Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Yes, I think I probably always imported the certificate by double clicking on it and using the wizard, which supposedly puts the certificate in the right store automatically! This time it obviously didn't put it where it needed to be. Just a couple of quick off-topic questions about HTTPSProxy. Do you know why there are two entries for HTTPSProxy.exe in Task Manager? Different PIDs and different memory usage. Also, would you expect using HTTPSProxy to significantly slow down your internet connection speed? This probably happened with ProxHTTPSProxyMII as well, but I never noticed it! Using 360Chrome, where you can easily switch the proxy off and on, on the Cloudflare speed test I'm getting 66Mbps with a direct connection, but only 21Mbps with the proxy enabled, an enormous difference! I know of course that online proxy servers are always very slow, when they work at all, but I'm surprised that a local proxy should cause such a speed hit. Is that expected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Dave-H said: Do you know why there are two entries for HTTPSProxy.exe in Task Manager? I do have that too and that's absolutely normal. A lot of programs have one main instance calling up a second one probably with different tasks. For example 360Chrome does the same. First 360Loader.exe calling up 360chrome.exe calling up a second instance of 360chrome.exe and more of them. 25 minutes ago, Dave-H said: Also, would you expect using HTTPSProxy to significantly slow down your internet connection speed? Of course there are a lot of proxies slowing down speed. Due to the fact that I use these proxies for Internet Explorer access or Internet Explorer engine access only it doesn't matter for me. Edited February 12, 2022 by AstroSkipper addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 I started using a proxy because my ancient Eudora e-mail program uses the IE engine to display messages, and I started getting certificate errors popping up all the time. That's the only reason I have to use the proxy (and now for Microsoft Update on IE8 again of course!) so it's not really a problem. I was just a bit puzzled. I would expect some loss of speed, but not a third of what it should be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Dave-H said: I was just a bit puzzled. I would expect some loss of speed, but not a third of what it should be! But for these purposes only speed doesn't matter. Isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 No it doesn't matter, I was just wondering why the loss of speed was so great with a locally running proxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dave-H said: No it doesn't matter, I was just wondering why the loss of speed was so great with a locally running proxy. The proxy has a lot to do. Checking web sites, generating cerificates, comparing web site addresses with config.ini settings and so on. Poor proxy! And there might be another cause for such loss of speed. You're running Mwarebytes 3.5.1.2522. It has a web filter function and this might cause such loss of speed either. Switch off web control function and do your speed test once again! Edited February 12, 2022 by AstroSkipper correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 No it isn't that. As you say it's almost certainly just the processing that the proxy has to do which is casing a bottleneck. As reading a lot of my e-mails would be a very painful process without the proxy, I'll live with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Just for completeness, now working fine in 360Chrome 13.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maile3241 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Dave-H said: Just for completeness, now working fine in 360Chrome 13.5. Great! Does it work in IE too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Yes of course! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maile3241 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 22 minutes ago, Dave-H said: Yes of course! Very good! I'm glad it works for you now too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpandvistafan Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 50 minutes ago, Dave-H said: Just for completeness, now working fine in 360Chrome 13.5. Do you know where to find it? I only find something called extreme explorer when I search it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 (edited) 56 minutes ago, xpandvistafan said: Do you know where to find it? I only find something called extreme explorer when I search it up. Here: Just to clarify: 360Chrome = 360 Extreme Explorer Edited February 12, 2022 by AstroSkipper addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 59 minutes ago, Dave-H said: Just for completeness, now working fine in 360Chrome 13.5. @Dave-H Great! I'm glad your system has got back all features you wanted to have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Dave-H said: No it isn't that. In my Windows XP system Avast Premier is the main security solution in combination with Windows 10 Firewall Control XP. Avast works perfectly but the web protection causes in a lot of cases an huge loss of speed especially while surfing, connecting via VPN or downloading files although a lot of exclusions have been made by me. In such cases switching off web protection is the only way to have full speed again. The older the computer is, the greater the loss. And my computer running Windows XP is 21 years old. Edited February 12, 2022 by AstroSkipper correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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