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My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Was anything changed with Basilisk recently? The twitter videos on XP are now choppy and unwatchable. It could be something with twitter but I did check with Firefox 52.9 and they seem the same. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
To read Mozilla employees on the forums they figure ending support for 52 will increase users since they will move to 60esr forcibly. We'll see but even if that doesn't happen and user share continues to fall they will defend their decision to abandon legacy addons to the bitter end. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
@Mathwiz, yeah there are addons that will do the same thing, I've got Custom UserAgent String installed in firefox 60 that lets you custom sites to a specific user string and in fact I've done that with youtube and a few others. Or I might try general.useragent.override.www.youtube.com, that's sounds like a good idea. Eventually I'll get around to it in basilisk but I have a feeling google will probably remove their old layout soon anyway, they seem determined to change things around every year with something new and worse. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Normally I use Win 7 in the user string (6.1) for everything. IE11 isn't a supported browser anymore for a lot of sites, couldn't even post on this one, had to switch to waterfox. I just want it mainly for youtube and with user agent switcher it's easy to go back and forth but sometimes I forget and leave it on IE11 until some site goes haywire. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
What I found is if the user agent string is set to IE11 (I do that to get the old youtube layout) then twitter audio will be distorted. Changing the user agent to Waterfox 56.0 fixes it. Strange how that works but Firefox 52.9 doesn't have that problem. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
After some digging it turns out the firewall was blocking it. For some reason this build requires a few extra outbound connections but it appears to be good now. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
With Saturday's basilisk for xp build I can't load comments on some websites. Here's an example: http://thehill.com/ As far as I know the previous build didn't have this problem and I've made no setting changes. Since reading or posting comments rely on javascript I disabled noscript but the behavior was the same. -
My Browser Builds (Part 1)
DanR20 replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Thanks for fixing the permissions.sqlite with basilisk, it's working good now. This is what Mozilla firefox 52 should have been. Its very quick and the videos run smooth, few dropped frames with streaming mp4. -
From that other link provided you can find blackwingcat's posted IE updates. Click on the Legacy Windows Catalog link to find the year and month. The last one as I recall was in 2014 or 2015 and that is good enough to install the kernelex. You may have to use IE to download anything since I've had trouble with 52esr Firefox. A few days ago there were posts (now apparently deleted) that said there's an even more recent IE update but I don't know where that is and in any case it isn't needed to install kernelex. Update: the last IE6 cumulative patch for W2k was in April of 2013, kb2817183. That can still be downloaded from the link above and should be good enough to install kernelex.
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You can get blackwingcat's updates by month here: http://w2k.flxsrv.org/wlu/wlu.htm And the latest kernelex versions: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1299806.html Where people are seeing new IE6 updates I don't know, the last one I recall was in 2014 or 2015 but then that browser lost its usefulness 10 years ago. Still, if there is a more recent update please post a link if anyone has it.
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Dibya, any luck on getting the nightlies to work in w2k without crashing? I see a problem with some of the newer webextensions not being compatible since they require a host node.exe that will not install on w2k. So even if it is possible to make the nightly work properly there will still be some limitations. Sandboxing is another one.
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Hi blackwingcat, glad to see this project is still alive with the release of v2.9bG. It's not that important since Firefox 57 is a pos that I probably won't be using if the latest nightly ends up as release (I'll be sticking with 52esr) but I'm getting this error now with the 2.9bG: "The procedure entry point SleepConditionVariableCS could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32dll." Another call function in Vista or higher. Is it already supported or something else that would need to be added?
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BWC, thanks for the new direct link on your blog to Windows Update. I could not find anything on Google about the change in the URL and for posready 2009 I was getting a redirect to "your browser is not supported" message. Be nice if Microsoft would provide some info regarding this OS, or maybe they have and I just couldn't find it.
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That's good, I'll wait until he releases the English version.
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hi blackwingcat, is the CoGetApartmentType issue fixed with the latest Japanese version v2.8j so that newer Firefox nightlies will work again with w2k?
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What I did was to install your latest KernelEx (I had a slightly older one) and it was installed with the default options except for condition variable that was unchecked. The only entry I checked was DirectX 10 stub, although I'm not sure exactly what that does yet. My video card does support DX10. The "K32GetMappedFileNameW" error is gone but now I'm getting this instead: The procedure entry point CoGetApartmentType could not be located in the dynamic library ole32.dll. CoGetApartmentType is for Windows 7 and later, is that call function available in ole32 and are you able to open the very latest 54 nightly inbound without this error??
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Got a new problem with the 54 nightlies, now getting this error: The procedure entry point K32GetMappedFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll I've tried replacing and removing "K32GetMappedFileNameW" from xul.dll but in both cases I then get a "Can't lead XPCOM" error. Anybody else experiencing this? This is something they just added in the last few days as "K32GetMappedFileNameW" was not there prior.
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It looks like there is a new version of Java 6: 141 b31. Might as well forget the v131 then, if you are able to get a hold of this latest one blackwingcat I'd appreciate it. I'll be glad when Java is gone but it's still going to be around awhile yet.
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Hello blackwingcat, if you're referring to the November 2016 JRE 6 update 131v2 I did re-download that a few days ago and re-installed it but there was no difference. It still located to a separate Jre6_131 directory with no ability to uninstall through Add/Remove. It automatically installs the Java files through a dos window, it doesn't have the typical old interface with the prompts. Is this something new that Sun came out with the 6 versions and is intentional?
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Hello, I can't find the link to download the updated version, it's not on the page where you normally have your downloads, would you have a direct link?
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Hi blackwingcat, had some major problems with the latest java. It installed it into a new folder called Jre6_131 instead of overwriting the previous version Jre6. It doesn't work either, I'm just getting a blank white screen. But even worse there was no way to uninstall it in order to use the older version. Fortunately I had a older registry backup so I'm on Java 121 again. Please let me know if you're experiencing any of this.
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Hi, do you have a link where we can get the extended xp? I've searched and can't find anything recent.
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Interestingly firefox nightly 53 is now blocked on XP but still works great on w2k :--). There must be similar threads doing the same thing for XP, I'm sure someone already has firefox going again on that platform. blackwingcat, is it possible to get a hold of the latest java 6u131 b32?
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So far with latest Extended kernel Firefox 52 is opening on its own and without the hack and there's been no crashes. I'll give an update in a week or so but it's looking good.
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Hi blackwingcat, thanks for that fix. Maybe I'm missing it somewhere but I can't find the download link, the very last v2.8h on the kernelex page is coming up empty, would you have a direct link to the updated one ? Also this announcement from Mozilla says they'll be ending support for XP after v52: http://news.softpedia.com/news/firefox-53-will-drop-support-for-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-508688.shtml Looks like more changes and updates will eventually need to be made but 52esr will be good at least until mid-2018 so there's plenty of time and even if FF or its forks becomes impossible to run anymore to see these programs still going 8 years after the end of w2k support is quite a feat.