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    @Tangy, most of mine are working but it has broken at least those two I mentioned. I even tried installing them in a new profile but they're dead. Hope it can be fixed otherwise I'm stuck on this older version since they are must have addons.
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    @roytam1, this week's basilisk UXP seems to have messed up the right context menu, there are many more entries. I temporarily restored last week's version and the menu went back to normal so it's definitely something with the new one. Anyone else experiencing this? Edit: it appears this weeks' version has caused several addons to stop working: menu editor and context search x are dead even though they're listed as enabled in addon manager. I've gone back to last week's basilisk.
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    In XP flash has excellent hardware acceleration in firefox with these legacy radeon drivers, even in the 52.0 version but you had to go full screen for youtube and other videos. Guess I was one of the rare ones who didn't mind flash since the quality was perfectly fine but unfortunately few sites use it anymore. Mozilla messed it up in firefox even before its natural demise since after version 42 they forced the buggy plugin-container.exe by removing the option to disable OOPP. The result was choppy videos. It's the same reason primetime videos have reduced quality as well.
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    Not all of us, this is a long thread and I haven't run into any posts of your stance on XP, could you summarize? I still enjoy working W2k that blackwingcat kept going for so many years because like XP it's simple, fast and easy to use. The only complaint is that I'm unable to get video hardware acceleration going with any browser in either XP or W2k, including Firefox or Basilisk 52 probably because the drivers are blacklisted. In Windows 7 that works great.
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    @Tamris, same here, don’t post there myself but do visit occasionally because of the many links to good articles. No sense wasting my time arguing about it, let them have their quantum, I suspect it’s not long for this world anyway.
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    @jaclaz, the problem is no matter what you run on the internet there's a security risk. I've been using computers for 20 years and never had a problem with viruses yet. It's a matter of taking advantage of the right tools, like noscript and turning on javascript only when needed. I do upgrade software when it's worth using but not for the sake of it. My hunch is Mozilla is desperate for market share and they need people off the older versions and onto quantum and they use security fears as a way to nudge people in that direction. It used to work but it doesn't so much anymore.
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    What a joke reddit.com/r/firefox/ has become. Besides the usual quantum suckups where no criticism is tolerated for anyone who even hints at still using an older version there's an auto moderator that chimes in to spank the poster. They are scolded to immediately upgrade to a newer, safer, warmer version complete with Alice in Wonderland coloring books before the big bad security bogeyman gets ya. Apparently Mozilla thinks we're all a bunch of little children who need their constant hand holding to save us from ourselves. Not even Microsoft is that much of a nanny.
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    Today I booted up XP to run the latest basilisk and can't get over how fast and stable it is, that's usually my answer to those who ask why anyone bothers. Those having fits over XP are probably software developers who want it to disappear since it means extra work if they have to keep coding for it. Understandable but Microsoft is the one who has been keeping it around as much as anyone. It wouldn't surprise me if they extended POSReady for another year :--)
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    What's annoying to me is the fact that those who rail endlessly against XP almost never mention that it is being updated and it's not a secret since people have been taking advantage of the PosReady 2009 hack for years. In the last four months I've downloaded and installed at least 22 security patches alone for this older system. Not only that but you can still get the latest virus programs, flash player, and thanks to this project an updated browser. It is an old OS and probably has holes nonetheless but it's not like it isn't getting support. I'm usually on something newer but millions use XP regularly for whatever reason and it works fine, always has. It's almost funny how some of these anti-XP internet freaks go on a rampage, as if they have something to lose. No matter what forum their heads act like they're about to explode at the mere mention of XP. The end of support for PosReady is next April so it will require extra locking down but I wonder how many malware/virus trolls even bother with it anymore, they probably moved on to Windows 10.
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    @roytam, I know you're already doing a lot with basilisk but is anyone in this project doing anything with Thunderbird 52? I was just curious if it would be possible to apply whatever security patches that 52 basilisk might be getting to that Thunderbird version?
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    Twitter is just a pain in the a** for playing their videos. Setting general.useragent.override.twitter.com with a custom agent in about:config works good for fixing the distortion with basilisk 52 but the videos still run horribly because this box doesn't handle the forced higher resolution well. Unlike with XP 60esr and Firefox 52 in Windows 7 do but they're using the built in codecs and that seems to work better since it uses hardware acceleration. Twitter has no option to adjust resolution the way youtube does that I can see so they're downloaded with downloadhelper 6.3.1, which typically offers three different resolution videos, proving they are on Twitter's server but you can only stream what they serve up.
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    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.
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    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.
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    @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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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