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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    9 hours ago, IXOYE said:

    Hi

    I had the bad idea to take the latest version 1.15.2 of "Good Old Youtube" with the VistaLover modification. The add on has been changed to no longer work with Serpent 52.:dubbio:

    Try this for manifest.json if you're still having trouble, it works for me:

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    {
      "name": "Good Old YouTube",
      "manifest_version": 2,
      "version": "1.15.2",
      "description": "Switch back to classic YouTube interface!",
      "default_locale": "en",
      "icons": {
        "96": "images/logo.svg"
      },
      "background": {
        "scripts": [
          "shared.js",
          "options/default-options.js",
          "logger.js",
          "reconstruct.js",
          "background.js"
        ]
      },
      "content_scripts": [
        {
          "matches": [
            "https://www.youtube.com/*"
          ],
          "css": [
            "styles/hide-alert.css"
          ],
          "js": [
            "shared.js",
            "content-script.js"
          ],
          "run_at": "document_start"
        }
      ],
      "options_ui": {
        "page": "options/options.html"
      },
      "permissions": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/*",
        "storage",
        "webRequest",
        "webRequestBlocking"
      ],
      "applications": {
        "gecko": {
          "id": "{482060de-6804-4020-a1b9-16dc012a3c93}"
        }
      }
    }

     

     

     

     

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    19 minutes ago, rereser said:

    Faulting application palemoon.exe, version 4.6.0.7559, faulting module xul.dll, version

    This was a problem I was seeing months ago with UXP but no one else was apparently at the time. Now I'm getting occasional sudden crashes/shutdowns, sometimes with the error box beforehand. I'm suspecting these crashes may be hardware or addon related.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    Posted · Edited by DanR20

    It's been a while since I worked on Thunderbird but when replying to an email in MailNews there are three lines. Does anyone know how to reduce it to 1?  I seem to recall that if you wanted more than one line you would hit enter on the first line.

    Edit: Ok I see where you can lift up the bar and it reduces it to none but still would prefer one line by default.  

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    20 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

    Thunderbird 52.9.1 cannot work because the Yahoo + OAuth2 code was entered by Thunderbird 60.

    Didn't know that. I've only got 2 email accounts setup, Yahoo and Hotmail, which still uses the normal password.

    One small problem I ran into is the Get All Mall addon no longer works to check the Yahoo account for some reason. It does on Thunderbird 68 so it has to be a setting in MailNews.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    3 minutes ago, delphi367 said:

    You guys know Tobin is banned, right? He won't be able to reply.

    Also, congratulations on getting a newer PC. How much RAM does it have?

    No didn't know he got banned :--). Not surprised and not sure why he has to be so rude, most of us actually like the work he and others are doing.

    The new box has 8gb ram but I setup Win10 as 32bit so useable is 3.5 gbs. Still much better than the 2gbs I had before.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    13 hours ago, Matt A. Tobin said:

    Are you people THIS STUPID. ShellService is in the PROCESS of being REPLACED. It is NOT FULLY FUNCTIONAL YET. I am the one who removed the old shellservice and am in the process of replacing it and adapting the frontend code to work with the NEW ShellService. There is not a god damned thing you can do about it until the work has been completed. It is broken. Until I fix it, it will REMAIN broken.

    f***in morons, I swear. There is a reason Borealis isn't a released product yet, this is one of them. When will you people learn that all this praise for roytam1 or fedor2 is completely misplaced. They are incapable of doing more than extremely minor modifications of the code and ALL THE s*** you thank them for was done by my self and others who aren't trying to scam you into using old and insecure operating systems and half-assed and corrupt incarnations of code on top of them.

    Despite your arrogant attitude I have to say the UXP browser is very nice and so I guess we can separate the harsh personality (and that's putting it mildly) from the work. I finally got a newer model with much better processing and more ram and it blows me away how much better this is. On XP it is screaming fast, very impressive.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    Posted · Edited by DanR20

    18 hours ago, Dr. Drill said:

    I have repeatedly written about a problem with plugin support.

    https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1177415

    https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1177422

    https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1177760

    So have I and it's hard to know if I'm the only one with the problem or if it's a bug. The plugin for google hangouts (npgoogletalk.dll) appears dead but is it with them or the browser?

    Edit: google hangouts may be for US/Canadian residents only so not really testable for anyone else.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    Somewhat of a minor issue (at least for me since I spend most of my time on Win7) but it looks like the Google Hangouts plugin is dead. Tried in UXP and Moebius. With the newer versions of Firefox 68+ "media.peerconnection.enabled" = true works well but this does nothing with UXP or Moebius, the call starts then immediately disconnects.

    Does "media.peerconnection.enabled" require updated apis to make functional in these older versions? 

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    Twitter has really got it out for Firefox, no matter the version. Now even mobile gives a stripped down version with no video options, only text/pictures when using any firefox version string.

    So for UXP I set regular twitter to IE11 and because of the distorted audio issue in XP installed a mobile search engine to easily go to that page using a Chrome string to watch videos. A bit of an annoyance but at least it can be done.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    On 2/4/2020 at 2:59 PM, ClassicNick said:

    Yes, the "Classic" YouTube UI is less CPU and memory intensive, but Google is going to stop supporting the "Classic" UI.

    The new UI is horrible. Thankfully uBlock makes it easy to remove the never ending sticky objects they love to put all over the site. The old UI was bad enough but the new one is even worse and more difficult to read. 

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    It helps to check these problems before posting. With Firefox 68+ it's doing the same thing, redirecting to mobile twitter if you use a user agent switcher and set it to a newer string, including the default. I usually keep that on IE11, windows 7 but since it uses WMF there's no audio distortion.

    So the glitch is with twitter and not UXP, except that for XP users the IE11, windows 7 string for regular twitter means distorted audio. Wish they could fix that.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    1 minute ago, VistaLover said:

    I believe that is the "new layout" mentioned there (but, God forbid, I'm not a twitter user :P )...

    It appears you're on Win7 or higher (since you can run FxESR 68); in "about:config" disable native forked-UXP's decoders by setting "media.ffvpx.enabled;false" and make sure "media.wmf.enabled;true" ; restart NM28 (or St52; what is it exactly you're using?) and then see if the audio on Twitter is OK...

    If Twitter gets also broken in the official UXP browsers (you can also check this yourself, if on Win7), then I suspect upstream will have to deal with that, eventually; there's one report already on the official forums,

    https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=23597&p=181680

    however the OP has not indicated yet whether offered remedy cures the issue for him...

    Each system is different and a lot depends on the processor, ram etc. At the moment I'm dealing with a bit of an older system and so a lot of experimenting goes on. In Windows 7, where most of my computing time is I've tried various settings and the built in OS codecs (media.wmf.enabled) appear better than ffvpx so that's what I go with. UXP's codec works good enough in XP though, much better than the Adobe plugin. 

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    4 minutes ago, VistaLover said:

    ... Recently discussed, only four pages ago... :)

    Starting post is this one:

    Please read relevant posts that followed it; I assume you're on XP (the setting under your forum avatar just says "OS: none specified" ;) ), it might be necessary to switch to APCDM in St52 for Twitter (along with an IE SSUAO); also, everyone using XP here should realise that the major "trendy" social sites (youtube/facebook/instagram/twitter etc.), laden with heavy scripts and rich embedded media content, are constantly evolving to cater to (mostly) mobile platforms and, for desktop, to what is the Win10 version du jour... :realmad:

    Roytam1 did try successfully to mitigate the lack of WMF and OS patented decoders under XP, but those ffmpeg decoders inside his custom ffvpx library (in UXP browsers) can only cope as much; FFmpeg itself has long ago abandonned XP support, so, if I'm not mistaken, current decoders are based in an older, XP compatible, FFmpeg branch (3.x.x ?) ... OTOH, those media sites (especially twitter & instagram) use new methods of encoding profiles and stream delivery which are not guaranteed to remain compatible with forked-UXP's media decoders... :}

    Yes, read them and they don't even mention redirecting to mobile, or certainly provide a solution (they've all been tried). For me, this just started in the last few days, which tells me that unless some internal changes can be made, like fixing the distorted audio then UXP and twitter are on their last legs together. Not a problem, I'll just use a newer version and life goes on.   

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    3 minutes ago, ArcticFoxie said:

    Then USE firefox 68esr or the nightly!  Whoala, "problem" solved!

     

    You seem angry, not sure what your point is since the forum is about those of us who prefer the older but better versions of firefox.

    Actually I do use 68esr or the nightly, often side by side with UXP. They both have their advantages and on Windows 7 the UXP version plays videos even better and with less dropped frames and skipping the newer ones. But the quantum versions are better when it comes to javascript in my experience. So they all have their uses.

    Also I do get that the websites won't support older versions forever but Twitter is heavily  trafficked so if it's possible to maintain it a little longer why not try? 

     

     

     

       

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    Anyone else having a problem with Twitter and UXP? It keeps redirecting me to the mobile twitter. I’ve got the user agent in about:config set to Firefox 72, Windows 10 but it makes no difference, any newer string including Chrome does the same thing.

    Only when it’s put back to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko” does it go to regular twitter but then the videos are distorted.

    It’s getting frustrating and doesn’t do it in firefox 68esr or the nightly.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 2)

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    6 hours ago, lama said:

    Thats disgusting, why Roytam1 wouldn't think of adding portable option in the first place :} I don't like this type of workarounds :puke: if it was up to me, i would put entire settings on cloud and load it using cloud sign-in

    It all depends on how you want to use the portable. If it's on a flash drive then downloading the portable package works good for that. If it's directly on the hard drive the basilisk.exe -Profile method is preferred. I use them both.

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