Humming Owl

The "download.7z" file is a file related to the custom download engine developed by 360, named "Thunder". The file is from the original browser files. I did not erase it because it isn't doing anything out of normal. You can also choose to disable the Thunder engine by unchecking the "Use Thunder P2SP Download" in the "Settings > Download" path (if you want to conserve the file but not use the Thunder download engine). For me it isn't malware, maybe it is cataloged as malware by that page because it was developed in China (I have not experienced anything bad with it). I think the certificates are being updated somehow while using the browser and connecting to sites that have those certificates. I'm not sure, but I've seen some certificates with an expiration date that has passed and they are still being updated without having anything done to them (I don't remember the operating system I was on it was probably Win7). If I had to guess, that's why @ArcticFoxie isn't getting certificate issues on WinXP since (I'm assuming this) he hasn't stopped using WinXP (he has retained the encrypted connection to the sites and has also been able to continue updating the certificates indirectly through the hypothetical process I am mentioning). But who knows maybe it is something else not that complicated. Cheers.

I think the issue you describe is mentioned here--> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/how-do-i-adjust-the-scrolling-speed-in-edge/e33b7241-af95-4eef-bd1a-a2b8706a499d And the new Copy/Paste URL behavior is described here --> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/improved-copy-and-paste-of-urls-in-microsoft-edge-d3bd3956-603a-0033-1fbc-9588a30645b4 Cheers.

Updated v9, v11, v12 and v13 - Translated: Copy/paste helper, floating bar in videos and theme selection window. - Removed more files. - Added 2 more programs to the list of used programs. Cheers.

Your welcome @dmiranda and @ArcticFoxie I've been wondering a way to save the information of the first post of the thread in case something happens to MSFN (I really hope nothing bad happens) and I decided to save it in the Wayback Machine. Since I joined I have experienced 2 server crashes of the platform and I don't know what can happen next. Just in case I saved it. They will accumulate over time. I'm using the browser on Win7 and I think it runs faster than Ungoogled Chromium. I'm quite happy because Win7 users can also use it if they want to. My main operating system is Lubuntu 18.04 LTS so I wouldn't worry about the number of users too much, they can come from anywhere. If it's useful for a few there's no reason to stop. Also, I have a question, does anyone know if the Operating System Revival maintainers are active? the page doesn't seem to have had any activity for 2 months now, I think. By the way, @we3fan have you had any luck with v9 and v11 on XP SP2? Cheers.

Thanks again Well, it seems that I have to wait for someone else to confirm it.

- Updated v11, v12 and v13 - Added more information to the first post Cheers.

Thanks! By the way, do you know if this program works on Vista?

Hello. I discovered this thread yesterday thanks to @UCyborg. I want to thank @heinoganda, his tool helped me solve the certificate problems I had. I know the author has been offline for a while and I would like asking anybody, who can answer, if it is possible for me to link (to the 360EE thread) his comment concerning this tool to solve the certificate problems that new people may have. I also noticed that some of the Cloudflare certificates were not updated. I would like to know if this is my problem or something else. Thanks in advance. Cheers.

I agree. The analysis they do with the data they don't store is an indirect way to study how the population that uses their service behaves. Even if they don't do anything else with that information and say they don't, it is sensitive information handled by the people who run the service (people I don't know). The only way I consider feasible to fully trust a service is to know directly all the people who participate in it, if there is someone I don't like I can already have my suspicions about the service. The thing is that it is literally impossible to do that. Basically (at least for me) surfing the internet has become a completely blind act of trust. You don't know what might happen but you hope for the best.

I found the following pages that may be of interest for the time zone issues. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-performance/winxp-time-zones-only-usa-time-zone-is-arizona-i/1a61dc57-d746-4211-8bea-c42417d5a2a7 --> (see "Wunders" answer) http://web.archive.org/web/20190828215142/http://windowsxp.mvps.org/timezones.htm --> (one of the pages in "Wunders" answer) https://www.winhelponline.com/xp/reg/timezones_xp.zip --> (download of the "timezones_xp.zip" file) https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/eastern-standard-time-zone/2b3e4ef7-5173-4c79-a9b1-563920d52b6b (another page that mentions this type of problem) Cheers.

Here are some alternatives ("NoMachine" seems pretty nice)--> https://rigorousthemes.com/blog/best-free-teamviewer-alternatives/

I saw the same thing (but with a +30 min difference in Win7) and was able to correct it by changing the time zone. My country tried to change the time zone a few years ago from UTC -04:00 to UTC -04:30 but those changes I think didn't happen or were reverted. If I select the UTC -04:30 time zone in Win7 I get the time difference but if I select "La Paz, Bolivia" (UTC -04:00) time zone I no longer have the time difference. WinXP has the old time zone (UTC -04:00) for my country and so I have no problems. Perhaps the time difference you and @ArcticFoxie are getting is related to a time zone change that was incorporated later. I managed to select the correct time zone by using this page and seeing if the computer time was synchronized with the time zone.

Have you tried unchecking the "Interceptate certificate risk" option from the "Settings > Advanced > HTTPS/SSL" path? This will not solve the problem but rather avoid the "Certificate Error" page to appear. Cheers.

Updated v9, v11, v12 and v13 - Nothing important, just more translations from chinese into english. - Added Ruffle to recommended extensions (does not work on v9) Cheers.

Hello, I wasn't planning on making this comment as I have no experience with Firefox based browsers or the process of compiling them, but since no one has answered your question directly, I want to give a bit of information that may be helpful for what you are trying to accomplish (I really don't know if it will be helpful at all, I hope it is). Firstly, I am very excited to see what you are going to do, not everyone wants to tackle the real problems, only a few have the guts and inspiration to do something like this. Secondly, the approach I took is very tough. I will mention the tools I used to modify the binary files of 360EE (a browser based on Chromium). This method should be the last one to consider because it is better to deal with the source code of the program you want to modify and then compile it (but it also requires a better understanding of the programming languages in which the program is written). But even if you don't want to take this approach (it may result in failure, as it is extremely limited what you can do) some of the mentioned tools may be useful. I believe the source codes of these browsers are all available in some Github repository. One of them --> https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 I think there are others here --> https://github.com/roytam1 Tools: HxD --> A Hexadecimal editor that can help to modify binary files (DLLs for example) --> https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ 7zip --> A very useful compressor/decompressor that can help you decompress a lot of files that you wouldn't think can be treated as compressed --> https://www.7-zip.org WinMerge --> A text editor that can find differences between files in different folders and can help you edit those files at the same time --> https://winmerge.org/ Resource Hacker --> A program that can partially open an EXE or DLL file and can extract images or change the properties of them --> http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ grepWin --> A very good tool that can search a word inside several files at the same time (you can add many parameters to those searches) --> https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html Diff Checker --> Same as WinMerge but it is online --> https://www.diffchecker.com/diff Online Unicode Tools --> Helps you translate between various types of text encodings --> https://onlineunicodetools.com I was looking a while ago for a decompiler for DLL files but I had no luck because the ones I got were for files compiled under a specific language. For example --> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5197397/how-do-i-decompile-a-dll-file What you can do with this kind of tools is to open almost any file you want and try to locate the entries that are not messed up by the compilation process and that you can edit to make a modification. Unfortunately it is very limited what you can see or edit, but that is not something that should stop you. I don't know if there is some kind of translator for that messed up code into something readable. To compile (at least Windows Palemoon 27) you need what is mentioned at the following site --> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=13556 I imagine the compilation process will be similar for other Firefox based browsers. I will be digging into some more information about Firefox based browsers to see if I can help with anything else (sorry if I wasted your time with this, I like to see someone wanting to do things on their own and wanted to express some of my excitement trying to help even if it is bad information). Cheers.

Added some more information in the first post. I think there is no x64 version of 360EE. There is only one download link to each version of the browser in the official page. And if there were any I can not modify it because I do not have x64 hardware to test it. I think that this option does nothing, but I don't know if it is because of the modifications or because it did nothing from the beginning. By the way, does anyone know what minimum version of Chromium is needed to use the web currently without many problems? There are several Chromium-based chinese browsers out there but some of them have a Chromium engine between 50 and 60 and I don't know if it's worth trying them considering all the problems they might present on the current web. Cheers.

Have you tried using it without extensions? Do you have a firewall working or something that could perhaps modify the network settings? Which version of the browser are you using? In relation to forcing https see this --> https://www.howtogeek.com/217017/how-do-you-force-google-chrome-to-use-https-instead-of-http-whenever-possible/ Cheers.

Are you using 360EE on Win10? In general these kind of browsers have some problems with certificates, depending on the operating system they are running. For example, I am trying to modify TS browser (based on Chromium) and I got the certificates to work on Win7, but not on WinXP. However, I was able to avoid the problems with the certificates by using the "--ignore-certificate-errors" flag in a shortcut or a BAT file. These errors are related to the fact that Chromium stopped being compatible with WinXP a long time ago and wanting to make it compatible with WinXP again causes this kind of errors to arise. TS Browser --> http://tsbrowser.xiangtatech.com/ Flag source --> https://xpforever.miraheze.org/wiki/TS_Browser Cheers.

Here is a list of modifications that I think could do something to those registry changes. They are in "chrome.dll". Replace: - "ESENT.dll" by 00 hexadecimal values. - "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedUrls" (Unicode) by 00 hexadecimal values. - all "\360\" entries (Unicode) by dots. - all "tracing" entries by dots. Try them and tell me what happens. I believe some of the "tracing" ones were involved with the chinese addresses that were already replaced. Cheers.

Could you do a test with Ungoogled Chromium? Thanks for the regshots by the way.

From what I have seen in the pages below this is normal behavior. Ungoogled Chromium doesn't have it but maybe it breaks some functionality because of it. I had my suspicion with those connections when I first saw them but when I saw that the queries were random combinations of letters I thought maybe it was some kind of checking. https://www.codevat.com/articles/chromium-background-connections/ (See the "Additional Tweaks and Details" section) https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup/ Cheers.

Thanks. I will be now digging into the registry files that the browser creates to see if some can be eliminated. I remember that you said something about v12 making a empty registry file. Can you tell me your experience with that and other registry related observations? Cheers.

Updated v9, v11 and v12. - Added a few more changes to "360chrome.exe", "chrome.dll" and "chrome_child.dll". - Corrected some english issues. Added v13 (version 13.0.2250.0). - Succesfully erased the "p7.qhimg.com" entry in the "resources.pak" file. Added more programs to modify and test the browser: WinMerge, LiveTcpUdpWatch and Wireshark. Cheers.

I just saw it and it is pretty funny. However the title is still there, just moved up (saw it with the developer tools). I have no idea how to fix it as dealing with margins and relative positions of objects in CSS is a bit complex.

Your welcome. If you need help fell free to ask for it. The Unicode characters do display on the GUI, they are just not written exactly as the character. If you paste directly the ellipsis character in the file it does display as a square. Try replacing the 3 dots by "…". Well, at least for me the ellipsis displays when writing that code. I think that the "icudtl.dat" file is the one that is related to special Unicode characters. You can tell because of the first line. Cheers.