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ps - I'll "judge" another's computer skills every day of the week, but I strive to not judge anyone's "religion".

Let's refrain from turning this into a religious debate. You want the perpetrators to go to h#ll, you said so yourself. I prefer a more "hopeful" approach on life, NEVER judge anyone, NEVER condemn another to h#ll, because I have no clue what is in their heart "today" or, often more importantly, what is in their heart "tomorrow". "Hope" to me is still of a spiritual nature. We have a "president" that tried to make it forever "political" instead, but to me "hope" is still of a spiritual nature. Hope springs eternal. ~Alexander Pope - An Essay on Man.

Easy, Grasshopper! Judge not lest ye be judged.

True. But the whole "faceless" persona caused more harm than good! We had (still have!) very polarizing "discussions" because people "hide behind their keyboards". Extreme devastation for millions of teenagers, especially girls. I have daughters! I have neices! The world went to H#LL when "parents" started giving TWELVE YEAR OLDS a phone and did so in the guise of "security".

I laugh my a@@ off when I read forum posts boasting "security and privacy" and yet see their PICTURE as a profile avatar. Generally a sign of a very large "social media" presence. Not always, but generally.

I live in a small midwest town so nowhere near "represented" in the media that all originate from gigantic metropolitan sky-rise-building cities with more people living in one sky rise then living in my entire town. I also live in a "swing state". We vote "red" and "blue" almost equally. There was a common joke around year or so when stores and restaurants were opening up and there were no more "restrictions" on store occupancy. We went through a phase where security was placed at store doors, nobody allowed in until somebody already inside exited the building. This didn't last long, but really showed how DIVIDED our nation is! And how POLITICAL this "pandemic" is! As a way to cease-and-decist with all of the DIVISIVE POLITICS, our town put a stop to the "restrictions" long before cities "represented" by national/international media put a stop to theirs (most still ongoing to this day!). But this "swing state" has several retailers that are "owned and operated" by a "blue" state to our north. So the JOKE that was prominant about a year ago was this - those "blue-owned" companies would have to follow the letter of the law for their "blue" state even though the store is in a "red/swing" state. So while 80% of retailers no longer mandated masks be worn, these "blue-owned" retailers still mandated masks. So the JOKE was this - "Oh, your company's president voted for Biden so your company is toeing the Biden Line". We could tell which companies were "locally owned" and which were owned by the larger state to our north ALL ON ACCOUNT OF which retailers were forcing masks in their stores when the rest of the town no longer does. NONE of them force masks anymore! And I sure as "F" hope those d@mn mandates are gone FOREVER!

ps - I'm all for us using computers to stay well-informed. But not if your sole source of "information" is "social media" and you don't have some tiny shread of "trust but VERIFY" approach towards your "information"!

I've considered myself fortunate in regards to the whole "to vax or not to vax" drama. I worked for a Fortune 500 company with right around 380 employees when covid first broke out. There were several of us that got it BEFORE the international medical community even knew what it was! MILD cases! All of us in our mid-20's to early 50's. What p!sses me off about the "media" is that they want everybody to think that "everybody" that catches it will be "hospitalized" or "near death". THAT'S JUST MEDIA STUPIDITY! SOME of the media isn't as bad now, TWO YEARS LATER, but you can still see the "near death" undertones or the "you are killing your grandmother if you don't get vaccinated" B#LLSH!T in the "media". Those of us at the Fortune 500 company that had a MILD case, had a couple of documented sick days, and provided HR with documented proof of medical care - we have been exempted from the vaccine "mandate" on grounds of "natural immunity". But vaxxed or not, this company still mandates ALL employees wear a mask all day - ONE mask handed to us by security when we clock in. Don't get me started on ONE mask being worn 8hrs+ per day. Don't get me started that ONE hour into our day, everybody's mask is worn and fuzzy and dirty because everybody "picks at it" with dirty fingers that have touched everything in sight! It's become nothing but a laughing-stock, nobody wearing their mask above their nose, "supervisors" not doing their REAL job but think they've earned a salary by telling everybody to "pull their mask up". Despite they themselves dangling their mask from one ear, exposing mouth and nose, when they sit at their desk - THREE FEET away from somebody else with a dangling mask.

I have always thought the same! I personally used Mypal for close to two years before several of my banking sites would no longer work on it. I used an OLD version that does NOT have the raccoon logo! I tried several times to compile my own Mypal for no other reason than to remove the raccoon logo! But when my banking sites stopped working on it, despite using an OLD version, even the NEW versions of Mypal, NM27, NM28, and BNav would not work on those banking sites either. So I at least never had to use the "raccoon versions" because my banking sites kinda forced me into 360Chrome.

Amazing! 7yr old Japanese girl Yoyoka playing Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wl1MCzqNxk&list=RDf38_-BmCRBo&index=12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oMTH10nrxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38_-BmCRBo

I am not a fan of defragging! I've not defragged a hard drive since the days of Win2000. And it's not about SSD versus HDD and it's not about read/write life cycles, I simply do not degrag. Ever. Operating System efficiency is more about keeping the registry from "mangling". The only way to do that is to not install 1000 different pieces of software only to uninstall 998 of them. Only to repeat that two months later, install 1000, uninstall 998. Rinse. Repeat. That's what VM's are for Doesn't matter how often you "clean" the registry, the only true way to stay truly optimized is to reformat and reinstall. I reinstall all of my computers at least once a year. Not because they've become slow, I keep 'em running like well-oiled machines, I keep 'em purring like a kitten. But nothing, no matter how hard you try, nothing is faster and more optimized than a freshly installed operating system. And the absolute WORST thing you can do is to allow your operating system to "fix itself" -- you want it to STAY optimized, then disable automatic defrag, disable indexing service, disable system restore, disable .net "optimization service", disable automatic updates, et cetera. "Mileage may vary"

"I am developing another mypal upon the firefox quantum 68-78, recently i have finished studying mozilla rust language and found that it is no problem to use rust to build for winxp." Very interesting indeed! Please keep us posted as I will likely not see the updates unless somebody posts info here at MSFN.

Download speed is definitely the issue. My Win10 laptop at idle shows ONE "app" (Task Manager so that I can count processes for sake of this post), SEVEN "background processes", and TWENTY FIVE "windows processes". VERY efficient and heavily tweaked and optimized. But it still doesn't come close to the efficiency of a tweaked-and-optimized WinXP.

You do have to allow .js from (forget-this-part)player.xyz. edit - and you cannot disable javascript timers for the ..player.xyz scripts either.

I do not have any alternative locations to upload to.

I have my reasons and to delineate them is useless. We must all decide for ourselves as to what works for us. What works for me will not work for you. What works for you will not work for me - and this is a thousand times true as I've seen the types of "test cases" you present over and over and over and I've seen the type of extensions that you deem "must have" that you couldn't pay me to use. We all have our own end-in-mind and there will be "overlaps" here and there, but no two people in a billion will share the same "exact" idea of the "perfect web browser profile".

uMatrix - by far! uBlock is taylored for the "I don't know what I'm doing" crowd whereas uMatrix is taylored for the "I'm an advanced user and want as much control as possible" type of user.

I use the OLD version ON PURPOSE. Perhaps the issue you are having is that you have fallen into the trap that "newer is better". Hint - it isn't! Just like web browsers in general have a way that "newer" will NOT work on "old" hardware, THE SAME IS TRUE FOR EXTENSIONS.

Not sure I'm following. Are you saying that uBlock does not show the same as uMatrix with regards to blocking cloudfare, googlesyndication, and googletagmanager?

I'll disagree, even if only to play Devil's Advocate. I think the vast majority of the "internet" is basically like MSFN. And I scroll all the way to the bottom and I see this -- "© 2001 - 2021 MSFN" and "Powered by Invision Community". Does the "owner" of MSFN rewrite code for this web site with the intentions of making it "heavier" or to make it only work on "newer" computers? My answer is "heck no!". But said "owner" will perform scheduled "maintenance" only to let "Powered by Invision Community" add whatever THEY think should be added. Did the webmaster write code to prevent older computers from accessing the site? Or was the webmaster simply performing "lazy maintenance" and did whatever "Powered by Invision Community" told them to do in order to increment the "copyright date"? Granted, I've never "owned" a website. I just don't think that "webmasters" really do the bulk of the "code", I think they use "modules" written by large corporations and they update those "modules" under the guise of "security", "Powered by Invision Community" sends the webmaster an email, "Please update your module, the previous module is vulnerable to security attacks." And so the webmaster updates the "module". Just to be Devil's Advocate. I've never "owned" a website.

I still have a Commodore 64 that has never had any dust blown out of it. Dad brought it home from work in the summer of '83 when he traded a coworker a 2-channel oscilloscope for it. So I can basically tie @Mcinwwl's 38.5 years.

Had to google that as I've never heard of "Famicom". Nintendo Entertainment System console released in July 1983 as the "Family Computer" (or Famicom). 38.5 years!

Correction - 16 years! My Compaq Presario SR1520NX with AMD Sempron 3100+ was purchased in December 2005. It's all original and the case was only opened earlier this month only because of the BIOS battery because this computer doesn't stay plugged in all the time anymore. I was using it for XP x86 SP2 (waste of time), then tried installing Chromium OS just to see if I could (never could), so then it went back to XP x86 SP3. Was going to install Salix (sp?) on it but have since decided I won't waste my time with another Linux distro, tried too many over the years and were all "fun" for a week or two but never fit my needs "long term". Though truth be told, this computer sat unused on a shelf "gathering dust" for roughly 2 of those 16 years. But never was any dust blown out until I replaced the BIOS battery just this month and at that point why wouldn't you blow it out once you're this far in?

Longest without blowing dust? Roughly 14 years! And then ONLY because I had to replace the motherboard battery. Maybe I have a better housekeeper than you?