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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".

Don't recall offhand. When Windows 7 landed me in the hospital for migraines that i've never had in my entire life until Windows 7's font rendering came along, I promptly returned to XP. I actually thought I had brain cancer when hit with migraines two or three times a day for several days and never knowing what a migraine was! My issues with sub-pixel anti-aliased fonts actually landed me (and others like me) in medical journals - I've kind of always regretted not getting a "copy" just for nostalgia or whatnot. Most people's eyesight just "adjusts" to sub-pixel anti-aliased fonts. It is NOT because my eyesight is "worse" than others, it's because it is more accute and accurate than others. I mean, I can't fly around like a hawk and swoop down for a field mouse, but I guess you could say it's something like that, lol.

That doesn't "completely" disable anti-aliased fonts on 7 and Vista. You would think that it would, but it does not.

I'm fairly certain that it has also been confirmed as "undignitary" and generally not appropriate in formal speech. Paraphrasing because I have "zero" interest in digging the thread back from the grave just to see how it was "worded". But at the same time, I don't buy into the whole "P.C." aspect of cultural lexicon, so I'm not suggesting that we all need to speak "formally" herein. It personally wouldn't bother me one iota if "dude" was added to the list of words that gets automatically "asterisked" on the forum, but I see both sides. Did find this interesting -- https://everyday-courtesy.com/is-it-rude-to-call-someone-dude/

I'm not taking "sides" on this, but do have to chuckle at the word "dude" resurfacing.

Status Update - I plan to have updated downloads by later today that basically gets us to a working version with only one exception - today's "working version" will basically be limited to browser profiles that do NOT use NoScript. I still have some digging to do on the combination of NoScript + Proxomitron.

Does anybody have any examples of web sites that employ CNAME trickery to load content? This is also one of the "modern web" functions that I am striving for Proxomitron to prevent so I would like some example web sites if anybody has them. Thanks in advance.

We hear you, D.Draker. I have attempted to point out on a few different occasions that we have different goals for this thread. Proxomitron CAN connect to a REMOTE proxy, but my goal is its usage as a "web filter" 'local proxy'. You do "seem to", intentionally or not, want to "hijack" the thread and steer it towards your goal. Proxomitron CAN be used "towards" your goal, but it was not my intended target audience. I agree with RainyShadow, XP users are already familiar with this topic but were intimidated and confused by Proxomitron when they tried it the first time and so they walked away from Proxomitron. My goal herein is to alleviate that intimidation and confusion and perhaps generate enough interest here at MSFN for Proxomitron to tame the "modern web". Proxomitron is a Swiss Army Knife. It CAN be used to elliminate the need for NoScript, uMatrix, Stylus, Tampermonkey, Adblockers, Popup Blockers, Cookie blockers, Privacy Badger, I could list a thousand (literally!) "extensions" that Proxomitron can elliminate. My target is not to elliminate thousands of extensions - we all use them and are familiar with them. But some of us "power users" would PREFER to not have to have "too many" extensions - they slow down the web browser and consume excessive RAM. I apologize if I mislead you and gave any impression that your Instagram issue falls within my target audience.

As a quick update, much BETTER performance after taking ProxyHTTPSProxyMII out of the picture - Proxomitron "Reborn" does not require it. And I kept getting random first-start-only (requiring relaunch) "502 Gateway" errors with ProxyHTTPSProxyMII.

Totally agree on font rendering. Win 7 and Vista anti-aliased ClearType-tuned fonts give me migraines. Win 10 does not (no interest in even trying 11). I'm not talking just Chrome font rendering, the entire Windows GUI gives me migraines due to font blur, in ALL applications. The "edgy" fonts in XP are far from 'perfect', but at least they do not send me to the ER or put me in dark closet for four hours waiting for a migraine to subside.

Awesome find! Thanks!

I am only focusing on Proxomitron Reborn's usage as a local proxy. Your needs are concerned with remote proxies (which Proxomitron can connect to - but it is not really my focus here).

Back to the topic at hand -- Proxomitron "Reborn" does not require ProxHTTPSProxy or ProxHTTPSProxyMII. So the guide will remove it and focus solely on Proxomitron "Reborn" + PtronGUI.

lol, I haven't forgotten. I need to resolve an issue on "ordering" first. Proxomitron will not work as intended if the web browser does not allow Proxomitron injected javascript. I need to find a way for the Proxomitron injected javascript to work on a web site that NoScript or uMatrix disables web site javascript. I can get Proxomitron injected .css to work properly, but having a "slight" issue with Proxomitron injected .js (namely on httpS sites). Almost there... Proxomitron can technically REPLACE both NoScript and uMatrix (and Stylus). But since Proxomitron is "list-based" and NoScript, uMatrix, and Stylus all have a GUI that people know and love, I fear that nobody will give Proxomitron a true chance if I cannot get it to "play nice" with NoScript / uMatrix / Stylus / UBO / and similar. NoScript is the only true holdup at the moment. Almost there...

By default, I block the ENTIRE left profile area. Since Dave-H's glasses were commented on and the shield relative to the corner was commented on, I just set up a few temporary Stylus entries "just to pass the time", not because that's my default setting for the forum.

ZERO to do with "like/dislike". ZERO. I just hate avatar/profile pics. Some look like cartoons. Some look like mug shots. Some look like 50yr olds trying to relive their 20s. Some look like video games. I block any-and-all without prejudice. ZERO to do with "like/dislike".

Oh, don't get me started on that one! We have a USPS that has been BAILED OUT by the government for something like 14 out of the last 17 years and yet we can't get them to drop down to 5-day delivery versus 6-day and we have them delivering on SUNDAYS because of BS like FedEx and UPS off-loading to the USPS! I personally feel like We The People would be PERFECTLY FINE with mail being delivered ONE DAY PER WEEK - just ONE DAY PER WEEK. We ALL pay our bills ONE DAY PER WEEK, we do NOT need to receive them on a MONDAY only for them to sit on the desk until PAYDAY, generally ONE DAY PER WEEK.

Bummer, I was hoping this would "unbreak" my water bill web page but it doesn't. Are these errors polyfill-related?

My "experiment" kind of failed. Chrome v69 has a few "mobile phone" APIs (one is called "Smart Lock", don't recall the other one offhand) and while they do not launch or anything when ran from a desktop/laptop, I could not get 360Chrome to launch if I removed them. I plan to revisit and instead of removing them completely, I can edit the URLs to basically not go anywhere, that's how I (and "official Ungoogled") 'ungoogles' the ungoogled version. I was hoping to shave a few MB's off of the total file size. But even after removing completely (at which point it would no longer launch), it only shaved 15.3 KB