NotHereToPlayGames

YOU are being blocked. It's not your browser being blocked, but YOU. Or your VPN (we did not allow VPN access on the forum I used to admin).

I actually continue to use 360Chrome v13.5.2036 daily. My best desktop computer at home runs XP x64 and 360Chrome is the only browser I use on it. Mypal is unstable. NONE of Roytam's offerings allow phone calls from Google Voice (I do not own a "phone", everything is done via Google Voice). Even here at work (Win10), I use 360Chrome for my background music (YouTube). But there is nothing to "update", it is forever stuck at Chromium v86 and therefore only as useful as Chromium v86 (which is VERY useful, despite the negatives that some members harrass us with for using something "ancient").

I've reported on several occasions that 360Chrome should NOT be viewed as something to carry XP into the next decade. It is/was a stop-gap to allow us "time" to migrate away from XP.

No! The correct question is "Do you run a screen-saver?" and the answer to that is also No.

Go for it. I no longer use 360Chrome as my default browser and will no longer invest my time on it and this was never brought up when I was investing my time on it.

Not possible. I use "Caffeine" but some non-XP members report "Caffeine" does not work for them and I have not verified if this is accurate or not. https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/

Nah, no need. Good to hear that a fresh profile is working.

Also unable to replicate at checkout -

Unable to replicate. Perhaps you have an extension interfering. edit - although you did say "when checking out"

There are a minimum of FOUR skin files being used at all times. Visiting the Chinese skin page only changes ONE of them. They all interact with each other. The .xml files may or may not be present in all four. Which one overrides the other is important to not "break". By mix-matching your own skin files, you broke something. You are the ONLY person that keeps reporting this F icon. Nobody else can reproduce this issue. Your best route to replace the XP skin is to replace the files inside MY SKIN with the files from your Steve Jobs skin. Especially the "framebg", "skin_close", "skin_max", "skin_min", and "skin_reduction" files. Other than that, I'm not really inclined to start a lengthy thread on how to create one's own skins.

You could easily unzip the .srx of your skin into a folder, delete the F icon .png, then rezip the folder to a .zip and rename the .zip extension .srx. Whoala, F icon gone!

Not true. Icons displayed in that region of the address bar could indicate 3rd party cookies, could indicate geolocation, could indicate whether your mic or webcam is allowed or blocked on the site you are on, there are DOZENS of icons that can be there. And if your INDEX numbers are off, then just because the icon says FLASH that does not mean the actual trigger is FLASH.

Please also be advised that "official upstream" labeled build 1030 as experimental and the translation index numbers do not match with other builds. What that means is that the INDEX your skin file is pointing to is saying FLASH but the correct INDEX might not have anything to do with FLASH.

The "trigger" for the icon is stored in the skin file. There is no "Flash" content here at MSFN, Flash died in 2020. Are you seeing any "Flash" content here at MSFN? Is one of your ads being served as "Flash"?

That is where that icon is stored. I remove Flash icons, Chinese social media icons, Chinese search engine icons, et cetera from my skin. The skin has EVERYTHING to do with that F icon. EVERYTHING.

I believe we have already discussed this. I do not get this with MY skin file and you are using a custom skin file. I do not provide support for custom skin files (even if they are not modified and downloaded directly from the Chinese skins page).

I use Directory Opus at home and Q-Dir at work. I've also used XYplorer and Total Commander in the past. Unsure if any of these work on Win11 but those would be my suggestions.

Unsure if it's been mentioned yet - is Clamwin still around?

Maybe, just maybe, too many of us MSFN Members are like the grandma I saw on the road this past Sunday. One lane of traffic going forward through the intersection, one turn lane to turn left, one turn lane to turn right. She makes a left hand turn from the center lane and cut me off in the process. She can barely see over the steering wheel, I let it slide but follow from a distant two bus lengths behind. She did it again two intersections up, she makes a right hand turn from the center lane. That's us XP Users, if I may be so bold. Too set in our ways and we will put our family through the Nine Levels of Hell before handing over the keys! Maybe, just maybe, the family is right and we are wrong. We are no longer safe behind the wheel. But it's not because the car isn't safe, it's all the person at the controls.

Not sure how much traction that would attract. The end-consumer is more interested in something like uBlock Origin and "downloaded lists" doing as much of the work as possible "for them", an ideology I myself do not subscribe to. And while I do applaud Astro's "intentions" in creating this thread, I do think that the most tech-savvy among us (the MAJORITY of MSFN Members?) do not run real-time antivirus "all the time". I don't even run manual scans, haven't in over 20 years! But again, I applaud the intentions of this thread. I see it more of as an EXPANSION to the MSFN USER BASE by bringing in a NEW AUDIENCE. I don't think it has (yet), but it has the potential to. I don't see the intended audience being the ACTIVE MEMBERS here at MSFN. But rather a NEW generation of active members.

Present the point and let the reader decide. No "post scriptum" explanation required. Nobody wins if everybody strives to get the "last word". Just rambling... Carry on...

In my experience, you are much MUCH better off just doing the copy-files route and NOT doing any clone or image. The Windows registry "mangles" over time (some registry "cleaners" will make matters worse!), files become "fragmented" (and defrag does not always solve!), et cetera. And you just clone or image those "degradations" and carry them over to a new hard drive -- self-defeating. Back up your files. Then reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. That is the "best method" in my view. "Mileage may vary." "To each their own."

My experience is the more you "test" them the FASTER you degrade them.

It's "funny" because we have an Engineer here that is quite "low tier" as far as Engineering Hierachy at our company but when he is in any meeting with "higher echelon", he miraculously dons a British accent. He's never been outside of this midwest State, he's never traveled abroad, his parents didn't attend college and live with him due to being poverty-level. He thinks he sounds "smarter" when he does this and he denies doing it, but we ALL notice it and it only REDUCES our professional perception of his competencies. In high school, we called such types of people "posers" or "wannabes", unsure if there is a more modern nomenclature. It's mainly "P" words that he (seemingly unconciously) starts to pronounce with a British accent. Progress and Process in American English have a first syllable that rhymes with "ah" - he pronounces them with a "long oh". Privacy in American English has a first syllable that rhymes with "eye" - he prounounces them with an 'i' as in "in" or "win". He'll say "naught" instead of "no". Among others.

I find it quite funny that you switched from "programs" to "programmes" within the last week or so. Both are legit spellings, of course. Just a funny "observation".