loblolly986 Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Took me long enough, but I've noticed that updating an installation of official RetroZilla 2.2 with Roytam1's build merely by extracting his package over it actually doesn't work properly. The problem is that while Roy's build, unlike the official 2.2 release, has many components statically linked into the EXE instead of in separate DLLs, it will still load and use unnecessary DLLs left over from the old version. Symptoms include the wrong Gecko build date in the user agent as seen on the "About" page ("Gecko/20190223" instead of "Gecko/20200201") and the additional TLS ciphers supported by Roy's build not actually being presented to web servers (as reported by, e.g., https://www.howsmyssl.com/). The fix is to delete all of the 2019-dated DLL and XPT files in the root installation folder and the "components" subfolder, except for gkgfx.dll in the root folder and gkwidget.dll in "components", and also delete the compreg.dat and xpti.dat files in the "components" folder to ensure that RetroZilla regenerates them to reflect the changes. The reason I advise keeping those two DLLs is due to a bug in Roy's build where it does not display a "hand" cursor when the cursor is over a link; Windows 95 and NT 4.0 do not support a "link select" cursor at the system level, so applications such as browsers must use their own, and Roy's build on its own fails to do this. Retaining those two DLLs from the official 2.2 release fixes this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wunderbar98 Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 (edited) Thank-you for clarifying this install process @loblolly986, looks like it took a fair amount of testing and research. A link to your post was added to footnote [3] on the first post. It appears @rn10950 has yet to release a formal RetroZilla update based on some of these improvements, hopefully still forthcoming. Edited May 10, 2021 by Wunderbar98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roytam1 Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 On 5/10/2021 at 3:24 PM, Wunderbar98 said: It appears @rn10950 has yet to release a formal RetroZilla update based on some of these improvements, hopefully still forthcoming. since he merged some PRs few weeks before, I created some more PRs for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wunderbar98 Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 Thanks again @roytam1 for your work on RetroZilla, i see your pull requests, looking forward to a new release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarsin Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) On 5/24/2020 at 5:21 AM, loblolly986 said: Regarding TLS in RetroZilla, note that Roytam1 released an unofficial build of RetroZilla with updated cipher support earlier this year: http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/retrozilla-suite-tls12-20200131.7z You can extract the contents of this over an existing RetroZilla 2.2 installation to update it. This update appears to also make the about:config additions to manually enable certain ciphers unnecessary (those entries were no longer highlighted in bold after I installed the update). Roy also released a copy of K-Meleon 1.5.4 with the same updated cipher support; you can also extract this over an existing K-Meleon 1.5.4 installation (and replace k-meleon.exe with k-meleonW9x.exe): http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/K-Meleon1.5.4en-US.tls12.7z Hi, does somebody know, if it's only me on Windows 10 and current firefox, that those links are redirecting to some other sites and Roytams website may be hijacked? https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/home.html If so, here ist an archive, but I don't know, how much is already saved. https://web.archive.org/web/20200208012820/https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/home.html This Link looks okay for me. (ml versus win) http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/home.html Edited August 10, 2021 by Jarsin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roytam1 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) On 8/10/2021 at 7:53 AM, Jarsin said: Hi, does somebody know, if it's only me on Windows 10 and current firefox, that those links are redirecting to some other sites and Roytams website may be hijacked? https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/home.html If so, here ist an archive, but I don't know, how much is already saved. https://web.archive.org/web/20200208012820/https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/home.html This Link looks okay for me. (ml versus win) http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/home.html I no longer own rths.ml / rths.cf domains. Edited August 11, 2021 by roytam1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wunderbar98 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 The thread was confusing for @roytam1's download link for RetroZilla, below and added to footnote [3] of the first post. http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/retrozilla-suite-tls12-20200131.7z Still awaiting an official updated build from @rn10950. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wunderbar98 Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 The RetroZilla Search Engine Collection was updated, linked on the first post of this thread. Note Dogpile and Startsearch require the User Agent Extension, one of the built-in user agents should work or add another like Firefox 60, example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0.2 Added FrogFind! http://www.frogfind.com Added Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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