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Agreed, I leave that out of the public release. Here's what I use -

Within reason. I will leave it to the readers of the forum to decide just which of us is being "reasonable" - both sides have pros and cons. Attempting "zero fingerprints" on the internet? The ONLY way to do that is to NOT be on the internet, PERIOD! The dichotomy paradox - you will never get there! This dog has no interest in chasing his own tail. "To each their own..." "Mileage may vary..."

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Chrome extensions pertaining to themes will work in 360Chrome. I've only tried a couple and not sure if this is true across the board or not.

Oh, so you want a Windows 2000 look instead of an XP look. I'll create a Win2k theme and report back.

You're on the internet, you're on Instagram, you're on Twitter. Don't kid yourself for one solitary second that you yourself have not been "fingerprinted" and stored in a database "forever". Get over it, dude! And PLEASE, I publicly INSIST -- PLEASE STOP HARASSING ME in the guise of "jokes" or "rib-jabs"! This HAS TO BE a violation of forum rules, albeit within a very fine gray area and to individual interpretations!

Can you provide a screencap of something with a "classic gray" color scheme?

I have not tested with Webex. We have a project that will hire six new people and we are targeting Monday, October 4th for the start date on that project. I'll likely not be able to test Webex until then. I tend to default to Win7 for all of my Webex meetings, but I'll be sure to test on XP though you may get an opportunity before I will.

Here's another read on it -- https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay/autoplay-pre-seeding-in-chrome <excerpt> Chrome typically learns a user’s preferences within six to twenty visits. </excerpt> This is clearly not the root cause of YouTube crashes on brand new profiles when YouTube crashes when opening a second tab. I still like the find though. I really can't test until YouTube starts crashing again.

According to here - https://newbedev.com/reset-chrome-media-engagement-score - this is reset on my end because I clear my cache on every browser exit. Very nice find! But I need to cross my fingers for YouTube to start crashing again before I can test it. I really only had YouTube crashes for a span of 2 or 3 days or so a week ago or so. I mean, yeah, it was enough that I rebuilt a v12 and made it my default browser. But now I want YouTube to start crashing again on my v13 so that I can test this new flag.

I just YouTube'd in my untouched v13 build 2206 rev 3 and I cannot get it to crash today without making any changes. I seem to be back to exactly where I was before the YouTube issues started happening a week or so ago - where I could not get YouTube to crash no matter what! So I cannot really test the flags posted - because my YouTube is no longer crashing. I know for a fact that YouTube (and Google) have been making codes changes (because I had to tweak Stylus style sheets) so my best guess is that one of their code changes was causing YouTube issues a week or so ago.

Does not seem to be relevant. This would not explain crashes to brand new profiles. Plus I clear all cache and index files upon each and every browser exit. This would also not explain why MSFN has recently started crashing v13 360Chrome.

Have you tried any of the 360Chrome releases? Here is the download link to my v12 -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/2r7r53j4i55iuyw/360Chrome%2012.0.1247.zip Here is the download link to my v13rev3 -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyyimm3h58r3963/360Chrome%202206%20rebuild%203%20-%20unran%20-%20MSFN.zip Humming Owl's releases -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/182876-360-extreme-explorer-modified-version/ My v12 has been rock-solid for YouTube. I have TRIED to crash it by loading twenty YouTube videos with all twenty playing 720 and with all twenty having audio on. I have not been able to crash v12 no matter how hard I try. Most tests are performed in XP x64 with 16MB RAM but I have also tested in XP x86 with 4MB RAM with twelve YouTube videos.

I was unaware of this version also. Found the Mypal mingw32 but couldn't find the Centaury mingw32. On the to-do list to give 'er a trial-run.

Regarding search engine financial gain, that is interesting indeed. Not sure how to estimate that "financial gain" - nor is it really any of my business, in my opinion, but there is some public-domain sites ( https://www.sitelike.org/similar/palemoon.org/ ) that do place a "value" which does I suppose at least put things in a little perspective. google.com = $3,335,302,900 duckduckgo.com = $5,100,900 opera.com = $1,261,700 mozilla.com = $894,900 kmeleonbrowser.org = $451,200 firefox.com = $145,200 mozilla-russia.org = $107,200 msfn.org = $40,700 maxthon.com = $25,900 palemoon.org = $19,000 basilisk-browser.org = $600 browser.360.cn = $100 rtfreesoft.blogspot.com = $0 binaryoutcast.com = $0 mozilla.org = $0 mypal-browser.org = $0 vivaldi.com = $0

Mypal source code has ALWAYS been EASY to find! I personally wouldn't mind a how-to guide on HOW to compile it myself. You can "claim" that they exist, such as this -- https://developer.palemoon.org/build/windows/ But has anyone here ever FOLLOWED those instructions -- they do not work. I've tried a dozen times in the last two years and I've always failed The Linux instructions might work, but I only dabble in Linux for GUI-something-different-FUN, I can't really "do" anything in it -- http://developer.palemoon.org/build/linux/

This is what is called a RED HERRING here in the US. It's an "attempt" at creating a LOOPHOLE in the "license agreement". Timely manner -- "I asked for it TWO MINUTES AGO and they haven't replied yet, this is a breach of our license." NO IT IS NOT, but "timely manner" can mean anything they want it to mean! Or so they think, try taking that up with a judge. "Timely manner" can mean ONE YEAR to one judge and ONE MONTH to another. But it does NOT mean "two minutes" to any judge on the planet! Reasonable means -- "I had to click three links instead of one, my time is too valuable to have to click three links!". Again, try taking that up with a judge, from any continent, from any planet. But anywhoo... It is extremely sad... I agree! I do, however, find myself ruling against Roytam on this one. We're probably not supposed to admit this out loud but please bear with me and allow a brief explanation. Look at how LONG this "issue" has been ongoing - and 'we' still have a download link with "palemoon" right in the name? The USERS of Basilisk/Serpent don't even know what to call it! The download link says basilisk, the about screen says Serpent. WE know what they are, but the newcomer does not - and that's where this whole thing started, many months ago, with no resolution whatsoever still to this day. I don't know who Binary Outcast is, but did Roytam releasing BNav axe Binary Outcast's project before he/she was even able to release his/her first beta version? But on the other hand, I also don't think (but I am no lawyer!) that Roytam has done anything where Tobin/Moonchild could issue a warrant for his arrest else I think they would have by now, that is the way this has all unfolded, the ongoing saga, no resolution whatsoever, no end in sight, ad nauseam. But feodor2 has followed all of those branding rules - from the beginning! EXCELLENT JOB, feodor2, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

I never visit their site and hadn't realized it was "that" bad. The "why" is because too many people don't know the difference between "Pale Moon" and "palemoon". Look at the LINKS when you download a Roytam build - the link has "palemoon" right in it even if the "about" page might say something different. And Roytam released BNav before the project that it stems from was even released - if I have the history correct. Isn't BNav based on Binary Outcast's Borealis Navigator? Don't know on this. So it all comes down to "branding". But feodor2's Mypal followed all of the rules there, so not sure why Mypal is now lumped in with "palemoon".

For those new to Chromium-based browsers, they include a feature called "OpenSearch" and this feature automatically adds search engines that you use to your list of search engines. You'll see this list when you go to Settings -> Basics -> Search -> Manage Search Engines and they will show up in the "other search engines" section. For those using Tampermonkey / Violentmonkey / et alia, here is a User Script that will prevent "OpenSearch" search engines from automatically being added to your profile -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/37186-disable-opensearch/code There is also this one (much more complex, have not tested this one) -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/375216-block-opensearch-descriptions/code edit - removed image, no longer hosted on my Dropbox as I was running out of storage space...

@Montana Slim - Here is the download link to my v12 -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/2r7r53j4i55iuyw/360Chrome%2012.0.1247.zip Here is the download link to my v13rev3 -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyyimm3h58r3963/360Chrome%202206%20rebuild%203%20-%20unran%20-%20MSFN.zip

Forgive the bluntness, but not interested. All of these privacy concerns coming from a guy with an Instagram and Twitter account? If these sort of things concerned me as much as you want us to think they do you, then I WOULD NOT OWN A COMPUTER as opposed to being a tech-savvy geeky dude with SEVEN of them. I wish you the best, @Dixel. But I find these conspiracies, KGB rants, anti-Russian, can't-spell-Google, can't-spell-Cloudfare views to be too extreme for my blood. Maybe it's cultural and being from different countries? Maybe it's the Instagram/Twitter persona that I've never been accustomed to? No clue. But anywhoo...

DO NOT label me a Dem / leftist !!! Now then, "having said that"... Not wanting to share personal data with ad companies is not in-and-of-itself "extremist". I am 100% positive that my setup blocks 98%. Bending over backwards for that extra 2%, yep, I'll label that as "extreme". I do not own a horse and buggy and have no desire to live so "afraid" of GOOGLE and CLOUDFARE that I cannot even bring myself to spell them correctly Signing out for a couple of days to avoid the "toxic mood", life really is too short.

ps - I do not use my ISPs DNS. But nor do I visit anything that I would hide from my own mother.

I do not care to be that "extreme". I'm all for Privacy Rights - but as I've mentioned before - I'm a "centrist", I have no need for such "extremism". To each their own...

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback, I was very curious about XP SP2 x86. I did benchmark tests on all of the v12's and specifically chose this one as my base for my new rebuild based on those benchmark results. While it is one of the earlier versions of v12, none of the newer versions of v12 have a newer Chromium engine. The newer versions of v12 only add "bloat" (same goes for newer versions of v13 as far as that goes), the underlying "engine" is as new as it gets for v12. Another item to note when comparing v12 to v13 is that the Original Chinese, Russian Repack, my v13 releases, and @Humming Owl's v13 and v12 releases, the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) setting DOES NOT WORK (have only tested in XP). Whether that option is checked or unchecked has no difference on your DNS queries (the option exists in early v12's but it is not selectable so I have removed/hidden it from the GUI in my build). I don't use that "feature" by default anyway, but it was something that was observed when I was narrowing down what my next release was going to be based from. The only test sites I could find were these (did not spend a huge amount of time hunting) -- https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ and https://1.1.1.1/help You do need to set your DNS to 1.1.1.1 and the second link above showed no difference with the 360Chrome setting checked versus unchecked [did not test in Firefox as it too has a setting for DoH] (first link was not found until typing this post).

@Humming Owl - you may be interested to know that there is a v13 build 2256. Unsure of what is "new".