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Is anyone having problems on Twitter with the volume slider and UXP 52 and 55? It seems to have just started but it will no longer pop up to adjust the volume. Still working in the newer firefox versions.
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1 hour ago, XPerceniol said:
I hope you will continue your development for FF45 - I've been using it and will give up on MCP altogether after finally reading what happened.
It's not the end of uxp 52 and boc-uxp is it? I haven't had time to read through all of what's been going on lately yet but didn't see any updates today so just wondering.
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Hi Roy, the BOC/UXP link is coming up empty. I checked on the Index site and it doesn't look like it's been uploaded yet.
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9 hours ago, RainyShadow said:
Another useful trick i just found about yesterday is that you can change www.youtube.com to music.youtube.com for a somewhat lighter viewing experience.
Still, playback lags like hell here tough...
The site itself is quicker and more responsive.
Invidious seems to be an excellent alternative for older computers, it doesn't even require javascript to run videos and that by itself is a huge plus.
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4 hours ago, Rod Steel said:
Ok, i check this 50 min video on Invidious and no freeze on 23 minute. Checking on YouTube make not much sense since last versions of YT layer make auto-correction if freeze happen in NM28. But invidious player always freeze on 23min. And now no freeze. Great job mixit!
Didn't even know about that site, it's a good front-end to youtube, thanks for the link.
One thing I notice about it is that it caches videos to your temp folder in Local Settings while watching it, something youtube used to do. I've got firefox disk cache disabled and store cache in memory only so youtube videos don't store anything to disk.
For those using Invidious it's probably more convenient to just manually download the longer videos and watch them locally since it's automatically downloading them anyway.
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On 7/31/2021 at 12:53 AM, mixit said:
Thanks, man!
Ran a quick test on both with MP4, seems to "work for me". 
Hopefully the same will be the case for everyone!
Just ran the same video from a few days ago for the full hour but this time no buffering.
Looks like it's finally fixed, nice job.
On 7/30/2021 at 11:16 PM, Rod Steel said:Yes, and as far as i remember, Adobe Flash Player was have even H&W acceleration of H.264 video in XP. At least there were option H&W acceleration and with that option CPU usage was very low while playing H.264 video in XP.
Flash got a bad rap and probably rightly so with its constant security bugs but the HW acceleration in full screen was nice. It was far better than the Adobe primetime plugin in my experience.
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1 hour ago, roytam1 said:
My changes since my last build:
- cubeb_winmm.c overflow fix by mixit@MSFN, Thanks! This should fix the famous 23m18s freeze bug for audio/video playback. (85149582f)
Thanks Roy for adding this so quickly. Will test it out tomorrow and post the result.
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@mixit.
Finally a fix, that's been a problem for a long time. I just tested it again in XP and the usual buffering was around 25:12. No reason for Mozilla not to have resolved it, there were plenty of complaints so they had to know. Probably too busy messing with the UI to be bothered with real bugs and then they wonder why their user base keeps dwindling.
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6 hours ago, luweitest said:
If thunderbird is also affected, you could raise the issue to bugzilla.mozilla.org.
It's an issue that has been brought up in other forums like mozillazine, but I'm not sure if a bug has ever been filed. I was just trying to let Mr.Scienceman2000 know that's in an old problem and that he probably doesn't need to delete the entire profile, might try the ImapMail folder first.
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FWIW the Yahoo IMAP folder gets easily corrupted, regardless if it's mailnews or the latest Thunderbird and it has for years. I regularly delete the ImapMail folder in the profile since it re-generates when checking emails.
Both will also download the Yahoo junk folder when starting the program on occasion despite not being set to but will disappear after checking emails. I don't know if that happens with all IMAP accounts since Yahoo is the only one I've got.
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9 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:
(offtopic)
There is still the preference "browser.menu.showViewImageInfo", which you can set to "true".
Someone will probably come up with an addon to restore Page Info on the context menu the way they did with View Image.
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27 minutes ago, VistaLover said:
Plus, Mozilla currently employ a small army of well-paid young web/app designers, they have to constantly "re-invent the wheel" GUI-wise, their moto is "fix it until it's broken"; if they stopped messing with Fx's UI, they would have nothing to work on and probably made redundant... Instead, Mozilla keep them on and force into retirement/let go
all the highly talented/accomplished "old school" developers of their glorious past... The end is near... 
Here's one of them, he does Firefox designing on his iPad. Judging by Proton who's surprised?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGuElYZZzQ
It took me about a half a day to restore it mostly back with userChrome but that's thanks to dedicated css writers who had the code ready to go.They knew exactly what was wrong with Proton, why didn't Mozilla?
Quote(e.g. my sister was very upset when they removed the "Page Info" context menu entry in Fx 88
: she was used to it being there, to aid her get direct links to images on pages; FWIW, you now have to use CTRL+I, until, of course, they kill that too in a future "upgrade").
That's another major complaint, options are there forever that people are used to and depend on and the next update they're suddenly gone. I have custom buttons made, including Page Info that maintains the consistency but I also have to rely on the addons not breaking.
For the first time since IE6 I'm actually working with another browser. Normally Windows 10 is ignored but after the 21H1 update I began trying out Edge and it's not too bad. So that along with Roy's build may be the future.
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A little off topic but it's hilarious the uproar over the Firefox "refresh" Proton.
Who didn't expect it, I can't think of a designer change in the last 10 years that ever got better, it's always worse. Youtube same thing. Mozilla's obsession with the UI and their constant changes is going to cost them even more users.
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Does Office 2003 have Service Pack 3? I just updated to 21HI and the Office 2003 installation is still working wonderfully but the trick that I found was to not install SP3 but use a fresh install only. The one update is Office 2007 compatibility pack with SP3 and all the security patches.
On the message boards those having problems with Office 2003 and Win10 all seem to have SP3 installed so that's why I tried using it out of the box only and it's never been a problem. Of course there's no security patches either so I wouldn't recommend downloading and opening unknown/untrusted files.
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7 hours ago, VistaLover said:
Twitter related upstream change targeting Pale Moon, applicable to New Moon 28, too:
https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/commit/4f00b12
This just started with Serpent 52 and 55 in the last week or so. I don't know why Twitter rejects the most recent user string when it's with the Serpent versions but accepts it if you use an older one. Youtube does the same thing.
Good to see Moonchild is on the case but I suspect at some point these older versions will get the IE11 treatment regardless of what user string we give them.
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Twitter is having firefox fits again. Using the latest release+ user string I'm getting this message in 52 and 55:
"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."
Changing the string to this and it comes in again:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
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5 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&p=212058&sid=4ca9cb48b5b0f03e18fe52ddbd09e9ac#p212058
Without Brakes.............
Those posts are always fun to read. Moonchild says that a browser is a tool as they all plan to destroy what makes it a useful tool so they can move forward into the "modern" era.
Did I get that right? --:)
Whatever changes they make can probably be reverted here (it's those MSFN Hackers) so it should only affect them. Also, it's for Pale Moon only right and firefox addons should keep working in 52 regardless?
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4 hours ago, dmiranda said:
Quite true. Silicon Valley wannabe complex, they suffer. It happened to Netscape too, for those who can remember or care to read about it.
This is the only text in shield-preference-experiments.json:
{"experiments":{}}
Mozilla firefox is like one of the those can't live with or without, it's still far better than chrome for certain things like customization. I just wish they would leave it alone and let us use it. It's one of the main reasons I enjoy this Serpent version. Their obsession with the ui and constantly changing it and removing options turns people off and is a big reason users move on from it.
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Ok I narrowed down the problem with the sticking mouse wheel. I thought it was google voice at first but usually I'll check both google and hotmail together. It turns out that it's hotmail seemingly causing the problem. After each visit page scrolling begins sticking and I'm forced to reboot the browser. This started recently after microsoft began messing around with the website.
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59 minutes ago, luweitest said:
I install it in latest Serpent52, but it shows incompatible and disabled. I revert to 1.1.7 (working before) , but it is disabled too!
If you have 7-zip installed right click archive to edit install.rdf. Where you see:
<Description>
<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>52.9.2020.10.05</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>52.9.2021.*</em:maxVersion>Change it to this:
<Description>
<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>48.0</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>55.0</em:maxVersion>That should let you install it in Serpent 55 as well. It works fine in that version too.
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17 hours ago, VistaLover said:
Although. this makes me wonder WTH such a file has to do with populating the about:support page? This is the stable/release channel of Firefox (i.e. v87.0), are they (Mozilla) now conducting experiments there?
It's a very small file, only 18 bytes. Kind of strange they linked that with about:support in the profile but nothing they do surprises me anymore.
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Can anyone test this? Whenever going to google voice lately with 52 right afterwards the mouse scrolling starts to stick and I’m forced to reboot the browser. It always seemed to do that following a visit to about:addons, even firefox 52 but now it’s happening with certain websites as well.
It’s not a problem with Serpent 55 so it may be version-related.
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2 hours ago, VistaLover said:
Except for facebook (
), twitter (
) and instagram (), what I personally consider the most detrimental places to visit on a (non-Google) desktop browser, she's basically clueless about IT, so I'm often summoned for troubleshooting on her machine... On such a recent occasion I found out, to my dismay, that the about:support troubleshooting help page of Fx 87.0el 32-bit remains empty of vital details...
That was a recent problem I came upon as well. After some testing with a fresh profile there's a new file called "shield-preference-experiments.json" that has to be there to get all of about:support (at least with v88.0, haven't tested with v87.0).
If the current profile isn't automatically generating it then try creating a new profile and then copying that file into the profile where it it isn't.
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If you’ve been working computers a while like me then you probably remember a great little program called OpenExpert. In win2k and XP it adds a context menu item that then lets you easily pick and choose the programs to open your files with. It’s way better than the native option.
It does install in Windows 7 but only if you do so prior to the installation of SP1. So you do a fresh install of bare Windows 7 then immediately install OpenExpert. After that, you can apply all of the OS updates normally.
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Anyone? This is happening with Twitter videos. I must be the only one who uses Twitter with 52 UXP :--).
Hope the browser can still be updated based on the latest news but this break probably never will be fixed unless Roy can take a look at it.