Dave-H

Perhaps rather surprisingly, all thumbnails are displaying fine on Opera 36!

Now I've looked more closely "Breaking News" is not showing thumbnails for me on Google Chrome 49, but everything else seems OK. They are showing fine on Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I'm not using any special user agent strings on either browser.

Google Chrome 49 is showing the "we'll stop supporting this browser soon" banner on YouTube, but seems to still be displaying the pages OK.

July 2020. After a huge amount of research and experimentation, here as a working Windows XP driver for Elan touchpads. It was specifically produced for the touchpad of an Asus X102B(A) notebook, hardware ID ETD0108, but it may work also with later touchpad versions and on other machines. Many thanks indeed to everyone who contributed to this, but of course especially to @jaclaz, who never gave up on this even when things looked impossible! The driver can be downloaded below. The rest of the thread is from the past, and if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to wade through fifty pages, they can see how we got to the the final result! Cheers, Dave. Elan_Touchpad_Driver.zip

Mine has updated automatically, which I was impressed with, as I wasn't at all sure whether it would or not as it didn't come from the usual Mozilla add-on store!

I'm using Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I guess if the filters only update every few days anyway, it's now going to be a while before I can check to see if I really do have the problem! Before switching to UBO, I used AdBlock+ for many years, and I'm pretty sure that used to update the lists a lot more often.

I just checked and I couldn't see that error message, but all the filters were marked as out of date. I manual update worked fine. How often are they supposed to be automatically updated?

Thanks! Yes I just checked, and although I couldn't see any network error massages, the filters were all shown as being out of date. A manual update fixed it. How often are they supposed to be checked for updates?

Apologies @Delrvich, I foolishly assumed you were using the standard "Google Chrome", not "Advanced Chrome"! And yes, as I should have said, welcome to the board!

Glad to hear that it seems that things are OK again now. Fingers crossed!

Strange, YouTube is working fine here with Chrome 49! I haven't done any user agent spoofing. It's sending the default - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 I'm getting a warning about the browser being unsupported soon, but apart from that everything seems to be fine.

Does it work if you replace example.com with a wildcard asterisk (*)?

Is this really about Windows 9x or ME?! Please be more careful where you're putting your posts, there have been several recently which have been in the wrong thread, this is the first one that's actually been in completely the wrong forum!

People here are obviously concerned about fellow forum members in areas where there is most risk, and as a friendly community I see no harm in it being discussed, even if is of course always going to be fundamentally off-topic here in any thread. I hope the moderators are lenient with this at the moment.

Yes, if the chrome folder isn't there, you will need to create it. You will need to restart the browser for it to take effect.

Sent you a PM.

You need to add the following code in a file called userContent.css in the Chrome folder within your Firefox profile folder. You may need to create it in Notepad or whatever if it doesn't already exist. Make sure it has a .css extension, not a 'txt extension! @-moz-document url-prefix(chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul), url-prefix(about:addons) { .warning { visibility: collapse !important; } } Credit for this to @VistaLover.

Surely "unknown module", not "unknown model"?! Installing the debugger certainly wouldn't do any harm, and might give a diagnosis clue if you can capture what happened when explorer crashed. Occasional intermittent problems like this are always very hard to diagnose. If you could find any particular file selection, for instance, which triggers the crash, that would be very helpful.

Icaros is a very good thumbnailer system, as it allows explorer to generate thumbnails from many video formats which aren't natively supported. If you didn't install it that can't be the problem though! ASF is a Microsoft media video/audio format, pretty much the same as WMV, but IIRC was more often used for streaming. I would have thought that it's pretty obsolete now.

I suspect that a shell extension could well be causing this. It triggers when you select certain files, and crashes explorer. Download this (it's free and quite safe). It will give you a list of all the shell extensions installed. Any that you are suspicious of, especially any related to K-Lite (perhaps a thumbnailer) or WMP, disable them and see if things are then OK. If the problem goes away, re-enable them one by one until you find the culprit. HTH.

Thank you. 1.16.4.18 seems to be still working fine. I've also suppressed the warnings in the add-ons list using an addition to the userContent.css file I was already using to get the videos on Instagram to display.

Well it does seem to be a bit of a mish-mash of posts about the "viewtube" extension and viewing YouTube videos online in WMP! How about - "Viewing YouTube videos with the "ViewTube" browser extension and XP Windows Media Player"

Thanks, again good to know more of the background to this. I've uninstalled 1.17.4 and installed 1.16.4.18 instead. Seems to be working fine except for the annoying warning in the add-ons list that it can't be verified.

FWIW I don't think the recent discussions about using WMP to view YouTube videos should be in this thread anyway, as it was originally specifically about enabling them in older Firefox browsers on XP. When does explorer crash, is it while you're doing something specific, or are the crashes just seemingly random, and happen even if there is no explorer window open?

Thanks for the detailed background explanation @Mathwiz! So, is there any disadvantage with using 1.17.4, which presumably will not now update any more on FF 52 ESR? As long as it's still getting block list updates does it matter that 1.16.4.18 is actually later code? Have any security flaws been patched which are in 1.17.4 for instance? Cheers, Dave.