NotHereToPlayGames

Shhh. Don't tell my IT Department! My work computer "forces" us all to change our password every 90 days. And the "system" will not let us change to any of our last TWELVE passwords. So you asked what I do - my password has technically been IDENTICAL for the last TWENTY YEARS !!! Every 90 days, I change my password thirteen times in roughly 4 minutes with that 13th password being the same EXACT password I've been using when I first started working for this company!

I've had better luck with Thorium. Not such luck with Supermium. Both are early in development so time will tell. My remaining XP machines are either dual-core without hyperthreading or Intel Atom processors. Supermium crashes for me on these XP machines.

Have you tried that one? If so - good, bad, or indifferent? I thought I tried it on XP x64 and it DID NOT LAUNCH. Do not recall offhand.

You will notice that an admin stopped by and "took care of it" (many thanks, btw). *ALL* of this BOTS posts have been deleted/hidden. His "Introduce Yourself" bot-post = gone. His "Vista games" bot-post [over 1yr old] = gone. His vote for Athlon over Pentium in the Poll Center [over 1yr old] = gone. That *IS* what "bots" do. They reply to a DEAD THREAD with a MEANINGLESS post that says NOTHING. Replying to a DEAD THREAD is not against forum rules (it's just a tell-tale sign that the person doing the posting just might not be a "real person"). 9. Do not bash old topics when a member has made it active again; it's been made active for a good reason: to answer an unanswered question, or to bring up new information. It does not need to be closed or deleted. In the case above (already deleted/hidden by an admin, thanks again!), an OLD TOPIC was made active again, but it was NOT by a "member". It was by some computerized BOT with a HISTORY of replying to OLD THREADS with MEANINGLESS posts that say NOTHING. No "person" is doing the typing/posting. It's all computerized/automated. Carry on, my dear MSFN Friend. I think I made my point and this "conversation" has ran its course. No need for either one of us to continue this "discussion" at this point. Though yeah, it gives your "gang" OFF-TOPIC posts to throw their "likes" at. Gives the rest of us something to laugh at. You are all correct! You all have very HIGH "reputations" now. All because of these "likes". Some say they don't mean anything, but NEWBIES to the forum see them, you guys are doing great, "you win".

You may be right. But I still stand by my view that modifying/repacking something based on Chrome v87 is still a "waste of time".

Right. I was considering modifying/repacking as a tribute of sorts to Humming Owl. But I have since reconsidered and see it as essentially a "waste of time".

Easy. Look at ALL of his posts. They violate MSFN Forum Rules: 2.a Use some common sense. Do not create identical topics or make identical posts in more than one forum. Think before posting and choose the right topic for your question or answer. Do not "bump" newly created topics until at least 24 hours have passed. If a topic has been "bumped" three times without any new replies, please consider reviewing and editing your original post and adding any information which you think may help other members in answering your question(s) or concern(s). When posting, have something to say, not just "My First post!" or "Cool site!!!" We sort of have the idea by now. :-) 4.a Spamming will not be tolerated. We have provided a section for those who wish to share your personal websites, not commercial ones; use these sections only. We do keep a log of all IP traffic that comes in and out of this site. We will report spamming to your ISP! AND furthermore - LOOK AGAIN at the post herein. HE EDITED YESTERDAY'S POST AND IT NOW CONTAINS A SPAM LINK! THIS IS NOT A "REAL PERSON", IT'S A "BOT", plain and simple. I have reported his EDITED SPAM POST.

Umm... You replied to a guy's one and only post in a thread over a year old. That was clearly a BOT POST.

"last"

You really have to read ALL posts EVERY day. We have members that "pick fights" then carry those over to other threads. Somebody started it, I could care less who started it. The Bigger Man moves on.

If you follow the forum daily as I do, that attack is a two-way street from a third-party perspective. I have no clue which side of the street attacked first. Nor care, if you want me to be perfectly honest. It's just one of those "it is what it is" things. I do not use CentBrowser. Therefore NOPE, I will not be creating a github account just to intervene. My OPINION is that this is just another FALSE POSITIVE. I really have NO TRUST in anti-virus "tests".

Not to "poke the bear", but I kind of AGREE. And DISAGREE. Both at the same time! If one publicly claims that a virus detection in r3dfox should be addressed with the author (this post), then that should be true for CentBrowser also. Don't forget, we had to go through this also with Supermium (here and here). Personally, I hate hate HATE anti-virus programs! I have never, and I literally mean NEVER, witnessed a "real" positive in nearly FORTY YEARS of being on computers! (I don't hunt for them in dark corners of the internet though either.) I have witnessed hundreds and hundreds and HUNDREDS of FALSE POSITIVES where one of my former job roles was to REPORT the FALSE POSITIVES to Malwarebytes (ENTERPRISE) and McAfee (ENTERPRISE). So YES!!! A resounding YES!!! When I see the question asked, "Is this a false positive?", my answer is basically, "Not my problem, but if I had to GUESS, then YES, it's a FALSE POSITIVE, because I've never seen a "real" positive!" But again, I don't hunt or browse or fratenize with the dark corners of the internet! We basically all have the computing skills to know what is meant by "dark corners of the internet". My two cents...

Moderators do not owe any warning. Totally at their discretion if they heed to your enquiry. You weren't banned. So you were given the "benefit of the doubt". If I were you (I have been in those shoes), I would just leave it at that and "let the dust settle". Forum Rule 1.a: This is not a warez site! Links/Requests to warez and/or illegal material (e.g., cracks, serials, etc.) will not be tolerated. Discussion of circumventing WGA/activation/timebombs/license restrictions, use of keygens, or any other illegal activity, including, but not limited to, requests for help where pirated software is being used or being discussed, will also not be tolerated. Offenders may be banned on first violation. Forum Rule 1.b: Respect the requests of companies who do not permit redistribution of their products without express permission - including unmodified hotfix/feature pack packages. Download sources for official software should be from the vendor directly where possible. Posts made containing this type of content may be removed immediately without warning, and offenders may be banned on first violation. Complete Forum Rules can be found here - https://msfn.org/board/guidelines/

So far, I'm not interested. Way way way too much "telemetry". 100-some connections made just by opening the browser! And I've heard it can be lowered to 20 or 30. That's still 20 or 30 too many. No thanks.

I would caution you to not rely on uBO (or any extension!) to reveal what "connections" are being made by the browser (any browser!). It's very easy for "built-in" browser functions to do whatever they want without landing on a uBO log! It's also very easy to "bundle" an extension but it be rewritten in a way that the user isn't aware that it "does stuff" that it would not do if installed from the browser-of-choices "store". Heck, I've even witnessed over the years where "built-in" 'communications' DO NOT USE the browser's proxy settings, they SNEAK THROUGH as a "direct connection" (I still catch them and block them anyway, lol).

I may revisit r3dfox with a speeddial extension for comparison.

The "portable" r3dfox is NOT portable. Left crap in my AppData directory and in my registry. The LibreWolf "portable" appears to indeed be PORTABLE. Have not found anything "left behind" by it. That wins applause in my book. But not the telemetry stuff that seems basically no different than "regular" Firefox.

119 with second launch after turning off the start page "shortcuts". Again pretty much all the same domains as "regular" Firefox.

165 connections with r3dfox first launch. But clearly several of them are with the "default" start page that you don't even know is there until after you perform that first launch. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, YouTube, and Wikipedia have all been "notified" that I just installed r3dfox

LibreWolf first launch has 167! connections!!! 11 of them is the "bundled" uBO performing updates (I'm NOT a fan of ANYTHING "bundled"). Basically the IDENTICAL DOMAINS that "regular" Firefox connected to.

Will do. I've never tried either one so this will be "interesting".

Third Firefox launch. 212 DNS Connections without ever opening a single solitary tab. And uBO doesn't "reveal" ANY OF THEM! If we are truly talking about "privacy concerns", by all means, let's do so, but let's not turn a blind eye to the TONS of TELEMETRY that Firefox performs without most users ever knowing it is happening!

All I can tell you is that Firefox is a TELEMETRY NIGHTMARE in comparison to UNGOOGLED CHROMIUM. My very first run of a just-downloaded Firefox on a computer that has NEVER had Firefox on it showed 340+ DNS ENTRIES UPON FIRST RUN !!! THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY PLUS !!! Disable everything I can find for the "start page" and I still show 153 DNS ENTRIES WHEN I LAUNCH FIREFOX !!! ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THREE !!! Without ever opening a single solitary tab, that's just to launch Firefox !!! I can launch my Ungoogled Chrome and let it sit for HOURS upon HOURS and it will NEVER MAKE A DNS CONNECTION if no tabs are ever opened.