Dave-H

Microsoft are enforcing mandatory OAuth2 authorisation on their e-mail systems. Basic password logins will no longer work, even with 'app specific' passwords. I'm surprised that the mechanism for that is even still there, I suspect that it won't be for long. Gmail will go the same way soon, I'm afraid, as will all the other major mass e-mail providers eventually, I suspect. The writing is on the wall now for any e-mail client which doesn't support OAuth2, I'm afraid. I use a proxy to work around the problem, but that's no help on Windows XP, where the proxy will not work.

@user57 This '64 bit' conversation is completely off-topic for this thread. Please start a new thread with an appropriate title, and I will move the relevant posts into it. Thank you.

Yes, they said it would happen on September 16th, it actually happened a week later, yesterday. I'm using an OAuth2 proxy to maintain access to my Hotmail account using Aurora (the successor to Eudora) and it works fine. Unfortunately, it won't work on XP, so I'm now having to boot into Windows 10 to access my Hotmail account, unless I use webmail of course.

There is no problem including paid software in this thread. Any software which still works on Windows XP now is worth mentioning. I would ask though that if software is not freeware that it should be mentioned in the relevant post.

FWIW my Windows temporary folder is also marked as read only, so I don't think that's your problem. If your temporary folder really was unwritable you'd be having a lot more issues, as many programs need to write to it all the time, including Windows itself.

Should do, yes. I have drives on my multi-boot system which I keep on FAT32 for compatibility with Windows 98!

Is the C: drive NTFS formatted? If it's FAT32, that's the reason. The security tab only appears on NTFS drives.

This is off-topic of course as we're talking about browsers on later operating systems, but could it be a certificate issue? Not working on 114, 119, or 115 because it's too new, and not working on 125 or 128 because it's too old?! For 122, 123, and 124 'just right' like Goldilocks' porridge!

FWIW, the Yandex site doesn't work with the latest Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 either! I can only get it to work in Firefox 130.

@bennybenny This thread is 13 years old.

The installer still doesn't seem to work in XP, but the portable version does.

I think that might be a bit of a big ask, why don't you ask him yourself?

Supermium works fine here, I'm still gobsmacked that there is a browser based on Chromium 126 which works on Windows XP! It's missing a few things which I've got very attached to with 360Chrome, such as double-clicking to close tabs, and automatically opening bookmarks in new tabs. There is a 'Chrome Plus' add-on for Chromium with gives those facilities, and I'm using it on Supermium on Windows 10, but of course it won't work on XP. Thorium has the double click to close tabs built into it, and I'm going to try and persuade win32ss to add it to Supermium as well. If he does, I will probably go over to using Supermium as my default browser on XP. It's disappointing that Thorium Legacy is now four Chromium versions behind Supermium, and there seems to be no sign of any update coming. Also, the font problem on forums.digitalspy.com on XP has now been fixed in Supermium, but it's still no good in Thorium.

@sazkion Thread is now unlocked again.

So perhaps an un-Googled 360Chrome will not do this?

2.0.126 is the latest current version of Enhancer for YouTube. I'm pretty sure that I tried to install it on 360Chrome and was told that it needed at least Chromium version 100.

Just a query. Does the update to manifest v3 for extensions affect 360Chrome? We know that it won't affect Supermium/Thorium, but that's because of steps taken by their developers. A couple of extensions have started to malfunction on my 360Chrome, and I wondered if that was the reason. The problems are actually on YouTube. Enhancer for YouTube 2.0.115 (the last that will work on 360Chrome at all) has now stopped working completely, it doesn't load. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it several times, and it makes no difference. I'm also getting a warning about my downloader, which is the SaveFrom.net helper script, running in OrangeMonkey 1.07 (again the last one that will work in 360Chrome). There is a red warning icon that the extension will soon no longer work, which I would expect on Google Chrome, but not on 360Chrome. The downloader also doesn't now work on YouTube, it says it can't find any links. It does still work on other sites like Instagram and Facebook though.

Just an update on the font problem at forums.digitalspy.com when Thorium and Supermium were used on Windows XP. It has been fixed in Supermium 126, so hopefully it will be fixed in the next update to Thorium Legacy too.

FWIW, Softpedia works fine here. No Captchas. Supermium 126.0.6478.249 x86 on XP.

Just an update. I have now indeed uninstalled Google Chrome from Windows 10, and I've installed Supermium 126 x64 instead, as the default browser. It works fine, and I've now got uBlock Origin back again! I've also updated my Supermium x86 installation on XP to version 126, all good. I'm still using Thorium 122 as the default browser on XP.

Thanks, I might play with those later. I'm not actually too worried about this, it doesn't make the sites unusable. Now I know why it's happening I can live with it, I was just puzzled as to why things had changed, now I know! It appears that I could go back to using uBlock Origin on Thorium and Supermium, but that might cause issues with the syncing of extensions with Google Chrome on my Windows 10, where I'm soon going to have to use uBlock Origin Lite, but I'll see how it goes. I know I can disable the syncing of extensions, but I actually think it's a useful feature.

... Oops dear Dave , isn't that a contradiction of sorts? Not really, as when I posted the first quote I hadn't been told by @Sampei.Nihira about the way that uBlock Origin Lite works, which gave me the clue as to what was actually happening. I hadn't made the connection until then.

I just did! Strangely, CPU-Z 2.09 on XP isn't prompting me that there's an update. I don't know if that is significant or not.

Thank you, that's probably the problem! I had to turn uBlock Origin Lite up to maximum filtering on Facebook and Instagram as otherwise the endless annoying 'sponsored posts' still get through. Looks like I'll just have to live with it as it is.

No difference with the switch added on my XP system. Still eating RAM, and then the tab process crashes.