Dave-H

Well that explains why I didn't see it, as I have AdBlock installed! I suggest you do the same @Roffen.

Hi Den! Good to know that it's not an intrinsic problem, I didn't think it could be or others would have shouted by now. As I said, I have already tried with the offline installer, with the same result. It appears to install fine, but when you click OK at the end with the run option ticked, the installer exits but nothing else happens. I'm not quite sure how to completely disable EMET short of completely uninstalling it, but as I said turning its DEP off and removing Firefox from the list of monitored applications makes no difference to the problem.

I just today ran Firefox 46 for the first time in a while, and it prompted me to upgrade to version 47. Firefox updates have never been a problem in the past, but not this time! It went through the normal upgrade motions, then said that the partial upgrade had failed and that it would need to do a full upgrade. This I have seen before, and it's always worked. This time it downloaded and tried to install the full update, and immediately a massive number of continuous DEP violation errors started popping up from EMET, which did not stop until I disabled EMET. When I tried to then run Firefox, nothing happened, and this was the same after a reboot, even with Firefox removed from EMET monitoring, and DEP disabled in EMET. I then tried downloading the full offline installer of Firefox 47, which appeared to install fine, but it still wouldn't actually run. Firefox.exe appears briefly in the task manager, and then vanishes again. I then tried uninstalling Firefox completely, and its folder completely disappeared. A new clean install of 47 did exactly the same thing, apparently installed fine but then would not run. I then replaced the Firefox folder with a backup, and restored a backup of the registry, and I now have 46 back and running fine, with EMET back to its normal settings! Anyone any idea what's happening here? There is no evidence that Firefox 47 doesn't still support XP, and I would expect the installer to tell me that anyway if it was the case, and I don't think that EMET is causing the problem. It has always played nicely with Firefox once I got the settings right. I can't find any reference to any problems like this on the Mozilla forums, and Firefox 47 has been out for quite a while now so if there was a problem surely others would have reported it by now. I don't use Firefox as my default browser, so it's not that big a deal, but this is very puzzling. Any suggestions gratefully received. Cheers, Dave.

That page looks fine here in Firefox 46.0.1 under XP. I don't have SP4 installed though. The only thing I can see where your block of code is between "....from what they hear" and "Story Source:" is a thin grey horizontal line.

Well as I said earlier, the Slimjet developers seem to have managed it!

Glad they arrived! I wouldn't have expected them until now.

I normally don't see the system tray yellow shield until the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday, and I don't usually do anything until then. I've just checked Microsoft Update manually, and there are ten updates there, so my system registry settings are fine. I'll wait and see if the shield appears tomorrow morning, I have found it a sod to get rid of sometimes if you do things before it's triggered. Even then it can go away and then reappear wanting to install a couple of updates that are already installed, and I've known it take a few days to go away properly!

Nothing here in England yet either, but I wouldn't expect to see anything here until tomorrow morning.

Slimjet 10 is now using Chromium 50, and still works fine on XP so it can certainly be done! Whether they will be able to use 51 and later versions too remains to be seen, but they are intending to carry on supporting XP and Vista.

I have Office XP (2002) installed, with the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, and there's no update being offered here.

Hi @pasito. Sorry for the delay in replying, I've been away, but I see you found the information anyway!

Thanks @xper. At least it's working again, and in fact I just edited this, and "REQUIRED" seems to have now gone!

Thanks, yes it is, although I'm still seeing the word "REQUIRED" in red capital letters above it, which presumably shouldn't be there. The edit field is then a bit slow to appear, but at least it now does!

And I still can't edit my posts! That problem's the number one priority to be fixed IMO, before people's labels, or anything else!

LOL! I seem to have become an "MSFN Sponsor" now, but I still don't have my donor badge!

I want one of those donor badges too!

Yes, I'm in Europe too, and I don't usually get the updates until the Wednesday of the patch rollout week. Why do you think that there should have been more updates since May 11th? I wouldn't expect to see any more until June 14th, which will probably actually be June 15th in our case.

That explains it, although I have to say that "subscriber" just sounds like you're a normal forum member, not someone who's contributing money. I used to like the flashy banner with the dollar sign on it, it made me feel important (isn't that really sad ?)!

I seem to have been reverted to just being a "subscriber" to the forum when I was a "sponsor" before, and presumably actually still am! Also my forum settings are set to automatically "follow" any threads that I post in, but I wasn't getting any e-mails about new posts in this thread, and I've now had to subscribe to it manually, so it looks as if that facility isn't working now either! How strange that the new forum software, although it took a bit of getting used to, did work reasonably well for ages, but now seems to be all going wrong!

I still have those first two keys on my system, and I'm still getting the updates. The "Installed" DWORD is set to "0" on both of them. It does look as if just the presence of those keys does not cause a problem, unlike the WindowsEmbedded key, which did.

Doesn't the link you get when you use the "share" button at the top right of posts work as a link to that post? It seems to for me. And yes, the edit system not working at the moment IS a real PITA!

You're not the only one! I tried to edit my previous post (to correct "quite" instead of "quiet"!) and I'm just getting a message that says "REQUIRED" in red capital letters. I guess there's a fault with the forum at the moment.

That may be why Avast are keeping quite about it of course! The guy concerned is one of the very long-standing and respected contributors to the Opera forums, so I didn't immediately dismiss what he was saying. I did find it hard to believe though, as surely it would have been mentioned here and elsewhere by now if it were true.

I've been in an interesting conversation here with someone on the Opera browser forums. He says his AV software (Avast it appears) downloads and applies Windows Updates on XP systems along with its AV patterns etc. This is with no registry or otherwise modifications to the system. Has anyone else heard of this, I can find no reference to it on Avast's website?

My understanding is that you need XP SP3 to do a clean install of versions of Firefox after 43.0.1, which is why only that version is offered on XP systems, presumably because the downloader can't verify that SP3 is installed. Once you have version 43 installed, you can then upgrade it all the way to the current 46 provided that you have SP3. There is no suggestion that versions after 46 won't support XP SP3.