VistaLover

... Well, this is unfortunate ; any explanation from them why they did so? Anyhow, thanks for restoring things; I had several bookmarks pointing directly at your repository, I had to manually edit hostnames from o.rthost.cf to o.rths.cf to make them work again

@sdfox7 Let me be absolutely clear: I, of course, am not doubting here your file downloading skills , it's just that I have to stress ONCE MORE the imperative necessity the file hosting site be accessed with an enabled adblocker; the adblocker will thwart any site attempts to offer "suggested software" downloads (in your case, a "purportedly" outdated version of the Adobe Flash Player stub installer) and proceed straight to the requested file download (as is shown in my screenshot ); in some cases, you might have to press the DOWNLOAD button a second time to be presented with a "save file" prompt (depends on browser setting); you fail to disclose the type of browser and adblock used in your downloading attempts ; I only mean to help here, not cause you additional trouble... The uBlock0 file has been downloaded till now a total of 14 times, in the worst-case-scenario, some good person can re-upload it to a new hoster you feel more comfortable with (e.g. MEGA, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc - I don't have accounts with any of them ATM ) Best regards and apologies for any inconvenience caused...

Indeed ... And for that you deserve all the praise there is! Technically, even they can't be held responsible for issues on the XP platform, as they - since long ago - do not target that (so they can't test on XP) and do not care if their code, patched only to the extent it will allow it to run satisfactorily on XP/Vista (and this is only where Roy steps in) creates issues for XP/Vista users... @zipandlips: My dear Russian friend, you should stop sounding demanding, impolite, disrespectful; this attitude will not get you far, not only here, but probably in other places where you'd arrive to seek help ... I sense you are just overly frustrated and not meaning to insult people, still... In any case, read what I wrote previously in this (long) trhead: If you can reliably reproduce some of your issues with the official Pale Moon 28.1.0 build (perhaps on a borrowed Win7+ machine), then post about it (in mild language, please) in the official forum, else take what you're offered and be glad about it... This is a one-person effort, don't expect that wonders can be worked for an OS now 4.5 years EOL'd

... Nothing suspicious if you visit the site with your adblocker ON (uBlock0 legacy 1.16.4.5 in my case, New Moon 28.2.0a1 32-bit 2018-10-12); you should click on the gray button with DOWNLOAD inside it, not anything/anywhere else! Filesize is ca. 2.2MB, filename is uBlock0-1_16_18_0.crx; it has already been downloaded 8 times (at the time of writing), so you should be able to fetch it yourself, too

If you're willing to wean yourself from the AdBlock type family of adblockers, uBllock Origin Legacy (XUL) is a splendid candidate for Pale (New) Moon and other browsers that don't support Webextensions; you must first get rid of any previous content blockers you've been using and then install latest version (1.16.4.5) from the GitHub repo: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/firefox-legacy-1.16.4.5 (click on the .xpi link) ; updates will be somewhat infrequent, because the dev's main focus has shifted onto its webextension counterpart; FWIW, to have your copy auto-update, you should install the companion extension uBlock Origin Updater uBlock0 is noticeably more gentle on resources (namely RAM consumption) compared to the ABP family of blockers, so it's recommended especially on older/lower-spec hardware... You don't specify, but if you're interested in an in-browser solution, I highly recommend the SaveFrom.net one, to which I have recently switched :https://en.savefrom.net/user.php?vid=308#youtube Do not install any .exe file from that page! Scroll all the way down to Installation; the Mozilla Firefox extension is of the webextension format, so won't install in New Moon (does so in Serpent 52.9.0/55.0.0); but if you have Greasemonkey for Pale Moon installed, you can proceed to install their userscript from https://download.sf-helper.com/chrome/helper.user.js (Just load in a new tab and follow the prompt). It is one of the few YT-DLers that would pick up the standalone 720p MP4 encode that youtube now hides on VEVO clips (and other protected music content) ... As for MPEG-DASH yt streams, it is able to fetch the raw video+audio streams, but you'll have to properly remux them to MP4/MKV container using FFmpeg... If your query is not specifically for an extension, then I highly recommend the CLI app youtube-dl (front-ends exist); again, for DASH streams you need to place ffmpeg.exe right besides youtube-dl.exe (or else specify its path in yt-dl's config file...) and the app will auto-mux the elementary streams for you...

You can access the same build here ; BTW, that link is contained within the following get_iplayer mailing list post: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2017-May/010711.html I am the author of that post, also the person who compiled that FFmpeg build; now I don't want to bring up plagiarism into this discussion, but it seems the internet is such a small place after all Just compare, if you will (posted Dec 28th, 2017): to (posted May 10th, 2017): FWIW, MSFN forum member @CoRoNe compiles and offers, out of pure comradeship, recent, XP compatible, FFmpeg builds, though his are optimised for older processors ; he has, not long ago, announced new builds in another thread, here is his post Enjoy!

... Thanks, but what you have uploaded to your server is the GitHub hosted "zip" version of uBlock0 1.16.20 (which, to my knowledge, is unlikely to vanish from there ); what I have politely asked you to archive in your FTP is the signed (originally offered by Google Store) version of uBlock 1.16.18 (uploaded by myself to datafilehost ) which is very hard to harvest currently from the web and is the version that would install normally and work OK with release branch Google Chrome 49+50... Will you be kind enough to do so? ... And that is precisely why there exist anti-Adblock filter lists and userscripts, that should prevent sites from asking you to disable your adblocker! I am now posting with @roytam1's Serpent 55.0.0 web browser (on WinVista 32-bit) that allows many webextensions to be installed, so I am running uBlock0 v1.17.1b2 there... In 3rd-party-filter-lists, I have enabled the innate Adblock Warning Removal list, plus I have also installed and enabled the following custom lists: AAK-Cont Filter For uBlock Origin and AdBlock Protector 2 List for uBlock Origin. You also need a userscript extension, I already have Violentmonkey installed here (in New Moon you should install Greasemonkey for Pale Moon) and then install the AAK-Cont Userscript For uBlock Origin Granted my setup does not cover all cases, but I'd say it works for 90% of these obnoxious sites that demand an adblocker switch-off ... I have to disable my adblocker sometimes willingly during troubleshooting, frankly I can not stand one mere minute without it! (same goes for my old hardware - CPU + integrated GPU - which suffers spikes from all these ad-playing videos/iframes/popups all over the place... ) I understand many sites rely on ad income, I selectively whitelist those ones I want to support (e.g. MSFN) in my adblocker's settings; most of them are not of the malicious-type ones that insist on shoving down your throat every ad that exists on the internet, not to mention the coin-mining ones... Thanks for your efforts Stephen into archiving anything XP valuable ... I'd wish there existed someone else doing similar things for the Vista OS, but I understand the chance of that is infinitesimal

Well, I "certainly" don't want to steal any thunder away from @gorhill (aka Raymond Hill), but he wasn't involved in any of the legwork ; the actual fix was committed by another dev, GitHub member @gwarser, all "Raymond" had to do was accept and merge a pull request... Still, that's indeed way better compared to many other extension devs, who have washed their hands off of XUL code... At the end of the day, legacy uBlock0 received an enhancement feature and that's what matters...

... and with uBlock0 v1.16.4.5 legacy (XUL), you can now properly subscribe to filter lists on https://filterlists.com This is because issue #3737 was fixed via commit git-80f8f3b Great news!

Versions of uBlock Origin > 1.16.20=1.16.18 for Google Chrome now require Chrome version >=52.0; Advanced Chrome will advertise itself on Google Store as v54.20.6530.0, so it will allow the download and install of latest version of uBlock0; but because, in essence, AdvChr is Chrome v48.0+51.0, it does not support the Javascript functions of uBlock0 > 1.16.20 (as already explained by heinoganda). The problem with Google Store is, unlike the Firefox extensions repository (AMO), that it does not offer previous versions of an extension, so once you upgrade to a non-working version of an extension, you can't revert back (at least easily) Chromium will allow for installation of unsigned extensions, so installing from uBlock0's GitHub repo is an option in this case; while in developer mode, you can convert the github downloaded 1.16.20 zip file into a proper .crx one: https://www.datafilehost.com/d/c5a80c4a In the case of Google Chrome 49 (and 50, for Vista users), you should be stuck at version 1.16.18 (IDK whether v1.16.20, identical to 1.16.18, was properly released in Google Store), so no problem with upgrading to an incompatible version there; but what if you want to install uBlock0 v1.16.18 for the first time/re-install? Release branch Chrome will disable any non-signed extension (i.e. not coming from their store), even installed during dev mode, at next browser restart ; I have managed to track down a signed version of uBlock0 v1.16.18, at the admin's discretion, I have uploaded it to: https://www.datafilehost.com/d/dff0eb77 Maybe @sdfox7 is interested in permanently archiving it onto his server... This is a limitation of the legacy version of uBlock0 v1.16.4.4 (XUL) installable on Pale (New) Moon; while I find that some sites work OK (e.g. https://adblockplus.org/subscriptions), the one you linked to requires a more recent, WebExtension, version of uBlock0; but, as you probably know, you can manually install from there by copying raw filter URLs (Details -> View)

... Windows Embedded POSReady 7 (more here) Extended support ends Oct 12th, 2021 (per M$); however, there's no registry hack there and if those updates are Win7 SP1 compatible, they'd have to be hunted down (in the Microsoft Update Catalog) and installed manually... Related older thread in the Win7 subforum...

Bleachbit 2.0 uses Python 2.7 and the python27.dll depends on some version of MSVC++, probably the 2010 one; in Add/Remove Programmes, which versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable are still present (assuming you did not remove those, too...) ? I'm not 100% sure this is the origin of your issue, still it's worth checking... EDIT: Is the issue only manifesting itself with the portable version of BB, or does it happen with the installed version, too?

... If you're referring to the LAV filters : as stated, those are NOT NEEDED for either NM28/ Serpent52 ; these browsers, built on the UXP platform, have a different implementation of being able to play back media files with patented codecs (h264/aac) : they do not rely on LAV filter .dlls but use a modded version of the ffvpx library; this is on XP, where system decoders are unavailable - on Vista+, they can also use system decoders via Media Foundation framework, but I'll have to ask @roytam1 which decoders have priority there (WMF | ffvpx) when both are available to the browser (media.wmf.enabled;true, media.ffvpx.enabled;true)

In either New Moon (28.2.0a1) or Serpent 52.9.0, open a new tab and load about:config?filter=release Right click app.releaseNotesURL and select Modify (or the equivalent translated string if you're using a langpack in NM28); in the popup that opens, paste in the entry field the following URL: http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser Hit OK button and, optionally, restart browser... Now, when you go to about: (in a tab) => release notes or Help -> about New Moon -> (popup opens) Click Release Notes (botton right) a new tab will open to RT's Free Soft: browser , which has all the (latest) links you want (and even links to previous builds) (An even more elegant solution would be to just bookmark above URL! )

Hi ; unfortunately, both the current Firefox (53+) full browser extension (at version 3.2.32) and the limited Old Firefox (48+) browser extension (at version 1.0.6) are of the WebExtension type, a format that Pale Moon (hence New Moon) does not support by choice/design ; OTOH, Serpent 52.9.0 comes with a limited set of WebExtension APIs, so you might want to check your luck there I was successful in installing the full extension on both Serpent 52.9.0/55.0.0, but since I don't have the app installed (nor a MyJDownloader account), I can't test the extension is fully functional! Hope I've helped...

... this link is now "404 - Not Found" ; whatever happened to it? ... And is this UXP patch file applicable to both browser applications, i.e. New Moon 28 and Serpent 52.9.0 ? As far as I am aware, FFmpeg 4.x.x branch is still Windows Vista compatible, so perhaps you could, in theory, include the ffvpx 4.x.x code and "ifdef" it for winver >=6.0 (for us using UXP browsers on Vista), else fallback to ffvpx 3.4.x for winver < 6.0; but, IMHO, eventually you should start experimenting with patching the 4.x.x code, to gain for all (XP+Vista) the performance and security improvements merged in the 4.x.x branch by the FFmpeg devs... Thanks for your on-going stupendous efforts!

Actually, this is normal; you should realise that while the UXP platform was forked from a Firefox ESR 52.6.0 platform snapshot, the application Pale Moon 28 itself (built on the UXP platform) does not implement the Australis GUI, much like its previous major version 27. The feature you describe was added on top of the Australis interface (Fx >=29.0) by Mozilla developers and should be there in both Firefox ESR 52.9.0 / Basilisk 52 (Serpent 52.9.0), as long as you do not move the "Zoom Controls" button (- +) to a browser toolbar; this native browser feature was not present in the pre-Australis (Fx <=28.0) Firefox GUI that PM uses... There's nothing to fix here, as explained above; BTW, you should not expect @roytam1 to implement major new features in New Moon 28 (his fork) that are not yet present upstream, i.e. in original Pale Moon 28 source (master branch); the way I see it (and please someone correct me if I am wrong), Roy's main focus is/should be creating and testing patches to Pale Moon that will enable it to run on Windows XP + Vista, both OSs that the official app has dropped support for; main browser code is still the task for Moonchild Productions; if you do find a bug inside Roy's patches (that enable XP+Vista support), by all means report it here, but GUI improvements + implementation of new features should not, IMHO, be a thing for Roy... In any case, if you want the requested functionality in New Moon 28 (currently at version 28.2.0a1), you can install an extension which offers pretty much the same thing, Zoom Page v15.7 (it creates a button that can be placed inside any toolbar, but, sadly, not inside the URLbar): I think it's universally accepted there's no software that is bug-free; however, your bug reporting skills are very flimsy in this case; please read Information to include when asking for support ; providing just a screengrab without further info (e.g. the URL details of the page where this occurs) so other people here can test and try to reproduce results in pure sensationalism, with slim chances of a resolution of your issue... Please understand I have nothing personal against you , my advice above was simply offered so us members here can help each other in a more productive manner... Regards

Not that it comes as a surprise, but following Bugzilla bug (#1495991) labelled WONTFIX : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495991 (Reconsider extending security support for Firefox 52ESR on Windows XP and Vista)

this is stored in palemoon.exe and xul.dll. Thanks ... I HexEdit-ed the only one instance of "28.1.0a1" inside the main executable (palemoon.exe) to "28.2.0a1" and this thing alone made the modded appVersion to be reported in most places that count, e.g. 1. The internal "about:" page 2. The dynamically constructed default UserAgent string... 3. The version used in/reported by the browser's Add-ons manager... 3. The version reported by the "Version in Add-on bar" extension... I had to nit-pick manually so that "28.2.0a1" be displayed in some other locations, like: 1. about:addons -> Themes -> Default 28.2.0a1 (I had to patch ./browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi file...) 2. about:support -> Version: 28.2.0a1 (32-bit) (This was very tricky to do; I had to hunt for and HexEdit two occurrences of the AppConstants.jsm file inside the main omni.ja file...). 3. Menu Bar -> Help -> Aboout Pale Moon -> Version: 28.2.0a1 (32-bit) (2018-09-21) (I had to patch an aboutDialog.xul file inside the ./browser/omni.ja file). Sadly, I was unsuccessful in identifying which file is responsible for generating the following pref: gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.appVersion;28.1.0a1 (which doesn't report 28.2.0a1, despite my modifications...); if anything, I learned a lot about the "insides" of the compiled browser's structure... Thankfully, with your most up-to-date New Moon 28 build, you are now in the 28.2.0a1 version string!

Hello again , I do hope life has gotten back to, somewhat, normal where you live, after that terrible natural catastrophe; the footage of Mangkhut ravaging SE Asia that we watched over here was daunting , to say the least... Back to the topic, if I understood you correctly, you said that a simple appVersion change doesn't merit a full clobber, which itself entails considerably longer build times, not to mention the increased power (electricity) consumption by the build-machine... If that's the case, I do understand, after all you know what's best for your building system... My only gripe is, if produced build stays in v28.1.0a1, this leaves room for some misinterpretation; 28.1.0a1 < 28.1.0, yet today's (Sat, Sept 22nd 2018) imminent NM28 build will be built on 28.2.0a1 code (i.e. newer that the officially released stable Pale Moon 28.1.0 build); and in any case, you will have to start building fresh at some point, won't you? It's the same thing with your Tycho builds, which still report v27.9.1a1, when in reality they should report v27.9.5a1... FWIW, the official unstable Pale Moon has been released on the 20th, appVersion="28.2.0a1", buildID (for win32)="20180919142716" and file version of palemoon.exe = 4.1.5.6836 One last question/request for help: Do you happen to know where exactly in the compiled browser modules is the actual appVersion string stored? I searched both omni.ja files (./omni.ja & ./browser/omni.ja) with 7-zip/NotePad++ and while I found some references, changing those and repacking the .ja files did not alter appVersion (I also use the Version in Add-on bar extension...) I echo everyone's sentiments here by saying you are a true life saver at this point for XP/Vista OSes, as practically no other browser (except your forks) is currently in active development for those OSes (... of course, credit also goes to MC Productions for maintaining original PM and Basilisk...) Keep well

As posted already by @roytam1, AppMenu items are not movable outside of the AppMenu button - this has always been the case in the pre-Australis Firefox GUI - OTOH, the Australis GUI has a native add-ons button which you can move and place where you please; FYI, Basilisk (Serpent) 52.9.0 browser comes with the Australis default skin/GUI... In the case of Pale Moon and forks (as well as Firefox < 29.0), if you want one-click access to the addons manager (AOM, about:addons) via toolbar button, in addition to what has been already suggested by Roy, you can install this simple extension from 2011: https://addons.mozilla.org/el/firefox/addon/aboutaddonsbutton/versions/ This works fine for me in NM28; one other option you may want to explore is: https://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/toolbar_button_maker/ where there's already a pre-made selection to create an "Add-ons toolbar button" extension...

Hello and welcome to MSFN forums! IMHO, you have a bigger problem in your hands by staying with Fx 28.0 ; it was released back in Mar 2014, still has a lot of unresolved functional bugs, not to mention that, security-wise, it has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese... If you're clinging on it because it was the last pre-Australis major Fx release, then you can switch to latest, but EOL'd, FxESR 52.9.0 and install Classic Theme Restorer to regain 95% of the pre-Australis GUI+features; or install latest New Moon 28 build (a Pale Moon 28 fork modified so as to run on XP/Vista) that never implemented the Australis design... As for your original query: am afraid the answer is NO Fx 28.0 is simply too old; it does not support any form of EMEs (Encrypted Media Extentions = DRM components) and relevant CDMs (Content Decryption Modules), so installing Adobe Primetime CDM on Fx 28.0 is out of the question... On top of that, Fx 28.0 has no support for Media Source Extensions (MSE), needed for youtube MPEG-DASH streams; visiting https://www.youtube.com/html5 with Fx 28.0 on XP you should have got only HTMLVideoElement and WebM VP8 ticked in blue (i.e. supported); it would appear that youtube have retired the VP8 encodes, thus rendering Fx 28.0 on XP unusable... ; BTW, I'm not just speculating, I have got a portable installation of Fx 28.0 on an external HDD and by toggling media.windows-media-foundation.enabled (from true to false) I simulated an XP environment and conducted tests before posting this... On those of us on Vista and higher, Fx 28.0 by default has H.264 ticked in blue, because Fx 28.0 has support for Media Foundation, hence it has access to patented system decoders (h.264/aac) not present in the XP OS (by a M$ decision)... So I can still use Fx 28.0 on Vista on youtube, they serve me a progressive download (no MSE) of an MP4 encode... You want youtube in XP? 1. Use Google Chrome 49, or Advanced Chrome fork (or possibly other Chromium derivatives still supporting XP, e.g. Maxthon...) 2. Update to FxESR 52.9.0 ; native support for MSE+WebM VP9 (for other sites that require h.264/aac native browser support, follow the guides of this thread). 3. Update to New Moon 28 or Basilisk 52.9.0 by roytam1; both have native support for H.264/MSE+H.264/MSE+WebM VP9; (some) people on XP have encountered a small nuisance on Youtube, affectionately known as the "23min youtube bug"; it's not a deal breaker, TBH... And at least one person here has reported better aac (audio) decoding experience by disabling native support in Basilisk 52.9.0 and installing Adobe Primetime CDM there, as per this thread... Hope I made everything clear for you, I'm confident others can chime in for more detailed help, if you need it that is ...

OT: Of the 3 WMP versions that were supported in XP (9 -> 10 -> 11), my favourite one had always been WMP10 ; I was so sad I couldn't get it on Vista... I hardly ever used WMP11 on Vista, Winamp was my choice back then (ca. 2008), still have it installed, then tried Real Player SP, aka v12, but my current set of players includes MPC-HC (new fork is Vista+), MPC-BE (Vista+), VLC 3.0.4 (XP+), PotPlayer 1.7.xxxxx (XP+). On-Topic: Perhaps you can still upgrade to WMP11, to get the specified functionality, but use a WMP9 skin in it, to get the look you like... I found the following links: https://www.guidingtech.com/11798/apply-skins-windows-media-player-personalize-it/ https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17560/apply-skins-to-add-a-little-flair-to-windows-media-player-12/ (The last one is for WMP12, however the same procedure applies to WMP11...). From my own copy of WMP11 (on Vista), the Revert skin preview looks a lot like WMP9: Tell us if it works for you...

On the official Pale Moon camp, Pale Moon v28.1.0 (stable) has just been tagged and released as source; I expect that Windows binaries be available imminently (most probably tomorrow, or the day after) ... Consequently, the unstable update channel, sourced from the master branch, has been bumped to v28.2.0a1; if over the coming weekend @roytam1 does clobber (as he should...) when building new binaries, NM28 builds will have the bumped appVersion and installed language packs (aimed at maxVersion=28.1.0a1) will get disabled... Just a heads up...

... Mozilla Firefox (and forks) uses its own certificate store, while IE and Google Chrome use the OS supplied one...