Dave-H

Yes, great to know that's possible to do, but just going one version up doesn't seem really worth it. Accepting that "Quantum" Firefox versions will never run on XP, it would be good to be able to go to version 56, IIRC the last non-Quantum version.

Apologies @jaclaz. You said "Thank the good guys developing Android for removing this useful feature, the good guys developing Windows for NOT providing drive letter/file access via MTP and the sheep common people for not having made a big fuss about it." I read it that MTP had been removed altogether, but I guess you just meant that access by drive letter had effectively been removed. Cheers, Dave.

Yes exactly, which is what the other thread said didn't exist any more in newer versions of Android.

Off-topic for Windows 98, but I was a bit puzzled to read that first thread. I have a Galaxy S7 Edge phone running Android 8.0 (Oreo) and it appears fine as a storage device on my machine, both on 10 and XP (not Windows 98 though!) The thread says newer phones won't work like that as later versions of Android don't support it. It doesn't get a drive letter, but it appears in Explorer and both the SD card and the internal memory can be accessed fine.

Thanks, I'd forgotten about the uninstallation complication with that add-on! I've never bothered to remove it on my Firefox, but it is disabled. It actually says that it can't be verified, not that it's incompatible. I don't think it's doing any harm as it is.

IIRC that's a pretty obsolete extension. I would just uninstall it if it's actually in your extension list. It's probably marked as incompatible with Firefox 52 anyway.

Anyone fancy this, if it were possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_T80ZVD7e8 No, me neither!

It annoys me too, especially when people say their software still supports XP (and probably Vista too) when it actually no longer does!

@dencorso As this thread is about to hit 200 pages, do you think it should be continued in a new thread now (keeping the original intact of course, but locked)? It is getting rather unwieldy, and on many other forums I use the mods lock threads and start continuation threads when they are deemed to be too long.

A Boots shop in the UK I guess, looks a terrible mess! I wonder why it's apparently actual XP and not Windows POS/Embedded 2009 as I would expect on a self-service till? We have loads of places still using ancient equipment!

Just to say that Partition Wizard 11.5 does run fine on XP.

Welcome to MSFN! Your link doesn't work, it just redirects to the home page, I suspect it's not complete. I don't know about the technical limitations of new drives with XP, but I'm using a 2TB drive quite happily. It is connected via a SATA interface card though, not directly to the motherboard.

Good to hear!

Two more updates today, both seem to be OK. KB4484130 and KB4475569. @roundball Off topic again of course, but I'd be interested to know if they installed on Windows 10 OK for you

Good news!

Sorry, I didn't realise that Flash support had now been completely removed from YouTube! I thought it might remain for very old videos which were originally Flash only when that's what YouTube completely relied on. As VistaLover says, there are several other encoding methods still used on YouTube, but Flash obviously isn't now one of them!

I suspect that the reason why some videos on YouTube work for you and others don't is that older ones still have a Flash fallback available, and newer ones don't. If you right click on a video that's working and the Flash plugin menu comes up, that would confirm that. As to why the system isn't working as it should for you, all I can suggest is that you go through this thread and double and triple check that all the necessary settings are present and correct in about:config, and that the necessary files are all present in the <Firefox Profile>\gmp-eme-adobe\17 folder. There should be three files there, eme-adobe.dll, eme-adobe.info, and eme-adobe.voucher. It's far more likely that a setting is missing or wrong though. HTH.

OK, no problem, I'm sure the failed update will soon be superseded by another one, indeed perhaps next week! I hope that whenever the next one is that it does install OK for you. Strange to have a failure with no reason or error code given though. Cheers, Dave.

@roundball Sorry for the delay, but this is the Windows 10 update history list I was referring to. Your failed installed of the Office 2010 update for Outlook should be listed there (as mine is) with an error code if it failed. I do realise this Windows 10 stuff is off-topic here!

Thanks, that's good to know! Firefox 52 ESR is absolutely fine at the moment, but the time will come of course when it won't be, so I hope the option to switch to something more up to date on XP, and continue to use Sync with my other Firefox installations, will still be there then!

FWIW, the reason I'm still sticking with FF 52 ESR at the moment is that I want to use the Mozilla Sync system to keep things like my bookmarks and passwords synchronised with my other devices, where I have FF 69 installed, like my phone and other Windows installations. I'm not sure how compatible any of roytam's browsers are with the current Mozilla Sync system, if they are at all.

Certainly any update now carries the risk of breaking compatibility with XP! Did you check to see if YouTube is using HTML5 or Flash in FF 52? If you'd rather now just carry on with FF 51, is everything working OK now?

That sounds like you're not looking where I'm looking. Are you looking at the Windows Update history list? On my Windows 10, if any update fails, there's an entry which says "XX update failed to install on xx date, error code xxxx". Does yours not say that?

Unless you've disabled the function, the add-on will probably automatically update itself to the latest version. It would be interesting to see if it then carries on working.

Yes indeed, sorry for any confusion, I was replying to @Paul75. I'm afraid I have no idea why the latest update won't install on your Windows 10 system. If you look at the Windows Update "View Update History" section, your failed installs should be listed there. Is there an error code quoted?