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  1. soggi
    While using NM28 I ran again into the "missing search engine plugins" problem (the browser integrated search bar in the upper right), espacially Google is missing. So I decided to dig deeper and finally solve the problem. All the plugins on the Pale Moon site work, except Google (try out your self: http://web.archive.org/web/20170712213834/https://addons.palemoon.org/search-plugins/) On my search about this problem I found this post: So I tried https://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html but this didn't satisfy me, so I read about the OpenSearch standard and found out this is just a small XML file (with links, some stuff and a Base64 encoded icon in it) which has to be placed inside the folder "searchplugins" of a browser's profile. The mycroftproject XML was really, really outdated (but still functional). I recoded the icon to a proper 16*16 Base64 PNG and put the latest search URL into the XML - and yes it works fine, and has a much lower size! Please let me know if someone is interested in a mirror of properly formated search plugins, then I will add them to the New Moon (etc.) mirror -> soggi.org - tools. Additionally mirroring of all your beloved add-ons is also possible, just leave me a note (within this thread). I'm already thinking about outsourcing the mirror into an extra article where I can add more content (tips, tweaks - all this stuff which keeps myself occupied while using New Moon). --------------------------------------------- No, I won't call you paranoid (BTW I love Black Sabbath's Paranoid) - that's just longsighted! Personally I backed up whole FTP servers in the past (and hopefully will do in the future). Backing up files is extremely important in the vintage/retro computer scene. --------------------------------------------- When visiting https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.cmd.com on NM27/28 it looks like on the screenshots below. I think I have to move on and make NM28 to my daily driver, the Way Back Machine is really important to my soggi.org work! kind regards soggi
  2. soggi
    @roytam1 I noticed the Way Back Machine doesn't work anymore with NM27, with NM28 it works. They may have changed something with their JS again like months ago... example link: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.cmd.com kind regards soggi
  3. soggi
    The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220319 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220319 builds kind regards soggi
  4. soggi
    OK, please just let me add this last post to OT here. I use an IBM T60 with 1024*768 resolution, maybe this is the reason!? Thanks for the hint regarding the subforum, as said above, I had a look at the board's start page and hoped to find it in a more prominent place. If debit card means normal bank card...yes I have one, but I don't have a credit card and don't plan to get one. I think that there are some to many members which would donate some bucks. Unfortunately there is just a short message in the subforum mentioned by @UCyborg just saying "Donations help go towards ongoing costs related to keeping the MSFN running." and threads with the user names who donated in the title. As said above, it would be more expedient, if you could add a lot more information about why donations are needed and what they are used for. I think a good starting point for any further discussion is this thread by @NotHereToPlayGames! Thanks in advance and kind regards soggi
  5. soggi
    The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220312 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220312 builds ----------------------------------------- Entering another OT... I also saw this additional "Important Notice!". Just my 2 cts on this: When I saw this additional notice I thought "OK, have a look on how I can donate some bucks or EUR to MSFN." - so I opened the MSFN board's start page via the logo in the upper left to find a thread or something else...I had a look for some minutes and couldn't find anything. So I tried the menu in the upper right and after some "trial and error" I found it under "Browse" (at the bottom of the submenu). This is a very good place to hide the donation function if you don't want to have any donation. OK, finally I found the feature and wanted to donate some money, but unfortunately I can only donate via paypal - I don't have a paypal account and I don't want to create one, I really dislike this company and how it earns money. So you can see that there are some serious problems in the process of acquiring donations. You may consider to add links in prominent places, add a page with detailed information about why donations are needed / what they are used for and (very important) add more ways to donate (not only paypal). I wouldn't like to see this board going offline, there are many threads with highly valuable content and collected/individual wisdom. BTW usually I don't donate to such projects because I have my own free-to-use project soggi.org which gains no income for years - it comes w/o any annoying/performance hitting/risky (malware etc.) advertising and costs me around 150 EUR for hosting plus hundreds to thousands of hours free time a year. I see it as my part of the donation culture, respectively the free-to-use community. kind regards soggi
  6. soggi
    The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220305 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220305 builds kind regards soggi
  7. soggi
    Added Firefox 45ESR 20220226 builds which have been overlooked... -> soggi.org - tools. kind regards soggi
  8. soggi
    First: These are sad days for the whole world and especially for Europe, any kind of war is despicable! I guess all people with intact brains don't want this war and don't want it to escalate into World War III, in particular as it would be a nuclear war. ------------------------------- The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest Firefox 45ESR 20220226 builds - added latest IceApe 52 20220226 build - added latest IceDove 52 20220226 build - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220226 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220226 builds - added latest New Moon 28 20220226 builds - added latest Serpent 52 20220226 builds - added latest Serpent 55 20220226 builds - as well as find out for yourself kind regards soggi Edit: added Firefox 45ESR builds which have been overlooked...
  9. soggi
    Sorry again for posting lately (while having updated the mirror "instantly" on 2022/02/19)... The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220219 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220219 builds ---------------------------- I'm with you that such sentiments are extremely annoying, but I don't get at which point you came to the conclusion @Sampei.Nihira has such!? This wasn't the intention of his statement. Memory leaks - or "memory exploits" as he says - are even more annoying and hit security. So, cool down plz! BTW I still own my C64, but it's defect for years, unfortunately. Indeed, the C64 was my first own computer, but not the first I had to do with - the first was a Poly-Play arcade cabinet at a FDGB vacation home back then in GDR times, I guess. The last Apple browser for Windows is Safari 5.1.7, released in 2012 - I plan to add it to my website. kind regards soggi
  10. soggi
    Having good code, which is just basic, leads to great compatibility with all browsers (and other software like crawlers or bots, if needed) and better search engine results. With diggin' deeper into all of this stuff I also had an eye on basic SEO (search engine optimization) and valid, short and snappy code is a mainstay of my success with it. Browsers may allow bad code and may display everything correctly, but you never know how a browser handles non-valid code - and it's even more vague for other applications. When it comes to HTML and CSS validators, I just can say that you can perfectly validate your code up to HTML 4.01 with the W3C Markup Validation Service for SGML applications (HTML, XHTML, ...) and CSS with the W3C CSS Validation Service. kind regards soggi
  11. soggi
    Thx for making that clear! For over a decade, since I was digging deeper into basic HTML layout, my point of view is also "tables are just for tabular data". Table layouts worked, yes - but it has always been a misuse in my today's opinion. I'm not with you when you say table layouts did a better job than CSS and with less code - in my opinion the contrary is the case, table layouts are just bad practice (OK, frame sets - or even Flash - are worse although not being misuse/bad practice - Did you ever try the Wayback Machine on such pages?) and need more code, especially redundant code. You can also layout simple HTML pages w/o CSS and w/o the misuse of tables and they can have a great look despite that. BTW back then I decided to create the pages in HTML 4.01 Strict standard - so all the deprecated stuff got left out with still being very classic and compatible. (except some pages where I'm testing some HTML5 stuff like SM buttons) Your CNET CSS example shows the problem with auto-generated code, it's bloated without end. The toastytech and my CSS are simple, hand-coded and only contain the necessary things. With HTML it's the same, when you hand-code it you avoid all this fancy eye candy stuff which doesn't add any value to your content. Additionally I always had an eye on compatibility, usability, resource efficiency, security and last but not least data economy - my website is designed to run on as many browsers / OSes with the best (self-explaining) usability, lowest consumption of resources, highest security and best data economy as possible. The use of JS would contradict all of this (except usability), so the only JS is the Matomo tracker (with a PHP fallback, if JS is not supported or blocked). Concerning HTTPS this is a compromise as I don't want to exclude users with OSes and/or browsers w/o TLS 1.2+ support from my pages by activating a redirect or HSTS, despite the users in question per year can be counted by the fingers of two hands. But I'm offering content for older HW/SW and I know there are users visiting my website with such devices and with the trust in the service I'm offering. If I have the time, I will add a .htaccess rule to redirect newer browsers with TLS 1.2 support at least as I really recommend using HTTPS if possible. BTW I always have a thought about the wasting of energy - all this bloated JS (client-sided) and PHP (server-sided). The most Wordpress (Joomla, Drupal, ... whatever CMS) based pages have static content which could be simply done with HTML/CSS (and maybe a little of PHP and JS) with an extremely lower waste of energy and therefor a fraction of the cost (if someone only cares about the money). I love real standards and I love to be efficient and compatible...the only problem with my website is that it's not mobile compatible as there's no mobile/responsive design...but I can live with that. I also love to see that users like my pages and honestly appreciate the work behind the scenes (despite my not perfect English ), it naturally is music to my ears. My website especially was made for users like you @Mr.Scienceman2000, let me quote the best description I've ever read about my website...not to put myself into spotlight but to show the intention of the design/layout, a comment by morganvachon on Hacker News: Just my condensed two cents to this (off)topic... kind regards soggi
  12. soggi
    Since when tables have been dropped from HTML specs? I use tables on my website for what they have been made for...tables. Tables have been misused - I would say abused - (even by myself as I didn't know better back then) to create menus, paragraphs and so on. Basic CSS is also very easy, but mightier - and it's the correct technique. CSS1 was published in 1996, CSS2 in 1998 - so you're referring to HTML standards from pre-1996!? CSS1, 2 or 2.1 isn't the problem...even CSS 2.2 shouldn't be a problem - all the bloated JS and especially all the JS frameworks are a problem! kind regards soggi
  13. soggi
    Sorry, forgot to post last week as there was a downtime of MSFN when I wanted to... The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220212 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220212 builds kind regards soggi
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    The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe, IceDove, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220129 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220129 builds ------------------------ It's "time to" when something is unrepairable - obviously this wasn't the case. Working old/vintage computers aren't junk, there are many people searching for this stuff for several reasons. The belt is a good and funny example - I'm a 90s child/teenager and I also still use a black leather belt from the 90s with a large but very stable buckle made of metal. It works as intended, it's a belt and it does what a belt is for. Why should I throw it away? I don't participate in every fashion and don't get all these fancy things which will be outdated tomorrow. You are right, there are two sides of the same coin, it's a two-edged sword...but the solution is not buy - throw away - buy - throw away - buy ...and so on. Now you know... Today it wouldn't be used for surfing (or not very often), but for old games and other software. kind regards soggi
  15. soggi
    Why? There are a lot of people (like me) collecting old hardware, you even could have made some money out of it. kind regards soggi
  16. soggi
    The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe (new!), IceDove (new!), K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest IceApe 52 20220122 build - added latest IceDove 52 20220122 build - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220122 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220122 builds - added latest New Moon 28 20220122 builds - added latest Serpent 52 20220122 builds - added latest Serpent 55 20220122 builds - as well as find out for yourself kind regards soggi
  17. soggi
    I'm using NoScript for many years with FF, PM and now NM - w/o any problem regarding this message. I don't find it strange as this is the intention...you allow (or disallow) specific domains to execute JS. Usually you only allow the domain where the website you're visiting is situated (and maybe some cloud stuff additionally) and under normal circumstances this avoids all cross-domain things (trackers, GA, adds, ...). kind regards soggi
  18. soggi
    I don't know which version number is checked, but if it is checked against Gecko version within the application.ini, you have to go down to 4.8.3. In general it shouldn't matter when you set MinVersion to 1.0. kind regards soggi
  19. soggi
    I think you won't find anything which looks similar, but regardless of that you have to move on. IceApe is a suite with browser and mail client (like SeaMonkey), IceDove is a mail client only (like Thunderbird). There's also MailNews as a mail client (like Thunderbird), derived from Interlink Mail & News (by Matt A. Tobin). But don't ask me what the difference is between the last two. ---------------------------- The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, MailNews 52, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220115 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220115 builds kind regards soggi
  20. soggi
    I also noticed that Google now looks kind of odd / fall-back design and thought it has something to do with the latest version of NM27. But I changed back to the previous version and it was still the same. So this has been changed by Google coincidentally at the ~same time! kind regards soggi
  21. soggi
    Thx for the clear explanation...answered also some questions I had as I don't wanted to test all these builds myself to clarify their origin. Maybe I will add a very condensed version of it to my website. Sorry, took some days... The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76 (new!), MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest Firefox 45ESR 20220108 builds - added latest K-Meleon 1.5 20200131 build - added latest K-Meleon 74 20210814 build - added latest K-Meleon 76 20220108 build - added latest New Moon 27 20220108 builds - added latest New Moon 28 20220108 builds - added latest Serpent 52 20220108 builds - added latest Serpent 55 20220108 builds - as well as find out for yourself kind regards soggi
  22. soggi
    There shouldn't be any SSE or even IA32 builds for Win64 as all x64 CPUs since the first Athlon 64 support SSE2 or even higher. Remind: SSE2 support by Intel AND AMD CPUs is available since 2003, all x86_64 CPUs have it! kind regards soggi
  23. soggi
    @VistaLover all the things written above are right, but at the very first pull out the HDD to save your not back-uped data! Screen was frozen but just displayed the last frame, no BSOD? So the CPU should be OK - GPU maybe too, but maybe not. Sounds like Display, RAM or GPU RAM...or motherboard in the worst case. Are there any beeps when you're trying to start? As said above by others and myself, first pull out the HDD then test an external monitor, change RAM (if you have some spare RAM). Hopefully our advices will help you! Oh yes, the front window of my car got damaged by fireworks falling down on New Year's Eve while it was parked in a private backyard. kind regards soggi
  24. soggi
    Happy New Year to everyone! The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest New Moon 27 20220101 builds kind regards soggi
  25. soggi
    Uuh...that's ugly. As said above, the status bar is also important to me. I need it for add-ons (and their functionality) and to verify the URL of a link by hovering it! In my opinion removing the status bar is very idiotic...I noticed this many years ago in some FF version and just shook my head... kind regards soggi
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