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Yes, I just came across the announcement on Google's site while searching for email providers that don't enforce OAuth.

I'm in the same boat as BAW30s, using Outlook Express to access my Hotmail account. I'm also using it for my Gmail account for which I had to enable 2FA so I could use app passwords (which took over 6 months to set up because of my insistance to use authentication over a land line so I could use my mobile number for another Gmail account). I already had to switch to webmail for my ISP-provided accounts and those associated with my websites in 2022/2023 as they offered neither app passwords nor an alternative incoming mail server after they disabled basic authentication. I got MS-blocked almost 2 weeks ago, contrary to some here. It wasn't until yesterday, though, that I finally found out what's going on as I didn't receive the notification I was supposed to get. Somebody (can't remember who or where) suggested that, next to the alternate incoming mail server we already had to use (pop-legacy.office365.com), we should also use an app password. So I enabled 2FA and created an app password, but it still wouldn't connect. Another app password didn't do the trick either, nor did changing the incoming mail server to pop.office365.com or the new default outlook.office365.com. Why can't MS support app passwords used in Outlook Express when Gmail can? The most frustrating part is that I changed all my online subscriptions to Hotmail. Maybe I should've used a Gmail account instead, but I don't like how its spam engine works or that they don't fancy mailing lists too much (it's easy to get blacklisted by them). Like BAW30s, I had my eyes set on OE Classic a long time ago already as it looks like OE and supports identities (the paid version does), but the shortcomings outlined in this thread make me hesitate. I will look into the other ones mentioned here.

This post is old, but I wanna answer it in case someone else is wondering. ASP (like PHP) is a server-side scripting language. When you visit an ASP page with your browser, you will only get the HTML output from that ASP page. The Wayback Machine gets the same HTML output when it crawls a website. The query string is not part of the file name. In order to allow you to download these as separate files, the WBM encodes the question mark as well as the special characters in the query string so they can be part of the file name. Renaming them is not an option (the decoded query string can't be part of the file name). Even if you could, that wouldn't allow a link to "splash.asp?page=3" to work, as it requests splash.asp (passing it the parameter "page=3"). Supposing that the WBM also saved "splash.asp" without the fluff, it still wouldn't know what to do with the parameter; you'd need the original document which has all the parameters and variables defined, which nobody can access or read except for the server it originally resided on. The files in your screenshot are nothing more than static HTML files at this point. You really only have one option: 1) give the files a name that's more meaningful to you (without special characters) 2) update the links inside the files

I donated on September 25 by clicking the Donate Now button and following the wizard, and it isn't showing up either. The only difference from previous donations, is that I did it from a different browser (and a different IP address) which triggered a security check from Paypal. I don't care if I'm mentioned anywhere; I'd just like to know if my money was received.

Just to be clear... I'm in no position to allow or disallow anything. The original project was owned by TommyP. I can observe and give comments, as time permits. Also, HFSLIP started out as an updater/slipstreamer for Windows 2000. Support for Windows XP and Server 2003 was added later. While I was on the project, I always made sure every release was compatible with all supported operating systems; I never focused on one OS alone.

This is embarrassing, haha. I installed refined-h264ify on Serpent a couple of weeks ago. Either way, installing it on Mypal seems to fix the playback issues for me. I'm just blocking VP9 and 60fps videos.

No In the first image, the video is playing (at 480p). In the second and third image, the video stopped playing. The video skipped ahead several times during playback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6JJJyMaIfg

Thanks. I doubt it's relevant, but I'll post my specs just in case... Core i5-650 4GB DDR3 RAM (2x 2GB) Asus GT710-SL-2GD5 2GB video card (nVidia driver version 368.81) onboard VIA audio chip Realtek gigabit LAN

Working with version 68.14.4b for a while now, I was wondering if other people are having problems playing back Youtube videos. I can only play YT videos fluently if I lower the quality to 240p. Anything above that, the video will either: 1) occasionally skip ahead by a couple of seconds 2) suddenly stop buffering as if the connection got lost; the video will continue to play for a little while but then halts, showing a white spinning circle forever 3) (rarely) the picture will freeze for about 10 seconds, but the audio keeps playing; eventually, the picture will catch up again I didn't have this problem using version 68.14.2b (not that I recall). Could this have something to do with the removed functionality? Serpent 52 (if it doesn't freeze up or crash visiting a Youtube video page) plays the same videos fluently at high resolutions.

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I can confirm this to be working. Thanks for digging it up.

I haven't used any tools to measure the speed, but I did notice a significant speed bump compared to Serpent 52 as well, especially on Youtube. Yes. For me, that includes Classic Theme Restorer, Downloads Window and Session Manager. Also, the Open in browser extension doesn't run properly: I get two dialog boxes asking me what to do. In Serpent (which uses an older version) it's only one. To be fair, though, that's Mozilla's doing. They switched to Web Extensions which have much less control over the UI.

It's a combination of things. If it isn't supposed to work, then why are these instructions all over the web? This is what I use: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* Hide single tab -- works */ tab:only-of-type{display:none !important;} /* Hide Open new tab button when only one tab is present -- doesn't work in MyPal 68 */ tab[first-visible-tab="true"] + .tabs-newtab-button{display:none !important;} /* Reduce the minimum height of the tab bar to 0 so that it collapses when empty -- works */ #tabbrowser-tabs, #tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox, #tabbrowser-tabs > .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox{min-height:0 !important;}

Thanks for the suggestion. It works, in the sense that it always hides the button. It does the same with ".toolbarbutton-1" removed. I only want it hidden when there's only one tab. When there are multiple tabs, I want it back. Basically, I want to mimic the behavior of the "Hide tab bar with only one tab open" addon. It's weird, because the following should normally do the trick: tab:only-of-type ~ .tabs-newtab-button.toolbarbutton-1{display:none !important;} I observed the same issue with: tab[first-visible-tab="true"] + .tabs-newtab-button{display:none !important;} and tab:only-of-type ~ .tabs-newtab-button{display:none !important;} Oh well... Maybe I'll get used to the lone "+" button... :-)

I wanted to give my 2 cents after using MyPal 68.14.2b for two months (and updating to 68.14.4b today). I initially jumped the gun because the troubles I had with Serpent 52 kept getting worse, especially using YouTube and Facebook. S52 freezes trying to load a YT video page. If I'm lucky, I can watch one video. Sometimes it helps to minimize the browser right after clicking the link to a video and wait a bit, but not always. MyPal worked like a charm on YouTube so I'm now using it when I want to browse on that site. I did come across a few problems, though. 1) After a couple of weeks, when I try to open MyPal, all I get is the title bar and the border that goes around the interface. Everything inside is 100% transparent (I can see my desktop). At first, I thought it might have something to do with leaving HW acceleration on, but disabling it didn't prevent the issue from returning. The only way to get around this when it happens, is to restart the computer. 2) As mentioned earlier, unresponsive script errors using every Amazon site. I didn't observe the error message using 68.14.4b yet, but the site is still exceptionally sluggish compared to Serpent 52. It takes 20-30 seconds before I can properly interact with the page. 3) Rendering bugs related to flexbox: the contents of flexboxes are displayed too far to the left in certain circumstances. I have observed this problem on webpages, but also in the titles of browser tabs. For example, when the tab bar starts to condense tab width when there are too many, the titles on some tabs are displayed more to the left causing the left part of the first letter to be cut off. Other example: I have a private website where I created "fake" buttons next to each other using DIVs that have a 20px gap in between them. Using CSS gap to space the buttons, the button text is displayed too far to the left. I had to resort to the old-fashioned way of using a 20px left-margin on the child DIVs except on the first to work around it. Another site I frequent a lot shows tiny balloons over icons when there are new messages; the count is supposed to be centered in the balloon, but it's shown more to the left in MyPal 68. Serpent 52 renders flexbox correctly, as does FF 115.14.0 ESR on Windows 7. Did Mozilla screw this up around FF68? Edit... Forgot to mention... 4) I've been trying to hide the tab bar when only one tab is open. I succeeded in removing the single tab, but the "+" button to open a new tab stays put. I know the code to reach it has changed over the years, but none of the code I found online seems to work in MyPal 68. Some of the code I tried: tab:only-of-type ~ * {display:none !important;} tab[first-visible-tab="true"] + .tabs-newtab-button{display:none !important;} Any idea how to reach it?

Indeed. I compared it to Firefox 47.0.2. With FF47, the link first leads to your post, scrolls up a bit and then scrolls back down to your post. With Serpent 52 (2024-05-10), the link leads to your post, scrolls up a bit and stays there. I mistook mina7601's post for yours. I received a few more errors from Session Manager that were a bit more elaborate: This operation failed due to a file access error: Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter.convertToInputStream](NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) This allowed me to do some further digging and I found an old thread on the MozillaZine Forums. Morac, the creator/maintainer of the Session Manager addon, suggested a user who experienced the exact same error message to change some settings related to disk caching: browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled;false browser.cache.disk.capacity;1048576 The smart size is set to true by default, which tells the browser to choose a disk cache size relative to the installed RAM. The second setting is set to 256000 (bytes) by default in Serpent, though I used to have it increased to 350000 if I remember correctly. I also changed the max_file_write_size of the Session Manager addon from the default 20 to 15. This is based on a suggestion by Morac in the same thread to someone who was unable to save further sessions. I handpicked the value of 15 as Morac didn't mention a specific alternative value. So far, this seems to have remedied the problems I've been having with Session Manager in the latest builds of Serpent, but it's possible some of the fixes weren't necessary.

When I follow the link in that post, it leads me to another post discussing the Modify-HTTP-Response addon. No userscript there. I used the editor's CODE tag. In my first attempt, I selected "No Syntax Highlighting" and left it on the default "HTML" in the second attempt. The error appears after hitting the "Submit Reply" button.

How racist of them! Well... I don't like their IP either!

Thanks for that. I don't have uBlock Origin and I couldn't find the userscript, but I managed to fix it using the Modify HTTP Response add-on. I had to add the Win-Raid forum's hostname to the filter to make it work. Edit: I tried to add the updated filter as code to this post, but the forum won't let me. It spits out a "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource" error message.

I'd like to report some problems I am having using Serpent 52 (G4.8 win32) if I may. 1) Starting with build basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod, some of my tabs get a blank title. Thus far, I have only experienced it with local image files; I expect to see their file name instead. The file names and their paths don't contain any special characters that aren't present in image files showing in tabs where the title does appear, so I don't know what could be causing this. Clicking such tab makes the file name appear briefly, but then it turns blank again. This problem is still there in build 20240525. Reverting to build 20240511 fixes the problem. 2) For a couple of months now, I have experienced issues related to session management. I have lost tabs that were opened up to 3-4 hours prior to a forced restart following unresponsiveness due to 100% CPU and memory usage, including tabs that were opened while the browser was still fully responsive. This happened twice so far. Also, if the browser is starting to become slow and I restart it (via File>Restart provided by Classic Theme Restorer), I am sometimes met with an error message from Session Manager saying "The session/window data is corrupted". Clearing the closed windows/tabs list using Session Manager prior to restarting can increase the chances of this happening. Similarly, if the browser is getting slow or nearly unresponsive and I try to save the session using Session Manager, I will always get an error saying "This operation failed due to a file access error". I can only save a session shortly after opening the browser. I don't know if it's related, but I used to experience freezes after leaving the browser idle; the duration of these freezes would last anywhere from a few seconds to around 5 minutes, depending on how many windows/tabs were left open and for how long. The freezes still happen, but they don't seem to last 5 minutes anymore. Could it be that a time limit was implemented a few months ago which somehow corrupts the session management? I could revert to an older build from late 2023, but then some websites (such as WIX sites) won't load properly. 3) I have found that some forum-based websites using a specific software don't load properly. I get a basic version with disabled scrollbar. Example: https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/modded-intel-ahci-and-raid-drivers-digitally-signed/19691 I think it's Discourse. 4) Any way to fix the "new" Hotmail website? MS abandoned the old Hotmail site in favor of a Microsoft Exchange layout, but I'm getting the dumbed down version even when "Use the light version" is unchecked. I don't really mind the smaller font, but the From and the Subject fields are truncated after just a few words even though there's ample space in the column to show a lot more (up to three times and four times respectively).

Sorry for the late reply, guys. I've been using Serpent since around build 20190622. Don't know if that's still considered OK for a "transplant". I can't remember though whether it was a full profile transplant or just a copy of the key settings files for bookmarks, cookies, etc. I used to think that ADB Helper and Valence were automatically installed starting with one of the Firefox releases (which I now know isn't quite true), which is why I left them in. But I understand now that they are not needed so I removed them. I know Old YouTube no longer works (as does YouTube Classic). I'm only keeping it for reference. They are disabled just like several others I don't need all the time. Thanks for the advise.

That was it! Thanks!

Just want to mention that the Add-ons Manager is still borked for me in Serpent52 build 20211113 (basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20211113) on XP 32-bit. I have downloaded every version in between this build and the one I used before, and it looks like build 20210918 is the last one to work properly for me. The issue with build 20210925 and newer is that all addons show as disabled (even when they are not) and that some aren't even shown. After reverting to build 20210918, I also had to overwrite extensions.json with an older backup otherwise many addons would show up with a yellow exclamation mark above their title. Right-clicking this exclamation mark and clicking "Show more information" gives a blank page. Is there anything I can do to remedy this? I'm currently back on build 20210918 because I need the ability to quickly toggle an addon on or off. Attachments: Add-ons Manager in Serpent52 20211113 vs Serpent52 20210918.

A bit bizarre that I can't find any info on this online. I am passing on a couple of hard drives to someone else and want to test them but don't wan't to spend more time on it than necessary. I'm currently going with CrystalDiskInfo (SMART info), HD Tune (error scan, if 2TB or smaller) and HDDScan (short and extended self-tests). Passmark DiskCheckup is only used in case HDDScan fails to complete an extended scan. Is there a difference between an extended self-test and HD Tune's error scan? Can one of these be eliminated?

@UCyborg Yup, it's working fine. This is what the exported .reg file looks like for the Ribbons screensaver (handy as a one-time activation on other PCs): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "ForceScreenSaver"="REG ADD \"HKCU\\Control Panel\\Desktop\" /f /v \"SCRNSAVE.EXE\" /t REG_SZ /d \"C:\\Windows\\system32\\Ribbons.scr\"" @jaclaz I wanted to avoid referencing an external file (.reg, .cmd, etc) in the Run command to keep it as simple as possible.