Extreme Explorer 360 Chromium 78-86 General Discussion

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Edited Friday at 02:22 PM by rereser

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Very interesting indeed!

I opened that previous version here and nothing is in bold, unsure why it is bold on your system.

I've hunted up and down on how to make the title bar bold because all true XP applications have a bold title bar - but I've never found a way to make it bold.

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Edited Friday at 02:21 PM by rereser

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Edited Friday at 02:21 PM by rereser

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I also run from an ssd without a pagefile.

Only difference between our setups, by the sounds of it, is that I have DEP disabled via boot.ini -> /noexecute=alwaysoff

 

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Edited Friday at 02:21 PM by rereser

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, rereser said:

any security risks involved with that ?

To ME, no!

To "most people", yeah.  Or "probably" at the very least.

The same can be said for not running any anti-virus program - I hate anti-virus programs with a passion!

I've never in my entire life been hit with a virus despite NEVER RUNNING anti-virus programs.

It's about knowing HOW to use your computer, what you can click, what you can't click, what you can open, what you can't open, et cetera - you either do this by habit or you don't.

If you don't do this by habit, then your computer needs to protect you from you - so don't disable DEP, run an anti-virus, get hit with three different programs asking "are you sure" every time you want to DO something.

But if you ARE click-savvy by nature, then NO, you do not need DEP, you do not need anti-virus, you do not need User Account nags, you'll be just fine without having to jump through three different "are you sure" popups.

 

[dmiranda]

3 hours ago, ArcticFoxie said:

I've never in my entire life been hit with a virus despite NEVER RUNNING anti-virus programs.

Are you sure you are you? ;P

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Positive  

 

I view DEP against this logic  --  if DEP worked then there would be no "Geek Squad" at the local Best Buy, there would be no computer-repair at the local Staples, there would be no Malwarebytes, there would be no Emsisoft, there would be no Spybot Search and Destroy, et cetera.  Or at least a tiny fraction of the "need" for such things.

 

Things like DEP (enabled by default) and User Account Control (enabled by default) only create a User Base that just clicks "Accept" every time a so-called "Warning Box" pops up because the User Base doesn't know how to look out for themselves, they need their computer to protect themself from themself.  User Account Control was by far the worst "idea" ever concocted.  How many people do you know that see that so often that they don't even read it?  They just click "Accept" and move on.  Anti-virus is the same way, constant nag screens and a User Base that just clicks "Accept" because they get tired of all of the false positives.

 

Which, I'll submit, is not the average MSFN Member, especially not the XP Crowd!

 

Think about it this way, I'm one of the geekiest guys on this street, when SEVERAL neighbors need help "fixing" their computer, I'm the one they call.  No biggie, it's easy and it's a hobby.

But it never ceases to amaze me how often I have to "fix" OTHER PEOPLE'S computers and rid them of viruses WHEN THEY WERE RUNNING AN ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM that should have "protected them"!

The only REAL protection is to know how to protect yourself and stop relying on OS "features" to do that 'for you'.

 

But I digress...

Edited August 30, 2021 by ArcticFoxie

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Edited Friday at 02:20 PM by rereser

[NotHereToPlayGames]

5 hours ago, rereser said:

others would say your pc with xp will explode the minute you go online ...

Bingo!

Which tells you just how asinine "those people" are!

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Edited Friday at 02:20 PM by rereser

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Skin files cannot be copied between my v13 build 2206 and Humming Owl's v13 build 2250 - I keep the original file structure and Humming Owl merges a few of the skin files into one.

 

Humming Owl's v13 build 2250 error page should be able to be copied over to my v13 build 2206 - I have not verified but I see no reason this should not work.

Error pages are "useless", in my opinion, I'm okay with the error code provided in the URL when an error is encountered, that's all I ever need, have never been a fan of browsers having an "oops", "puke face", or "Aw, Snap!" page.

I just don't see the benefit/gain of turning an "error" into a "cartoon".

 

I don't get an error for the "back arrow" example (only tested in v12 build 1247).

[NotHereToPlayGames]

2 hours ago, rereser said:

one last question: why did you not release a version v13.2250 as Humming Owl did ?

I have no plans on releaseing a v13 build 2250 - I do not subscribe to the "newer is better" paradigm.  Sorry.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

The Basemark Web 3.0 benchmark is really the only "test" I've ever used webgl on.

I have never seen webgl used by "real world" web sites (news, banking, music, videos, research, how-to guides, online shopping, you name it), it's only ever used by "here's what webgl can do" sites.

Maybe it's used by games but games are for teenagers  

I have a copy of MAME lying around and a Commodore 64 emulator for "games", never really use them, but they're there if I ever really get bored from "real world" web sites  

Plus it always pegs the CPU at 90+ percent - why would I want to "enable" a website to peg my CPU?

 

At least that's my POV...

Edited August 31, 2021 by ArcticFoxie