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All it takes is ONE letter difference on any of the files "inside" the .crx and it will have an entirely different set of letters. There "might" be a case where an "auto-update" from one version to the next would keep the same set of letters, have not tested because I disable auto-update.

That actually makes sense. It should have never been named "extension_2_4_1_0". That series of random letters is the checksum on the .crx contents.

You should not have to rename the extensions folders. The seemingly-random extension folder naming scheme is an algebraic checksum of the extensions inner files. The .crx is just a renamed .zip. Change any file inside that .zip/.crx and the extension folder name will change accordingly when installed via Developer Mode.

Wow! A 17 year old thread brought back to life with a poll on age. So shouldn't those poll results auto-update every year? Because I guarantee you that the biggest segment of the MSFN Population is no longer the 15 to 24 groups!

Embedded or extension? Was it server-side and we just had to wait it out for it to return on its own?

Same here (since login is not required). I did a Google for "is msfn.org down" during our outage and performing that search just now does show Twitter in the top search results and it does have a "up and running" status message. The Facebook page also shows up in the top results - but no status message. I think that's our tell-tale - Twitter is likely the preferred but only our next outage will really tell us (four years to the month between most-recent post and second-to-most-recent post).

<OT> We are straying quite a bit from the original topic but I will add that I am also a member at Eclec and I did visit Eclec when MSFN was down to see if other both-site-members posted anything in regards to the outage (I didn't see one). I use the Maxthon theme at Eclec - but even the forum owner wouldn't recognize it on my computer, I love Stylus and hate non-scrolling background images, box shadows, linear gradients, anti-ailasing, dark mode, and forced hardware acceleration - all are disabled on my setup. I do not get any CPU spike even on Marmaduke Ungoogled v113 on Win10. This wouldn't be the first web site (new or old browser) where background-images, box shadows, and linear gradients effected performance. </OT>

I do keep this extension in my arsenal, but seldom do I ever need to override the user-agent set in loader.ini (only once in fact, and that was for testing for another MSFN Member). https://www.crx4chrome.com/extensions/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg/

I don't suggest extensions for the sake of switching the User-Agent. As pointed out, they don't "always" work because there are other means to detect your browser. That said, using the loader.ini to set your User-Agent does correctly also update AppVersion accordingly.

I haven't had any success at getting any CSS items to "replace". Has anyone else given this a try?

For reference copied from another thread (so I don't lose it and can experiment during free-time):

Thanks. I enable this flag now by default as this is the 2nd or 3rd time a web site issue has been tracked down to this flag.

It might be possible. I do something similar for extension "log" files to revert to a default state. But I've not tried it for cookies. The loader.ini does not copy files at the [RunAfter] and does not copy files at the [RunBefore]. You can only copy files via the [Functions] section. (edit - [Functions] is executed before [RunBefore].) First, set your 360Chrome settings to delete all cookies on every exit. Second, keep 360Chrome OPEN and set the cookies that you want by visiting those sites (and only those sites or you're saving more cookies than you planned to). Third, go to Settings -> Advanced -> Web Content -> Content settings -> Cookies -> All cookies and site data and remove the cookies that you don't want to keep and keep the cookies that you do want to keep. Fourth, do not close 360Chrome yet! Manually copy <360Chrome Dir>\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cookies (this is a file without a file extension) to a directory such as <360Chrome Dir>\Chrome\User Data\Default\SAVED COOKIES\Cookies (file without extension). Fifth, close 360Chrome. Sixth, add the below to your [Functions] section of your .ini file. Seventh, launch 360Chrome and report back to us. [Functions] <existing lines> FileCopy=%Profile%\Default\SAVED COOKIES\Cookies|%Profile%\Default\Cookies

It is not about me liking or hating the Chrome Store. MV2 support is a "ticking time bomb" and I have cleared the building before the bomb explodes. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/06/google-is-postponing-the-end-of-manifest-v2-extensions-in-chrome-again/ I have stated for several months that I provided these builds as a stop-gap for XP users and that they were never intended to carry XP into the next decade. How XP users manage their own stop-gap timeline is entirely up to them, I wish them all the best of luck. I feel we have carried 360Chrome as far as we can. We can only do so much. The details on how to remove the embedded translation feature is already provided. By myself and by @rereser. There is no need for a "rebuild 2" no matter how loud that squeaky wheel becomes, the oil can is empty.

Wait a couple days and it will be here - https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/31931/

I suspect there are extensions that can do that.

Your Chrome Store access WILL be the next to break. I'm VERY surprised that it is not already broken. Chrome Store is moving to MV3. 360Chrome does not support MV3.

And since the Chrome Web Store already has everything at Manifest 3, I see no reason to maintain the "regular" anymore. To the best of my understanding, Manifest 3 requires Chromium v88 and higher.

It's already removed in the ungoogled version.

<nevermind, fails in Win10 also>

Definitely not essential, if you want my opinion (opinions are like butts, everybody has one, doesn't mean everybody wants to hear them). I can't think of any forum I've been on in 30+ years that had an "alternate" location for the admin to discuss status if the primary went offline for a day or two. All I can think of is a hypothetical comparison - I don't have a Facebook or Instagram account but I do hear via news and even doctor friends that they are highly addictive platforms. The whole notion (in my opinion) of seeking a downtime status and when will we be back up again via an alternate location would be because MSFN Members started having "withdrawal symptoms" because they couldn't feed their addiction. I guess I "kind of" get it, visiting MSFN is part of my daily routine. But I didn't need medical attention for withdrawal when it went offline. Life went on. I guess I also see it as "more important" for the owner to bring the system back up as opposed to, "Wait, I can't do that yet, I have to visit our alternate location and submit a status report every hour or so." I kid... Kind of... edit - I was a member of RyanVM and also WinCert, if there was an "MSFN Status" thread, I never saw them, lol.

No hack was required that I am aware of. Rather, we had to become more precise and selective with telemetry removal. If you read through Humming Owl's "notes.txt" files, you will see that ALL occurrences of "googleapis" and "gstatic" were replaced, "without prejudice". My builds started out that way also, but then the more familiar I became with the program code, the more precisely I was able to remove telemetry without casting a "catch-all very-wide just-catch-EVERYTHING" net that caught the fish we weren't trying to catch. One of the unintended consequences of that "just-catch-EVERYTHING" net is that things were BROKEN all in the "name of" preventing unwanted telemetry. One of those unintended breaks was the translation feature (which I myself do not use, so can't speak toward - other than maintaining functionality for the users that do/did use that feature).

The whole idea seems moot to me. As if the forum owner somehow owes us all a place to jibber-jabber nonsensically like a Jabberwocky through the Looking Glass? I think we are all over-analyzing. When the forum goes down, are our lives so destitute that we can't find something else to do until it comes back up? If members share common interests and converse in other forums, all fine and dandy, but for the forum owner to somehow owe us an alternative? Like I said, the whole idea seems moot to me.

Too funny! You didn't try that until now? I guess we all have our own habits, my guess is your "one of those" that has 300 tabs open and never closes the browser, lol. <jk>

I cannot reproduce your F icon even with your skin.