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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    True. One of the biggest reasons I started using PROXOMITRON way back in the day (though I admittedly rely solely on userscripts/userstyles nowadays). Again, PROXOMITRON to the rescue. At least for back in the day. Nowadays, I use this for those stupid animated GIFS -- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee There are uBO lists that also block those "cookie notices". I prefer the userscript route but "tomaytoe, tomahtah".
  2. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed. I remember when "annoying" used to be (depracated) MARQUEE to scroll text. EVERY web site you went to had these d@mn things. Way back then, the "not old people" learned how to combat the annoyance. And it's still us that do that combat nowadays. ie, I didn't even realize the web site had a "blue privacy/cookie notification". This is all I've ever needed for those -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432050-anti-cookies-consent
  3. NotHereToPlayGames
    EXACTLY !!! And when you call up the tech support, tell them a little White Lie of "my bank account has a million in it and there is none of these puzzles to solve to access that million, so DO NOT tell me that you do it for 'security' or every bank on the planet would be using these puzzles but NONE OF THEM DO, it's only folks like you, never government web sites, never banks, never insurance companies, never pharmacies, never anything that NEEDS TO BE SECURE, it's always always always you RETAIL FOLKS breaking down PRIVACY all in the guise of 'security'."
  4. NotHereToPlayGames
    I'm not seeing the "advantage". What am I missing? Before/After comparison?
  5. NotHereToPlayGames
    Totally understood. I was forced into early retirement when the US Electric Vehicle industry basically failed all optimistic projections. Fixed income, was expecting another 5 to 8 years of work, too close to [full] retirement age for companies to choose me over somebody younger. So I'm kind of viewing it as a 1 or 2 year "vacation" then see where the US Electric Vehicle and my job skillsets fall with hiring market conditions. Odd twist of fate in a way. EV industry paid me good income, EV industry took that away several years too soon, and I personally *never* plan on owning an EV. So in an odd way, my own buying preferences as far as automotive goes kind of shot myself in the foot, lol.
  6. NotHereToPlayGames
    "Been there, done that." I was on XP until just months ago (I forget my actual migration date, but it has been less than a year, maybe just over one but less than two). The computer I am typing at right now is 12yrs old. The computer in the home office is 18yrs old. Trust me! I do get it! I'm just "man enough" to ADMIT that those computers are that old out of a LIFESTYLE SPENDING CHOICE of spend-on-this and spend-on-that over upgrading a computer (or mobile phone). So YES, I do get it! The DIFFERENCE is that I am "man enough" to admit that I could "afford" a new computer WITH MONEY THAT I DO NOT HAVE just by shuffling around those LIFESTYLE SPENDING CHOICES. And my viewpoint is that is true for ALL OF US. And NOBODY "owes me" ANYTHING. Including web designers, I do not need their hand-out of them working around my lifestyle spending choices. We have to draw the line SOMEWHERE. It really is kind of "narrow sighted" of us to think that web designers should "focus" on maintaining functionality for when somebody running Windows 3.1 visits their web site !!! But anyway, I've derailed the thread more than necessary.
  7. NotHereToPlayGames
    That's kind of par for the course in recent years. ie, that spoofing a UA 'almost always' works in Mozilla-based but 'almost never' works in Chromium-based. Also par for the course for the last several decades - ie, Mozilla behind the curve of technological advancements. I kind of MISS THE DAYS where I could do *MORE* in Mozilla then I could in Chromium. Maybe, just *MAYBE* that tide will turn again one of these days. At least the divergence isn't too wide, for the most part.
  8. NotHereToPlayGames
    I do not own any Pentium D. Also, that seems a bit vague, "Pentium D" reveals a benchmark score of anywhere from a terrible 374 to an impressive 3240. That's only talking about the launch time for the GUI to load, that doesn't really reveal "good performance". For me, running all three v132s on the same exact hardware, Supermium is THE SLOWEST PERFORMANCE compared to "real" Chrome and "real" Chromium.
  9. NotHereToPlayGames
    Technically, the developer doesn't have to create a portable version. Any web browser, be it Mozilla-based or Chromium-based, can be 'made into' a PORTABLE version by using a "loader". I've only used PORTABLE browsers for the last THIRTY YEARS.
  10. NotHereToPlayGames
    Not the folks that I know. They live paycheck to paycheck, not a dime in savings, but can't keep a phone more than a mere six months or so without cracking it. They upgrade OFTEN, *very* often, not because they can "afford to", but because they eventually get tired of the cracked screen that their NEGLIGENCE added to the phone they do have. But that is also just *PROOF* that anybody and everybody can "afford" a phone. These folks were very likely raised BREAKING their toys left and right, with their parents ALWAYS telling them, "This is why you don't have NICE THINGS." So here they are, young adults, STILL BREAKING their toys, but EVERYBODY has choices to make in life, "Hmm, should I buy a new phone or pay for car insurance?" These folks opt for the phone over car insurance. Sure, not "all" of these 'kids these days', but you know what I mean, lol...
  11. NotHereToPlayGames
    I never claimed that it is! NOR did the person that originally cited the "100", it was just a passing PHRASE *not* intended to be taken LITERALLY. YOU CAN AFFORD A COMPUTER OR A MOBILE DEVICE. I have 1-million-percent confidence in that statement. YOU CAN AFFORD ONE! I did not say that a computer costs 1% of your annual income or that it costs 10% of your annual income. The bottom-line REALITY is that EVERYBODY reading this CAN afford a computer or a mobile device. And I'd all but "bet" on it that EVERYBODY reading this has MORE THAN ONE (ie, one computer plus one mobile, or one computer plus two mobile, or two computers plus one mobile, or two computers plus two mobiles). You requested another member to "Please don't mislead people". SO WHY ARE YOU DOING THE SAME? You are ACTING LIKE you have to SELL A LUNG OR A KIDNEY to "buy a computer". And I am telling you, THAT IS MISLEADING PEOPLE.
  12. NotHereToPlayGames
    It doesn't matter. Not when 56% of European market share is doing their internet activity on a MOBILE DEVICE versus 44% on a desktop PC. And the GLOBAL stats are 61% on a MOBILE DEVICE versus 39% on a desktop PC. My point remains - we the consumer are being HYPOCRITES if we think a web site should taylor specifically towards a TWENTY YEAR OLD COMPUTER when "follow the money" shows everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY, is using their MOBILE PHONE for their banking transactions or whatnot and the REASON that their computer is 20yrs old is BECAUSE "follow the money" REVEALS that the consumer would rather buy a brand new MOBILE PHONE every two years and will spend sizable portions of income on that MOBILE PHONE yet hypoctritically claim a computer is outside of their affordability. Europe has the most affordable mobile data in the world, followed by Asia !!! https://www.broadband.co.uk/mobile-data-world-affordability By all means, DIG INTO THE REAL-WORLD NUMBERS, "numbers don't lie". Cost of a personal desktop pc is IRRELEVANT because nobody really uses them, nor expect to be able to, as they prefer to do their TikTok, or Facebook, or banking FROM THEIR MOBILE PHONE.
  13. NotHereToPlayGames
    No offense, but people that spell Microsoft this way are OFTEN hypocrites. But I shall refrain into explaining why I believe this to be true 80-plus percent of the time and NOTHING more than a personification of "have versus have not". This is NOTHING against Mathwiz but more of a GENERALIZATION to "open the eyes" of anybody that has ever spelled Microsoft in this fashion. Sorry, just my "two cents"... ie, 2% of that $ used in said spelling... To each their own, of course.
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    I kind of have to "disagree". We live in a world where everybody above the age of SIXTEEN or so (except me, I do not own a mobile phone!) will "upgrade" their PHONE every two to three and a half years, IF NOT MORE FREQUENTLY! Seriously, why in *H#LL* should we, the consumer, "demand" a web site function on a PC that is MORE THAN FOUR OR FIVE TIMES OLD when the owner of that web site KNOWS D#MN WELL that the consumer ALSO OWNS A PHONE ???
  15. NotHereToPlayGames
    And for what it is worth, my older Serpent can only get to the green box that indicates that the slide "passed" but it does not advance to the next page. It eventually times out and requests the slide mouse again. Both results are TECHNICALLY THE SAME! ie, the SECURITY CHALLENGE CANNOT BE LOADED.
  16. NotHereToPlayGames
    I now get this with both of my ISP's. ie, both land on the slide mouse page, both get the green box that the slide mouse page PASSED, but then both end up being blocked with "We couldn't load the security challenge."
  17. NotHereToPlayGames
    Okay, well, I can report that the Restore Session page **IS** working in the most-recent version of Serpent v52. I terminated via Task Manager ten consecutive times and ALL TEN presented a populated windows/tabs table. In the past, two or three of those ten would *NOT* present the table, it would just open/restore my last session **WITHOUT** presenting the table - this is not a "functioning" feature. But I can not replicate this behavior with most-recent version, ALL TEN terminations function properly.
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    That may be promising! MAYBE it's fixed. Just how did you get to the Restore Session page? What really has *never* worked for me in "newer" versions is for me to have only two windows open, each with only one tab, and Serpent.exe is TERMINATED via Windows Task Manager / System Informer / et alia.
  19. NotHereToPlayGames
    I'm afraid that I will have to decline from that experiment. My apologies. Newer versions of Serpent *do not work* on my end because Session Restore is a **MUST**. I have noted these Session Restore issues in the past and intermittent as they are in newer, I have *ZERO* problems with Session Restore in my older version. I have had way WAY too many updates over the years only to REVERT to the version that WORKS for me. Sorry, my version has to remain where it is. When I can no longer text and email from it, then I'll have to cross that bridge when I come to it. Until then, "long live my OLD Serpent". This version WORKS for me and NEWER versions do NOT. Not to sound too blunt, but I have lost interest in newer versions of Serpent all on account of SESSION RESTORE table of tabs/windows NOT POPULATING in newer versions. Again, intermittent as it is, the version that I use always ALWAYS **ALWAYS** populates the Session Restore table, so this is going to be my last version of Serpent until I see changelogs reflect Session Restore fixes.
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    If you're open for alternatives, I used doPDF on XP. Most likely *not* the 'newest' version, I'd have to pull up my XP archives to track down version. I would still have the installer if it's not available online anymore.
  21. NotHereToPlayGames
    You do not fully understand the intent behind such things as ESR (and LTSB/LTSC). That said, many home-based consumers that use corporate-based products for non-corporate use may very likely also not fully understand the underlying intent. Personally, to me, in my opinion, yadda yadda yadda, ANY product that is EXTENDED is GREAT NEWS for the CONSUMER.
  22. NotHereToPlayGames
    I did just discover that the paypal slide mouse screen in my older version of Serpent is DEPENDENT UPON the ISP that I use. I canceled my previous ISP but it remains active until the end of my billing cycle (I only have two more days) - I get no slide mouse screen in Serpent when connected via my previous ISP (cable). I *DO* get the slide mouse in Serpent (unsolvable - checkbox turns green but page does NOT advance) in Serpent when connected via my new ISP (fiber optic).
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    Okay, then "might" not be a cert issue. Move on to the next domino - what css/js is your Supermium capable of that your Serpent is not capable of. Good Luck! Me Thinks that you're just going to turn yourself into a dog with a flea on the tip of its tail, running in a circle trying to bite at that flea. All I can really tell you on this end is that I do *not* get the slide mouse screen in my OLDER version of Serpent. But I also run that OLDER version of Serpent (daily! 24/7!) from within Win10 and not XP.
  24. NotHereToPlayGames
    His report is that he needs to go the other way. That he can NOT paypal in your browsers but CAN in Supermium.
  25. NotHereToPlayGames
    You should only need to SORT them by EXPIRATION DATE and isolate which have been updated most recently. HOWEVER, this is NOT a guarantee that you will end up getting paypal to work in non-chrome. IT IS ONLY THE *FIRST* HURDLE and there could be a DOZEN hurdles in front of you. It doesn't even mean that you will find a cert! Again, there are going to be a DOZEN hurdles, certficates should always be the FIRST (in my opinion) to clear. Nowadays, CSS is next. Then JS. And DON'T EVEN BOTHER changing your user agent! The sooner you break that "old school" thinking, the better. (again, just my opinion)
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