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    About: Menu - A custom button for accessing all about: pages via a toolbar menu The About: Menu custom button, created by the well-known developer LouCypher long time ago, is another useful one. It gives the user the opportunity to access any desired about: page by clicking onto the corresponding entry inside a toolbar button menu. This menu contains all entries which are listed on the about:about page, but it is more convenient to access via a toolbar button. Here is a screenshot: I only changed the tool tip text and replaced the image of the toolbar button icon by the one from the Add-ons Manager. I should mention at this point that the button does not work in Serpent 52, but in New Moon 28. Thanks to @dmiranda for reporting! I uploaded the About: Menu custom button as an HTML file for an offline installation. Here is the download link of my modded custom button About: Menu, credits, of course, to its great developer LouCypher: https://www.mediafire.com/file/o931jc1a3e7l9zj/About-_Menu_4-7-24__021410.htm/file Simply open this HTML file in a browser tab and click the embedded custom button link for About: Menu! For the installation of this button, as for all others too, the extension Custom Buttons is required and has to be installed first. You can get it 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 Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper
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    Right! "No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build", but "Official UXP changes picked since my last build".
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    And since I've talked so much about custom buttons recently, I'll introduce another one next, so that you don't get the impression that this guy here is just babbling.
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    Personally, I have no problem with something no longer working. But if it also produces error (messages), then it's a completely different story. Get rid of it!
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    Me, too. When I had fixed all errors in my Windows XP system years ago, I also removed this Microsoft Auto Certificates Updater component. And bye, bye error messsges in the Event Viewer.
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    If I post custom buttons here, regardless of whether they were created by me or by someone else, or in some cases, modded or fixed by me, then this results in a clear advantage for the user. These custom buttons have definitely been tested by me and are compatible with the Custom Buttons extension and @roytam1's UXP browsers. And most probably compatible with Basilisk and Pale Moon, too. Isn't that a great service?
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    Creating this thread was complex and very time-consuming. Right from the start, I paid attention to a good and clear structure. In the first three posts of this thread, I made a clear differentiation between extensions and custom buttons: Introductory post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226243 Extensions: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226244 Custom buttons and other articles: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226245 All listed entries there have been linked to their corresponding posts. Thus, all is easy to find. In my opinion, that will have to suffice. BTW, such kind of structure is rather rare to find here in this or other forums (actually fora), if I may say so. But thanks for your opinion!
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    There are actually a lot of extensions or custom buttons that are just waiting to be given a new lease of life. Therefore, I would also very much welcome it if more users of UXP browsers who have the appropriate skills would fork and develop extensions or custom buttons. Strictly following the rule: the more, the better.
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    TBH, I have known all this for a long time. That's why I listed all these sources in my first post in this thread. BTW, I have forked extensions too and made some fully working again. Not only uBlock Origin Legacy but also, for example, Check My IP Address & Location. But what I am trying to do at the moment is to get back the user's focus on custom buttons which are really great and deserve it.
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    If different machines show the same error, then a programme is most probably the causer which is used on both computers. Just an assumption which has to be proved, of course. Focus on things that you have done the same way on both machines!
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    Custom buttons - An underrated alternative or supplement to extensions Although most custom buttons are old or even very old, many of them do still work in @roytam1's browsers, Basilisk or Pale Moon. These custom buttons have unfortunately fallen completely out of the focus of users. Many don't know them at all or have simply never used them. I think this is a great pity, as they are a simple, resource-saving and therefore efficient way to add missing or advanced functions to browsers in which a compatible Custom Buttons extension can be installed. Most custom buttons are rather specialised and add features to the browser that cannot even be retrofitted with extensions. The reason is very simple, such legacy extensions weren't and won't be developed any longer to the extent that it once was. Only a few are still maintained, and a very few are developed from scratch. In these days, only webextensions are developed. Anyway! In my browser profiles, the Custom Buttons extension is always the first one I install and then all my favourite custom buttons. Only then are all further required extensions installed. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    I assume that some parts of the registry have been damaged, or simply some entries have been deleted by whatever. And TBH, I appreciate tools from Nirsoft. Many of them are inside my repair and first aid folder for troubleshooting and fixing.
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    Re-registering of dll files is a very safe and in a lot of cases successful method in Windows XP to fix errors of whatever kind. I use different tools for that. One is the Nirsoft tool RegDllView for doing that in a more convenient way: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/registered_dll_view.html It offers additional, useful features. All is descibed on its homepage. Another nice, small tool to register or unregister dll files or ActiveX controls is Register Tool: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Register-Tool.shtml
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    I have updated my self-created, offline Root Certificate Updaters in the section 11.2.4. Downloads related to Root Certificate Updates (in the first post of this thread). I have created the offline Root Certificate Updaters both from 27.02.2024 and the current ones from 26.03.2024 and added the links to my article. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    I have Malware Hunter 1.181.0.803 installed on my Windows XP computer, and I can confirm that it is still XP-compatible. Therefore, I have updated my corresponding article. and my list in the second post of this thread. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    I changed the image links in my article about Pref Toggler due to access problems caused by the image hoster I use. BTW, if you may wonder where the user-selected preferences are stored, it's in a preference of Pref toggler in about.config called extensions.custombuttons.PrefToggler.prefList. I will also add this information to my article.
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    Thank you for the hint! This time, I didn't look there for alternatives. In any case, good to know that there is a more recent fork of SQLite Manager. I've already added it to my article.
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    SQLite Manager - An extension to manage any SQLite database inside the browser The extension SQLite Manager can manage all sqlite files inside New Moon, Serpent, Pale Moon and other browsers, even those sqlite files which belong to the browser itself. With SQLite Manager, you can view all entries, add new ones, edit or delete old ones inside those sqlite files. Here is a quotation with all offerred features from its homepage: The last version is SQLite Manager 0.8.3.1 from 2015 which can be downloaded from the Classic Add-ons Archive or from here: https://github.com/lazierthanthou/sqlite-manager/releases Some screenshots: An alternative is SQLite Admin 1.1, a fork of SQLite Manager for UXP applications, recommended by @billmcct in this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1262553 You can get this extension here: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/sqlite-admin/ Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    uBlock Origin Legacy - Blocking of certain browser detection scripts If you want to block browser detection scripts which contain in their URL the string browser-detect- from all websites, you simply have to create an universal rule in the tab "My filters", strictly according to the motto "one for all" , just like this one: /*browser-detect-*.js I personally prefer such universal rules to block as many of those crappy browser detection scripts as possible. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    Thunderbird.net has still been a source for some legacy extensions. That's why I initially listed it in the first post of this thread to offer and collect here different sources.
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    I didn't realise that so many people here are interested in the physics of thermodynamics.
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    This version has much more options than the old one. Its layout is more modern, and this Custom Buttons extensions offers features which the old one doesn't have. All is working in the moment as it should. This Custom Buttons extension seems to be a perfect choice especially for the more advanced users. Here is a preview. Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    As far as I can remember, I got this version from the Custom Buttons Forum many years ago. This forum is no longer active and has unfortunately closed. The Custom Buttons extension was fixed on a regular base in those days due to breakages which occurred repeatedly after updating Firefox. In these days, you can get this extension either via the Classic Add-ons Archive or here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/custombuttons/files/. I personally have an huge archive of custom buttons themselves and the Custom Buttons extensions which were created in those days. However, the Custom Buttons 0.0.5.8.9.6-fixed8 version, you presumably will get only here. These fixed versions were never archived officially. I have just checked my archive of custom buttons and extensions. I found there a more recent version of the Custom Buttons extension targeting our Firefox respectively Pale Moon based browsers and installed it in a New Moon 28 testing profile. Only if the testing is positive, and all my custom buttons are working properly, I will present this version here.
  24. AstroSkipper
    Right! There is no need to change anything in the button code unless you want to create a mod of this custom button. The preferences, you want to control should be added, edited or deleted via the button "Edit List".
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    FYI, my toggle buttons can easily be modified to switch other Boolean preferences. I explained it in the corresponding posts. TBH, there is nothing to be changed in the button's code. I think you rather mean changing the selected preferences which you want to control. This is to be done in the main user interface window of Pref Toggler via the button "Edit List". That's good to hear. Thanks for your feedback!
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