AstroSkipper

I have again tested my new release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.33 regarding how effective the filter lists selected by me and some self-created filters are. Here are my results in New Moon 28 on two adblocker test sites without using any other content blockers: The release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.33 is fully working, and its performance is great from what I could see so far. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Update of uBlock Origin Legacy to version 1.16.4.33 I have again updated my special mod uBlock Origin Legacy from version 1.16.4.32 to version 1.16.4.33. I fixed the loading errors of the filter list "Online Malicious URL Blocklist (AdGuard)" which only occur from time to time. Furthermore, I found some further strings which I edited according to the extension's name change performed in version 1.16.4.32. And I added new filter lists to different groups. The "StevenBlack/hosts" filter lists are very strong and restrictive. So in some cases, you have to set exclusions when using them. Here is a screenshot taken from the dashboard tab "Filter lists" of uBlock Origin 1.16.4.33 in New Moon 28: The filter lists outlined in green are the ones I have added in this release. A detailed changelog and the download link of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.33 can be found in my main article uBlock Origin Legacy - A special mod by @AstroSkipper. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Confirmed! The latest version WinSCP 6.3.1 is no longer compatible with Windows XP. WinSCP 6.1.2 is indeed the last XP-compatible version. Thanks for the heads-up!

No. What I quoted from his post didn't contain any reference to a certain person. It is just your kind of interpretion. No more, no less. You don't always have to relate everything to yourself. Take the words as they are! It's as simple as that. And now, over and out!

Thank you very much for the posted links and your efforts! I will check them all. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper PS: A really nice play on words!

As @VistaLover already pointed out, this is a thread about @roytam1's browsers and only about extensions targeting these browsers. @nicolaasjan indeed used the <Offtopic> tag but you didn't. That kind of offtopic from you causes such misunderstandings in the end. Windows 11, Chrome browsers and their webextensions are definitely not the topic here.

No, no, no, I never said that, and don't even plan to do that at all. In fact, I actually find using old OSes like XP or Vista (and even 2000, if we are to go to the mimimum of Older NT-Family OSes) very fun. Please, don't assume stuff I don't plan to say. Also, I don't disrespect your own reasons for not wanting to use something, so please, kindly respect my own reasons for not wanting to use something. Thanks What are you here talking about? My statement doesn't mention you at all. It was just a reply to @VistaLover. Grammatically, it's simply a conditional clause type I. That means it expresses a fulfilable wish or condition. Furthermore, it was formulated without any reference to a certain person, which apparently escaped your attention for whatever reason. First read, then think, and only then post would be much wiser! And please, stop such kind of interpretions! Thanks!

BTW, is it not rather the case that the legacy version of Adblock Plus is much older than the legacy version of uBlock Origin? I had a look at GitHub. The last version there is 2.9.1 from June 2017. Same version in the CAA. And its repository has been archived by the owner on Jan 26, 2024 https://github.com/adblockplus/adblockplus-legacy/tags. It is now read-only. I can't find any more recent version right away. And Adblock Latitude in version 5.0.9 is from May 2022 which I tried a very short time in the past. Very resource-hungry and not recommendable. So far as New Moon or other UXP browsers are concerned, Adblock Plus and its forks are not really an interesting alternative to uBlock Origin. And even the last webextension of Adblock Plus for Serpent in version 3.12 is from May 2022. Same problem with the webextension Adblocker Ultimate. The version 3.7.12, which is the last compatible version with Serpent, is from Oktober 2021.

That's indeed very funny. If something from 2021/2022 is old, then it's better not to use Windows XP or Windows Vista. They are much, much older.

I totally agree. And to tame and purify bloated websites, which are unbearable, for example, in New Moon 28, the extension uBlock Origin with good filter lists selected is the ultimate tool. Therefore, your recommendation here is not off-topic at all. A wonderful example is the website https://www.pcwelt.de/. If you surf this website with New Moon 28, you'll puke if you access it without the content blocker uBlock Origin. Especially on weaker hardware. However, with uBlock Origin enabled, it blocks nearly 1000 requests in my installation. Now, this site can be accessed easily again and seems to be suddenly a light one.

I had a deeper look inside the JavaScript file download.js. Here is the code of the performDownload function: (function(){function performDownload(num){event.preventDefault();var xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function(){if(xmlHttp.readyState==4&&xmlHttp.status==200){var response_text=xmlHttp.responseText;if(response_text.includes("sooftware.com/apps/")) location.assign(response_text);else window.open(response_text,'_blank');}} xmlHttp.open("post",tmp_folder+"performDownload.php?softId="+download_files_hash+"&linkNumber="+num);xmlHttp.send();return false} The window property event is not defined (download.js:1:43). I think the variable num should actually have been there instead of event to get the preventDefault function working. In New Moon 28, the script therefore doesn't seem to be executed in contrast to Mypal 68. IMHO, event is obviously not defined in the download.js file when looking into it. Just my thoughts. Ok! I injected a userscript in this website where I completely removed the event.preventDefault() function. The download is working then. Or, the pref dom.window.event.enabled has to be set to true as suggested by @VistaLover. I personally tend to do the latter. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Toggling the pref "dom.window.event.enabled" from false to true did the trick. Thanks for the tip! So this pref enables the Event interface representing an event which takes place in the DOM. I had a look at Mozilla. This pref unfortunately seems to be deprecated. Here is a link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/event?

I had a deeper look inside the JavaScript file download.js. Here is the code of the performDownload function: (function(){function performDownload(num){event.preventDefault();var xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function(){if(xmlHttp.readyState==4&&xmlHttp.status==200){var response_text=xmlHttp.responseText;if(response_text.includes("sooftware.com/apps/")) location.assign(response_text);else window.open(response_text,'_blank');}} xmlHttp.open("post",tmp_folder+"performDownload.php?softId="+download_files_hash+"&linkNumber="+num);xmlHttp.send();return false} The window property event is not defined (download.js:1:43). I think the variable num should actually have been there instead of event to get the preventDefault function working. In New Moon 28, the script therefore doesn't seem to be executed in contrast to Mypal 68. IMHO, event is obviously not defined in the download.js file when looking into it. Just my thoughts.

The download from the website https://thesage-english-dictionary-and-thesaurus.sooftware.com/windows/download/395678 doesn't work in the most recent and the previous version of New Moon 28. Here is a screenshot: Besides a CSP warning, the issue is mainly related to a function in the JavaScript file download.js of this website. The culprit is the performDownload function. In Mypal68, the download of both files is working. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Thanks for pointing to the last XP-compatible version 7.52.2806! Unfortunately, Windows XP support has been dropped in version 7.54.2808. Here is a quotation from its changelog on Softpedia:

Restart & Purge - A custom button for restarting the browser and, if necessary, purging the startup cache, created by AstroSkipper As I have already reported in @roytam1's browser thread, I have been investigating the restart behaviour of New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 (and also Mypal 68, but this is off-topic here) for some time with a focus on the startup cache. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find much useful information or documentation on this topic on the internet. Even my request in @roytam1's browser thread also went unanswered (addendum: in the meanwhile, @VistaLover has replied here. Thanks again for that! ). It seems that detailed information or knowledge about the startup cache and how the browser restart affects this cache is practically non-existent. The startup cache seems to be a replacement for the former Fastload. It resides in the profile directory to store continuous chunks of data in it. In my New Moon 28 installation, without using the custom folder chrome for scripts and CSS stylesheets, only one file resides there with the name startupCache.4.little. As both, the folder and file name, contain the string startupcache, one can conclude that data is stored inside this file to accelerate the startup of the browser. Which data exactly I really don't know. I didn't find any meaningful documentation. I noticed that very often or in most cases the startup cache was cleared or reorganised automatically without any additional commands when restarting the browser. Sometimes, however, it remained unchanged after a restart. At least, I could find the code responsible for purging the startup cache. Anyway! One thing is clear. If the data in the startup cache is corrupted, then starting problems can occur which only can be solved by deleting its content. This can be done, for example, manually or by the commandline option -purgecaches. But there is no button or item to start this purge of the startup cache in a convenient way from within the UXP browsers. That's why I created a custom button for this purpose in JavaScript (rather a variant of JavaSript), the programming language used for creating new custom buttons by the extension Custom Buttons. I branded this custom button Restart & Purge. It performes a normal restart when left-clicked and additionally purges the startup cache when middle-clicked. After creation I have tested this custom button over a longer period of time, and it works for me as it should. Here is a small screenshot of my custom button Restart & Purge and its tooltip taken from New Moon 28: As the code of Restart & Purge has to be initialised, you won't find it in the tab "Code" but in the tab "Initialization code" of this custom button. Here is a screenshot of its code: The former download links unfortunately contained an XML backup file of the Restart & Purge custom button which either couldn't be installed without additional editing or some characters were not transferred correctly. The problem has to do with the conversion of custom buttons into XML format, where the tool I had used did not work correctly. This time I therefore provide a custom button link for direct install (when the extension Custom Buttons is already installed, of course ). Copy the quoted link below and open it in a new browser tab: I can't insert the code of the link in this post! The MSFN forum editor is totally broken and hasn't been working properly for months especially when it comes to inserting of links. This has already reported multiple times! Well done, who is responsible for it! Due to the shortcomings of the MSFN forum editor, I uploaded the custom button link of Restart & Purge as an HTML file. Here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nrqim7ek9s6gp07/CB_button_Restart_%26_Purge.html/file Simply open this HTML file in a browser tab and click the embedded custom button link for Restart & Purge! For the installation of this button, the extension Custom Buttons is required which you can get from this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226328 And since the legacy Custom Buttons extension runs in the UXP browsers, my custom button Restart & Purge can be used in New Moon 28, Serpent 52, Pale Moon and some other browsers. Greetings, AstroSkipper

And so that you don't get the impression that everything in the Pale Moon forum is hostile and unfair, here's a post from back2themoon, the creator of the thread "New uBlock Origin version released (Special mod by @AstroSkipper)", who has something positive and factual to say about my mod uBlock Origin Legacy: Source: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=30787&sid=feea3eb912a653ba49c1fb3c2bc447f3&start=60#p248386 Many thanks to back2themoon for this fair and factual contribution!

As far as I know, the latest version is still UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly (15.10.2023) from here: https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/files/nightly.zip

And a special thanks to @nicolaasjan for providing objective and real facts in that inofficial Pale Moon thread! I really appreciate your objectivity and practicality. As you probably know, I haven't posted on the Pale Moon forum for a long time. And I always feel vindicated in this decision when I read such comments. Thanks again!

And again, only half-truths and falsehoods in the Pale Moon forum by our "friend" athenian200, in a thread that is not the official support thread of my mod uBlock Origin Legacy: Source: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=30787&sid=feea3eb912a653ba49c1fb3c2bc447f3&start=60#p248309 Why does someone who spreads so many untruths and half-knowledge think he can give advice, especially when he has discredited himself so much with an inadequate examination and disastrous conclusions? Unbelievable! He shouldn't gloss over mistakes he has made, but rather apologise to his readers for the nonsense which he spread there. Read here: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=30787&sid=feea3eb912a653ba49c1fb3c2bc447f3&start=60#p248292 The only thing that is really true in his stories is that he has no idea about extensions. Here is a quotation from the linked post above: Anyway! If one had read the changelogs I provided, one would have realised that not only filter lists were changed. Please, ignore what this guy is saying there! Form your own independent and uninfluenced opinion! Therefore, I advise everyone to read here or ask questions here to get factually correct answers or information when it comes to my mod uBlock Origin Legacy. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

If all steps in my guide are performed thoroughly, it should work in any case. My guide was tested successfully by different users. You mentioned that you are using VM and Hyper-V in a network with a server and clients. I assume that rather could be the cause of the problem. I use Windows XP installed on real hardware. The method "Restoring WU/MU by using the patch + proxy method" worked like a charm there. So, you unfortunately have to check all your network and internet settings. BTW, I couldn't open your attached file on my Android tablet. I will try it later at my desktop computer where Wireshark is installed. A pcapng file is a special file format used by Wireshark. But one thing is clear. If my guide and other methods don't work in your system, then your system itself is the causer of all problems. My advice to you: Try first one of the methods on a standalone (no client or server) computer without VM or other virtualisation techniques! If it is working then, you rather will get an idea what's the cause of errors. The more complex a system, the more difficult to find the cause of a problem.

@VistaLover Do you have any more in-depth information on the startup cache in Firefox-based browsers or links to corresponding documents? I can't seem to find anything like that. You know your way around the Mozilla pages better.

Then, I seem to have misunderstood that.

Yep! I thought he should have found out that for himself when conducting such an "investigation". I don't think he really read my article. Or at least, not really thoroughly.

As you surely noticed, you have to use a more recent version v1.5 of ProxHTTPSProxy when using IE8 for connecting with MU/WU. The error code 0x80072F78 is described as "ERROR_HTTP_INVALID_SERVER_RESPONSE = The server response could not be parsed." You should check everthing related to your internet connection. Did you already read my Complete guide for restoring IE's access to WU/MU website using ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy in Windows XP? I think you missed something.