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My XP x64 has an awesome bug. It's actually one of the reasons that this computer remains on XP x64! The computer has five widescreen monitors. I do not use a screensaver but the monitors are set to turn off in 15 minutes. Only four of the five will turn off! It's an AWESOME bug because I can keep email and texts "always on" on the monitor that won't turn off.
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Cool, thanks!
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I think you misread. None of us were claiming that HTTPS Everywhere is malware. It was a dark mode extension that was reported as malware. I have nothing against HTTPS Everywhere. Don't have anything "for" it either, as far as that goes. 'cause like you say, browsers don't need it anymore these days anyway.
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Yep! I only tried to extract using 7Zip, IZArc, and PeaZip. I didn't try other tools or try Universal Extractor. 7Zip is the only thing needed for MOST .crx files, so if HTTPS Everywhere is blocking that ability, then what are they hiding is my view.
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I think we need a new extension. HTTPS Everywhere was created when the internet was entirely different than it is now. And as you say, over-popularized. I'll even sign over "rights" for this new extension. Let's call it HTTP Nowhere. Don't redirect http to https, flatout BLOCK IT instead!
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There is an obvious flaw in just converting the http to https - you ALLOWED the telemetry/malware by doing so. I'm not a fan of HTTPS Everywhere. I have my router set up to block any-and-all http traffic. While https isn't perfect, there really is no need to ever connect to http. Granted, not all of my computers run through that router, so I can't confirm or deny if that is the perfect solution or not. But anything that intentionally uses http versus https, yeah, it should be flagged as suspicious at the very least.
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Its .crx is password-protected. That alone should make you NOT TRUST IT in my view. But to me it's also not about Chinese malware. Malware is malware even if it originates in an "ally nation".
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https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/751/ But then extract, remove the malware, re-zip, rename .zip to .crx, then install into 360Chrome. I did not spend a lot of time tracking down the malware "for you" (I do not use "dark mode"), but one obvious one is the addListener function in the bg.js file. It adds a unique identification string ( &zid=109723600173 ) to a "phone-home" URL ( ht tp://sqxy.coolban.com/api/TBK/chaquan? ) [I added the space in ht tp]. Generally speaking, this sort of phone-home shenanigans can be disabled by simply replacing the http with hxxp. There are also SEVERAL links to Chinese addresses in wb.js (intentionally non-secure http links versus secure https links should never be "trusted" inside ANY extension). - js.t.sinajs.cn - img.t.sinajs.cn - timg.sjs.sinajs.cn I stopped hunting at this point (I do not use "dark mode"). Of course, if you "trusted" this in the past, then just download from .crx4chrome and use it "as-is" and continue to blindly "trust" as you were doing. I mean, afterall, it did take the Chrome Web Store two and a half years to find this "high risk impact" and remove it from the Chrome Web Store. Any damage that would have been done would have already been done in those two and a half years.
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360Chrome v11 is quick and snappy. So I guess I just never realized just how SLOW "newer" web browsers are on these old i3 processors. I've come to EXPECT THAT with various LEGACY Mozilla Forks, I guess this is my first witness of anything more capable of the "modern web" on older hardware. I guess now I'm finally seeing what some of the older hardware users see every day. I thought my i7 desktop was old. I'm definitely seeing why these two i3 laptops were *FREE*, lol.
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I just plugged in my only remaining Win7 laptop - a Toshiba Satelite with a slightly faster i3 than the i3 in the Asus. It too is doing this EXTREME LAG in every web browser Address Bar. Just never noticed in the past because I don't generally use laptops and find them quite annoying and cumbersome in comparison to real desktop computers.
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Kind of a bit late to test it, I've already uninstalled Win7 and have my debloated Win10 on that old Asus now and everything is fine and dandy now. But the EXTREME LAG that I was experiencing was not tied to audio or even video. Audio and video played perfectly fine. No, not 20 YouTube tabs or anything "unrealistic" like that, but YouTube worked perfectly fine. IF you wanted to click a link and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait... Walk to the kitchen and back each and every time you clicked a link, make a full round trip and the browser is just now reacting to your link click upon return. XP didn't do this on this old Asus. Win10 is working flawlessly on this old Asus. But three different installs of Win7 and all three have EXTREME LAG in *every* browser that was tried. I tried some DNS "optimizers", TCP "optimizers", tools like that which I've never had any experience with, was just trying random stuff KNOWING the laptop was about to get a full reformat/reinstall. Nothing worked. Never could find out just "why".
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Do you at least "believe in" disabling services and background tasks that are otherwise enabled by default? If so, then "what's the difference" between disabling them after install versus running an OS that never installs them in the first place? To me, even XP was bloated and required "debloating".
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Never could resolve this EXTREME LAG in Win7 on this old Asus X54C laptop. Best example I can think of to demonstrate is that some 360Chrome users have reported that the Address Bar will not allow a URL entry for several seconds at startup on older hardware. Imagine that Address Bar lag not just at startup, but EVERY time you use the Address Bar. Not only that, but EVERY time you click a link to try to go somewhere. ALL browsers were doing this! Anywhere from four to twenty six seconds of a delay each and every time you type in the Address Bar or click a link before the browser, ALL browsers, would acknowledge the directive! I did try an SSD - no effect! I was able to find an Intel HD 3000 graphics driver from Win8 that also works on Win10 so I am able to run this Asus X54C now on Win10. No more LAG. Never could figure out just why Win7 and all web browsers were behaving that way. File Manager "address bars" didn't have this EXTREME lag, only web browsers, all web browsers.
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Agreed. But it also presents a serious realization. Whenever we (MSFN as a whole) "complains" about the modern web or Google-isms or Mozilla-isms and how "bloated" modern web design is, we (MSFN as a whole) must remind ourself that "this" is what our view of the internet would LOOK LIKE if it were wholly and completely "bloat-free".
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I'm so OCD that all 50 of my yarrow stalks landed in a perfect right angle. If it's not a right angle, it's a wrong angle. No need to be obtuse.
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Agreed. And I guarantee you that the Chromium team does not care nor perhaps even read what the MSFN community says about their project.
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Agreed. The Wikipedia boycott rant, be it true or false, would get an F at my old high school
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Web page looks like a high school project. Hope it is "expanding" to more than what is there thus far.
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Wrong thread. That question should be posted at https://msfn.org/board/topic/184051-my-browser-builds-part-4/
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My car is 32 years old. Not a single solitary spot of rust! I do firmly support the notion of "if you take care of it, it will last forever". My kids are the same way! They may have phones that are SEVERAL times older than their friends's phones. But my kids's phone have no scratches, don't even have "screen protectors". Because if you know how to TAKE CARE OF THINGS, they will last a long time. But there also has to be a sense of realism - and sorry, expecting a 20yr old computer to compete with a 5yr old computer is not realistic. But I also must admit, neither is my 32yr old car "for most people". People drive like MANIACS and falsely think that "green means gun it", it doesn't "green means go".
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Not likely. SSD is faster, there is no doubt about that. But it's also over-rated and exaggerated when you consider that larger RAM computers do all their talking between CPU and RAM. The speed of the SSD or HDD is only a factor when "loading" the program into RAM. It's also fairly easy to prove. Unless I missed something. I can run an OS from a DVD-R, complete with web browser on that DVD-R, wait for the disk to STOP SPINNING, then type a URL in the address bar, the disk does NOT start spinning. Translation - if the DVD-R was not accessed, then neither is the HDD or SSD.
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Speaking of older laptops. I have an old Asus X54C lying around that I decided to bring back to life. i3-2350M at 2.3 GHz, 4 GB DDR3. Win7 Home Premium x64. Circa 2011 or 2013. Unsure if this was a low-end model, a mid-level model, or a top-of-the-line model "back in the day". Reinstalled Win7. Turning out to be a complete waste of time! ALL web browsers I have tried on this score 30 or below on Speedometer. In the TEENS for several roytam builds. TEENS! I've never seen anything score that badly! But it's not just the "score", this thing has got to be the SLOWEST computer I've ever ran! Type a URL in the address bar of ANY web browser and it sits there for at least four seconds before doing anything, another three to nine seconds before the page starts to load. Network or wi-fi both show and test just as fast as all of my XP and Win10 machines - but this Win7 is TERRIBLE. EXTREME network lag.
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Planned Obsolescence = Job Security The hype and propaganda of "security vulnerabilites" will sell a refrigerator to an eskimo.
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Sweet! We have Raspberry Pi's running some of our factory equipment.