Mypal 68 in Windows XP - Custom Buttons and Extensions

[NotHereToPlayGames]

12 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

Happens even to the best.

Yep.  And I'll give you a "like" for that.   

[Jody Thornton]

13 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

LOL

I'll give you a "like" for that OBVIOUS typo.  But that's also kind of my point.  We all need to hire proofreaders just to be an MSFN member!  Or is it "a" MSFN member?  I won't lose sleep over it.

See, I think that's taking it too far.  As an American, you should be able to write in American English, and north of the border, I'll use the Queen's English.  We understand each other.  No differently, if I was referring to an American place, I would respect that location name, such as "World Trade Center", not "... Centre".  In my mind, a Canadian/UK spelling would be incorrect.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I AGREE!  But I can show you SEVERAL places here at MSFN where typos are USED AGAINST YOU and tracked to the letter to even make false accusations against one's own CAREER TASKS.

There are equally SEVERAL places here at MSFN where non-US folks will "demand" (and get their way) if somebody posts a title with "favor" instead of "favour"!

MSFN is TOXIC at times, but no place is ever going to be "perfect".

[AstroSkipper]

35 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I AGREE!  But I can show you SEVERAL places here at MSFN where typos are USED AGAINST YOU and tracked to the letter to even make false accusations against one's own CAREER TASKS.

There are equally SEVERAL places here at MSFN where non-US folks will "demand" (and get their way) if somebody posts a title with "favor" instead of "favour"!

MSFN is TOXIC at times, but no place is ever going to be "perfect".

This off-topic chatter bores me and has no place here.  Just to make one thing clear. You dragged the typo topic into my thread. So you are the originator of this off-topic debate here. Don't be surprised if someone replies to this! So if you have nothing to contribute to the topic of Mypal 68 under Windows XP and just want to gossip about trivialities as you very often do, you've come to the wrong place and should rather visit the non-technical subforum. 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Agreed.

I am *VERY* interested in the Process Mode Toggle.  This is the thread where it has been most recently discussed.  Is it being shared publicly?

[AstroSkipper]

13 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I am *VERY* interested in the Process Mode Toggle.

Your expression of interest has been recognised. So, you are the second one who has clearly stated his interest in my custom button. 

13 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

This is the thread where it has been most recently discussed.  Is it being shared publicly?

The PMT - Process Mode Toggler has not yet been published by me or made publicly accessible in any other way. The generally expressed interest in legacy custom buttons has so far been almost imperceptible in this thread as well as in my other thread for UXP browsers. The same applies to the technical interest in UC.JS scripts and CSS stylesheets. That doesn't motivate me much. Since @feodor2 is really interested in his browser Mypal 68 and was kind enough to restore compatibility with the legacy Custom Buttons extension, I sent him as the very first one my PMT custom button as a small gift. It made sense to me, especially considering all the effort he put into developing this browser.  As far as I'm concerned, I can put it in mathematical or statistical terms. There is a clear, linear correlation between the statistical features of user interest and willingness of a developer to publish with a correlation coefficient r of r > 0.95. 

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[AstroSkipper]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

14 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I am *VERY* interested in the Process Mode Toggle.

Your expression of interest has been recognised. So, you are the second one who has clearly stated his interest in my custom button. 

BTW, have you ever installed and used the legacy Custom Buttons extension in Mypal 68?  Without it, the PMT custom button cannot be installed and would be then useless.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:

BTW, have you ever installed and used the legacy Custom Buttons extension in Mypal 68?

Yes.

I do not recall if I also have that extension in Serpent 52.

[AstroSkipper]

2 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

4 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

BTW, have you ever installed and used the legacy Custom Buttons extension in Mypal 68?

Yes.

Very interesting.  Which version of the Custom Buttons extension did you install in Mypal 68? And which method of installation did you apply to get this version fully working in Mypal 68?   And since we're on-topic now, you're welcome to be as detailed as possible.  In any case, I'm very curious to read what you will report.  BTW, the UXP browsers New Moon and Serpent are of no interest here as Mypal 68 is a Quantum browser.

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[NotHereToPlayGames]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Which version of the Custom Buttons extension did you install in Mypal 68?

I would have to rebuild that profile.  I am the opposite, Mypal 68 is always purely for testing, Serpent 52 is my daily runner.

Frankly, not my problem if you're not interested that I point that out, it is relevant to demonstrate the low priority of my Mypal profiles.

I follow this thread because to me it is like Supermium - an optimistic alternative worthy of keeping relatively current in their development status.

Will Mypal 68 dethrone my Serpent 52 one of these days?  No clue!  Will Supermium dethrone my Ungoogled v122 one of these days?  No clue!

 

Now then, against the obvious backdrop that we are not in the same place and I'm not interested (at the moment) of Mypal 68 being King, "to each their own" -

The link that I have bookmarked ( http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php ) is dead.  I'll have to dig through stacks and stacks and stacks of DVD-Rs to find my Custom Buttons extension.

I have it somewhere, but not the time to hunt for it at the moment.

I am 1,234,567.89% sure that I have it archived somewhere, will take a sh#tload of time to track down.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

11 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I would have to rebuild that profile.

I'm also 99.99% confident that the Custom Buttons extension installed!  But equally 99.99% confident that my buttons were hit or miss on if they worked or not.

To be perfectly honest, my ONLY interest in revisiting Custom Buttons is to TOGGLE PROCESS MODE.

I should probably consider it as "starting from scratch" at this stage of the game.

[AstroSkipper]

Long story short. My question was:

7 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

BTW, have you ever installed and used the legacy Custom Buttons extension in Mypal 68? 

And your answer was:

5 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Yes.

When one reads what you have written here:

20 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I would have to rebuild that profile.  I am the opposite, Mypal 68 is always purely for testing, Serpent 52 is my daily runner.

Frankly, not my problem if you're not interested that I point that out, it is relevant to demonstrate the low priority of my Mypal profiles.

I follow this thread because to me it is like Supermium - an optimistic alternative worthy of keeping relatively current in their development status.

Will Mypal 68 dethrone my Serpent 52 one of these days?  No clue!  Will Supermium dethrone my Ungoogled v122 one of these days?  No clue!

 

Now then, against the obvious backdrop that we are not in the same place and I'm not interested (at the moment) of Mypal 68 being King, "to each their own" -

The link that I have bookmarked ( http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php ) is dead.  I'll have to dig through stacks and stacks and stacks of DVD-Rs to find my Custom Buttons extension.

I have it somewhere, but not the time to hunt for it at the moment.

I am 1,234,567.89% sure that I have it archived somewhere, will take a sh#tload of time to track down.

one is more likely to come to the conclusion that your affirmative answer does not correspond to the facts. I doubt with a probability bordering on certainty that you have ever installed a legacy Custom Buttons extension in Mypal 68. Those legacy Custom Button extensions from the old custom buttons forum cannot be installed in Mypal 68 at all. They are not compatible with Quantum Firefox versions. They only work in older Firefox versions up to and including 56 and therefore also in the UXP browsers. As you know, I am only interested in real facts.

[AstroSkipper]

12 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Those legacy Custom Button extensions from the old custom buttons forum cannot be installed in Mypal 68 at all. They are not compatible with Quantum Firefox versions. They only work in older Firefox versions up to and including 56 and therefore also in the UXP browsers.

@NotHereToPlayGames BTW, such a legacy Custom Buttons extension I have already provided in September of 2022 in my thread "Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations" which can be found here: Custom Buttons - The extension for installing custom buttons. As already said, this version cannot be installed in Mypal 68. And here are more of those old Custom Buttons extensions you are referring to which are all incompatible with Mypal 68: https://sourceforge.net/projects/custombuttons/files/ Can be checked very easily.  The good is you won't "have to dig through stacks and stacks and stacks of DVD-Rs" to find your Custom Buttons extension  because with a probability bordering on certainty, those old versions, if you ever find any, won't either work in Mypal 68.  

 

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[NotHereToPlayGames]

I'd really have to track down my archive.  I know that it "installed".  But it didn't "work" either.

My a**umption at the time was that the actual BUTTONS needed modified, NOT the extension itself.  That side-project ended as quickly as it began.

The only reason to resurrect would be PROCESS MODE TOGGLE.

[AstroSkipper]

18 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I'd really have to track down my archive.  I know that it "installed".  But it didn't "work" either.

My a**umption at the time was that the actual BUTTONS needed modified, NOT the extension itself.  That side-project ended as quickly as it began.

The only reason to resurrect would be PROCESS MODE TOGGLE.

To get something installed doesn't really mean anything.  What matters is whether it works properly in all its features.  And actually as always, a superficial view is not purposeful. That means a thorough examination is necessary.