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Totally agree! Microsoft is sitting in their offices just LAUGHING, "They'll never dethrone us, you can NOT win over 'public opinion' when you have over 600 distros and 500 in active development! We can't even get 'public opinion' to agree on 10 versus 11!" You know, kinda like "What's the best way to win a 2-party election? Easy, throw in a 3rd-party candidate to split votes with one of the two parties!"

Updated link for "base config" download updated in download post -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/183295-web-browser-proxomitron-reborn-ptrongui-a-how-to-guide/?do=findComment&comment=1211614 File Date == 01-26-2022

Everything should be working in Serpent 52 now that port 8443 versus port 443 has been resolved.

Also learned a cool debug trick. Execute the command tasklist in Command Prompt (or what I like to call "The Matrix" because I changed my font color to green-on-black). This will give you the "PID" number for Proxomitron.exe. Execute the command netstat -ano | find "PID" (include the quotes but replace with PID#) to debug the port info for Proxomitron.exe (note that my PID changed midway through these screencaps because I exited, made changes, then relaunched Proxomitron).

I'll be adding screencaps for an Serpent 52 setup. Disregard. Credit to JJoe and amy over TUOPF - they have resolved the port 443 versus port 8443 issue and I'll be uploading an updated config later this morning.

So do I on my bank sites. But they're pretty much about the only sites that I get a "green" padlock. I'm exaggerating, of course. But look up at your address bar right now - MSFN has been "red" for close to a year. Doesn't stop us from visiting MSFN or even logging in, now does it?

ps - it's all relative. I've always felt more "secure" behind NoScript + uMatrix + MVPS Hosts and a red "padlock" than I have ever felt behind a "bare" web browser and a green "padlock"

It's an evolutionary process. It has been my understanding that "nobody" in the last YEAR (at least!) has had a consistant "green https" in XP. Proxomitron / ProxHTTPSProxy do not have TLS 1.3 support (yet!). I suspect that a consistant "green https" will not happen until then.

You may need to set your 3 to 2. Did the certificate import successfully? Try these command line switches (at least just temporarily) and see if it works then - --enable-local-file-accesses --allow-insecure-localhost --allow-running-insecure-content

I did find a NoScript alternative called Sybu JavaScript Blocker that would allow Proxomitron scripts while blocking domain scripts but it did not know the difference between bing.com and r.bing.com. It blocked the scripts coming from r.bing.com but didn't even see (and so it allowed them) the scripts coming from bing.com. I've actually abandoned NoScript in favor of Proxomitron - but my fear is that long-time users of NoScript will not give Proxomitron a chance if the two cannot "play in the same sandbox".

Regarding ad-blocking - I personally block all javascript by default and only allow white-listed javascript so that alone blocks the vast majority of ads. But I do acknowledge that such an approach is not for everyone - and that's the power of Proxomitron, fully customizable to the exact needs of its user. You can allow javascript but still block ads through the use of all of the lists - for that approach you may wish to enable and experiment with some of the filters in the "||| Ads" section.

Proxomitron's ad-blocking is almost entirely based on lists. If you right-click on top of the Proxomitron systray icon, a context menu will open and you can see we have 11 lists which all target specific ad methods. You can open/view all of these lists to get a general idea of how they target ads.

Neither Proxomitron, nor Proxomitron Reborn, nor ProxHTTPSProxy, nor ProxHTTPSProxyMII support TLS 1.3. If your browser lacks TLS 1.2 or 1.3, none of them will add TLS 1.2 or 1.3. If your browser does support TLS 1.3, using any of them will disable that support and drop you down to TLS 1.2. It is my understanding that the developer of Proxomitron Reborn does plan on adding TLS 1.3 in the future and she remains active on the Un-Official Proxomitron Forum.

As far as MSFN's reply-box keylogger, it is blocked without any additional filters. I've verified this in "Advanced Mode" (the default mode is "Standard Mode", I did not test in "Standard Mode"). You change "mode" using the Headers button - And you can manually "activate" the keylogger (for those that want the "feature") by clicking on the "timer" button in the lower left corner - The "listen: click" button is because I also activate the "Be more restrictive" Web Filter -

ps - I do still need to find a solution for, as an example, allowing Proxomitron javascript on www.bing.com without allowing bing.com javascript on www.bing.com as far as NoScript is concerned. Saving that for another day.

Hip Hip Hooray. For those that have been patiently waiting, the first several posts of this thread are now good-to-go as far as a guide on getting Proxomitron configured properly. Not sure how much interest there is for Proxomitron, hopefully there will at least be a few We should be able to use this thread as a Q & A. One of these days, I'll post a filter that breaks the "keylogger" in this reply box - just as an example that we can all relate to. I may end up doing some YouTube / Google / Bing filters along the way also.

What .CPL files do you have in Windows \ System32 ?

We may have found a solution. Still testing...

The developer of Proxomitron "Reborn" claims that I should not need ProxHTTPSProxyMII - but there is clearly a difference in how .css and .js are "injected" into web pages. Consider this project on-hold until the developer of Proxomitron "Reborn" and I can discuss various nuances on-the-side.

My glasses are "invisible". Perfect vision, no glasses. At my old job, their "stupid" safety glass policy was that those of us that did not wear (prescription) glasses had to wear safety glasses with side shields. But folks with (prescription) glasses only had to wear their glasses, no side shields, just their glasses - they didn't even have to indicate if their lenses were "glass" or "plastic" or "polycarbonate" or "trivex". Side shields are TERRIBLE for those of us with perfect vision, zero "peripheral". I walked in one day with NON-PRESCRIPTION glasses - glass frames with NON-PRESCRIPTION lenses! The boss went ballistic and reported me to HR. HR took MY side and I worked there for just over ELEVEN YEARS wearing NON-PRESCIPTION "glasses" to avoide the d@mn side shields. It was a LABORATORY, no flying debris, no heavy machinery with moving parts or possible "thrown" items - just a RETARDED "policy" where the boss stood his ground and HR stood their ground. After that, there was about half a dozen folks who never wore glasses a day in their life suddenly show up in NON-PRESCRIPTION "glasses". The boss never did change the "policy" - but of course denied paying for our "glasses" when prescription-folks could obtain company-paid-for prescription safety glasses.

True. Not familiar with it. But do see it was started in 2013 and hasn't been posted to in over 4 months or so. Geuss I was thinking more along the lines of seeing posts pop up in the "Unread Content" / "Activity" links and thinking to myself "don't care" and not even reading them, lol.

Disregard. I cannot in good faith put an "estimate" on completion.

Nah, I wouldn't say "we" because I kinda don't care if Win 7 users agree with me or not. "Disagreements" and "attacks" are not one-in-the-same. The "update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019" thread kinda tells us everything we need to know. Oh, and the "KernelEx for Win2000" thread. They've been among the most ACTIVE thread for DAYS. People really don't flock to MSFN (in my opinion, no statistics to back up this "perception") for 7 or 8 or 10. But we get a lot of users for 2000, XP, and Vista. And when 7 is officially retired, we'll start getting more 7s.

Let people use it the way that they themselves see fit. Nothing for or against. I disagree with "asking" for upvotes, I disagree with "pointing out" upvotes, I disagree with people following people around like shadows upvoting anything and everything that their "shadow-mate" upvotes only to drive up each other's "meaningless tally".

Cool! I admit that I've never owned or used Vista. Was afraid to after my experience with Win 7! "Et tu, Brute?" I use MSFN's "ignore feature" to ignore members that play that game! This isn't Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or TikTok or YouTube or Reddit or Vimeo. Our "value" here has NOTHING to do with "upvotes".