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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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    You don't want to give them any ideas. :--) This has to be UI designers on the payroll justifying their jobs since there's no rationale to keep messing with the UI when Mozilla knows how much their remaining user base hates it. For now we can probably revert most of the nonsensical change with userchrome.css but I'm waiting for that shoe to drop where they do away with that option completely. Even more reason to keep using roytam's basilisk and pale moon.
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    Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results: Mozilla is working on another Firefox UI design refresh https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/
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    That's never necessary, just ask google.
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    It's not that bad for me either on the more modern computer but for older ones the previous layout was much faster and more responsive. It's still there but google is making it practically impossible to use it.
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    5.8 beta seems to be fine for me on Win7 but WACUP is better on Win10 because several broken winamp features on that OS are fixed and development has stopped.
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    3.0 is good on w2k then. I never got around to installing a newer kernelex in full, just extracted some of the files from it and replaced the older ones in system32 with them. Interestingly, all of the OSs to play around with and W2k remains the best ever. Blackwingcat's work has been greatly appreciated. Just to note, for those on Win7 or higher dro's WACUP player (a forked version of winamp) can also stream youtube videos but for now VLC remains the first choice.
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    On W2k 2.2.6 is the highest, and that's only because of blackwingcat's kernelex. I have not tested his very latest kernelex version from March 2019 so it's possible 3.0 works, all anyone can do is try it. If 3.0 is good on XP I stand corrected, it was only tested on W2k and Win7 and 2.2.6 for me is better anyway. It's much preferred over the newer versions.
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    A little off topic but for XP\2000 users another alternative to google’s slow and annoying video player rendering with their “new and improved” youtube layout is to stream with VLC player. You probably wouldn’t want to use it very time but when I’m watching a bunch of videos in a row it comes in handy as it's quick and streams flawlessly with no worries of ads. For those interested the last VLC version to work in the older operating systems is 2.2.6, which can still be downloaded off the internet, filepuma has it. And as if google’s constant changing and breaking of their sites isn’t enough, they also apparently relish doing the same to their streaming protocols as well on occasion killing video playing with VLC but mercifully linkfanel at github keeps up with it: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua You need to download it raw, make sure its name is youtube.lua and then replace the old one in the app\vlc\lua\playlist folder.
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    If Ben Markson's solution works then having the last version shouldn't matter?? For me since I keep the flash dll in the basilisk\browser\plugins folder whitelisting will have no effect, it will only for the IE activex version so I'm going to download version 371 for basilisk, thanks for the link. And thanks for nothing Adobe. :--)
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    Thanks for those links, I can bookmark them to test out later. Ruffle emulation is what I had read about and should install in these older FF versions. @Ben Markson That's good to know about the whilelisting, if it holds then I can reinstall 32.0.0.465 back onto Win7, but will be keeping 32.0.0.453 just in case. @InterLinked Not suprising, there are academic sites still using the old Shockwave player so flash will probably be around a while as well.
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    Does anyone know of any sites that still use flash? I haven't been able to find any lately but there's probably still some around. For those it might be a good idea to consider keeping an older version for Basilisk since from what I've read Adobe put a time bomb on their last version set to explode Jan 1, 2021. I've got v32.0.0.453 just in case, although there is supposedly a flash emulator available somewhere that will hopefully install in these older FF versions.
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    You might want to try looking into installing one of blackwingcat's newer, modified versions: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/571484.html On Windows 2000 I've got the 2010/6/19 Version 10.6a(AGP+HDMI) and webgl works. That may install for you but it might be a good idea to ask blackwingcat first: https://msfn.org/board/topic/149233-kernelex-for-win2000/?page=99
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    That sounds good, I'll give it a try. Thanks to Sampei.Nihira for posting the link. Update: just installed it and now the github pages are coming in. Thanks again since I use that site quite a bit and don't have to rely on quantum. I haven't even bothered to infest my system with any chromium versions.
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    Another site I'm having trouble with Serpent 52 on is github, it won't always fully come in, with or without javascript. Sometimes it works but others the page remains blank. No problems with Quantum. https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master/chrome This I think is a known issue but just started recently for me.
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    Well I stand corrected, it's very possible that New Moon 27 may perform better than Serpent on my older machine, when I get a chance I'm going to try it. It's the newer one where based on my experience that even if Serpent gets beat in benchmarks it won't be by much. And with Serpent all my useful addons work perfectly and nearly every page renders as good as Quantum so I'm considering the bigger picture.
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    For me they're about the same in speed, although Serpent 55 seems to render a little smoother.
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    On my older Netvista P4 2.6 that's probably true. Some javascript-intense sites like Twitter barely move when scrolling with the keyboard. On Windows 7 I'm forced to use Quantum. Maybe toggling javascript.options.ion.inlining to true will make a difference. With this newer quad-core i5-3470 Serpent is blazing fast, no matter the site. Compared to what I was using, it's impossible to see how any browser could be much faster.
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    It's just the older style that I prefer. The preferences open up in a separate user interface (much easier to work with), the icons are better and the program itself is faster at opening up and retrieving messages. It seems like the newer the version the more sluggish and bloated it gets. As far as the x64 build: wouldn't know whether there's plans to offer that version.
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    @Roy, Thanks for your continuing work and upload of mailnews, for me it’s even better than the newer versions for Windows 7+ For some reason though the yahoo account won’t retrieve messages when using the built-in “get messages from all accounts” button command or with the Shift+F5 keyboard shortcut. However, I did find an addon that does: The Get/Send-Button version 5.31. The good part is that it can be configured to make that the default. Why the addon works and not the built-in button or keyboard command I have yet to figure out. Both use the same command to retrieve all account messages simultaneously: goDoCommand('cmd_getMsgsForAuthAccounts');.
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    From what I understand New Moon 27 is based on the Firefox 38 codebase while New Moon 28 is Firefox 52. Personally I don't see the benefit of using Pale Moon over the Serpent/UXP version that is offered here for download, for me Serpent does everything I need addon-wise and speed but they both probably have their advantages depending on what the user is using it for.
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