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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Depends on what you use your comptuer for. Important to me for my usage? Nope. Important to a "gamer" and his/her usage? Yep. Important to somebody that watches "tv" on their computer instead of on a "tv"? Yep. Important to somebody that uses computer for news and research? Nope. And it's technically more of a test for your graphics capabilities than it is for your browser. My computer has five widescreen monitors. That "test" shows gray for 3 of my 5. But flashes between red and cyan on 2 of my 5 (but I would expect it to also as those two monitors run off of USB 2.0 and are converted to VGA). -
It's really got much less to do with Google than most people think. DropBox is not owned by Google -- Google is not writing the code on DropBox that makes it most-compatible to Chrome-based versus Firefox-based. GitHub / GitLab is not owned by Google -- Google is not writing the code that has made GitHub / GitLab most-compatible to Chrome versus Firefox. BitChute is not owned by Google -- BitChute's player-related scripts making UXP choke are not written by Google. MSN is not owned by Google -- not Google's fault that some users have issues watching videos on MSN from UXP browsers. The pendulum swings both ways. In the 90's, I worked for a company where Firefox was forced down the throat of all employees. Just as few as four years ago, all factory floor computers at two local factories were running Firefox solely because of div table cell width compatibility with manufacturing process logs. Today, you can walk the factory floor of both of those factories, thousands of computers, and you won't find Firefox on any one of them.
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
This should get you there -- <!-- Borealis Navigator --> <em:targetApplication> <Description> <em:id>{a3210b97-8e8a-4737-9aa0-aa0e607640b9}</em:id> <em:minVersion>0.9.0a1</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>2.*</em:maxVersion> </Description> </em:targetApplication> -
Most user-agent extensions aren't really smart enough to "really" work. For starters, there are two (that I know of) methods that a web browser advertises its user agent -- HTTP user-agent and JavaScript API navigator.userAgent. Most user-agent extensions only deal with HTTP user-agent and do nothing as far as JavaScript API navigator.userAgent. So... When you want to "fake" BOTH the HTTP and the .js API, I suggest using a feature already built in to 360Chrome -- the Developer Tools Console. Here's how -- Note that this only works on the tab that contains the Developer Tools. Open the Developer Tools and right next to the "X" that closes the Developer Tools is a "three-dot" icon to "Customize and control Dev Tools". It will open a small context menu and in that menu you will see "More tools". Hover over "More tools" and you will see another menu. In this menu, click on "Network conditions". There is an option for "User agent" that will always default to "Select automatically". Unselect the "Select automatically" checkbox. Select the User Agent that you want to "fake". Refresh the page and that page now loads as if you are the faked User Agent you just set. Again, this only works for the tab that contains the Developer Tools. You can be one user agent in one tab, a different user agent in a different tab, a third agent in a third tab, you can fake as many as you want but it is "per tab".
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We need to take Climate Change seriously
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Dibya's topic in General Discussion
The one that is P!&&!NG ME O## lately is how this "president" keeps turning to oil-producing countries and asks "them" to 'drill, drill, drill". I get so d@mn tired of hearing "paycheck to paycheck" types of folks complain about gas prices! Now this "president" is requesting an investigation into "gas price gouging" - this is nothing but a political tactic to make "paycheck to paycheck" folks think the "president" is looking out for them! Bush attempted to blame gas price gouging in 2006 -- FAILED, no price gouging existed! Just a political tactic to pander to low-income folks that have no clue about supply-and-demand and no clue about global commodity pricing. Obama attempted to blame gas price gouging in 2011 -- FAILED, no price gouging existed! Just a political tactic to pander to low-income folks that have no clue about supply-and-demand and no clue about global commodity pricing. Trump attempted to blame gas price gouging in 2018 -- FAILED, no price gouging existed! Just a political tactic to pander to low-income folks that have no clue about supply-and-demand and no clue about global commodity pricing. Biden is repeating history and thinks he can blame gas price gouging -- it's going to be a FAILURE. Price Gouging Does Not Exist! Not to cast a "blanket statement". But just like the first THREE TIMES, no "gouging" exists! Companies are not philanthropists! A reasonable profit margin is not "gouging"! PERIOD! NONE of these "investigations" found any "gouging". Just a bunch of d@mn political posturing "at the expense" of the poverty class that "can't afford" insurance on the car anyway and are driving illegally by not carrying insurance but then turn around and b!atch and wh!ne about gas prices! -
The Odd Couple -- Season 3 Episode 4 One of my 7,654,321 "pet peeves" is when sitcoms have an actor/actress walk into a scene and the "live audience" background noise is a bunch of d@mn clapping - HATE THAT! Watching this episode (I'm referring to the Matthew Perry as Oscar Madison version of The Odd Couple) and this d@mn clapping NUANCE happens ALL OVER THE PLACE! I eventually turned to a "What the H#LL is going on with all this d@mn clapping b&lls#!t?" So I googled season 3 episode 4 and looked up its cast of guest appearances -- Penny Marshall as Patty Dombrowski -- aka, Laverne DeFazio on Laverne & Shirley, a character first introduced in an episode of HAPPY DAYS Pam Dawber as Arnette -- aka, Mindy McConnell in Mork & Mindy - Mork from Ork was a character first introduced in an episode of HAPPY DAYS Don Most as Fred -- aka, Ralph Malph from HAPPY DAYS Marion Ross as Edna -- aka, Marion Cunningham from HAPPY DAYS Anson Williams as Clayton -- aka, Warren "Potsie" Weber from HAPPY DAYS Cindy Williams as Vivian -- aka, Shirley Feeney on Laverne & Shirley, a character first introduced in an episode of HAPPY DAYS Ron Howard as Stanley -- aka, Opie Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham from HAPPY DAYS Okay, now that I found cool!
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Correction - keeping these status bar icons. The foreground/background DOES WORK (just not as I originally envisioned that it was supposed to work). To illustrate, whenever you highlight a word on a page and then open the right-click context menu, one of the options is that you can search that highlighted word using your default search engine. The foreground/background option will change whether this right-click context menu search will open in a background tab or open in a new tab and that tab become the current tab. I wouldn't really call this "background/foreground" - but at least now that I know "how" it works, I can put it to use so will keep it in the status bar. I suspect the same may end up being true for the "mute" icon - it may have a certain scenario functionality and is more of a Chinese original intent language barrier on how it has evolved into the English version.
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It's actually a fun hobby so it doesn't really bother me how long it takes. To be honest, my XP Theme took some time also but I had more of a vested interest in it and it was something I took on as a side project long before deciding to upload rebuilds. The whole rebuilds project has admittedly been a bit of an eye-opener. I *need* 360Chrome - NOTHING else compares as far as a "one-stop shop" for browsing from XP. An eye-opener as to just how "dead" this "dying breed" really is. Holding out 'til the very end -- Long Live XP.
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Although I suppose it could be as easy as finding an original Chinese BEFORE any locales files were added.
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@Humming Owl - Not going to be as easy as it sounds. Something like this, in my opinion, "should" only detail changing ONE file (the "locales" file, ie "en-us.pak"). But for full GUI language consistency, no matter what language, you have to make changes in not only en-us.pak (whose name would change depending on language, of course), but also to skin.srx, iframe.srx, jisu9_dark.srx, resources.pak, options.zip, errorpage.zip, and sslblock.zip. v9 or v11 might prove much easier than v13 as it clearly had several hands in the cookie jar to crumble that cookie. I haven't dug too deep into this, but deep enough to know that what SHOULD work will not. "Good" software would require changes to the locales file and then direct the preference file to that locales file. Just a heads up, "not going to be easy".
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POSReady patches BROKE several of my cad apps -- UNINSTALL ALL POSREADY would be my next step. Better yet, redo your iso slipstream without the "pos" POSReady.
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The LT version of AutoCAD required .NET - are all of your .NET Frameworks up to date?
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Does the 2007 version have the "Today" dialog that pops up on start and it connects to the internet for "news" and "library download"? If so, disable that "Today" dialog. It's been several years and I don't recall which version AutoDesk snuck that "feature" in.
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Not to poke the bear, but how is that any different from any other browser discussed herein? When did consumers become satisfied with labeling any "weekly" as 'stable' but reserve the 'beta' label for "nightly"? Why should any of us have to update our browser "weekly"? We don't gain anything by "weekly" updates outside of establishing some sort of "habit". We are creatures of habit, but when did the consumer become satisfied with "It's Saturday, time to update my browser" ??? -
I still have more work to do on it but here is a preview. Still to do -- Correct Settings left column tab icon positions and selected tab color (corrected below only via Developer Tools) Several default dark theme text files are not shared with global en-us locales file - isolate which ones and move to global en-us locales file or translate direclty within dark-theme skin file Remove Mute Audio and Tab Foreground/Background icons from Status Bar (these never did work and will be removed from standard XP theme also) Correct default red text for certificate errors - default green on gray for valid certs is legible but default red on gray for invalid certs is not Correct sub-setting backgrounds for nested setting panels - do not like a dark gray background turning into bright gray when that panel becomes secondary Incognito tab needs changed to dark but not in a way that effects non-dark themes Change white buttons for items such as "Manage exceptions" ... I'm sure there is more but those are what comes to mind offhand
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I lump Edge in with Chromium. The User Agent for Edge is basically always one version behind Chrome and with an identical User Agent minus the "Edg" ending. But as far as "fingerprinting" goes, nobody uses "user agent" for that purpose, it's been a known trick for far too long and "faking" user agents has very limited effectiveness nowadays.
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Bingo! It really is EXTREMELY easy to "identify" folks these days - to the point where I do not waste my time trying to "prevent" it! It's actually much more effective to "blend in with the crowd" and that's the approach I prefer. Here is the best way to illustrate - Let's say the green circle represents your browser being Mozilla-based versus Chromium-based (you do not need a User Agent to detect this) - seems pretty much 50-50, right? The blue circle represents your preference to "normal" versus "dark theme" - you either advertise a "dark" preference or you don't - seems 50-50, right? The red circle represents your "do not track" preference - you either advertise DNT or you don't - seems 50-50, right? There's three things alone that your browser advertises a simple "yes" or "no", a 50-50, and we already have you reduced to the "white area". Throw in screen resolution as another circle and that "white area" is now even smaller. PREVENT "screen resolution" from being detected and that "white area" is even SMALLER becase most users do not know how to "prevent" screen resolution detection. You THINK you made yourself HARDER to "identify" by preventing screen resolution but in reality you just put yourself into a "circle" with a very small population - EXTREMELY easy to identify you when that "white area" keeps getting smaller and smaller.
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Agreed (x2). I've always been a proud-follower of whatever web browser I landed on for whatever reasons I landed on it, and their has been many over the decades. But "follower" and "loyalty" are two different things. Not a fan of "browser wars" (I feel the browser-war mentality is actually kinda behind 'why' "official" Pale Moon has landed where it has landed).
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I've always "laughed mockingly" at those "allergic types" with their high-and-mighty undertones whenever they chime in with their pretentious "you are off-topic, please return to the topic at hand". These "allergic types" need to grow up! Look at ANY forum and "analayze" their content. Try to find ONE, just ONE, where 90+ percent of the posts are "on-topic" (excluding forums so niche that only 10 members are active versus a forum with 1000 active members). It is HUMAN NATURE for conversations to diverge a tad, SO WHAT. Forums have a tendency, due to HUMAN NATURE, to be oh, just guessing, to be roughly 40% "off-topic". So yeah, "don't waive your bony finger", let the discussion RUN ITS COURSE, period. It is HUMAN NATURE and makes for a more pleasant ambiance than having some "pretentious dude" waive a bony finger at each and every one of those 40% "off-topic" divergences, "you are off-topic, please return to the topic at hand". I'd personally ban the "bony finger" dude over the topic-divergers, but maybe, just maybe, that might be because I just "diverged" herein. -
I turn DEP off completely. Not sure if that would help with this error or not (perhaps test in a VM?). In the boot.ini file, I use /noexecute=alwaysoff to completely turn DEP off, I personally don't want it for "essential Windows" or for "all programs", I want it off completely. "Not for everyone." "Mileage may vary." Not claiming it's a "major" performance boost, but I personally don't like Microsoft's ideas of "protecting me from me" and I see DEP as along those lines.
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Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Ben Markson's topic in Site & Forum Issues
How about a screencap? I'm not keen on installing the script until I can physically SEE what I will gain BEFORE installing it. -
Link does not work. I'm "done" trying to download Catsxp. If anyone can find an actual download, please host it on an ENGLISH website and I'll download from there.
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