Dave-H

Commenting on a thread whose last post was seven years ago just to criticise something from seven years ago as being useless and therefore starting an argument about it is not very constructive.
If you want to ask about NTLite's status and usefulness or otherwise in 2022 please start a new thread about it.

Also please don't use the status updates system to send messages to people, use the PM system, that's what it's there for. There is no reason for this to be public.

 

Please don't carry on with any further questioning on this status feed.
As a moderator I've let it go up until now, but it's not actually the place to do it!
If you want to ask me something away from the open forum, please send me a PM.
Thanks, Dave.

I still use Firefox 52.9 because it syncs with my other Firefox installations on Windows 10 and my Android smartphone.
I certainly won't be changing browsers just to get WebGL 2.0 working! Firefox 52.9 supports version 1.x fine, and I don't regularly visit any websites which use WebGL anyway!

You didn't say how you managed to get WebGL working in Maxthon.
What was the problem?

Glad to see that you got it working!

So, what was the answer?

Frankly I'm not at all concerned about it, as I never now use IE8, even with Google Chrome Frame!
My default browser in XP is Firefox 52.9.1 ESR, which supports WebGL 1.0.x just fine.

No joy at all on either site with default IE8.
With Google Chrome Frame enabled, I get this on the first one.

On the second one, I cannot select anything.

I guess it's defaulting to version 2, which doesn't work at all.
If I click the "older versions" link and try with version 1.0.3, I then get this.

So, not looking very promising!
The sites work fine in Firefox 52.9 ESR BTW!

No idea how much space, it's impossible to tell, especially when the updates have been added gradually over a long period! I haven't noticed my free disk space significantly declining though.

Google Frame may well have supported WebGL back in 2011, but that's no guarantee that it will still work now! When I tried the tests the sites did say that it was supported by the browser, but that it appeared to be disabled. Why I don't know. I don't use IE8 at all now, with or without Google Frame.

I think that SP4 does include the POSReady updates, but you'd need to check the thread about it to be certain.

I skimmed through it, it is of course ten years old!
A lot has changed since it was made.
I don't think the POSReady updates take much space at all, unless you keep all the installation files.
They're just replacing system files with newer ones.
Of course Windows Update no longer works on XP, so if you want to install them you'll need to use one of the update packages which people on the forum have made.
Check out the SP4 thread and the POSReady updates thread.
Whether the lack of those updates is the cause of your problems I cannot say.


 

Windows XP SP3 x86.
I have all the POSReady updates too if that makes any difference.

I'm the only user on my machine, and I am an administrator of course.
So yes, I installed it using an administrator account.

 

What I meant was that the 32.O.1700.107 version of Google Frame that I have is the last version  which works on Windows XP. I'm pleased to find that there were later versions, but from the error message you're getting, the one you're now trying is not XP compatible.
If you find a version later than 32.O.1700.107 which does work on XP, I would be delighted to hear!

The test sites say IE8 with Google Chrome Frame supports WebGL 1.0 but that it is disabled for some reason. Tried it with both of my graphics cards with the same result.
They say it doesn't support WebGL 2.0 at all, which is hardly surprising considering its age.

 

The MSI file in the 37.0.2062.120 folder when run says it's installing Google Chrome, not Google Chrome Frame. It also then fails with -

"Product: Google Chrome -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor."

OK, I've downloaded the archive.
If you extract it, you get a set of folders whose names are the version numbers.
They all contain installer files for Google Chrome Frame, except the 37.0.2062.120 folder, which appears to contain 32 bit and 64 bit Microsoft Installer files for Google Chrome (the browser) not Google Chrome Frame.
It does look to me from that as if 32.0.1700.107 really is the last Google Chrome Frame version.

I'm downloading the archive, it's very slow!
I'll let you know how it goes with version 37.
I don't think you can upload large files on MSFN unless you're at least a donor.
I don't know anything about MESA3D and OPENGL32 I'm afraid.

 

Well I'm very pleased to hear that there actually is a later version of Google Frame!

I was always led to believe that the one I had was the last.
If you can't upload it, can you give me the Internet Archive link?

OK, back home now!
My Google Frame Plugin/Add-on is version 32.0.1700.107.
That is the last version, as I said, and presumably uses Chromium version 32, so now very old!
Still works better than native IE8 does now though, I can still access my internet banking sites with it!

I'm afraid I'm away from home at the moment, so I can't tell you what my version of the Google Frame add-on is, but I do know it's the last one, and uses a very out of date version of Chromium (36?)
It does work a lot better than the native IE8 renderer does now though!
I can't help you with your other questions I'm afraid, I'm really not an expert on any of this.
Ask on the forum, that's what it's for!

I've never used 360 Extreme Explorer I'm afraid, but there are two very active threads running about it, so one of those would be the best place to ask.

DHCP is the most commonly used standard way of connecting AFAIK, where IP addresses are assigned automatically. It certainly shouldn't cause any problems, and if it did you would probably have no connection at all!

I thought perhaps your network configuration wasn't standard from what you were saying, which may mean that the ports aren't standard.
If my config.ini doesn't work for you, that might be the case as it works fine here.
IIRC the addition for Opera was simply to get Opera's sync and update service connecting.
It's now irrelevant on XP as the last XP compatible version of Opera can't talk to the servers anyway!
I don't know if Maxthon has a similar system, but if it has and it's working I wouldn't worry about it.
I've no idea about the socks and FTP I'm afraid, never had anything to do with them!

 

If your port numbers are not standard, that could well be the issue.

http://www.clivetownsend.com/ displays in Firefox 52.9.1 ESR, but in IE, with or without the chrome add-on, it is missing the elements between the platform and game selectors and the t-shirt and poster ads.
I assume that section uses WebGL.

Science Daily does not display for me at all in IE8 without HTTPSProxy enabled, with or without the add-on. So it seems as if HTTPSProxy is working for me on that site, but not for you for some reason.

I've attached a copy of my HTTPSProxy config.ini file.
Try that in place of yours and see if that makes any difference.

Config.ini

I realize this is no help to you, but all I can say is that it's all working fine for me. I'm not using Maxthon of course, but it works fine in all the browsers I have tried. I really don't know what else to suggest. Do you have other browsers you've tried it in? Presumably you have IE8, does the site work there? It does for me. 🤔