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On 10/20/2018 at 12:53 AM, roytam1 said:

New build of basilisk/UXP for XP!

Test binary:
Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20181020-56eb74dbe-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win64-git-20181020-56eb74dbe-xpmod.7z

diff: https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/UXP-xp-gitdiff-20180606.7z

PM28XP build:
Win32 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.2.0a1.win32-git-20181020-56eb74dbe-xpmod.7z
Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.2.0a1.win64-git-20181020-56eb74dbe-xpmod.7z

Official repo changes since my last build:
- Issue #832 Part 1: Remove modules, chrome, and preferences. (98bf92215)
- Issue #832 Part 2: Remove styling and images. (7dbe6a3b4)
- Issue #832 Part 3: Remove strings. (69afcc4f1)
- Update HSTS preload list (b927e0d5c)
- Remove unused import from AboutReader module. Tag #361. (f6db3fa90)
- Update Readability from mozilla-central release branch (FF 62.0.3). Tag #361. (f696173b4)
- Merge pull request #836 from Ascrod/translation (46eab94c0)
- Merge pull request #837 from Ascrod/readerview (c423bdaf0)
- Fix a test (#670) (8c3d0aaca)
- Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP (56eb74dbe)

Just logged in to thank you warmly for all your work and efforts!
Thank you !

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Looks like buggy browser detection by Twitter. Probably doesn't know that PM 28.2 is equivalent to FF 52.9. Their code probably misparses the user agent and "assumes" you're running an ancient version of FF.

Try setting general.useragent.override.twitter.com to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9" in order to spoof FF 52.9 on Windows 7.

If that doesn't work, try replacing the "52.9" in both places in the string with a newer FF version until Twitter likes it. Or you can try an IE 11 override: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"

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Matt A. Tobin spewing, once more, poison :angry: against Vista users and against the New Moon fork:

#817#issuecomment-433252852 :realmad:

The fact is I got prior clearance from Moonchild himself to report bugs
(found in New Moon 28 on Vista) in the GitHub issue tracker, if:

1. The bug has been also reported in the Palemoon forum by users of the official PM builds
2. I could replicate the bug I found by using an official build on Win7+

So that is why I got involved in #817#issuecomment-427697783

Honestly, I find all that hostility from Tobin to be totally unwarranted... :huh: Mind you, I refuse to even dignify his response by trying to argue with him; we all know by now he's a nut case... I will accept his code contributions to PM :huh: but am not prepared, nor willing, to accept his attitude :angry: (rant over...)

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That's why I said "don't mention any forks' name in their territory". Just doing a regular bug report using official builds and environments will be good for both sides.

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I am not sure when this started, but 2018.10.19 UXP Basilisk plays twtter(and some other) video at wrong pitch.
It sounds one octave lower while retaining same speed and clicking. Truly demonic.
I tried a new test profile, but didn't help me.

Older FF 55 based Basilisk seems to work fine.
I tried various UXP Basilisk(current version, one from August, earliest from February). I get same distortion.

Also, say hello to 90s, extra saccharine :p

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28 minutes ago, 404notfound said:

I am not sure when this started, but 2018.10.19 UXP Basilisk plays twtter(and some other) video at wrong pitch.
It sounds one octave lower while retaining same speed and clicking. Truly demonic.
I tried a new test profile, but didn't help me.

Older FF 55 based Basilisk seems to work fine.
I tried various UXP Basilisk(current version, one from August, earliest from February). I get same distortion.

Also, say hello to 90s, extra saccharine :p

try setting "Firefox compatibility" in options.

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(The link for binaries is offline. Hope it's temporary.)

I don't like Chrome based browsers, but I'm forced to use this Chrome fork almost everyday.
Advanced Chrome (custom build) is the only browser I've got that reliably renders reCAPTCHA.

http://browser.taokaizen.com/

The "old" simple CAPTCHA is distorted numbers or letters in a box. I probably have a dozen
browsers. They all render simple CAPTCHA normally.

https://pasteboard.co/HIFYAg8.gif

The newer "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA is two parts:

https://pasteboard.co/HJ7nD7hv.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/HJ7u7wy.jpg

I downloaded the latest build of New Moon. The first site I visited has "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA.
It rendered perfectly!

The problem is, reCAPTCHA rendered one time in New Moon. After clearing all caches (cookies,
history, etc) I tried over and over. Instead of seeing reCAPTCHA, I see this box:

https://pasteboard.co/HKdqjm0.jpg

New Moon rendered reCAPTCHA the first time I used the browser. I've been trying for a few days,
but all I get is a "could not connect" box. Google service is not the problem. When New Moon
fails, Advanced Chrome always renders reCAPTCHA.

I'd like to use New Moon as my primary browser, but I need a fix for the reCAPTCHA problem.



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3 hours ago, 404notfound said:

I don't seem to have this option in UXP Basilisk. Or my eyes are missing it.

you may need to set general.useragent.compatMode.firefox and general.useragent.compatMode.gecko to true in about:config

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2 hours ago, HoppaLong said:

(The link for binaries is offline. Hope it's temporary.)

I don't like Chrome based browsers, but I'm forced to use this Chrome fork almost everyday.
Advanced Chrome (custom build) is the only browser I've got that reliably renders reCAPTCHA.

http://browser.taokaizen.com/

The "old" simple CAPTCHA is distorted numbers or letters in a box. I probably have a dozen
browsers. They all render simple CAPTCHA normally.

https://pasteboard.co/HIFYAg8.gif

The newer "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA is two parts:

https://pasteboard.co/HJ7nD7hv.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/HJ7u7wy.jpg

I downloaded the latest build of New Moon. The first site I visited has "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA.
It rendered perfectly!

The problem is, reCAPTCHA rendered one time in New Moon. After clearing all caches (cookies,
history, etc) I tried over and over. Instead of seeing reCAPTCHA, I see this box:

https://pasteboard.co/HKdqjm0.jpg

New Moon rendered reCAPTCHA the first time I used the browser. I've been trying for a few days,
but all I get is a "could not connect" box. Google service is not the problem. When New Moon
fails, Advanced Chrome always renders reCAPTCHA.

I'd like to use New Moon as my primary browser, but I need a fix for the reCAPTCHA problem.


 

please check which version of new moonm you're using. for PM27, latest build should work. for PM28 and basilisk, all build are already working.

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4 hours ago, 404notfound said:

I am not sure when this started, but 2018.10.19 UXP Basilisk plays twtter(and some other) video at wrong pitch.
It sounds one octave lower while retaining same speed and clicking.

Older FF 55 based Basilisk seems to work fine.
I tried various UXP Basilisk(current version, one from August, earliest from February). I get same distortion.

 

3 hours ago, roytam1 said:

try setting "Firefox compatibility" in options.

 

3 hours ago, 404notfound said:

I don't seem to have this option in UXP Basilisk. Or my eyes are missing it.

 

9 minutes ago, roytam1 said:

you may need to set general.useragent.compatMode.firefox and general.useragent.compatMode.gecko to true in about:config

This problem has been reported since August. Changing the user agent usually seems to be enough; apparently Twitter likes to feed Basilisk (but not FF) a format it won't decode properly.

IIRC @dencorso reported that installing Adobe's PrimeTime CDM and disabling ffvpx also fixed this strange problem, in case changing the user agent isn't your thing (or doesn't work for some reason).

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Twitter is just a pain in the a** for playing their videos. Setting general.useragent.override.twitter.com with a custom agent in about:config works good for fixing the distortion with basilisk 52 but the videos still run horribly because this box doesn't handle the forced higher resolution well.

Unlike with XP 60esr and Firefox 52 in Windows 7 do but they're using the built in codecs and that seems to work better since it uses hardware acceleration. Twitter has no option to adjust resolution the way youtube does that I can see so they're downloaded with downloadhelper 6.3.1, which typically offers three different resolution videos, proving they are on Twitter's server but you can only stream what they serve up.

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1 hour ago, Mathwiz said:

This problem has been reported since August. Changing the user agent usually seems to be enough; apparently Twitter likes to feed Basilisk (but not FF) a format it won't decode properly.

Confirming that non-UXP v55 Basilisk has same problem with the non-compat UA string.

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