My Browser Builds (Part 4)

[Fritz_Geiger]

28 minutes ago, dmiranda said:

Run your profiles on ram

Copy profile to RAMdisk at start
(and save periodically to HDD)
is a good method/advice,
it was my default configuration in times of FF 3.6.28.

Nowdays my places.sqlite are approx. 300 KB and 200 KB
in two main/working browsers
(planning to merge them,
when issue with Norwell will be solved,
or some SQlite knowledge will be obtained;
so expecting near 0.5 GB -
that is typical/average total RAM in my systems).

So - "no" twice.

First one for that
my "deal with" is not equal to "keep fit" (includes, but not equal);
my "deal with" is equal to "User configurable, by time and by volume".

Second one for that
I personally do not worship "fit"/skinny one,
I prefer full-size/voluptuous, as Gianna Michaels.
Well, I do not reject Stoya or Doris Ivy or Little Caprice...
but I had to choose only one.

[UCyborg]

1 hour ago, Fritz_Geiger said:

when issue with Norwell will be solved

Works in both NM27 and NM28 here...have you tried it on fresh profile? I don't keep history and have disk caching disabled, so if the issue has anything to do with the size of history, I have no means to reproduce.

Edited September 25, 2023 by UCyborg

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, mina7601 said:

but I don't have uBO Legacy installed either.

... Yes, I know  - you were perfectly clear in the first place: a fresh/clean St52 profile isn't able to display correctly/permanently the embedded auf1.tv video player; my post (you replied to) was meant for St52 users wishing to view auf1.tv video-on-demand (VOD) content (probably inside Germany and the German speaking, neighbouring, countries); at least one extension is needed for that, in my case I made it possible with uBO-legacy and a custom filter (other ways exist, e.g. with uBO-legacy and custom allow/deny rules, as suggested by UCyborg, or with eMatrix and special settings, as suggested by Astroskipper); personally, I find it quite inconceivable for a normal St52 user in this day and age NOT to have a content blocker installed , so my advice was geared towards them!

Hope I made it extra clear now ; warm greetings...

[mina7601]

18 hours ago, VistaLover said:

personally, I find it quite inconceivable for a normal St52 user in this day and age NOT to have a content blocker installed , so my advice was geared towards them!

Well, let me be honest here. I actually had uBO Legacy installed before, but I felt so bored (as I am not very familiar with uBO) that I uninstalled it. plus, the last release is from July 20, 2021, and I don'tlike installing extensions that haven't been updated for a long time. I am not familiar with uMatrix either, sorry.  (I actually heard it's more difficult to use than uBO)

I apologize if I caused any inconvenience for saying this.

18 hours ago, VistaLover said:

Hope I made it extra clear now ; warm greetings...

Yes, you did, thank you very much, and warm greetings to you too!

Edited September 26, 2023 by mina7601

[anton12]

https://auf1.tv/das-grosse-interview/kickl-weidel-wende-zum-guten-wird-ein-harter-kampf

Hello mina7601,
You can play that above Auf1.tv video with St52 plus eMatrix
using the settings of AstroSkipper - for me it works perfectly
without SSUAO for St52:  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/4.8 Firefox/102.0 Basilisk/52.9.0

Here you can get eMatrix:

https://addons.basilisk-browser.org/addon/ematrix/

Here are  AstroSkipper's settings for eMatrix:

 

Edited September 26, 2023 by anton12

[roytam1]

On 8/10/2023 at 4:44 PM, roytam1 said:

and "rule of law" is officially a joke now.

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/10/hong-kong-leader-should-outweigh-courts-in-national-security-matters-govt-says-after-protest-song-ban-rejected/

alright there is news about it: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3235576/new-arguments-fresh-court-bid-ban-protest-song-glory-hong-kong-revealed-government

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Several additional arguments were submitted to the appeal court on September 6 and a hearing is expected to take place on December 19.

 

[Fritz_Geiger]

On 9/25/2023 at 11:23 PM, UCyborg said:

Works in both NM27 and NM28 here...have you tried it on fresh profile?

Great thanks!
Last messages encourage me to try again.

Usually I do all experiments with absolutely clean profile -
my file NM_clean.CMD has
start palemoon.exe -no-remote -profile .\pr_clean
and the directory pr_clean is absent.

But, in case of Norwell,
as I am interested in processing my real/ripe file places.sqlite,
I wanted to preserve it from default purge,
so I run its install ("Open File..." bla-bla-bla.XPI)
from the not-so-clean profile -
there was my file user.js
with abovementioned
"places.history.expiration.interval_seconds"
and
"places.history.expiration.max_pages".
And some other preferences,
that I considered to be safe, f. e.
"browser.cache.compression_level",
"browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser",
"browser.startup.page"
and so on, up to the famous
"reversecowgirl_enabled".

After an hour of tests I was ashamed.

If
"extensions.alwaysUnpack" is true
(as I mentioned, sometimes I play with source code)
when installing Norwell, it will not function.

AFAIK, it is a first such error in FF life -
at least in my FF life -
add-on working from XPI only.

Extremely strange.

[roytam1]

Notice: webp CVE-2023-5129 is the new number of CVE-2023-4863 (of chrome), so nothing is needed to be done this time.

EDIT: no, it seems to be another one: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr115/rev/5241232a3292943bd59ff1704eab60fee3cbc9d1

EDIT2: ... but why a VP8 encoder threading bug can get CVE 10.0 score?

Edited September 28, 2023 by roytam1

[UCyborg]

20 hours ago, Fritz_Geiger said:

If
"extensions.alwaysUnpack" is true
(as I mentioned, sometimes I play with source code)
when installing Norwell, it will not function.

AFAIK, it is a first such error in FF life -
at least in my FF life -
add-on working from XPI only.

Extremely strange.

Good catch! Things like that don't seem that unusual to me in the world of FF extensions. See if it works for you if you modify 1st line in chrome.manifest from:

content norwell /

To:

content norwell ./

Though I prefer the organization of files that's more resembling the organization of other files browser uses and many other extensions, so:

norwell_history_tools-3.1.0.3-fx+pm+sm.xpi

Other changes:

• Compatibility data in install.rdf file was updated so it installs into SeaMonkey, Pale Moon is targeted as well along with some others, though I suspect those others also use IDs of more known browsers.
• Icon has been added to its entry in History menu, to the history window/tab and in extension's entry on the add-ons page.
• Title has been added to the history window/tab.

[dmiranda]

On 9/25/2023 at 4:00 PM, Fritz_Geiger said:

I personally do not worship "fit"/skinny one,
I prefer full-size/voluptuous, as Gianna Michaels.
Well, I do not reject Stoya or Doris Ivy or Little Caprice...
but I had to choose only one.

Completely understandable.

[Fritz_Geiger]

20 hours ago, UCyborg said:

don't seem that unusual to me in the world of FF extensions

I have a (huge) lot of FF/NM's backups, starting from 3.6.28 times.
And all the installed add-ons are unpacked.
So I did search all files 'chrome.manifest' containing 'content '.

Total 98 add-ons found.

All entries are structured as
content [add-on nickname] [value].

Typical values are:
jar:chrome/[bla-bla-bla].jar!/[*]
content/
content/[bla-bla-bla]/
chrome/content/
chrome/content/[bla-bla-bla]/
chrome/[bla-bla-bla]/content/

Rare but functioning values are:
./
chrome/

Unusual and non-functioning value, present only in Norwell, is:
/

The next question is -
why slash works within archive and do not work in directory?
Is it somehow connected with WXP rules that treats slashes?

I think that it is within a step to off-topic.
But just now the question is about
why/how WXP behaves differently,
including possible influence of some long-lasting
FF/PM/NM unZIP-on-the-fly library.

20 hours ago, UCyborg said:

norwell_history_tools-3.1.0.3-fx+pm+sm.xpi

This version is not mentioned in
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2860307
Is there any source that can be recomended
to JustOff to include in CAA?

[AstroSkipper]

1 hour ago, Fritz_Geiger said:

I think that it is within a step to off-topic.

Yep! FYI, if you want to discuss modifications, changes, corrections, or anything else related to legacy extensions for UXP browsers more deeply, then you can transfer your discussion about it to my thread Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations, only if wanted, of course. That thread was created by me especially for this purpose. In the first post of my thread, you will find more information about it. However, @roytam1's thread here actually aims more at his browser editions, related issues, and rather rarely extensions. Anyway! Talking about legacy extensions here is not totally off-topic, either.

Greetings, AstroSkipper 

Edited September 28, 2023 by AstroSkipper
Update of content

[UCyborg]

3 hours ago, Fritz_Geiger said:

The next question is -
why slash works within archive and do not work in directory?
Is it somehow connected with WXP rules that treats slashes?

Probably a question for MCP folks, I think the rules are set by the UXP platform. (Or maybe not, assuming explanation below is correct - I edited the post.) If by WXP you mean Windows XP, then no, it's not XP specific. I didn't even test on XP when I found the problem. I see the same error when running Pale Moon on Linux:

From what I can see, \some_file.ext on Windows means some_file.ext in the root directory of current directory, so likely C:\some_file.ext. It would make sense if the UXP platform prevents access there, which I think it does. Backslash vs. slash, I don't think it matters much, it's probably handled either by the platform or maybe Windows allows normal slashes anyway...Windows is an oddball since it normally uses backslashes for paths while everything else uses slashes and it's common for cross-platform software to use slashes for paths, at least on the exterior.

On Linux, well, - / - root is root.
. (dot) before slash (or backslash on Windows) means current directory. So for relative path, you can directly specify the first component (file/folder) you want to go to from directory where you are, but if you must use a slash at the beginning, it must be preceded by dot as otherwise, the meaning changes totally. Rules of navigating the file system.

When the extension remains packed, then the rules of the library handling ZIP files apply. You're working with the content of the file in that case, not underlying file system paths.

3 hours ago, Fritz_Geiger said:

This version is not mentioned in
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2860307

I modded the original yesterday and put it on my Google Drive. Maybe I'll put it on my GitHub some day.

Edited September 28, 2023 by UCyborg

[VistaLover]

@roytam1 : Hi, hope you're doing well ...

Very recently, Basilisk-Dev committed some clean-up code with regards to the unused Mozilla Crash Reporter feature and, additionally, to Mozilla telemetry, iOS and android unused remnants; basically, look inside: 

https://repo.palemoon.org/Basilisk-Dev/Basilisk/compare/6e626eb9e...d2d6c6c79

Do you think those ones that are applicable to "our own" Serpent 52.9.0 can be included in this weekend's St52 imminent release? Thanks for your hard efforts!

Edited September 29, 2023 by VistaLover

[roytam1]

1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

@roytam1 : Hi, hope you're doing well ...

Very recently, Basilisk-Dev committed some clean-up code with regards to the unused Mozilla Crash Reporter feature and, additionally, to Mozilla telemetry, iOS and android unused remnants; basically, look inside: 

https://repo.palemoon.org/Basilisk-Dev/Basilisk/compare/6e626eb9e...d2d6c6c79

Do you think those ones that are applicable to "our own" Serpent 52.9.0 can be included in this weekend's St52 imminent release? Thanks for your hard efforts!

it is too late to be in my builds this week.

and for android removal will need extra works here, since there is more remnants about android in my tree.