Extreme Explorer 360 Chromium 78-86 General Discussion

[thebuildone]

On 10/17/2020 at 9:10 AM, IXOYE said:

I got the 360 Extreme Explorer 12.0.1550.0 Portable version. on xp sp2 with the add-ons already integrated .
 It works very well.  it's very fast on youtube, but I can't change the language that's in Russian ... I applied the methods in the "preference"

file but it doesn't work ...if someone has an idea?

the link method below does not work...

"accept_languages": "ru-RU,ru,en-US,en" ==> "accept_languages": "en-US,en"

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If you switch search engine to DuckDuckGo, you'll want to edit the preferences file also to remove russian

"url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&kl=ru-ru", ==> "url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}",

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Curiously I also spotted it earlier talking to a China DNS @ 101.226.4.6.

And other stuff I added to frontend firewall rules. It talks to chrome.360.cn a lot too.

526	9:46:50.593 PM	31	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "chrome.360.cn", NULL, 0x09e2fb40, 0x09e2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0850745
638	9:47:11.718 PM	13	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "www.so.com", NULL, 0x080dfb40, 0x080dfacc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.4505967
577	9:53:48.687 PM	12	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "ext.chrome.360.cn", NULL, 0x0881fb40, 0x0881facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.1288133
101	9:59:34.781 PM	15	WININET.dll	getaddrinfo ( "pvstat.qihoo.com", NULL, 0x0935f4f8, 0x0935f528 )	WSAHOST_NOT_FOUND	11001 = No such host is known. 	0.0000103
246	9:59:39.781 PM	15	WININET.dll	getaddrinfo ( "crash.browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x0935f4f8, 0x0935f528 )	WSAHOST_NOT_FOUND	11001 = No such host is known. 	0.0000190
565	10:03:26.843 PM	33	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "weibo.com", NULL, 0x0a4ffb40, 0x0a4ffacc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0346896
606	10:03:31.140 PM	33	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "bbs.360.cn", NULL, 0x0a4ffb40, 0x0a4ffacc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0820101
2822	10:18:17.500 PM	13	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "query.rec.360.cn", NULL, 0x08a2fb40, 0x08a2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.9478177
2837	10:18:17.562 PM	16	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "cloud.browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x0892fb40, 0x0892facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.2104636
2852	10:18:17.578 PM	12	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "tt.browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x0882fb40, 0x0882facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0391555
2862	10:18:17.578 PM	17	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "dd.browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x08b2fb40, 0x08b2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0381660
2989	10:18:18.031 PM	16	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "papi.look.360.cn", NULL, 0x0892fb40, 0x0892facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0289598
2999	10:18:18.031 PM	17	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x08b2fb40, 0x08b2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.0285824
3010	10:18:18.031 PM	12	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "weather.hao.360.cn", NULL, 0x0882fb40, 0x0882facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.1847590
3020	10:18:18.031 PM	44	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "mini.browser.360.cn", NULL, 0x0d59fb40, 0x0d59facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.1836387
4780	10:18:38.562 PM	13	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "cdn.weather.hao.360.cn", NULL, 0x08a2fb40, 0x08a2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.5242515
5981	10:20:59.562 PM	13	chrome.dll	getaddrinfo ( "skin.chrome.360.cn", NULL, 0x08a2fb40, 0x08a2facc )	ERROR_SUCCESS		0.2407485
yun.chrome.360.cn
yun.browser.360.cn

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And for fun, I did also for Maxthon 5 when testing. It's worth mentioning that the last XP working version has Chrome 55 in the user-agent.

smarturl-up.maxthon.com
pc-newtab.maxthon.com
www.baidu.com
api.bing.com
stat-c.maxthon.com
c.dcs.maxthon.com
svrinfo.maxthon.com
extension.maxthon.com
push-s.maxthon.com

safeurl.maxthon.cn
kernel-c.maxthon.com
i.maxthon.com
go.maxthon.com

 

Edited October 20, 2020 by thebuildone
updated info

[Koishi Komeiji]

On 10/20/2020 at 5:07 AM, thebuildone said:

And for fun, I did also for Maxthon 5 when testing. It's worth mentioning that the last XP working version has Chrome 55 in the user-agent.

Even more oddly the 'custom' useragent setting says Chrome 61, and doesn't bother to detect NT 5.2/WoW64 correctly.

As for 360ee, it doesn't seem to work on XP x64 just throwing a 'aw snap' error :/

Edited December 5, 2020 by Koishi Komeiji

[theelf]

Hi! im using latest version i found, 13.0.2132, with chrome 86.0.8240

Any way to change the menu that are in russian to english/spanish?  thanks

[dencorso]

On 12/27/2019 at 12:15 PM, VistaLover said:

@Cixert : The "Preferences" (no file extension there!) file is the one that stores your custom browser preferences (modified from their original default values) and, as posted, should be found within your "Profile" folder, usually under ".\User Data\Default"

First, BACK UP that file to a secure location in your disk, before you attempt messing with it manually; any such attempt should be made with the browser exited!

The file itself is in a human-readable "pretty-printed" JSON format; open with a proper text/code editor; search for string

"accept_languages"

It should be there (with, I suspect, zh-CN as the first/default choice in the official Chinese version of 360EEv11); if this JSON block isn't there in your case (but it should be in an already used profile where the user has selected the English language pack), then you should create yourself a nested JSON block for it...

On 12/26/2019 at 5:37 PM, Cixert said:

Any idea how to force 360 Extreme Browser to display web pages in specific languages?

I opted to display pages in the Greek language, if available, first - for example, the Google Web Store[GWS], so my manually modified setting inside the "Preferences" file looks like below:

   "intl": {
      "accept_languages": "el-GR,el,en-US,en"
   },

That code means that whenever the page hasn't got a Greek version available, the browser will fallback to displaying the American-English localization of it, and so on (if you add additional locales in that line) ...

(Save the modified file while the browser is closed, then launch the browser anew and check for the effect of your new "custom" preference!)

Hope I've helped

If you had read this thread from the start, you'd know that already.

[32bitforever]

On 12/13/2020 at 12:04 PM, theelf said:

Hi! im using latest version i found, 13.0.2132, with chrome 86.0.8240

Any way to change the menu that are in russian to english/spanish?  thanks

Where did you find that version?

[TigTex]

11 hours ago, 32bitforever said:

Where did you find that version?

http://down.360safe.com/cse/360cse_13.0.2170.0.exe

Version 13.0.2170 with Chromium 86.0.4240.198

Edited December 15, 2020 by TigTex

[32bitforever]

9 hours ago, TigTex said:

http://down.360safe.com/cse/360cse_13.0.2170.0.exe

Version 13.0.2170 with Chromium 86.0.4240.198

I downloaded this version: on XP it works perfectly but on Windows 2000 with KernelEx (version 28c) I can't get it to work. It installs and opens but then the search bar doesn't work and no site is displayed.
Do you know why this happens? Thanks in advance.

[dencorso]

4 hours ago, 32bitforever said:

Do you know why this happens?

Because it's intended to work on XP, which is a feat already, and 2k with KEx 28c ain't XP. 

[theelf]

On 12/16/2020 at 12:02 AM, TigTex said:

http://down.360safe.com/cse/360cse_13.0.2170.0.exe

Version 13.0.2170 with Chromium 86.0.4240.198

Oh thanks! great, this is in mostly in english, some chinesse but not much

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Been monitoring this thread loosely and finally jumped in for a trial run.

Been using the Russian Repack version 13.0.2182.0 for a couple of days and do have just one tweak I'd like to find a fix for.

 

Depending on your skin, there is an "extension center" icon where if you left-click it opens the Russian Chrome Web Store (hl=ru).

I have not found where to change this to hl=en  --  is this possible ???

 

If you right-click it opens 'chrome://myextensions/' - I'd kinda prefer the right-click / left-click be REVERSED.

Left-click open my extensions, right-click open Web Store  --  is this possible ???

 

 

edit:  ps - I've also found it much more to my liking to DELETE the 'newtab.zip' file in the Application directory then set the startup page to 'chrome://newtab'.

Edited December 24, 2020 by ArcticFoxie

[VistaLover]

9 hours ago, ArcticFoxie said:

Been using the Russian Repack version 13.0.2182.0 for a couple of days and do have just one tweak I'd like to find a fix for.
Depending on your skin, there is an "extension center" icon where if you left-click it opens the Russian Chrome Web Store (hl=ru).
I have not found where to change this to hl=en  --  is this possible ???

I am still myself on the latest 360EEv12 version (12.0.1592.0), but I am certain the following would also apply to 360EEv13 builds...
FWIW, in untouched official Chinese builds, the Extension Center tab icon will direct one to their proprietary (Chinese) 360EE Extension Center: 

https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/

What the so called Russificators (more precisely, the Patch by El Sanchez) do is hardcode a redirection from 

https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/ => https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=ru

If you didn't know already, everything Google-related is sanctioned in mainland China, blocked by the GFW...

El Sanchez's patch modifies the main program DLL, chrome.dll, but because there's not enough room (i.e. null characters, "00" in hexadecimal code) for the whole CWS-ru URI to fit in, they're using the now defunct "Google URL shortener" service to trim that URI down to a short number of characters: 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=ru  => https://goo.gl/j4MLV

Sadly, I don't know off-hand what was/is the goo.gl shortURL equivalent for the en-US CWS, 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en-US

but you can still use an existing service (like bit.ly) to trim that down:

=> https://bit.ly/2WKImUI

Then, with 360EE closed, you can use a HexEditor to change 

goo.gl/j4MLV => bit.ly/2WKImUI

in chrome.dll (please back-up first, in case you mess up...)

Unfortunately, I can't offer you a solution to your second, TBH niche , request... 

Have a Merry Christmas indeed! 

Addendum:

Official chrome.dll

Russified chrome.dll

User customised chrome.dll

Edited December 25, 2020 by VistaLover
Addition of HexEditor snapshots

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Awesome!  Works like a charm!  Much appreciated!

Seems the en-US isn't really required and CWS defaults to English for the .com domain so I opted for https://bit.ly/38xbzbe instead.

 

Yeah, I guess I'll have to get into the habit of right-clicking for my local extensions (left-clicking is the habit because of an "Add-ons Button" extension to perform that task in Mypal / NM).

 

 

edit:  nah, on second thought I opted for left AND right click to BOTH just take me to 'chrome://myextensions'.

I only ever use the CWS for setting up my initial profile and only use between 3 and 8 extensions depending on browser then never visit the CWS afterwards.

Edited December 25, 2020 by ArcticFoxie

[VistaLover]

22 hours ago, ArcticFoxie said:

I only ever use the CWS for setting up my initial profile and only use between 3 and 8 extensions depending on browser then never visit the CWS afterwards.

 Then, I'll have to strongly warn you that your decision was, in this particular case, an unwise one... 
I have posted about the fact previously in this thread, but ALL iterations of 360EE (i.e. v11/12/13) DO NOT communicate in a scheduled/automated fashion with the official (by Google) CWS to check for extension updates, so ALL extensions you have manually (initially) installed from CWS will forever stay "frozen" in their initial versions! 

 Users of ALL versions of 360EE who have installed extensions from Google's CWS are strongly advised to bookmark the URL to their localised edition of the CWS and make a habit of visiting, say, once a fortnight, the URIs of said installed extensions, to manually check whether updates for them have been released! Additionally, CWS will not let you upgrade manually to the newly released version of an extension unless you first uninstall the deprecated old one... In such a scenario, customised extension settings will get lost upon uninstallation, so the upgraded extension installation will have to be re-configured from scratch.   Thankfully, many extensions will let you first export customised settings to a file, which you can then re-import to the upgraded version quite easily... 

Edited December 26, 2020 by VistaLover

[NotHereToPlayGames]

To each their own, but I disagree with your paradigm.

NOTHING on my computer "auto-updates" - I hate software on my computer doing things on its own behind my back!

But I also acknowledge that it's only the "Type A's" such as myself that will understand that hatred. 

[VistaLover]

46 minutes ago, ArcticFoxie said:

To each their own

I couldn't agree more , but: 
Browser extensions are being created to complement browser usage; broadly speaking, they are divided into two categories: 
1. Ones that enhance an existing/implement a missing browser core feature; these fall, sooner or later, prey to browser devs whim and may eventually break with a future browser release... 
2. Ones that enhance/facilitate usage of specific websites visited in the browser; these are the ones most frequently breaking when site admins feel the sudden urge to overhaul things (usually for the worse!) with how their site displays and functions... 

In any case, one is left with a broken/useless extension installation; I also abhore auto-everything, but I want working browser extensions, so your statement that "you never visit the CWS afterwards" sounds, to my ears at least, simply unrealistic... 

Best festive wishes, don't over-eat, stay safe 

Edited December 25, 2020 by VistaLover