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    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. 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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    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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    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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    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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    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? 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.
  19. DanR20
    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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    Classic Shell, now Open Shell is the first program that gets installed, just hope that it keeps working with 21H2. Not the least bit interested in Microsoft's modern start menus.
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    Same here. I seldom even boot up into it except to install their usual buggy updates. Some really annoying changes are probably small potatoes to a lot of people, but they add up. For instance, when switching accounts without logging off if the current account has music playing it stops when you log into the other account. To me that is just stupid, it never did that in prior OSs but if Microsoft thinks that it should then why not provide the user with an option? Another one is the ability to place icons in the order you want in the folder, they are alphabetical, take it or leave it. In Win7 you could apply a hack to overcome the limitation but no longer. So I find myself numbering the icons so they stay where I want them. When booting into Win10 it goes to the account you shut down in. The option to boot into a preferred account is gone. Very. Stupid. Not to mention the lack of native classic theme. Now I don't know if these changes were made prior to Win10 and after Win7 since I've never used Win8 but for some reason all of these software companies regress when it comes to options. Mozilla and Google, same thing. For now I'm happily on Win7 most of the time.
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    You're lucky to get by with only two, in Serpent I've got 36 of them and all of them are used frequently. It's actually surprising that the browser even opens.
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    Currently using three of JustOff's addons and he's keeping up with the most important one, uBlock. They don't even make any money for their work, all they get are complaints, even some on that thread as we see with jacobliu1234. He's free to use chrome if he wants "modern" standards. The way I've seen google lately they're actually dragging internet choice and freedom down, not moving it forward.
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    It looks like Microsoft is bringing their Github changes to Hotmail. So far messages are coming in but eventually we'll need a polyfill extension the way they take forever to load now and have that wavy gray strip for each one.
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    That happens to me too. I find that it helps to open each video in a new tab, all of the settings seem to work right from the start. Now that I found the mpc-be player, which is even better for youtube videos than VLC I don’t have to use google’s horrible player that much thankfully but this addon does make it more tolerable at least.
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