really care which functionality is broken by blocking these scripts. The main thing is that you can read the Microsoft articles again. I reloaded this website a few times and restarted my browser. The website is rendering without any problems and looks like always (when everything was fine). The download of the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool works, too. A positive side-effect is this website is now easy to load and very responsive if blocking these scripts. No negative CPU impact anymore. Hope it stays that way for a while now. Kind regards, AstroSkipper
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    It definitely depends on both the email web service and the browser. GMX and WEB.DE expect the most recent browsers. Any user agent spoofing does not work anymore. Therefore, only a reduced, simplified interface with the bare essentials in Windows XP. Gmail can be used with its full interface, but is then very sluggish and cumbersome, especially on weak hardware. Fortunately, you can switch to a reduced, fast html interface. Outlook.com can also be used with its full interface, but it is very sluggish, slow and cumbersome, unfortunately.
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    What a coincidence! I just had a browser crash regarding mozglue.dll in the very latest release of New Moon 28 (28.10.6a1 (32-bit) (2023-03-10)). Here is the entry from the event log: Ereignistyp: Fehler Ereignisquelle: Application Error Ereigniskategorie: Keine Ereigniskennung: 1000 Datum: 12.03.2023 Zeit: 16:15:32 Benutzer: Nicht zutreffend Computer: Beschreibung: Fehlgeschlagene Anwendung palemoon.exe, Version 4.8.6.8297, fehlgeschlagenes Modul mozglue.dll, Version 4.8.6.8297, Fehleradresse 0x00004cd1. Weitere Informationen über die Hilfe- und Supportdienste erhalten Sie unter http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Daten: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 61 6c ure pal 0018: 65 6d 6f 6f 6e 2e 65 78 emoon.ex 0020: 65 20 34 2e 38 2e 36 2e e 4.8.6. 0028: 38 32 39 37 20 69 6e 20 8297 in 0030: 6d 6f 7a 67 6c 75 65 2e mozglue. 0038: 64 6c 6c 20 34 2e 38 2e dll 4.8. 0040: 36 2e 38 32 39 37 20 61 6.8297 a 0048: 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 t offset 0050: 20 30 30 30 30 34 63 64 00004cd 0058: 31 0d 0a 1.. No idea what caused it!
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    Thanks for your clarification and contribution here! As I already pointed out, I do appreciate it in any case. To have the correct min and max version numbers in the file install.rdf for each browser is sensible and fine.
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    You're welcome! Glad it works for you! Und schönes Wochende auch für dich! (Translated: Nice weekend for you, too!) AstroSkipper
  21. AstroSkipper
    Hello @Mark-XP! Thanks for your nice words! Much appreciated! The solution you linked in your comment works without any modifications. Here is my detailed instruction to get the "Alternating row highlighting" working in MailNews right away: Create a folder called Chrome in your profile folder. Copy the file userChrome.css containing your linked CSS code into the created folder Chrome . Open about:config, create a new Boolean variable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and set it to the value true. Restart MailNews. That is exactly what I did. And it worked right away. Please note that toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets is a Boolean, and not a string variable! And the file userChrome.css must be copied into the Chrome subfolder of your profile folder. That's simply all. Cheers, AstroSkipper
  22. AstroSkipper
    You're right! The direction isn't good for XP/Vista email clients. Logically! No doubt about it! Windows XP is an abandoned, ancient OS which hasn't been supported since 2014. I'll leave the POSReady updates out of my consideration. I think by Web mail you mean the email web services of different providers. Right? If not, please be so nice to provide a link to this email web service in question! The problem with email web services is that most of them work only with a reduced, simplified interface in old browsers as for example GMX or in Germany WEB.DE. These interfaces are awful and restricted, only for the bare essentials. When these email services are managed for example by MailNews, they work much better, more comfortable and faster. I prefer this way, love it and use it as long as possible!
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    @Ryder252! As we all know, Windows XP is an old OS. I would try the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool first. Strictly following the rule: old tool with old OS. Here is a link from archive.org as the original site is no longer available on Microsoft: https://web.archive.org/web/20170213203348/https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/10/netfx_setupverifier_new.zip
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    I always appreciate your investigations. Maybe, my installer is more recent, or there are different versions. I download it from Germany, maybe they redirect to another server or file. A lot of different possibilities. I downloaded it by myself and by using the online installer. Same sizes! Anyway! Dito! Καληνυχτα!
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    I do not use the Windows Explorer directly. All file operations are only performed by me using Total Commander. The best Windows file manger ever! But for you as requested, a screenshot from my Windows Explorer additionally: I never observed any differences between WE and TC in terms of file sizes. I use TC since 1995. It's always the first tool I generally install in a new Windows partition. Greetings
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