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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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    Open the addon with 7-zip or a similar program and on the root there’s a file manifest.json. If you’re using 7-zip right click edit to open it and nine lines down you’ll see: "strict_min_version": "68.0" Just change it to this: "strict_min_version": "52.0" Save and close and it should install. I already had the previous version on there so all that was needed was to swap the old one with the new one.
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    Yes I remember that thread, I may have chimed in as did some others. Glad it was kept too. Also good question, what happened to @Mathwiz, he seems to have vanished.
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    Can't say, haven't tested it. If it does work it would only be in the 28 or 29.
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    Roy kept that for his builds. Enhancer for YouTube is the only one I have and it works well with Serpent.
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    What do you mean? Security threat?
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    One of the best addons for youtube, Enhancer for YouTube finally got updated to 2.0.103. He put a strict min version of 68.0 but by chance I lowered it to 52.0 and tried it in UXP and it works perfectly, every setting that I can tell. There’s quite a few changes too.
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    Considering a backup pre-Prescott Pentium 4 that I own is pretty old (2004 model) except for a few selected sites like youtube's new layout it hums along pretty good. And even youtube isn't that bad. In fact I just picked up a used motherboard for it since Win7 still has several more years of life left. Do agree though, it's shame to cut those off, millions of people are probably on them as their main box and will be for quite a while yet.
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    Video DownloadHelper 6.3.1 still works good for twitter and dailymotion but not the new youtube layout, for that I use VLC Player. First you have to get the video streaming then from Tools/Media Information on the bottom where it says Location that’s a direct link to the video. Just plug that in to your address bar and it will start downloading. Thanks to those who linked to the other addons, I’m going to try those as well.
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    A counterargument to that is there are many poorer countries like China and India where the people simply can't afford newer boxes. They're going to use what they got regardless and so it does everyone a great service to at least provide them with a working browser with some security protections. Now I get that browser developers can't do this forever but Goggle has the money, although they do what they feel like because they have the power. This is where Roytam and others deserve a good deal of credit for keeping the older versions of Firefox patched and up to date as best they can since for these users it's better than nothing. And the side benefit is that the rest of us get to keep using them as well.
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    With Mozilla bleeding firefox users can’t seem them doing it. They probably will eventually, just not right away. But then you never know, going from the old legacy system to quantum cost them millions of users and it didn’t seem to phase them. So I do hope they wait until at least after the next esr version to keep the newer FF useable on the old Win7 boxes until it’s dropped completely.
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    Roytam does have a post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP that is based on Firefox 55. For me it works great in 2000 with kernelex installed. The latest release is here on the bottom: https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/page/171/
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    Have you tried Roy's 45esr version with the added lav codecs? I was testing that out and was surprised at how well it rendered youtube and dailymotion videos.
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    The easiest way is to go here: https://mycroftproject.com/ I just tested it and plugins install perfect in NM27. Click on the plugin you want and it'll take to a page that says Install plugin This page allows you to install the selected plugin. From your search bar the left green icon when the menu drops down on the very bottom you can add the search engine.
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    For XP roytam's UXP 52 and New Moon 27 and 28 work well with most sites and at least provide some protections since they are ported with Firefox's latest security patches. A third program for Win7 - Win10 is ShellFolderFixUI. Works great for holding each individual folder the way you configure it.
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    Classic Shell, now Open Shell along with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker made Windows 7 a good choice and are even more important with Windows 10. Without these third party programs that restore useful functions I'd probably still be on XP most of the time. I'm waiting for someone to bring back the classic theme for Windows 10, Microsoft screwed it up so bad removing that option it has turned the OS into a joke.
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    Never really moved on, I just triple boot with XP, Win 7 and Win 10. On an older computer I've still got W2k. Each OS has it uses, especially XP with programs that can't be installed on the newer ones. Of the bunch Win 10 barely gets used, I consider that OS a joke but will probably be needed in the future.
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    78esr up to the most recent nightly work well for me on Win 7 but that's because of xiaoxiaoflood's project that has let me install three of my favorite and most needed legacy addons: Custom buttons Keyconfig Downthemall Without those Quantum probably wouldn't see the light of day. As it is I use roytam's 52 UXP quite often, mainly for the addons so I could just use only that if need be.
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    It might be that Chrome doesn’t allow for a user style sheet like Firefox or IE. In that case you’d probably have to install an addon such as stylus or stylish for that particular code to work. Not sure why you can’t right click the object and block it, normally that works well with uBlock. It also helps you to get the actual id that can be used to block it in a style sheet. Are you getting the small window in the lower right corner?
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    Since I never use Chrome does it have a userContent.css or equivalent to block objects with? If so, you try some of these, it's what I use to keep most of youtube's popups and annoying messages at bay, including the one you're seeing: #channel-container{display:none !important;} #contentContainer{display:none !important;} #enhancer-for-youtube-toolbar{display:none !important;} #hats-container{display:none !important;} #live-chat-iframe.yt-uix-expander-body.live-chat-iframe{display:none !important;} #tabs-container{display:none !important;} .yt-alert{display:none !important;} .yt-dialog-show-content.yt-dialog-fg-content{display:none !important;} #yt-lang-alert-container{display:none !important;} .yt-live-chat-text-message-renderer-0{display:none !important;} .ytd-button-renderer.style-scope.yt-simple-endpoint{display:none !important;} .ytd-popup-container.style-scope{display:none !important;} .ytp-promotooltip-pointer{display:none !important;} .ytp-promotooltip-container{display:none !important;}
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