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Dave-H -- disregard, found it. Will dig a little deeper on this when I track down that remaining Chinese.

@Dave-H - What was the possible telemetry address that was a suspect in v13.5? Do you recall?

I had him check that in Post #2 - but I do like your link better

@UCyborg - I am curious to know if your Microsoft.com example still works if your "fix" line is changed to fix: ["std-customElements"] I am curious because the Babel-translated script for your example contains 7 hits for "customElements" but zero hits for "PerformanceObserver" and zero hits for "queueMicrotask".

So far, the answer has been that the end-user will have to do this manually for each and every web site that said end-user wishes to restore functionality. The best example thus far has been one by @UCyborg here -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/183484-polyfill-whats-all-this-then/?do=findComment&comment=1216216 I have personally not been able to repeat this on an American Water web site but I haven't fully given up yet. It is not a trivial process, the average end-user will not have the patience to do this manual process for every web site they encounter. I also am attempting via chromefill whereas UCyborg was successful only via palefill. (I have not been able to get American Water to work with non-polyfill NM28 with palefill.) UCyborg's process is fairly easy to follow, once you narrow down the problematic script (his test site only has two, American Water's test site has over 200 scripts). He narrowed the "??" issue down to this script -- https://docs.microsoft.com/_themes/docs.theme/master/en-us/_themes/scripts/d48a1159.index-docs.js If you open that script and paste the contents into Notepad++ and do a search for "??" (without the quotes), you will find 34 hits. Now open this web site ( https://babeljs.io/repl ) and paste the script contents into the left pane (center pane if you include the far left settings pane, keep all of them at their defaults) of Babel. Give it a few seconds and the translated script will appear in the right column. Copy and paste the right column into a new tab in Notepad++. Now do a search for "??" (without the quotes) for the new script - you will now have 0 hits. So "all of that" was required in order to "magically" convert the polyfill "??" to something that will work in a non-polyfill web browser. But you still need to add palefill or chromefill extension depending on Mozilla or Chromium based browser. And you still need Proxomitron Reborn to have your web browser replace the original script with the converted script. Problem there is going to be this - very few folks here at MSFN seem to be interested in Proxomitron Reborn (I've used it since 2004 (the original, the Reborn is not that old) and I still don't fully understand "everything" that it is capable of doing!).

I'm not seeing this modify-date issue in any of my 7 or XP computers. It pretty much has to be a "background process" or system "service", or so it seems. Make sure that "system restore" is disabled (at least just to rule it out as a culprit, though I personally never use "system restore" as I have my own backup/restore), make sure that "indexing" is disabled, make sure that your hard drive is not being "defragged" (this is not the 1990's anymore).

XP has a built-in program called "Paint". Hit the "PrtScn" button on your keyboard while the Task Manager "Processes" tab is open then open "Paint" and either use Ctrl-V or the menu pulldown to "paste" what the Print Screen button copied. Make sure that the Task Manager window is maximized so that all processes are visible.

Can you submit a screencap of Task Manager's "Processes" tab?

Do you have examples of OTHER web browsers displaying emojis in the tab name? I'd actually do the opposite if my browser tried to do that, I'd remove/disable emojis in the tab name, why would a web developer place an emoji in the tab name?

Don't forget that this is just a very early Beta. I don't think Feodor2 is expecting anybody to actually be "using" this yet.

Do you know the "function" that button performs? Is it just an "OK" that all downloads are completed or does it open the "Download Manager"?

I strongly suspect that right there is your issue. The dominant concensus here at MSFN a couple years ago is that the Russian Repack did not remove all of the Chinese telemetry. That was one of the reasons that Humming Owl and ArcticFoxie released their modifications. Have you monitored network traffic by using something like DNSQuerySniffer to verify that you don't have telemetry issues? https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dns_query_sniffer.html

Have you tried removing 13.0.2216.0 completely (including Windows Registry keys) and starting with a clean profile? If a clean profile and clean registy entries still crashes, then my next suggestion would be remove 13.0.2216.0 (Humming Owl's build version), remove Windows Registy entries, and use 13.0.2206.0 (ArcticFoxie's build version) and see if you still have crashes.

This should restore GitHub but it won't restore all polyfill issues for Chrome 70 -- https://github.com/InterLinked1/chromefill

Are you running any anti-virus programs that may be causing the crashes?

Hmm, no issues with that file size and timestamp. Kinda don't have any more ideas at the moment.

What is the file size and timestamp for a file called "Top Sites" (no file name extension) in your profile folder?

Not true. This is not a "Mozilla Only" forum and not all of us can use Mozilla-based browsers. Glad it works perfectly for you though Edit - Can't re-find the web site that was not rendering fonts correctly. But not important until Mypal 68 goes "stable".

Humming Owl and I both tried to warn you in advance that any translations would have to be abbreviated. It is personally why I did not undertake the project myself but applaud Humming Owl's endeavor.

Do you get those sqlite errors if you disable the Network -> Speed Optimizations setting? I've never been able to prove that setting really "doing" anything and have never seen any documentation on it.

When you go to your Computer Management -> Services, do you have a service called "Volume Shadow Copy" running by chance? By "created again", are you referring to the "timestamp"? If so, maybe this - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/improve-windows-xp-pros-ntfs-performance-by-disabling-the-accessed-timestamp/

Which version of 360Chrome are you using? Can you post a screencap of your chrome://settings/advanced page?

I would suggest disabling Hardware Acceleration. Having it enabled is a very common cause for problems, it seems to create more problems than it is intended to solve. I disable Accelerated 2D Canvas via chrome://flags and this solved the random disappearing text on my system - it seems to be hit or miss on other people's systems though so mileage may vary.

I tend to ignore all of the "update servers" discussions. All I saw was post after post after post on the "Unread Content" page. My OS's are legit (two of them have been swapped between computers the OS actually came with, XP isn't tied to hardware and I've always assumed it's okay to swap [swapped XP x64 to faster CPU]). I've always slipstreamed updates and never relied on Windows Updates. Mainly because I never wanted to spend 20 minutes to install an OS but then the next 4 hours "updating" the OS. I haven't been following the thread so apologies if this has already been covered. The way I do my XP installs (reinstalls are always on the same exact hardware with the exception of moving XP x64 to a faster machine) is by keeping and archiving my wpa.dbl file. Once you legally activate your XP, it creates this file and it does somehow contain the hardware information also - you can not use this file from one computer to the next. But the advantage in keeping it is that your computer can be activated without any Microsoft server or telephone call to Microsoft (ie, Microsoft could fall of the face of the earth but my XP remains usable). My slipstreamed media has this file dated 2009 so I've been activating every install since just by copying this file over to my new install. Not sure if that is of any help towards the purpose of this thread, but I throw it out there just in case.

I've had three 18-guess wins in a row. Haven't been able to beat 18 guesses yet. LUCK is involved to beat 18 for the most part.