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hi, projects' main page (at least) in gitlab show up empty and with the swirling thingie spinning around.

Those (settings) in XP are discussed at nauseam in the XP sub-forum. Until you get the hang of it, you will have to spend some time, though, and have an XP ready backup image (or many, as you advance). With the specs of that laptop of yours, it will be difficult, but (again), check with Astroskipper, it is possible.

There are many sites I cannot visit with Serpent. The whole bunch of social media, to begin with. For those, I use other browsers that work relatively well in XP. For banks, etc, I use a chromebook, even my phone. If you were using XP, I would suggest you do the same. But for most sites, sp52 is good enough for me, and I feel safer and more private using SP52 with them, than using MP68 or supermium. As per settings, there are of two types.Those in the browser: for firefox derivatives, I keep saying use arkenfox, and have made public most of the tricks I use. It's up to you to find them in this and mypal's threads, and try them. It ain't easy as using vanilla, though. For chrome derivatives, check supermium's (maybe thorium's) thread. Astroskipper's threads on xul browsers and mypal are also good resources.

I will give this a try. I wonder if someone has tried to use nssm (as suggested by @jaclaz) to replace srvany in install.bat Thanks for bringing this back to attention. Cheers!

" Very very very VERY patient" For those who use xul browsers (maybe I exaggerate, I haven't used anything xul but sp52 for 3 years or so) regularly, it's obvious that you have something wrong in your settings. In my case, speed is acceptable - except for ublock loading in startup- and similar to what you get in linux, or a poorly configured W10. But maybe it's that I/we are more patient than the chrome crowd.

Another great read. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

Then and now https://www.wired.com/story/we-were-wrong-oral-history-hotwired/

Hi Zorba, I misunderstod cmalex's wording, that's all. As per python, I'm a newb (so thank you very much for the indications above). msys-mingw I used to play with back when xp was young and shinny, so everuthing was all setup and updated with little (relative to today) user input, a long time ago. Cheers!

Yeah, rumours from your favorite browser, Mozilla Firefox, about the new lite Ublock. They took it back, apologize and such, to no avail..

Hi there. It's been a decade since I've tried to build something, but all this chat has got me hooked to try and see if old XP can do it. I decided to give a try to MSYS from https://github.com/akosela/msys2-xp, which claims pacman support, using http://files.1f0.de/mingw/mingw-w64-gcc-10.3-stable-r34.7z for mingw32. "This project specifically aims to compile Yamagi Quake II for Windows XP. It includes all of the required dependencies. It also provides some other useful programs: mutt, irssi, tmux, git, ssh, lftp, curl/wget. If you need additional packages that still work under this version of MSYS2 you can take a look here: https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/msys2. Download them to /msys2/var/cache/pacman/pkg and install with: $ pacman -U <package>.pkg.tar.xz" I plan to also play with the minimalist https://archive.org/details/msys2xp, which comes with its own mingw 32 and a (alleged) control of package integrity. I'm on 32, so I delete all 64. In the meanwhile, I've been trying your set "PATH=C:\Python38;D:\Mingw_61\bin;%PATH%", but I run into an issue with "python setup.py -c mingw32": setup.py, not found. I searched in the files and found ...\Python\Lib\test\libregrtest\setup.py. Is that the one I'm supposed to use? Thank you very much, Cmalex (and Zorba).

Thank you very much for all of this. I wanted to share some points: 1) Wheels that work in my setup taken from original PythonXP (some in different folders, so check): cffi-1.14.6-cp38-cp38-win32.whl cryptography-3.4.8-cp38-cp38-win32 lxml-4.9.1-cp38-cp38-win32.whlnumpy-1.24.0.dev0+481.gb89a1d2-cp38-cp38-win32.whl matplotlib-3.3.4-cp38-cp38-win32.whl ---> installing this one gets the latest pillowl opencv_python-4.7.0.72-cp38-cp38-win32.whl psutil-5.6.7-cp38-cp38-win32.whl pyjq-2.5.2-cp38-cp38-win32.whl sip-6.6.2-cp36-abi3-win32.whl sip-6.6.2-cp37-abi3-win32.whl wxPython-4.2.1a1-cp38-cp38-win32.whl zstandard-0.18.0-cp38-cp38-win32.whl 2) tcl8.6 and tkl8.6 (as in zorba's and cmalex folders) don't work. Doing the following seems to make the trick: move root\wish86t.exe and root\tclsh86t.exe into root\TCL\tclsh86t.exe and root\TCL\wish86t.exe move the following folders from root\TLC to root\Lib (only files get left in TLC) dde1.4, itcl4.2.2, nmake,reg1.3, sqlite3.36.0, tlcl8, tdbc1.1.3, tdbcmysql1.1.3, tdbcodbc1.1.3, tdbcpostgres1.1.3, tdbcsqlite31.1.3, thread2.8.7, tcl8.6, tk8.6 Cheers!

Over the years I have used a number of annoyance removers. My two favorite ones have been splashkiller (http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/SplashKiller/index.html) and ptfb (https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ptfb_(push_the_freakin_button).html). They have served me well, and have discovered a few tricks that may be of use and am willing to share, if needed. No rocket science. Lately I have also been trying clickoff (https://web.archive.org/web/20150307210023/http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/clickoff.shtml). I started looking at it because I have disabled com and com+ services, and while this haa not resulted in any significant problem, it has created an annoyance with MS Word 2007. Specifically, every time I now open a document I get a box warning me "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document. (G:\...\whateverdocIhadopened...). Which is a lie, I can link files and all, it is just an annoyance resulting of com com+ being disabled. Clickoff closes that box like a charm. But as I have thousands of word documents, that means I have to activate it for each document, with its particular path. No good. Now, clickoff is supposed to allow you to work with wildcards, but I can't figure how to do it properly. Basically, I want to create a rule that closes word popups whenever the text is "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document" irrespective of path. The question is: what wildcard should I use to achieve that? I have tried putting the base text "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document." in brackets, idem follow by a *. You name it, and still no luck. Could any of you wildcard gurues lend a hand? Thanks if you can!

Quite neat button. Wonder when you will release it. Also dreaming of the multifunction about button you shocased in the upx thread. And salivate of thinking having a fre-toggler in my pal Cheers!

I find the developer of this fork to be very conscientious. Against clamor and scorn, he took a year to produce a first solid (albeit a bit leaky) first alpha for XP. Each subsequent release has shown, so far the same care, and each has brought improvements. And if you do things right, changing the engine has little to no impact (in my case, no impact of notice, so far) on your profile. I switch as soon as he releases.

If you call tricks what you get with 8+, keep' em. (https://msfn.org/board/topic/174160-guide-disable-data-collection-in-windows-10/#comments, https://msfn.org/board/topic/174208-windows-10-deeper-impressions/#comments, etc. etc. etc.) PS: besides, look at the title of the thread you are in.

I do use hard mode, but (of course) to run the test I allow creepjs specific scripts to run, otherwise there is no testing :P The same is true of many sites that require some js to function. I was wondering (a) if that may be behind UA spoofing failure, and (b) if there may be some way to block just iframes, while allowing the main frame(s) js to run... A fool's wish, I guess. Thanks!

A discussion in the core mypal68 thread led me to a resurrected tabmix, probably similar to the one I'm using in serpent52 (that you can find in palemoon addons). The site https://onemen.github.io/tabmixplus-docs/other/installation/ gives a neat explanation on how to install tabmix plus, to no avail. I have followed the steps there produced, but I always get back to "addon appears corrupt" (a https://onemen.github.io/tabmixplus-docs/other/installation/#add-on-appears-corrupt). I have tried lowering the version requirement in install.rdf, to no avail. I wonder if someone has managed to install it. Thanks!

" The js block in the case of the image due to uBlock Origin,which is restricted to the website in question, blocks what you are asking for. " Yeah. Thanks. I was hoping for something less radical that could be applied more broadly to different sites. I wonder if it is those iframes browser version's information that is behind the failure of UA since the last years or so.

hI, creepjs is one of the best fingerprinting testers out there. I have managed to fool many of its tests, but there is one I cant: https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/tests/iframes.html Basically creepjs, in my setup, manages to get browser and version through iframes, specified in he image below. i wonder if that can be prevented, somehow. Cheers!

The restart and purge, the memory minimization, the about pages and a simple about config are available (through you) in mypal, via userchrome.js. I'm craving to have an about pages like the one you showed in the previous page (now images are broken), and preftoggler (fromsp52). Cheers!

Unfortunately, it seems to me this place is gone, with no register in archive.org. There are a few alternatives, though, i.e., https://github.com/Infocatcher/Custom_Buttons?tab=readme-ov-file

A smart approach entails using separate profiles (or browsers) for different tasks. As I once wrote in one of your 360chrome treads, I used to use said browsers for social media letting them spy on each other, training ggbots on my youtube tastes on music so they could then go on, properly equipped, to conquer the world. Instead, I used a truly hardened serpent (oh my) to do my work, and used a tor proxy (and further hardening) to go places where I didn't want to be noticed. With different instruments, the song remains the same.

Works well and faster than the previous versions, thanks. Also, please remind me (perhaps better in the Mypal buttons thread), how do you install this xmp button in Mp68? Buttons I'm using (aboutbutton.uc.js, memoryMinimizationButton.uc.js RestartFirefoxButton_Movable.uc.js) are js files in the chrome subfolder of the profile. Cheers!

True that.

Thanks for the (dissapointing ) info.