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Seems to me that your first post lead us all down a Rabbit Hole that you do use 11 and that you tweaked it, added some skins, and it was "much better", even if that use is only a VM or a secondary computer. The thread is about Windows 11 - you kind of wasted our time into thinking you didn't like it by default but that you tweaked it. I'm done here, moving on...
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I can agree to 90% of your post but I do take a bit of an issue with the "hype and propaganda" contained within this sentence. No offense, I do agree with 90% of your viewpoint. XP is dead - does not stop me from using it as my "daily driver". Roytam browsers are dead - I stopped using them two and a half years ago! But I see too much "hype and propaganda" (reminds me of political "throw grandma from the cliff" ads here in the States) in ANY statement citing "security" above-and-beyond consumer-choice and XP is this consumers choice - for now.
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If anyone wishes to host files, I'm all for it. But as is, I have too many hours on the project and hunting down another hosting site is zero priority on my end no matter how many "just wondering" pychological ploys are played. The very reason that something like Dropbox doesn't work on your browser *IS* the very reason you should consider more 'advanced' browsers, but anywhooo...
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Dropbox is known to be problematic with some Mozilla-based browsers but it is the only hosting site I have. It seems to download okay in the only Mozilla-based browser I keep around (BNavigator 20210820) -- https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20210821-355db4de-uxp-4ac28d1d4-xpmod.7z (Time Zone difference always has Roytam's about screen and download link off by one day)
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I'm more interested in documented "tweaks" you have done to 11.
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I didn't really read any condescension, per se. Disliked the pro-Mac rhetoric and the banking reference. Bingo! And that INCLUDES banking web sites. I once contacted Customer Service for one of the three largest credit card companies and requested to speak with the supervisor of the customer service representative. Then pulled teeth to get that supervisor to properly direct my call. All on account of me attempting to pay my credit card in a SECURE manner but their web site pulling over 60+ javascript files and I saw 8 (if I recall correctly) in the list that were coming from FACEBOOK and I don't even have a Facebook account. Quite a bit off-topic, apologies for the "rant". But it is kinda related, all these polyfills, from the way I understand it, all come into play NOT because the site you are visiting is employing them, but because they have OUTSOURCED large portions of their "web design". The "chaining" aspect of polyfill disturbs me, sounds similar to what "script kiddies" used to do when they "obfuscated" their code.
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I think the operative word there is "talked" and it is PAST TENSE. The theory seems to have been dropped and there is no "current" discussion. I think more and more are realizing that non-polyfill javascript engines are "dying", if not already "dead".
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Post/thread is basically abandoned by the creator.
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True. I have much better performance and functionality on my tweaked XP then I ever had with 2000. How about posting a how-to guide on your tweaks? I'm sure "somebody" will be interested (I personally do not have 11 and no plans to - but if your guide can demonstrate true performance improvements, then maybe 11 is in my future).
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This seems fitting -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Perhaps the BIGGEST difference is that mine is intended for XP but does work in other OSes. I have a strong "dislike" for XP programs that do not look like XP so my version uses the XP icons. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
HUNDREDS of differences. You will have to use both and decide for yourself which is right for you. BOTH have Chinese telemetry removed and they basically are 90% identical to each other. It is that 10% that you basically need to decide for yourself which is right for you. I want to throw a shoe at my monitor every time a Humming Owl version pops up a "nag screen" or I have to hit the "ESC" button to unlock the GUI - but those are first-run only and a matter of personal preference. -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Here -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/182993-360-extreme-explorer-arcticfoxie-versions/ I changed my member name from ArcticFoxie to NotHereToPlayGames because of some of the childish behavior that existed here at MSFN a while back but has since "cleaned up its act". -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
You may need to extract and edit .xml files inside "skin.srx" also. -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
For my versions (would require slightly different route in Humming Owl versions), you should only need to edit "browser_strings.xml" which is a file inside "en_skin.srx". The .srx is just a renamed .zip extension and should extract with any .zip program you have. View the .xml file using something like Notepad++ and change the English strings to German strings. -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Somebody that speaks German would have to create the German language file - I have no interest nor time outside of English. As far as having web sites deliver content in German by default, you should be able to edit the Preferences file and replace "en-US, en" with whatever the German equivalent is. You would have to edit and save the Preferences file while 360Chrome is not running (verify using Task Manager). -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I do not have that font issue in my 360Chrome (v11, v12, v13, v13.5). But there are hurdles you have to jump through and it's nearly impossible for me to isolate without knowing "exactly" the context of the screencap you are using to demonstrate font issues. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
No clue what these screencaps are. You should also disable 3rd Party Fonts by using something like UBlock or uMatrix. Mypal and 360Chrome handle 3rd Party Fonts differently. Again, there will NEVER be a web browser that works 100% "out of the box", you will ALWAYS have to make changes to settings, about:config, chrome://flags, extensions, et cetera. I doubt it will be possible for me (or anyone else here) to walk you through the entire process. You are "used to" Mozilla-based browsers. The BIGGEST mistake that most Mozilla Users have made over the past decade is that they didn't keep up with Chromium-based and only now (the "modern web") are they faced with LEARNING how to use Chromium-based. I say this because I was one of them! I used Mozilla-based for DECADES. Mozilla (in my humble opinion) is DEAD - it's time to learn Chromium-based browsers. Will that change in the future? I HOPE SO. I won't make the same mistake this time around, I intend to "try" to keep up with BOTH so that it isn't a complete start-from-scratch learning curve whenever I "switch back". But for now, as sad as it may be to admit for most around here, CHROMIUM is kicking Mozilla "butt". We ALL have our fingers crossed that the butt-kicking is not "permanent". -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Go to chrome://flags and disable DirectWrite. -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
You will *always* have this on XP! Which web sites show as "insecure" (THOUGH NOT ACTUALLY INSECURE) in one browser versus the next is IRRELEVANT. The bottom line regarding a web sites "padlock" is that you can NOT use XP if you "want" this padlock to indicate "secure" on the "modern web". If you want to use XP (which I myself do!), then you "must" ACCEPT certain "flaws" that come with opting to remain on XP. -
My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Here is 360Chrome v13 and it DOES have a javascript engine capable of the "modern web" and we know this because GitHub displays the "Go to file" button. -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Here's a screencap of 360Chrome v11 and it too does not have a javascript engine capable of the "modern web". -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Here's a screencap showing the most recent (just this past weekend) out-of-the-box installs for NM27, NM28, Serpent 55, and Serpent 52 and demonstrates that NONE OF THEM have a javascript engine capable of the "modern web". -
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NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
You will find that NONE of the web browsers in this thread will match that criteria "out of the box". I'll return to show some screencap's as this will take a few minutes to answer fully.