Dave-H

No extension needed, you can change the browser's default user agent string in 360Loader.ini. Make no difference I'm afraid.

Thanks. That's the end of that then!

Is this now happening with all versions of 360Chrome do we know? I seem to remember there was a hack which had to be done to chrome.dll before to get the translate function to work. Perhaps it hasn't been done with the version with 13.5.2036?

You may be right, but when the MSFN status thread was set up on RyanVM (by dencorso I think) it was a nice place to be able to go and check in with others when MSFN was offline. Of course it's not essential to have somewhere like that, but I always thought it was a good thing to have.

Confirmed here, I'm just seeing a server error reported after a long delay.

Fair enough, done.

Thanks xper. I think that blows a hole in the completely speculative theory proposed earlier that a forum software update caused the outage! Surely only you personally would have performed that. I'll go back on topic now! 😁

Thanks, but I'll say again, what we're looking for is a forum where people can refer to a thread which discusses MSFN's current status if it goes offline, for whatever reason. We're not talking about a substitute for MSFN as a whole, which I'm sure we all hope will never become necessary! On RyanVM here (archived) we just had a social thread where we re-grouped when MSFN was down. I may be wrong, but I think it was instigated by dencorso. As that forum no longer exists, we'd just like to find a suitable replacement.

Yes, that's what I do if I'm not actually logged in. I wonder what @jumper is seeing? It may depend on the browser of course.

I can still read the MSFN page on Facebook without logging in, I just have to close the login prompt. A login nag remains at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't stop you reading the content.

There is a Facebook page too. Personally I would prefer that if we go that route. I have always kept well clear of Twitter, never had an account, but I am active on Facebook.

I don't think that 'fix' by xper, which was just removing a news page which had been hacked and had spam inserted into it, had anything to do with the outage. In fact during the outage the news pages were still online, it was only the forum pages which were inaccessible.

Thank you jaclaz, an appropriate last word.

No problem. Back on topic now.

Any thoughts @Tripredacus @Tommy?

The subsequent discussion about alternatives to the deceased RyanVM forum for discussion if MSFN goes offline move to here.

That would seem like a good fit. I'm not talking about us continuing all our thread conversations there, all we need is a thread, probably in their 'Chit Chat' section, where we can discuss the status of the MSFN forum as a whole. As long as they don't object to us discussing what they would probably consider to be a 'rival forum' there of course!

I don't think we should use a board that's specific to any operating system. There is still an active XP forum of course! Another general PC system support forum would be best, assuming that MSFN isn't now the last one standing!

RyanVM has indeed gone I'm afraid. We will need to find somewhere else to stay in contact if there are problems with MSFN in the future. Anyone any suggestions? Preferably not company forums.

OK, back from my holiday, I can't find where I got it from, but here's my launcher program folder. It doesn't actually need installation, just unzip it to a folder and run it. I've removed all my data. Cheers, Dave. Launcher.zip

I had a PM from xper saying he'd fixed it. I guess that was how he fixed it!

As its window title says, the program is just called 'Run'. It's 16 bit, so I can't use it on Windows 10, but I do use it on 98 and XP. Sorry I haven't got a link to it, and I'm away from my main PC at the moment on holiday, but when I get back home next Sunday evening I will try to find the installer for you!

OK, understood. I'm actually very happy with the apparent speed of this version of 360Chrome.

LOL! Yes, that was it. Not the gretest result.

This is what's in the console after the crash.