VistaLover

... Actually, king in French is roi (Le Roi = The King, La Reine = The Queen); but obviously this is going OT at the speed of light, so I had better shut up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy

Please update it to the next release, v1.6.8; on Monday, Dec 16th, uBlock0-legacy was updated to v1.16.14.12 and, at that time, uB0-updater v1.6.7 was working OK; but next day apparently, GitHub broke it, yet again, by changing their page source ; methinks this wasn't just pure coincidence, but a deliberate attempt at sabotaging this extension ; in any case, it was yours truly () who reported the breakage to the maintainer, https://github.com/JustOff/ublock0-updater/issues/19 who came up with working version 1.6.8 ; BTW, what keeps your installed version 1.6.7 from updating automatically to 1.6.8 ? Festive regards

I'm not on XP (as you know already), but the last "legacy" version of the Browsec VPN (actually, proxy) extension (v3.16.16) does install and work as expected under Serpent 52.9.0: BTW, I used CAA to access it (caa:addon/browsec)

This is quite normal for the browser running on Windows XP, and it will persevere even when you manually install h264 decoding support in that browser (installing Adobe Primetime CDM or standalone LAV Filters DLLs); that setting only checks for a GPU-provided h264 decoder, it implies you have WMF (Vista SP2+) and a compatible gfx card; my old (end of 2006) Vista laptop I'm posting with doesn't come with such a card (with a H/W h264 decoder), so, while I don't need either APCDM nor LAV Filters for decoding purposes, the browser uses Vista's native WMF decoder only in software mode, thus heavily taxing my equally old Core 2 Duo processor...

@Sampei.Nihira The major issue is Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module first, not the missing files ("question mark" inside a yellow circle); check for missing functions in XP's system files, like kernel32.dll; those files will be marked with a reddish square in the tree structure in the left side-bar; click the + signs where needed At least one other XP user has reported the inability to run that file, perhaps he could also investigate with DW and if a pattern is found and verified, perhaps the app's devs should be alerted their file doesn't run on ALL XP setups; just my 2 eurocents, ofc Buon Natale! EDIT: Beaten to it by mere seconds by @Nojus2001

You may be right - you usually are - but ... Thanks for your vigilant eye ; indeed it was I the party being flawed ... My memory did not serve me well there ... Well, "errare humanum est"; that post has been updated with corrected and more complete info regarding the Adobe Primetime CDM... Best wishes

Sometimes, the problem of the uBlock0-legacy toolbar button going AWAL after a browser restart, especially on browsers that also support Web Extensions, can be mitigated by setting (in about:config): extensions.ublock0.forceLegacyToolbarButton;true The "LegacyToolbarButton" of "legacy" uB0 might better co-exist in the toolbar with adjacent buttons from other XUL extensions!

... methinks you're a person very hard to please... ... and this is not the Centauri support place... ; besides, the last Centauri release (v0.0.6) is from back in September, based on a much older UXP code snapshot (2019.09.05), compared with latest Serpent 52.9.0 (2019.12.13) ... https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1174455 ... You're on the wrong here: In that link you reference, @roytam1 did advise you set general.useragent.compatMode;2 ... But he now writes to you: because from your latest about:config screengrab it appears it is custom set to a value of 2; please reset that specific pref and restart browser! It appears you can't pay due attention to details and/or follow to the letter posted instructions; this only makes things worse for you and probably frustrates you more, directing (in a subtle way) that frustration over to the very people volunteering to assist you (at least that's how I get it here...) ... Can you provide proof that the Adobe stub installers successfully work in your XP machine to update your Adobe Flash NPAPI installation? At least one respected member here has posted details that claim the opposite... If the Adobe stub installers don't work in XP, then your issue is a moot one... If you still want the Adobe page that offers that stub installer to work in your Serpent 52.9.0 installation, then heed to the advice already posted (and tried): reset all your various custom about:config modifications that affect how St52 appears to sites and set the two compatModes I mentioned to true; worst case scenario, create a Firefox 60.9 SSUAO for adobe.com It's also probable, as I've mentioned in the past, that various other issues you're having (e.g. thumbnails NOT loading) might be related to several of your own about:config modifications and improper/overzealous configuration of content blockers/privacy related extensions... I, for one, am resigning from further dealing with that specific issue of yours... Happy troubleshooting... (Personal note: Mozilla, in their infinite (un)wisdom, did hide various important browser settings behind the about:config wall, because they were certain most "normal" users wouldn't know its existence and, hence, couldn't easily break their default (Mozilla configured) browser profiles... While "advanced" users (the ones Mozilla just hate they even exist) wouldn't have serious problems accessing and modifying about:config prefs, I'm beginning to think some over-abuse of about:config is taking place with the UXP forks by members here... Please people, remember what the browser displays at you when you first access that section (with general.warnOnAboutConfig;true): )

... More likely it needs the latest MS Visual C++ Redistributable, together with Win10 Universal CRT (KB2999226); but I'm sure you'll find the cause in due course...

I just simply followed the provided instructions there, hence my previous screengrab in this thread ... Thanks for your concern, though...

... Apologies are in order ; I was testing previously in my current (dirty) Serpent 52.9.0 profile (and in my dirty NM28 one...); I decided to take a dose of my own medication () and checked your issue on a newly created (fresh) Serpent 52.9.0 profile (latest win32 build, 2019.12.13) and, sure enough, I was able to reproduce! The troubleshooting was easy, as is the fix: Change both Firefox and Gecko compatModes to true (default is false) and reload the page: general.useragent.compatMode.firefox;true general.useragent.compatMode.gecko;true You should be good then! It appears the Adobe site doesn't actually approve of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:68.9) Goanna/4.4 Basilisk/20191212 which is the default UA (on Vista) of latest St52 build... BTW, @roytam1 , I noticed something that looks bizarre to me, latest Serpent 52.9.0 reports its buildID (20191212) inside the UA, is that normal? Was this changed upstream or by you? I recall it used to report its version number, Basilisk/52.9.0... Sadly, I would expect many more sites to become broken with the current default UA string (no Gecko/Firefox parts) when they see a browser version in the "20 millions" range, that they probably don't know how to handle... I'm tired/lazy now to do a proper bisection of this issue, FWIW a much older build of Serpent 52.9.0 (buildID 20190531001847) reports by default Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:60.9) Goanna/4.2 Basilisk/52.9.0 So please, do kindly investigate this (regression?) ...

I don't have a "Remote Desktop" entry inside WFW's exceptions, only "Remote Assistance", which is not selected (and thus still blocked): Isn't that the norm with Windows 10 ? Every user accessible setting that was fairly easy to locate in previous Windows versions has been now deeply buried/hidden behind a labyrinth of configuration wizards and clicks (which often get relocated anew with major Win10 semi-annual up(-de)grades) ... Have you checked it with Dependency Walker yet? Besides, since it checks for installed Windows Updates, it probably needs Admin privileges, so better run from within an Administrator's account...

... However, works OK on Windows Vista SP2 32-bit: As posted already, the devs themselves claim: It appears the app only checks for the presence (or absence) of a certain M$ update (for WS2008SP2 it's KB4499180); myself, I had already disabled some time ago the "Routing and Remote Access" Windows service... ; also achievable via a GUI setting:

Though I've never been a user of either Avast nor AVG (also Avast-owned currently), thanks for that link ; but I can't pretend I'm shocked/surprised; these are, unfortunately, standard practices these days for software companies engaged in apps accessing The Web; especially where so called "Free" versions of their products are available; your personal details (e.g. a valid e-mail address and, as reported in that article, your (sensitive?) browsing habits/history) become the price you have to pay in exchange for using their free version... (semi-OT, but perhaps not so... : Off to try now latest v12 of 360ExtremeExplorer by Chinese maker QiHu (QiHoo?), based on Chromium 78... No doubt Beijing will soon learn of all my tests there... ) Happy Holidays

It's also missing in New Moon 28, but that's because uBlock0 filters "took care" of it Disable uBlock0, clear ALL "*.adobe.com" set cookies, clear browser cache and reload the page: The "optional offer" is just adware, I'm glad it's out of the way for me ; why would one even complain about missing it? Clicking the "Actualizar ahora" button with uBlock0 enabled just loads: https://get3.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_32_for_Firefox_-_NPAPI&os=Vista&browser_type=Gecko&browser_dist=Firefox&type=au&browser_vers=52&stype=7782 for me, after which I am presented with a "save file" prompt, as already previously posted... As you can see by that URI, the page checks for (and needs to know) your OS and browser type/version, so it can fetch the most suitable for you edition of the stub Flash installer...

... Four hours prior to you posting the above: Festive Greetings!

Since the author of that application does already provide a "portable" version of his software, there's not much sense in doing that for HeidiSQL 10.3 ; besides, OP wants an installer for proper (non-portable) installation; my advice: use the previous XP-compatible installer, then overwrite old binaries with the new ones contained inside the portable package; some registry manual correction would be then needed (probably just "cosmetic") to make the OS aware that a "new" version of the app is now in place... (if OP has access to a Vista+ machine, he could install there while using a registry/installation monitoring application, extract the registry keys HeidiSQL 10.3 created during installation and then, with minor edits, merge those keys in his XP/Server2k3 machine...) Just my 2 eurocents

@msfntor I can (re)assure you ALL video-tests and video links you provided WORK AS INTENDED here with Serpent 52.9.0, even on my dirty profile; to simulate Windows XP better, I disabled Vista's native h264/aac decoder (by setting media.wmf.enabled to false) and let Serpent 52 use its bundled decoders, same as on XP... I can provide screengrabs if you're not convinced, but trust me, I wouldn't lie to you... Two notes: 1. On https://www.international.tbs.com/ several clips are no longer available, e.g. "Miracle Workers, Season 1"; but others, like "Those Who Can’t, SEASON 3", do load and play fine... 2. This is quite normal, since both the (older) AVI media container and the Xvid video decoder ARE NOT supported in Mozilla type browsers; I don't think even Chromium-based browsers have such support... At best, only WebM (a sub-species of the Matroska) and MP4 containers are supported in HTML5 embedded players (and with a limited choice for video stream codecs); remember, web browsers shouldn't be (or turn into) dedicated media players! If I were you, I'd stop chasing ghosts; as told before, your issues are probably derived from your extensive use of content blockers (you mentioned uMatrix), privacy extensions/settings, proxy/VPNs etc... The only content blocker here installed in Serpent 52 is uBlock Origin, with the default + several custom filter lists! Everything works as it should! If you ask for uMartix support to make your videos properly load, then I'm sorry, I'm not the guy to offer that... ... Not a big fan of Travolta's myself... ... Yes, in Remove Basilisk from the Unified XUL Platform repository which leads to https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Basilisk Presumably, all that "relocation" was done to address UXP issue #969: Split applications off from platform (UXP) in order to Is it really "easier" for you @roytam1 that way? Also, do note last comment by M.A.T. regarding Basilisk (hence Serpent 52): https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/969#issuecomment-566201633 for which https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Basilisk/issues/1 was created

Can't confirm here: ... so it's probably something at your end Either location/CDN related, ISP related, firewall related, AV application related or, most likely, Serpent 52 profile related ; if it works in a new, clean profile without any extension and with the default settings (GUI and in about:config), then it will signal your issue is due to personal customisations in your current/dirty profile; that could be anything from a GUI-changed setting, a user-set about:config pref, user-installed extension(s) and its (/their) configuration, etc... It's hard to offer meaningful/rectifying advice when one is not able to reproduce your issue(s) ... BTW, updating/installing Adobe NPAPI Flash via that route is probably not recommended on Windows XP; at best, you'll get an on-line (aka stub) installer, which will then attempt to fetch the bulk of needed files using OS (XP) libraries; I haven't tried that stub installer recently on XP, but even on Vista there had been reports of the installer being only SHA2 code-signed (this specific one is not ) and attempting to connect to Adobe's servers via TLS 1.2 exclusively... Your best bet is updating via SHA1 off-line installers, as per Adobe Flash Player has been updated to 32.0.0.303 today

Hi again ; how am I to know that, since you never told us about this fact? ... You are correct; before Firefox Quantum (v57.0+) was finalised and made it to the release branch, a non-Quantum user could install lightweight themes (previously known as personas) directly from AMO; they were at the time simply renamed to just "Themes" by Mozilla, while Complete Themes (the ones previously called "Themes") where demoted and made much more difficult to discover in AMO; that is because they were slated for slaughter , as not being compatible with Quantum... Shortly after Quantum was released, AMO withdrew all "legacy" extensions, together with all Complete Themes ! To add fuel to the fire, they did also remove most "legacy" lightweight themes, while those they kept underwent the Web Extension treatment, to render them compatible with Quantum (similar things happened to language packs and search-engine plugins ). There's a relevant and quite interesting thread in the official Pale Moon Forums that discusses the old vs the new (WE) format of Firefox personas: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=177818#p177818 Some "legacy" personas are still recoverable via the Web Archive; the one you already have and suggest to others has, luckily, only one working web capture and can be installed in either FxESR52/Serpent52/Serpent55 through that page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170913041318/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mussala-856-meters/ This is also available via CAA (caa:addon/lwthemes) and is indeed useful to save to disk (and then be able to re-apply ) an already installed persona, no more to be found on AMO...

See (few posts above) :

You are kindly asked to check the validity of what you post ; the OP asked for a "theme" for his Serpent 52.9.0 copy and what you've linked to is a (lightweight) theme (previously known as persona) packaged in a Web Extension format, targeting at minimum Firefox 53.0; that WE persona won't even install in Serpent 55.0.0, because both UXP and Moebius do not support WE lightweight themes... Most unfortunately, there's currently a very limited choice for Personas compatible with Serpent 52.9.0: https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/personas/

Oops! Wrong link added ; sorry about that... Remove Pale Moon from the Unified XUL Platform repository => https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon (this probably means additional hurdles for Roytam1, as he'd have to also fork that new repo and make new arrangements for producing his UXP-based browser forks... )

... Running XP SP2 32-bit, i.e. without SP3/SP4, does kind of put you in a minority of XP users here; most software still targeted at XP these days assumes SP3 plus all M$ updates until the End of Extended Support (for XP) ... That is why I said you need to be specific... FWIW, from my own recollections many years ago when I was on XP SP2, the Adobe Primetime CDM (which, for some obscure reason, has become quite en vogue in these forums ), does require SP3 to be present (all I know is I was unable to get it working there; it did install, but no MP4 decoding was possible; ofc, I could be wrong - and no way to retest now...).

Comodo IceDragon 64-bit, forked from Firefox Quantum v65.0 and run on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit is a tad Off Topic for this thread, IMHO ; be that as it may, per my recent post, CID (Fx 65.0 derived) will download and install Widevine CDM v4.10.1146.0 when Play DRM content (or whatever it's called in Fx 65.0) is ticked in Options; but that specific version is currently DEPRECATED by Google (their Widevine licence servers), so if you visit a media site with DRM that requires the Widevine CDM to play its content (video/audio), then you're out of luck with CID; you must use a version of another browser (FirefoxESR 68.3.0, Firefox release 71.0, Google Chrome latest, Waterfox Classic 56.2.13) that has support for the latest supported version of Widevine, v4.10.1440.19 The CID devs will have to either patch their current browser milestone to enable it with v4.10.1440.19 support (which shouldn't be that easy in itself, but definitely easier than porting v4.10.1440.19 support to UXP ) or rebase their fork to use at least a Firefox 68.3.0/69.0+ codebase, which comes with native support for WVCDM v4.10.1440.19 ... Also, on your Comodo forums post, you wrote: Please, DON'T MIX completely unrelated things! The Adobe Primetime CDM was an older DRM implementation (offered by Adobe) that 1. is no longer used by any media site for DRM purposes, 2. it was only internally supported by Firefox versions up to (and including) v52.x.x; starting with Fx v53.0, all Adobe Primetime CDM support code was obliterated from inside Firefox; so, there's no chance a Firefox 65 based fork would download and install APCDM... I re-iterate: (Google) Widevine and (Adobe) Primetime CDMs are NOT interchangeable! And even if you use a browser that does support APCDM, you don't need it at all (as a h264/aac decoder) under Windows 7+ (see more below...) If you're using Serpent 55.0.0 under Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, you have absolutely no need to even install and use Adobe Primetime CDM there; you can't use it as a replacement to the non-working Widevine CDM v1.4.8.903 that St55 installs under Vista+, and you don't need it as a decoder for h264/aac (html5 MP4 video), because, under Win7, St55 already comes with two such decoders: a.) the OS provided one via WMF framework, media.wmf.enabled;true b.) the one bundled within the browser in a custom ffvpx library, media.ffvpx.enabled;true If you're using Serpent 55.0.0 under Windows XP, then, likewise, APCDM can't be used for DRM purposes... And if you need html5 MP4 video decoding support, then media.ffvpx.enabled;true is still valid... Should you wish to install APCDM as an alternate second decoder in St55, then, a) Serpent 55.0.0 originally was forked from a Firefox 53.0a1 snapshot, where APCDM support code was already removed! b) @roytam1 , at some later point after Basilisk/Moebius was abandoned by upstream, did re-introduce APCDM support in St55: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55/commit/8dc3c7f3ece162392af056a3b82ce43105ee8938 (ported change from iceweaselXP-53: Restored eme-adobe plugin support for Windows XP systems) As you can see, that support was imported from another fork (not straight from Firefox <=52.x.x); in any case, Serpent 55.0.0 reports itself as being Firefox 55.0, so its GMP-manager will never download APCDM by default... You can try the trick posted in the APCDM thread (and recently mentioned by @Mathwiz): (which, IMHO, should be modded to read: "52.x.x ESR, Serpent 52.9.0, Serpent 55.0.0 users...") and if that wouldn't work, you'll have to manually download and install APCDM v17 as detailed in the relevant thread; but, again, this won't solve any DRM issues you might be experiencing, on any Windows version you might be running Serpent 55.0.0 I have provided, I hope, very clear and detailed explanations/instructions, so make the best you can with them...