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On 8/3/2019 at 5:56 PM, Proteus said:
Alternative solution is to kill ImageImportDescriptor for Bcrypt.dll in ffcodec.dll (with e.g. LordPE)
No troubles for now with any media file.
They made a very bad failed version (1.7.19955), i can speak for XP, cause if you download their opencodec suggested -
PotPlayer codec (upd: 06/20/2019): OpenCodecSetup - the issue isn't go away.
Luckily the previuos working version (1.7.18958) can be found here
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On 7/21/2019 at 7:25 AM, Sampei.Nihira said:
Last version isn't XP compatible (not valid win32 appplication).
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On 7/25/2019 at 2:47 AM, Mathwiz said:
One little correction: the UOC Patch for FF 38-based browsers also applies to the K-Meleon browser, but you have to extract it into a different folder. Instead of <browser folder>\defaults\pref, for K-Meleon you should extract the patch into <browser folder>\browser\defaults\preferences.
Also, a note for those who have "hardened" their browser by disabling ciphers that don't offer "forward secrecy:" If you've done this, you won't be able to download the UOC Patch (or any files) from Mediafire, as their server doesn't provide any ciphers with forward secrecy. You'll get "no cipher overlap" message from your browser if you try. If this happens to you, I recommend you reset pref security.ssl3.rsa_aes_256_gcm_sha384 to true. It doesn't provide forward secrecy but is otherwise a very strong cipher and is supported by Mediafire.
Tips worthy of being in the 1st post, if l4ao agrees
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In past i often had problem like this not only for XP also on W7.
I resolved almost always setting active the new partition but i can't know if it can help in your case.
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16 hours ago, roytam1 said:
New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release:
https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM76.2-Goanna-20190803.7zLinks (not only for KM) are unreachable
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On 7/18/2019 at 7:32 PM, siria said:
Please elaborate, to figure out solutions?
The prob is, K-Meleon may be missing some essential things, but it also has lots of hidden features which simply aren't visible to unexperienced users.
For example most buttons have a handy right-click menu, which most people never discover just because they have no little-arrow as indication (example Home or Go-buttons)
A killer feature is the hidden privbar (View > Toolbars) with buttons for 1-click toggle of javascript, cookies etc.
Or the "about:about" page has lots of working links to more settings, incl. about:addons, which are not found anywhere in the menus, just because the GUI hasn't been updated in the last ten years or so, only the engine (install macro aboutabout to get at least a makeshift-menu)
Copy+search: select a text in a webpage and hit the search button (or similarly: select a text LINK and hit the Go-button)
Duplicate a tab: pull the tab into an empty space on tab bar (if any left ;-), or right-click on Go-button
If you want a closing cross on tabs: guess for this there's actually a GUI somewhere, perhaps in F2... (would have to look it up, am myself stuck on old version)
There are also macros for easy useragent-toggling, I recommend my "useragents2018" which also helps for easier managing site-UAs.Thanks for the tips, the F2 open a world of personalization included close-tab-cross on tab. Indeed it's a browser more advanced then others about "mouse gesture". For example you can close a tab just double clicking on the tab itself.
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On 8/2/2019 at 4:36 AM, VistaLover said:
Seems to work as expected here, under Vista SP2 32-bit
No way on XP SP3 (POSREADY)
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Vista is the SO most similar to Windows 7 without all the telemetry mess related to W7,W8, W10.
But if it's not a problem why don't use Windows 7? Another aspect that can be considered is that a lot of smartphone hardware can take advantage of a much wider driver base on W7 platform via WU.
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On 7/13/2019 at 7:21 AM, roytam1 said:
New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release:
https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM76.2-Goanna-20190713.7zsnipped
Really impressed by the speed and the rendering of this browser. Unfortunately there are missing features in his building (almost present in modern browsers) such as the ability to duplicate, or close a card with a dedicated cross (unless you're a pianist with CTRL + F4) or navigation incongnito, or copy and search on web but does his job admirably with an easy costumization.
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Leaving aside the specific case, this represents a known limit in the workplace today on XP systems. Since MS Office (this is especially true for Excel/Access) interacts online (for example through macros) in IE8 by default, so if the sites that display databases (think to corporate or institutional database) are unreachable due to IE8 failings, it is not possible to work with Excel/Access worksheets who exchange/update data from Internet.
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Thanks Dave.. i think ProxHTTPSProxy does the trick.
I would need to know without it.
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It seems that a lot of site gradually can't be open in IE8 also with TLS 1.1/1.2 checked.
Just for testing purpose can someone confirm for example on this?
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Somewhere in some remote folder of some remote hardware I should have both WLE 2009 (XP) and 2011 (Vista) offline working installer. edit: don't know if it's multilanguage
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9 hours ago, VistaLover said:
That's probably because your system lacks Eastern Asian Fonts (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc...); not saying you'd be able to understand the messages in Chinese (displayed by the installer) had you got them installed...
Perhaps a native Chinese speaker could create an installation guide with screenshots for those wanting to install this Chinese Chromium 69 fork (myself, I'm using a Russian-made portable version in WinPenPack format, just search for it on line as it's not allowed here on MSFN to post links to "unofficial" packages... ).
Can't quite understand
1) an outside-china installer is made in native chinese language
2) a lot of people are using a chinese browser without control on options/where/what is installed.
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15 hours ago, looking4awayout said:
Besides NoScript, don't forget to use uBlock Origin 1.10.0 as well as Bluhell Firewall and Decentraleyes. Those extensions, alongside NoScript, help a lot in terms of saving resources.
What version of NoScript do you suggest? I can't find v2.x, on the official site there's only a 5.1.9 (NoScript Classic).
It would be great if you could link the best suited version of the cited add-ons for your patch
10 hours ago, VistaLover said:Simply put, 45.9.0esr has more than a year's worth of publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities patched; as to whether those put a perceivable dent to the whole browser performance, as suggested, I can't comment really
; test on your own particular setup and decide for yourself; if you ask me, though, I'd go for safer...
Right, but for better performance on old processors you must find a practicable tradeoff between safety and usability. Indeed, these old machine are generally not dedicated to surf web, only when it's needed on web source of reliable respectability.
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Downloaded from the first post and scanned with virustotal:
nothing detected by any engine
I've blocked installation cause i can't understand any options!!!
i see only lines of multiple squares with some "360", something like this
□□□□□□□□□□360□□□□□□□□□□ ✔ ✗
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Just for better understanding what's the best way to let UOC Patch work.
After a clean install of 45ESR get prompted to 45.0.1. Now get prompted to 45.3ESR.
For the future I would like to avoid making the whole procedure according to this scheme (arriving to 45.8.0 ESR)
so my question:
is 45.7/8.0 ESR the latest version suggested that really retains the features for ante SSE2 processors?
I ask this cause my suspicion is that by moving away from the pure 45.0ESR the browser becomes increasingly heavy for these old processors.
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23 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
Out Potplayer v. 1.7.18958:
excellent reporting.
Apparently the player is not able to recognize automatically the presence of new versions (I don't know if it depends on XP)
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Great news. For anyone who would try to localize the system tell, please, your experience.
In past i installed SP4 on one system following guide to use language pack but the result was not quite satisfactory:
half start menu remained in english, and get miscellaneuos languages in the options related to right mouse click.
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After several testing conducted in pm with looking4awayout it is noted that problematic site causing RT1_F45ESR (45.9.15-2019025) crash doesn't dipend on the UOC Patch (which in truth is a solver, removing plugin-container), but on the Roytam1 version itself.
Unlike what was done previously all tests were conducted on clean browser installations.
Summing up:
Firefox 45.0.1 (if you install original FF 45 ESR, it's soon automatic upgraded to 45.0.1) - OK
RT1_FF45ESR - CRASH
RT1_FF45ESR + UOC Patch - OK
On 6/5/2019 at 12:25 PM, looking4awayout said:You're basically running the browser unpatched now. You must install the UOC Patch in the "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Defauls\Pref\" folder. It is independent from the prefs.js in your Firefox profile folder. Do not put the patch in your profile folder, or else it won't work!
The only way to get patch working (for me as it's proven) is doing both of the following action:
1) put UOC_Patch45.js in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Defauls\Pref\" folder
2) rename another instance of UOC_Patch45.js as prefs.js and putting it in C:\Documents and Settings\(Your Username)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(Your Profile folder)"
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On 4/3/2019 at 3:35 PM, looking4awayout said:
Ok now that we know the specs, how to install it?
Installing the UOC Patch is a very easy process. Just go in your browser folder
(C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox or Pale Moon or any other Mozilla based browser you use), then go in the "Defaults" then the "Pref" folder and extract the UOC_Patch38.js or UOC_Patch45.jsyou will find in their respective archive in the above folder and start the browser. The UOC Patch will be automatically applied alongside your existing preferences. But as a safety measure, do make a backup of your prefs.js file inside your profile folder, before launching the patched browser.I don't know better removing that part!?
I deleted old prefs.js and renamed UOC_Patch45.js in prefs.js. After firefox launch, i see prefs.js becoming from 45Kb to 5Kb (hope it's normal this behaviour).
Now url test gives no more problem
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In C:\Programs\firefox\defaults\pref i have only channel-prefs.js and UOC_Patch45.js, no custom prefs.js.
I use only ublock but just for isolating issue/testing purpose on plugin-container try to open this from your FF45SSEpatched browser and see what happens. I can open it from Chrome but in FF45 everything hang up.
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Malwarebytes v3.5.1.2522 is the last working version for XP/Vista users and it's the best compromise between scan quality (far superior to MSE) and resources usage. The downside is the missing of an anti-ransomware module for XP/Vista system.
v2.2.1.1043 is suggested with old processors using same definitions updates.
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After more intensive use, I must slightly review the initial impressions.
For pure sites consultation (news/institutional/mail) it works flawlessly and, as i said above, quite similar to chrome 49 that on this system used ( Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz) is fastest browser but severely penalized by the increasing number of sites that use protocol no more supported by chrome (ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH).
Issues begin to arise surfing on sites with a lot of interation/informations exchange like social/video/forums full of incorporated multimedial elements: e.g. a youtube video of 2 minutes starts after one minute of rotating wheel, while with chrome it starts almost immediately.
Finally, with more open pages (from 5 onwards) stability suddenly decreases and plugin-container stopped working (you can't click anything and have to close process from task manager loosing all pages).
That problem never happened to me before with pure Roytam1 Firefox 45 ESR/Serpent 52.
So summarizing, for quiet tasks the patch it's really ok giving a faster solution to chrome unsupported sites, but for an extensive use the lack of stability undermines its potential.
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Perhaps a native Chinese speaker could create an installation guide with screenshots for those wanting to install this Chinese Chromium 69 fork (myself, I'm using a Russian-made portable version in WinPenPack format, just search for it on line as it's not allowed here on MSFN to post links to "unofficial" packages... 
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; test on your own particular setup and decide for yourself; if you ask me, though, I'd go for safer... 
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