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    Totally understand. I haven't needed this project (yet) but do foresee the need. The preview version is definitely where I saw this project going. Looks great!
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    Totally understand. I also compare this to my rebuilds of 360Chrome. A very VERY large number of hours but a very VERY tiny number of users. But in the end, I had to do it for myself anyway because there were no XP browsers worthy of keeping XP around. Roytam browsers were INCAPABLE of handling the modern web, plain and simple. By rebuilding 360Chrome, I have extended my own use of XP by two years as I almost ditched XP completely two years ago. I have not used your project (yet). But I have been watching and sitting on the sidelines. As of now, the thread is too long for anyone to jump-start and dive in unless they were watching from the beginning. The first post is too long and confusing for new people to jump in, just my opinion. Once the recent screen-cap version is available for use, I see it as a reason to then use this project and can then comment accordingly. A new thread may be needed at that time, the first is kind of "busy" and confusing. Too many download links - which ones are and are not "required", which ones are for historical "reference"?
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    TOTALLY AGREED! I have OFTEN wanted to present the Boss (and HR!) with a lengthy "presentation" of the pros and cons of IT and a data-driven analysis of how IT has COST the company in WASTED downtime and man-hours by "having" an IT Department!
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    I'm curious if there are any Roytam Followers that know these builds enough to recommend which one is "optimum" for Windows 7? I don't want a "use the most recent version" approach, I want a version that has been benchmarked as "best" for Windows 7. I did this for XP and Mypal 27.9.4 "was" the absolute best as far as witnessed benchmark results. Each and every new "update" seemed to only DEGRADE "performance". And so I lost track and stopped keeping up with Roytam browsers - but seem to read a TON of "issues" of late, making all the more leary of "use the most recent version". Thoughts?
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    Very cool! Is there a download link? I read the first post like three times and see no reference to it, did I miss something?
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    I'll have to disagree. Chromium 80 is the first version to introduce most of the "modern web" polyfill crap. I use v11 for 99% of my web browsing needs and v13 (not 13.5!) for the remaining 1%. I use v11 for a reason, one of my computers only has 2 GB RAM and using anything newer is very taxing on that computer. And when I'm faced with 99% to 1%, there really is ZERO reason for me to "default" to anything newer. v12 is based on Chromium 78 - too old for the modern web, more RAM-hungry than v11 but LESS so than v13/v13.5. Something based on Chromium 80 should be the absolute best as far as modern-web-capable while balancing the requirements for why most of us use 360Chrome in the first place - we want to keep our existing hardware.
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    innoextract did not work for me, nor did uniextract. I installed Sogou in a Win10 VM and I see no "language packs" of any kind, appears to me to be Chinese and Chinese only. This could prove to be extremely problematic (ie, if you look to see how Humming Owl removed default search engines, "Google" has to be replaced with "Ggle" (if memory serves, I don't keep Humming Owl versions on my computer)). Replacing dozens upon dozens of Chinese "six letters" with "four letters" because of having to keep address locations intact could make the end result extremely difficult to "decipher". Not familiar with Sogou but very limited reads on it seems to suggest that "most" (but not all) telemetry is disabled by simply not being on an IPv6 network.
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    These four links are dead.
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    LOOONG battle we (engineering) have with IT. Most of these issues were resolved when XP went EOL because most of our robot "arms" use Embedded XP. But we are also a multi-continent company and others (not our plant) use POSReady updates - BIG MISTAKE, *hours* of downtime! Our Local IT doesn't have the authority to vet updates and Global IT (I'll refrain from mentioning which country!) will shut down any computer, be it office or factory floor, that doesn't have *ALL* Windows Updates "critical" hotfixes. So Local IT has to "allow" Global IT to shut down the floor for *hours* and do station-specific "redirects" to make Global IT "think" the station has *ALL* "critical" hotfixes.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joSiOBcUIqg
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    In a moment of boredom, I literally Googled for "blah blah blah" and found this AWESOME diddy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMt4hRoxEA
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    Totally agree! The first thing I always did back in the day was to edit and save chord.wav at HALF VOLUME. I kept it as the same "sound", but the original would scare the living sh#t out of me, I'd jump out of my chair and hit my knee or stub a toe each and every time that d#mn sound popped up!
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    Please do not copy-and-paste your post as a PM to members that have absolutely ZERO to do with "startisback".
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    I'm from a family of six kids. We all have a saying (sarcastically, of course) we will all throw out randomly and it fits here, "If everybody in the world were exactly like me, there would be no problems."
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    I ditto this. Browser's were never meant to be used this way. And neither was your own brain, as far as that goes. An exceprt from https://www.howtogeek.com/773721/listen-you-dont-need-that-many-browser-tabs-open/ People tend to think that they’re “good” at multitasking if they’re able to perform multiple tasks at once. However, that isn’t taking into account a very important part of it — are they performing those tasks well? Multitasking is a big reason why people keep so many tabs open, but it can have the opposite effect. Too many tabs can create information overload. The constant switching between tabs can lead to short attention spans. All of this trains your brain in a way that makes working efficiently more difficult in the future. Studies have backed this up as well. Some studies have found that heavy multitasking can cause you to perform worse on cognitive tests. One study ran MRI scans on the brains of multitaskers and found they had less brain density in areas that controlled empathy and emotions. That’s, uh, not good. Doing multiple tasks at once doesn’t make you more productive. You’re just splitting your attention and every time you switch tabs you lose concentration. Stick to one task at a time, complete the task, and then close the tabs and move on to the next thing. Your brain will thank you.
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    Totally Cool !!! I thought I was the only one! I don't have a landline or a cell phone! Haven't since 2001.
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    Speaking of "broadcasts" - I have a curiosity question. I don't watch football and refer to the Super Bowl as the "Tidy Bowl". And when the "wardrobe malfunction" was the talk-of-the-town several years back, it only took me mere seconds to see it was INTENTIONAL, that it was PLANNED. I mention it because that PLANNED incident altered broadcast television - all "live" broadcasts MUST be on a DELAY to give the broadcaster time to react to mishaps (planned or otherwise). I have even LESS interest in "Oscars" and "Grammys" type of useless-to-me-TV. But all of us that watch the news are well aware of Will Smith and Chris Rock "slapgate". My question is this - the "live" broadcast MUST, by FCC Regulation, be on a DELAY, so why did the broadcaster not use that mandated delay and "cut to commercial" ???
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    That's kind of the "mistake" that I have made. I have Netflix and Hulu but tend to binge-watch something on one for a full month and not touch the other, so I paid that month for it just to sit there! Then there's folks like my sister that has Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Disney, and Epix and those are just the one's that I know of. They probably have a few that they've forgotten about but yet still pay the monthly subscription.
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    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tab-Hoarder
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    Same here. My computer setup is five widescreen monitors and the tv is 90-degrees to my right. So not really to my back, but I have to turn 90-degrees to see it. It's generally just background noise unless I'm streaming because streaming is done on the big screen.
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    I requested an accounting of donations and was denied. I can not donate to ANY cause where there is no public accounting of funds.
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    FYI - this web site only allows 1.95 MB for attachments and I'm at 1.92 MB. I will be deleting all attachments in this thread this coming weekend to free up my allocated attachment space. So if anybody needs the content archived, please do so now, I will not be keeping attachments for anybody that comes along and asks for them "six months from now".
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    It's the swiss-army knife of web filtering. It's "too much" for most people. Most people are happy with NoScript versus actually being able to EDIT the scripts. Most people are happy with Stylus for editing css. Most people are happy with Greasmonkey to inject js/css. Most people are content with blocking cookies versus filtering the contents inside that cookie. Et cetera. And only a very tiny handful of folks want one app to do "all of the above". The cipher bit is over my head. The original Proxomitron was created by Scott Lemon in 1999. Proxomitron Reborn was created by "amy" a few years ago and it's still in its infancy. Cloudfare "capchas" cannot be handled by XP + Proxomitron. Not sure if that can be fixed by "amy" or not.
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    The digital converter box was a stop-gap measure intended for low-income residents. According to a Techwalla article, there were 33,962,692 of them handed out. The program ended in July 2009.
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