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I'm not sure "below" will satisfy fully your requirements, but I'm tossing it in regardless, for the benefit of others... 1. Load chrome://net-export/ 2. Click the Start Logging to Disk button, choose where to save the chrome-net-export-log.json file. 3. Leave the previous tab open, then proceed to use the browser as you'd normally do... 4. After a period of time, return to that tab and stop network logging (depending on logging duration, the .json file may get quite big...) 5, Navigate to https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/ , load the chrome-net-export-log.json file. 6. Navigate to the DNS tab: https://netlog-viewer.appspot.com/#dns Records of DNS queries are displayed; the only one (mildly) suspicious for me was: puv.tt.browser.360.cn => 101.198.192.36 All the rest were due to pages loaded in tabs and/or extensions enabled... (360EEv12, build 1592, patched... )
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My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
In all honesty, I don't quite see why I'm being mentioned by @ArcticFoxie, since in that other thread I clearly stated: ... and everything includes, of course, Adobe Flash Player (their updater has been deleted, I only update at will, manually, my portable (PAF format) browser installations, except for IE9, for which I install the ActiveX globally... As for what @siria mentioned, ... this is still doable, as I already detailed in the dedicated Flash thread last summer: Kind regards -
I couldn't agree more , but: Browser extensions are being created to complement browser usage; broadly speaking, they are divided into two categories: 1. Ones that enhance an existing/implement a missing browser core feature; these fall, sooner or later, prey to browser devs whim and may eventually break with a future browser release... 2. Ones that enhance/facilitate usage of specific websites visited in the browser; these are the ones most frequently breaking when site admins feel the sudden urge to overhaul things (usually for the worse!) with how their site displays and functions... In any case, one is left with a broken/useless extension installation; I also abhore auto-everything, but I want working browser extensions, so your statement that "you never visit the CWS afterwards" sounds, to my ears at least, simply unrealistic... Best festive wishes, don't over-eat, stay safe
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Then, I'll have to strongly warn you that your decision was, in this particular case, an unwise one... I have posted about the fact previously in this thread, but ALL iterations of 360EE (i.e. v11/12/13) DO NOT communicate in a scheduled/automated fashion with the official (by Google) CWS to check for extension updates, so ALL extensions you have manually (initially) installed from CWS will forever stay "frozen" in their initial versions! Users of ALL versions of 360EE who have installed extensions from Google's CWS are strongly advised to bookmark the URL to their localised edition of the CWS and make a habit of visiting, say, once a fortnight, the URIs of said installed extensions, to manually check whether updates for them have been released! Additionally, CWS will not let you upgrade manually to the newly released version of an extension unless you first uninstall the deprecated old one... In such a scenario, customised extension settings will get lost upon uninstallation, so the upgraded extension installation will have to be re-configured from scratch. Thankfully, many extensions will let you first export customised settings to a file, which you can then re-import to the upgraded version quite easily...
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I am still myself on the latest 360EEv12 version (12.0.1592.0), but I am certain the following would also apply to 360EEv13 builds... FWIW, in untouched official Chinese builds, the Extension Center tab icon will direct one to their proprietary (Chinese) 360EE Extension Center: https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/ What the so called Russificators (more precisely, the Patch by El Sanchez) do is hardcode a redirection from https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/ => https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=ru If you didn't know already, everything Google-related is sanctioned in mainland China, blocked by the GFW... El Sanchez's patch modifies the main program DLL, chrome.dll, but because there's not enough room (i.e. null characters, "00" in hexadecimal code) for the whole CWS-ru URI to fit in, they're using the now defunct "Google URL shortener" service to trim that URI down to a short number of characters: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=ru => https://goo.gl/j4MLV Sadly, I don't know off-hand what was/is the goo.gl shortURL equivalent for the en-US CWS, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en-US but you can still use an existing service (like bit.ly) to trim that down: => https://bit.ly/2WKImUI Then, with 360EE closed, you can use a HexEditor to change goo.gl/j4MLV => bit.ly/2WKImUI in chrome.dll (please back-up first, in case you mess up...) Unfortunately, I can't offer you a solution to your second, TBH niche , request... Have a Merry Christmas indeed! Addendum: Official chrome.dll Russified chrome.dll User customised chrome.dll
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My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Have you tried to force-enable WebGL in your ATI card (webgl.force-enabled => true, restart Firefox) ? Does the "Server Location" map display then... ? -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
https://caniuse.com/webgl https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists If your GPU driver is blacklisted, you may try to force-enable webgl in the browser by toggling webgl.force-enabled;false and restarting the browser (depending on actual GPU, this may work or not, worst case scenario: the browser crashes upon launch - you'd have to restore that pref back to false by editing the prefs.js file in your profile...). It is needed by the mapbox API they're employing for displaying "Server Location"; as for actual deprecation, the Wikipedia entry for it is unclear about this; .. If you mean WebGL 1.0, well yes, this has been superseded by WebGL 2.0, but the latter is still being maintained, I think: https://www.khronos.org/news/tags/tag/webgl But then again, I'm not a gamer myself, so perhaps within the context of video games, the WebGL technology has been surpassed by newer APIs... That doesn't mean it's dead for simpler graphics tasks within a browser,,, -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
UXP browsers like NM28/St52 are no longer supported by Microsoft-owned GitHub, as they now only target the four "major" browsers, all some form of Chromium forks (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox[Quantum] > 68.0, Opera, Microsoft [Chr]Edge) ; they're now using Chromium-only frameworks like WebComponents/Custom Elements/Shadow Dom etc, that the UXP platform doesn't support currently, and is, to be realistic, still far away from supporting in the (near?) future... In the specific case of GitHub, a true life-saver is the legacy extension referenced just three posts above by @Sampei.Nihira, github-wc-polyfill, currently at version 1.1.7 ; unlike NM28, in St52 it would install (and eventually update) right out of the box, without tinkering with its install.rdf file; you have to be, though, on a fairly recent version of Serpent 52, as it relies on APIs found in relatively recent UXP snapshots (anything within the last 4 months should be OK, if you ask me...). -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
... Wrong link there (to the test site itself!) Should've been: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=25830&p=205294 BTW, many thanks for raising this "there" (as you seem to be one of the very few that can coexist in both "camps" , without being given the "enemy agent" (and other, more derogatory) "accolade" by you know who... As the case is, @JustOff once more pinpointed correctly and swiftly the culprit ; too bad Moonchild (instigated by you know who) recently ostracised him from the core of the MCP devs... IMHO, he was the only one really sane person among them... -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Many thanks for this new batch of UXP-based forks! I, for one, am not taking these builds of yours for granted, they do require dedication and considerable effort on your part (despite "upstream" constantly belittling your offerings as being just "hackjobs" ... ). Be that as it may, might I also kindly ask why the official UXP issue #1694, https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/1694 and official Bk issue #31, https://repo.palemoon.org/moonchildproductions/basilisk/issues/31 were backed-out from your custom UXP branch? The thing is I was actually following closely the original report in the official forums, https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=25728 and immediately thought that would be a favourable change to implement; after all, MCP would just be restoring what was already extant in Mozilla v51.0 and later broken by Mozilla devs in v52.0 of their platform... E.g. my (custom) date/time format configuration in my system is "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"; New Moon 28 respects that setting, because, while the platform code is a Mozilla v52.6 fork, the application code itself is a Firefox < 52.0 fork, so not affected... OTOH, latest Serpent 52.9.0 does not respect my custom date/time format OS configuration, because both app+platform code are Mozilla v52.6 forks and inherit the Mozilla caused breakage,,, As a result, Serpent displays date/time in a non-user-configurable US+12h clock format "M/d/yyyy, h:mm tt" ; me personally, I would have liked uniformity between NM28 and St52; what do other members here think? For the record, Mozilla, in later versions of their Firefox browser, tied date/time display to browser locale being used, but even then, the display format is fixed/non-configurable... With Serpent 52.9.0 (and now, sadly, NM28 too...) being only an en-US localised app, this is a moot point... This is just a thought, but perhaps issues UXP#1694 + Bk#31 could be implemented in our tree behind a user (i.e. about:config) pref? ... Kindest, warmest greetings! -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
... More details available below: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins#Plugin-container -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Most thankfully , you decided not to merge official issue #1684 changes, so perhaps, for clarity, you should've added that in the "reversals" of your latest UXP builds, e.g.: - Reverted "Issue #1684 - Move global user-agent override to networking component. (b863bd2ed)" Your praiseworthy efforts are highly appreciated once again ! -
@Dave-H : Is your IE8 always configured to use ProxHTTPSProxyMII for HTTPS connections? The crux of the issue here, methinks, is whether GCF uses IE8's proxy configuration and whether it shares IE8's cookies/other data... If it's just a standalone, non-configurable, Chromium (32) headless browser within IE8, then, sadly, very little can be done about it... Can you try these experiments for me, please? With GCF enabled, load: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent so we can verify what UA is being sent; then (again via GCF), load https://clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ssltest/viewMyClient.html so we can see which types of secure connections GCF is capable of... Hopefully, we can see whether ProxHTTPSProxyMII is being used in GCF, too... Finally, are you able to successfully sign-in to Google.com via IE8 alone (with GCF disabled)? If you can't without the HTTPSProxy (this is, sadly, a probability), I think you'll be able to with the proxy configured... FWIW, IE9 (on Vista SP2) enabled with TLS 1.2 support, can perfectly fine authenticate and connect to a Google account: (Sadly, EC ciphers are not possible in XP ) Via signing-in, Google cookies are set; if these are shared with/can be picked-up by GCF, when loading youtube you should be already signed-in, at least in theory ! If, OTOH, GCF can't see those IE8 cookies, then perhaps they could be exported from IE8 in a suitable format and imported (somehow?) into the GCF profile @RainyShadow mentioned...
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That's because Google have deprecated the old "classic" youtube layout and now yt defaults to loading the polymer layout (several iterations of it exist) which, unfortunately, IE8/XP (and also IE9/Vista) can't render... IIRC, there existed a now dead project called Google Chrome Frame, which used to bring Chrome's rendering engine to Internet Explorer (more info on Wikipedia); I can't remember exactly what version of Chromium it was built on (and the installer itself is currently hard to locate on the web) but it's worth a (long) shot, if available, to test [polymer]youtube loading inside IE8...
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My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say because of https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=39255 i.e. the CPU on that box of his doesn't support SSE2+ instructions set... -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
It appears you missed the point in my previous post above... User Agent Switcher & Manager https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-and-m/bhchdcejhohfmigjafbampogmaanbfkg Version 0.4.4 Updated: October 8 2020 => CRX3-package-only, that won't install in Chrome 49 OTOH, the one extension I suggested was last updated on September 6 2019 and will install! -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
@we3fan currently has Chrome 49 on Windows XP, 49 being (as you might already know) the last version to support that OS... Chrome 49 only supports the deprecated CRX2 type of Chromium extension packaging ; however, evil Google have stopped publishing new and updated extensions in the Chrome Web Store (CWS) in that package (.crx) format since the end of last May 2020, making only available the newer format package CRX3, which isn't supported by old Chrome versions (NB: Chrome v64.0.3242.0 is the first one with CRX3 support). The following is an excerpt from an unpublished article of mine: The following depicts what happens when one attempts to install GOYT 1.16.0 on Chrome 49: Previously installed versions won't auto-update, either... SSUAOs in Chromium browsers can be enabled via, e.g. User-Agent Switcher for Chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg 1. First set a Custom UA and add it to the "Chrome" category (under default, this assumes the newly created UA impersonates some other form/version of Chromium), then 2. Permanent Spoof List => domain => youtube.com => choose the previously set custom UA =>add 3. When you load yt, the extension's tab icon will alert you a SSUAO is being used... DISCLAIMER: This was obviously OFF-TOPIC, as it doesn't pertain to any of Roytam1's browsers... -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
That's because Serpent 52 by default doesn't check AMO (addons.mozilla.org) for installed WEs updates (and if one searches this long thread, will, hopefully, locate related posts of mine... ) If you go to about:config => extensions.update.url, you'll see default URI being https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/?component=aus&reqVersion=%REQ_VERSION%&id=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&maxAppVersion=%ITEM_MAXAPPVERSION%&status=%ITEM_STATUS%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=%APP_VERSION%&appOS=%APP_OS%&appABI=%APP_ABI%&locale=%APP_LOCALE%¤tAppVersion=%CURRENT_APP_VERSION%&updateType=%UPDATE_TYPE%&compatMode=%COMPATIBILITY_MODE% i.e. only ABBO is being queried for legacy/XUL extension updates... Should you wish to be notified about WE-updates from AMO, you should point that pref to it via: https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=%REQ_VERSION%&id=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&maxAppVersion=%ITEM_MAXAPPVERSION%&status=%ITEM_STATUS%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=52.9&appOS=%APP_OS%&appABI=%APP_ABI%&locale=%APP_LOCALE%¤tAppVersion=%CURRENT_APP_VERSION%&updateType=%UPDATE_TYPE%&compatMode=%COMPATIBILITY_MODE% NB: 1. You won't be notified about updates from ABBO henceforth... 2. In the case of id-less WEs like GOYT, you'll only be notified about un update being available, but the addons manager (AOM) won't be able to install said update; you'll have to, as you already know already, download manually/patch install.rdf/install from file (or drag-n-drop)... I hope it's clear now,,, -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Using 1. Latest Serpent v52.9.0 (2020-11-27) (32-bit) [BuildID=20201127025411] The default SSUAO for "youtube.com" there is general.useragent.override.youtube.com;Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 Basilisk/52.9.0 2. Latest Good Old Youtube v1.16.0 (patched to enable installation), with default settings: FWIW, you don't need to change the default yt SSUAO when using GOYT... I have no issue loading the referenced playlist in the non-polymer layout: However, I do not have a Google/YT account, thus I visit as non-signed-in... YT's behaviour might be different for signed-in users... Tips: If I suddenly find I am being served the abominable polymer layout, I make sure I delete browser cache and all *google.*/*youtube.* set cookies, then restart browser+reload youtube page ... Make no mistake about it... Already, the classic yt search is impossible to restore... -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
... ALL three links yield a 404 Not Found error ; upon digging in the actual repo, correct links are generated by "s/ffb32e0/11839e2/g", thus: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20201128-11839e2-uxp-a8a397fbc-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win64-git-20201128-11839e2-uxp-a8a397fbc-xpmod.7z IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.7.win32-git-20201128-11839e2-uxp-a8a397fbc-xpmod-ia32.7z -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
... Making phone calls requires the WebRTC feature to be present in the application, New Moon (either versions) & BNavigator do not support it (by design) ... You might try latest Serpent 52 (... its WebRTC implementation is fully spec-compliant, but Google enforce strict racism against anything they, themselves, don't produce/control ) ... It's quite probable you'd also have to tweak Serpent's UA to pose as [a] Chromium [variant] to their servers ... -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Same thing happens with official Pale Moon. Any Ideas on that ? PS. It involves lists that I already had imported without any problems, then removed them, plus a couple of new ones. @Tangy : If the issue you're experiencing happens on the very popular https://filterlists.com/ site, then that site had a recent revamp/redesign (default dark theme), which might have contributed to the issue... I conducted some short tests with New Moon 28 + uBO-legacy 1.16.4.26, here's what I found: When loading a selected list's own page, e.g. https://filterlists.com/lists/1hosts-mini then, when clicking the "Subscribe" blue button/bar in the right sidebar, try to avoid clicking directly on the literal word, rather aim at an empty spot within that button; then, hopefully, the "add-to-custom-filterlists" dialog will pop-up: Take care... -
... Actually, he was banned for a completely different reason :
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My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Probably not, as this is an extension created by Moonchild himself: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/pm-commander/ What hinders you from downloading+installing it at will? BTW, Moonchild has seemingly lost interest in that extension, it hasn't been updated for close to a year and a half; so it might not work correctly with recent Pale/New Moon (quite a lot has actually changed in about:config since July 2019!)... FWIW, it's meant for "advanced" users, only Can't be easier than simply installing Add to Search Bar v2.9 (via CAA): caa:addon/add-to-search-bar And I can't speak for Roytam1, but "extending the Pale Moon browser" is what dedicated extensions are for, is that not the case? If, OTOH, you mean incorporating into the browser core functions that are currently available by existing addons, then this defeats the purpose and will only increase/bloat the browser package size,; and who's to decide what "additional" functions should be added? One person's needs can vary widely from another's... Well, I can't confirm that here (2008 era Vista SP2 32-bit laptop, 3GB RAM, old Intel Merom Core 2 Duo CPU/integrated GPU); MSFN forums "flows like water" in latest New Moon 28 (but, sadly, this is not the case for other, JS-infested, sites like (new) Facebook, polymer Youtube, Instagram, Twitter and related Social Media Satans; it would appear all these "trendy" mobile-device-targeting web designs put a severe tax on old hardware... ). -
My Browser Builds (Part 2)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Which version of CAA are you on? ... And on which browser? The XPI files are actually hosted on a "storage-waterfox.netdna-ssl.com" domain name, over HTTPS, https://storage-waterfox.netdna-ssl.com/amo/xul/239/239381/proxy_tool-1.19-fx+sm.xpi?origin=caa&action=download , so your system does have to be able to access that domain; check your DNS, firewall, AV suite, content-blockers, etc. Also, ATN still has v1.17 of Proxy Tool (not v1.19 that you seek, but you may still try it despite...): https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/firefox/addon/proxy-tool/versions/