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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    To add a little perspective, 2018 population was 7.602 billion (data.worldbank.org) and 2021 population is estimated at 7.927 billion (worldometers.info). So we added 325 million to the global population while Firefox lost 50 million in the same time span. I personally don't think that Firefox can "right the ship" at this point. Firefox was always a bit of a "niche market", but feel free to DuckDuckGo / Bing / Google the phrase "is firefox dying" and enjoy the reading.
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    I view it more along the lines that hackers want to hack as many computers as they can. Between 2018 and 2021, Firefox has lost 50 million users. In 2018, there were about 244 million users, that number is now down to below 200 million. That loss is staggering now matter how you look at it - "rose-colored lenses" can't even make those numbers look 'good'. So if Firefox overall is down that huge, what percentage of those are Quantum versus Pre-Quantum, Rust versus Pre-Rust? Why would a hacker target 1 million users if s/he can target 199 million users?
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    MSFN has undergone code changes. I have not tracked it down to know "where", but Proxomitron clearly indicates that there has been code changes. The keylogger now makes it past Proxomitron. Unless I changed my Proxomitron config, I'll have to double-check. Not really interested in this becoming a "cat and mouse game", so I'll just rely on my own site-specific keylogger blocks for now. Disregard - I set a javascript flag for a different web site but my regexp caught this site by accident.
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    I have a circular slide rule somewhere. Used it during the college days to "show off" to the professors that I could do logarithms "without a calculator".
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    I've also used Win 10 non-stop since it was released! I'm "forced" to use Win 10 at work. But not even three brand new computer purchases since the release of 10 has me using 10 here at home (one of those three came with 7, the other two came with 10). So congratulations on purchasing a new computer - but until you revert back to XP and not run Win 10 that came with that new computer, this thread does not need the "pollution" of discussing anti-XP sentiments. I'll leave the "last word" to you, I've said what I needed to say.
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    I'm "old". My first computer was a Commodore 64 (still have it). I've been using XP non-stop since it was released in August of 2001 (when it was released to manufacturing [Research & Development Laboratory where I worked as a college intern], retail stores did not receive it until October 2001). I was running AutoCAD at the time that still used a "tablet" mouse (a mouse with a magnetic crosshairs pickup zone and a huge tablet with "icons" and large "template" sheets where you could change the tablet "icons"). I remember it to this day because IT was concerned about whether that "tablet" mouse would run on XP (it did!). My point remains - I have no interest in this thread turning into a conversation on how "unsafe" it is to be using XP - we that use it are already aware of this and we do not read an NT-Family OS thread to be hit with "use Linux" or "use 10" or "XP is insecure" !!!
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    Please leave that to those of us that use XP. XP users do not visit Linux forums for advice on XP. Win 10 users should not be posting XP advice on "Older NT-Family OS" threads. We that continue to use XP know what we are doing! And have our reasons for remaining on XP. We do not need Win 10 users telling us how to use XP! Us XP users are well aware of the "risks" and have weighed those pros and cons ourselves, weighed them against the pros and cons of 7, 10, 11, and we do not need "constant" advice from people not even using XP.
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    They're 95% identical. I use Humming Owl's notes for hard-coding all but default search engines. I do not hard-code them because I provide preset settings that have the default search engines deleted. They only "return" if you try to import previous settings to a new download and you don't import the correct "combination" of files. Or you get a little trigger-happy and delete too many files out of the profile directory. If the default search engines return, just simply delete them again but it would be helpful if you can track down the root cause. I've never witnessed the default search engines "returning" but a few users have and "profile-mangling" seems to have been involved, difficult to isolate - I plan on creating an export/import tool eventually to alleviate. I make several GUI changes to fix several css issues that Humming Owl does not address. ie, Advanced -> Content Settings -> any of the Manage Exceptions pages and the underlying page will shift up, this does not happen in my versions. Humming Owl's still has a "nag screen" that will pop up only once but I do not recall what "triggers" the "nag screen". Just hit the ESC key if you see a "nag screen" - I think it is when you go to create your first bookmark, don't recall. Mine also does not have a "nag screen" when you close the last tab. Unsure if this is once-only or every time in Humming Owl's releases (I only know that I want to throw a shoe at the computer when I see it, lol). My versions are "portable" and do not write registry strings to the Windows Registry. Humming Owl's do write to the Windows Registry.
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    Agreed! I've always chuckled that XP calls them "POS" -- https://7esl.com/pos/
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    Even with me being on XP, even I'll admit that it's been a "tad" annoying as to the GIGANTIC number of posts in the "On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019" thread.
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    I haven't bumped into any web site like that (where these features are served to this browser, those features are served to that browser) for YEARS. But I also "despise" 'gaming', so maybe that's why I haven't seen any.
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    Technically, I'd put that at right around 20-80. 80% of the time, I'm on XP. 20% of the time, I'm on 10. And just like the UA is "dying", so is my XP and months (years?) down the road, that 20-80 will be 50-50. Then 80-20. Then 100-0.
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    I hope you were not accusing me of burying my head in the sand If you are, hunt down 10 web sites that throws up a "you're browser is out of date" banner then change your UA to the latest-and-greatest - it's basically 50-50 at this point if the UA is enough to remove the nag-banner. So that's what I mean by "the UA is dying" - changing the UA four years ago would have removed that nag-banner on all 10, today it's 50-50, tomorrow it will be 0-for-10.
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    The entire NASA websites (at least each-and-every part I just tried) works perfectly for me on 360Chrome v11 (four years old) with zero browser-out-of-date nag screens and zero Flash. Maybe what you need to be doing is REMOVING ALL forms of Flash from your computer and then websites won't even try to use it (it is old and ancient technology and is DEAD) and then those websites work via alternatives instead of Flash.
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    I have personally not tried this (zero need for Flash) - but try this -- 1) Download and extract the most recent Russian "repack" from here - https://lrepacks.net/repaki-programm-dlya-interneta/182-360-extreme-explorer-amp-portable.html (the file name as of this writing will be "360_extreme_explorer_13.0.2290.0.zip") 2) Execute the "_Unpack Portable.cmd" file from the extracted "360_extreme_explorer_13.0.2290.0.zip" (Note: this will close any 360Chrome processs that you have open) 3) This will create a new folder called "360Chrome" in the same folder containing "_Unpack Portable.cmd" 4) Open that "360Chrome" folder and navigate to ..\360Chrome\Chrome\Application\components 5) Copy both the "ppflash" and the "npflash" folders from this "360Chrome" folder over to the same folder structure for the folder that contains your 360Chrome that you want to add Flash to 6) Now when you launch that folder's 360Chrome, you should have Flash
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    There is Flash for 360Chrome but I'm out-of-state for the next several days and won't be able to assist until my return home.
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    We've both stated our "view". It need not be discussed further. I will be making my Proxomitron "solution" PUBLIC, if Dixel wants to continue this "invite-only" distribution for his "project", no skin off my back.
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    That's just ludicrous, plain and simple. Undo paranoia. "To each their own." Google doesn't care! Period! And to think otherwise is kind of a false ego on one's own "project".
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    No offense. But until Dixel makes his "starter" PUBLIC and NOT by "invitation only", then I really don't give a rat's butt what it does! Again, "no offense". "To each their own."
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    From the reading/research I've done thus far, if you have ever, in your entire life, solved a "captcha" (grid of pics where you select certain images) to access any web page, then your "fingerprint" is on file forever. Which kinda tells me it's "too late" for any of us to try to prevent our computer from being "fingerprinted", because it already has been fingerprinted. I still hope that us Proxomitron users can find a way to "fake" our 'fingerprint'.
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    No need to. When I tried to create a new Yahoo account, it asks for a phone number. I do not own a phone. And it will not send an SMS to "temporary" SMS services. I personally never use email accounts that are tied to a "real" phone number! The three Yahoo accounts that I had to let "expire" were over TWENTY years old. Yahoo couldn't "trace" them to any "real" person! I have zero interest in opening a new Yahoo account where Yahoo knows "exactly" who I am! "Throw-away" accounts (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc) should be completely anonymous in my view. None of the three "allow" that when creating "new" accounts. But my 20+ year old accounts ARE!
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    I don't like the latest build, hate isn't even a strong enough word. I use version 3.8.1 from November 2011 and it works for everything except Yahoo and my three Yahoo accounts have been deactivated due to inactivity. Version 4.0 was released in August 2014 and I *hated* it enough to never look at a newer version since and I'm still running 3.8.1.
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    No clue here. I had to throw away three Yahoo throw-away accounts because Yahoo would no longer let me access them through POP Peeper.
  25. NotHereToPlayGames
    Bingo! I've asked the "fake fingerprint" question over at TUOPF. I'm hoping that JJoe or amy might have some insight.
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