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  1. VistaLover
    ... Tab Mix Plus Hmm..., if you had been closely following the discussions in this thread for the last 2 weeks, then you'd have remembered that tab-affecting extensions (notably TMP and TUP - Tab Utilities Phoenix) had been broken by a tab-related change that landed in previous Serpent 52 - start [re-]reading from here) ... Greetings
  2. VistaLover
    ... The Release Notes for your preferred version 1.26.2 clearly state that no code changes exist between it and previous version 1.26.0; the whole purpose served by that .2 release was to address an Easylist-related fonts issue, affecting ONLY Firefox, not Chromium-based forks... You can safely use the .crx file of v1.26.0 hosted on crx4chrome and be done with; it doesn't need "developer mode" enabled and it's just an archive of the very same file as it was available in CWS... Life is hard as it is, one need not make it even harder ... Regards
  3. VistaLover
    ... FWIW, it doesn't cause an instant crash if on previous Serpent v52.9.0 (2023-03-02) (32-bit); like my friend (I hope ) @NotHereToPlayGames wrote in the past: "Latest isn't necessarily greatest"; but that's to be expected in St52, on a de facto "unstable/weekly" distribution "channel" ... Actually, this issue was discussed in the official PM Forum; their fix did not make it into last weekend's UXP releases by a matter of just a few hours, but has since been ported to Roy's UXP tree ... To add to that, I have been suffering myself from instant crashes in xul.dll (presumably attributed to the same root cause ) when the below combination is met: a) a WE userscript manager is installed and enabled (in St52), such as Violentmonkey b) the GitHub download zip userscript has been installed and enabled c) when browsing GitHub in general, you (unexpectedly) arrive to a GH 404 page, e.g. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31950 When on GH, I need that userscript enabled, so I've now gone back to previous St52 build (I don't use TMP), because I spend lots of time there and one never knows when a GH 404 page may come up on you ; hopefully, next weekend's build will relieve me from those crashes ...
  4. VistaLover
    ... FWIW, with JS disabled, the top drop-down menus are "unresponsive" (and with it enabled, their content becomes just links) :
  5. VistaLover
    Many thanks @UCyborg , much appreciated! So, it wasn't actually "new and exotic", just "old and exotic (Googlism)" ... Interestingly/funnily enough, Mozilla were quick to concoct their own implementation in Fx 56.0, which turned out to be problematic and had to be retracted in v57.0: ... Yes, as early as version 50 (!) of Chromium ... ... What I still don't get (being a non-coder) is why disabling JS works around it - and any answer to my uBO-related "plea-for-help", please ?
  6. VistaLover
    ... Reading a certain MSFN post , it contained a link to below MS support article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-net-framework-repair-tool-is-available-942a01e3-5b8b-7abb-c166-c34a2f4b612a My (main) browser is (latest) St52; the page requested did not render properly : I toyed a bit with disabling recently implemented WebComponents support and restarting the browser, same thing ... Tried Safe Mode, a fresh St52 profile, both to no avail ... Upon further troubleshooting, it emerged ALL UXP-based browsers (+St55) suffer from this "ailment" ... Below is latest NM28 in an almost fresh profile, when displaying: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-to-enable-tls-1-1-and-tls-1-2-as-default-secure-protocols-in-winhttp-in-windows-c4bd73d2-31d7-761e-0178-11268bb10392 OTOH, the very OLD 360EEv11 (Ch69-based) has no issue displaying that URL properly: My troubleshooting skills are failing me today , I couldn't get anything meaningful from St52's WebConsole... @roytam1: What is exactly the problem here? Since Ch69 renders "support.microsoft.com" properly, surely it can't be something new and exotic devised by Google that causes the breakage in UXP ... Workaround: While dealing with this, it emerged that my St52 copy can, indeed, render that site OK, provided I disable the JS served; I just used uBlock Origin for convenience, disabling "scripting" selectively on that site alone: Plea for experts' help: I'm not that proficient in uBO's advanced features, can someone among you pinpoint the exact script responsible for the breakage? I spent ca. 30min with uBO's logger trying to identify it, but was not successful (not myself today ...) ; the logic here being to selectively block that script with a custom filter, instead of a blanket "no-scripting" rule on "support.microsoft.com"... Thanks in advance ...
  7. VistaLover
    ... Very true , however "yt-dlp" is a much richer, feature-wise, fork, supporting now many more extractors (sites) than the original project, youtube-dl, not to mention the fact they have currently a team of numerous active and very skilled devs, ready to "jump in" and attempt to fix all the "counter measures" various media sites impose on downloaders ; to put it briefly, I'd dare say youtube-dl is currently in "maintenance mode", with only one active maintainer, who, when not closing multiple duplicates, spends his coding time backporting fixes from "downstream"; better than nothing, still ... So, maintaining "yt-dlp" support (in XP/Vista - when it comes to that ) as long as possible is a desired thing ...
  8. VistaLover
    ... Thus, you shouldn't need extra CSS code, just below setting inside CTR : Back in old Firefox versions (< 31.0), the display of the "Close Tab" icon could be controlled by an about:config pref called "browser.tabs.closeButtons"; Mozilla, in their infinite wisdom , decided in 2014 to limit such a user "right" via Bugzilla #865826 ; in v31.0+, the display of the CloseTabIcon is governed by pref "browser.tabs.tabClipWidth": If you want it to always be there, no matter how narrow an unpinned tab is, then this applies ; you'd have to restart your browser for it to take effect (tested as working in last week's St52); so, again, no extra CSS code ; disclaimer: If you have several tab-related extensions, conflicts may arise; only CTR present here., BTW...
  9. VistaLover
    ... Thanks for this, I was unaware ; in fact, my search thereafter found this from 2014: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/247f9ff7d967f161ff96afc68b82aeb78a6fa4b3 Source: https://superuser.com/questions/958238/how-to-enable-webgl-on-chrome-on-xp
  10. VistaLover
    The original (Chinese) 360EE variants do NOT contain such a feature (nor do they contain the ability to export stored passwords) ...
  11. VistaLover
    ... If you happen to have the CTR extension installed in St52, it does offer that very same feature (plus a plethora of other customisations ): NB that the version fully compatible with St52 is "Classic Theme Restorer v1.7.8.2019.10.27" : https://github.com/Aris-t2/ClassicThemeRestorer/releases/download/1.7.8.2019/CTR_v1.7.8.2019.10.27.xpi You can always close a background/unfocused tab by placing your cursor on top of it (but not selecting it), followed by a middle mouse click (aka wheel-click, most mice today have it ); whether the close button is displayed in that tab or not makes no difference ...
  12. VistaLover
    ... Where do you plan to go, BTW? From my standpoint, this "project" will be discontinued once pukkandan abandons support for Python 3.8 altogether, which might very well be before its official EoS in 2024 ... IIRC, 3.7 is supported for a minority of users (on Vista and some Unixes where it can't be updated further) and 3.8 is still supported for the sake of Win7 users... Win7 support by most app authors/vendors will be waning as 2023 progresses (spearheaded by Google's decisions, no less), so the "inevitable" will happen... Anyone planning on backporting Python 3.9 to Vista SP2/XP SP3, please?
  13. VistaLover
    ... As others have hinted already, it may very well be an issue with your specific graphics card/its non-updated driver... Can you test that link you posted in latest Serpent 52? It works fine here via HTML5+WebGL (Adobe Flash hasn't been enabled): St52 doesn't block WebGL by default if your H/W can support it, so if you can't get it working in St52, "rebuild_8" will be moot for you... My 2c, of course ...
  14. VistaLover
    ... But do take note that the password encryption used by Chromium forks uses data specific to the host system, so that utility can only decrypt and retrieve account credentials from the "machine" they were "created"/stored on, i.e. the browser profile isn't just enough to retrieve the credentials (unlike Firefox and forks) ... I was painfully hit by that when my laptop "died" (actually, its iGPU did) in the start of 2022; my portable 360EE versions (11/12/13/13.5), each with its separate profile, live on a USB HDD - when I connected that to a second laptop in my household (Win7SP1x64), the browsers+profiles launched fine, but I was unable to retrieve site account credentials with chromepass on that second machine ... So, I advise everyone reading this: Keep account credentials on a physical (piece of paper)/digital (USB drive) copy "unattached" to the machine you're currently working on ... FWIW, I retrieved 90% of my credentials from within a stored Serpent 52 profile ... In the end, my laptop was repaired and I retrieved (and backed up on paper) those missing 10% credentials (for sites running ONLY on a 360EE variant, not St52) via launching chromepass there ...
  15. VistaLover
    Many thanks , however I never requested anything myself - it just so happens I don't have TC here to compare; BTW, I did not doubt/second guess you in the first place; it just appeared weird to me that a discrepancy exists between the file size you posted and the one I "measured" here in the recently downloaded, same file, copy ... With the provided WE screenshot of yours, I can only conclude the file must have been, somehow, "trimmed" by Panda themselves... Don't know what else to think ... The digital signature of the file I downloaded has been verified OK, so I guess I'm fine ... As you pointed out already, the matter discussed here is not related to on/off-line installers per se, but to a defective .NET 4.0 installation in affected member's setup... Regards, und gute Nacht ...
  16. VistaLover
    ... Same filesize reported here for the stub-installer (filename PANDAFREEAV.exe, dual-signed on 20220312): Below, Windows Explorer's properties window for the offline setup (downloaded ca. 15min ago): Every Windows user is expected to have Windows Explorer available, the same is not true for Total Commander ... It's possible the file is compressed and TC just expands it somehow , or the file might have changed on Panda's servers since the date (20/02/2023 ?) you fetched it yourself ... Additionally, the third-party site (LO4D.com) posted above appears to agree with my report : Best regards
  17. VistaLover
    The DIRECT download link to the off-line installer is http://acs.pandasoftware.com/Panda/FREEAV/193309/FREEAV.exe This is indeed of file version 15.14.5.0, it's DUAL-SIGNED on 2022/12/18, but its filesize here comes at only 73.9 MiB (77.535.680 bytes) ... Edit: @Milkinis: Please, refrain from providing third-party download links; "lo4d.com" are not affiliated themselves with PANDA ; the link I posted above has been extracted from PANDA's official on-line (aka "stub") installer... FWIW: Forums rule 1.b:
  18. VistaLover
    IIUC, WiseVector StopX is/was a full-fledged Antivirus/Antimalware solution, with real-time (preventative) protection; OTOH, MWAV is a (portable) on-demand scanner, its purpose is: a) check whether your system is pristine/free of infection b) if infection has been found to have taken place prior to the scan, it offers solutions to get rid of it... Of course, since I haven't used either , the definitive answer will be coming from AstroSkipper ...
  19. VistaLover
    That's because these are ONLY offered when the videoID is an age-gated one && the tool is youtube-dl; with yt-dlp, as you wrote, the two audio variants, again for age-gated videoIDs, are labelled as "*" and "*-drc* (where drc = Dynamic Range Compression). TL;DR: When you're using youtube-dl and you stumble upon an age-gated videoID, if your script (for audio) specifically requests just "-f 140", then NO download for that ; you'd have to modify the audio format selection to be based on RegExp (and/or, perhaps, file extension of audio file) ...
  20. VistaLover
    ... The "free of charge for home use only" download requires you "agree to send statistics related to the scanning process and your PC's software and hardware configuration to Doctor Web", else no free download ; more here ...
  21. VistaLover
    When you load "chrome://gpu/", under Graphics Feature Status, what are your entries for WebGL/WebGL2 ? I have a very old iGPU with only Software Acceleration available for both, so while the WebGL test passes OK, not every WebGL requiring site works as intended ... And in my case, force-enabling H/W acceleration ( "chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist" => Enabled, followed by a browser restart) has adverse effects overall ...
  22. VistaLover
    ... For me, the first map there (Wifi Triangulation) loads (both map/satellite view) if I enable the geolocation API (in St52: geo.enabled;true - I had it toggled to false, for privacy concerns ); but the second map (IP Address based on ISP) still displays the quoted error in satellite view, map view loads a lightblue colour:
  23. VistaLover
    OT ...Then, most probably, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qqfafRdEQ /OT
  24. VistaLover
    I can confirm all the above with regards to (the modern GUI) VT site and latest St52 ; loading below link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9cd8677d185d0b8a23fe3a47eaca17332dd84ab76d6402485ecda60490da8459?nocache=1 results in an "empty" tab: ... however, the console error I get is more ominous than an unsupported web font: App did not load (Unsupported app) As mentioned by others, temporarily disabling WC allows the site (new GUI) to load/display/basically work, but at a heavy CPU tax: NB that in the above screenshot, ONLY the VT tab has been loaded, process "basilisk.exe" (not shown) is at a steady 51% CPU consumption here ...
  25. VistaLover
    FYI, original Bugzilla 658467 (Fx53) had to be followed by 1357656 (Fx54 - they had messed up fading with RTL labels, e.g. in Hebrew) and, later, 1363033 (Fx55 - cosmetic enhancement); I guess both should be considered for inclusion in Bk/St52, too...
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