My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[UCyborg]

3 hours ago, Asp said:

I can enter a search term in DDG's search box and get a page of results. But every link gives me a "400 Bad Request" page.

Apparently the DDG server thinks I am doing something nasty.

Yes, you're using uncertified browser and not pretending to be using a certified browser.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=31724

Check your user agent, should include Firefox for DDG to be happy.

2 hours ago, Nicholas McAnespy said:

Visual C++ 2013

Did you mean Visual Studio 2013? What's the difference? They all look the same to me when it comes to core stuff. From what I remember, MS didn't offer separate IDEs for different languages since late 90s.

2 hours ago, Nicholas McAnespy said:

I heard they reduced the bitrate for their videos. I've never used a 1080p camera, and I don't have much experience with 720p either, but a 640x480 video needs a minimum bitrate of 500 Kbps, but 1 Mbps should typically be high enough if encoded using h264, but there are circumstances when even 2 Mbps isn't very high. Videos with high motion will need a higher bitrate than videos where the camera doesn't move. A bright location will need much higher bitrate than a dark location will. I also believe targeting a constant bitrate will cause more blurriness than targeting a variable bitrate.

I should probably re-download the favorite 1080p stuff in H.264. I noticed in this video when set to H.264 @ 1080p, bitrate goes to about 5000 kbps in some parts, eg. around 12:20, at least that's what PotPlayer shows.

 

Another performance thread popped up in recent times.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=31703

I have a hunch it could be faster if anyone had any clue how to make it faster.

[roytam1]

5 hours ago, Asp said:

I don't know if this is the right place to report issues,  please advise if not.

I'm using New Moon on WinXP SP3. 

Problem with DuckDuckGo for a while now, and update to the latest New Moon 2024-10-24 did not help.

I can enter a search term in DDG's search box and get a page of results. But every link gives me a "400 Bad Request" page.

Apparently the DDG server thinks I am doing something nasty.

No problem using other browsers on other devices at home, so my IP isn't blacklisted. And Google is working fine. Disabling uBlock for the site did not help.

check your user agent compatibility setting, change it to Firefox if it isn't.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, UCyborg said:

Another performance thread popped up in recent times.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=31703

What I see is a bunch of "death to Google" folks complaining that the reason for the slowness is "Chromium-exclusive" features.

This is pure BS, if I may be so bold.  There really is no such thing as a "Chromium-exclusive" feature.

ECMAScript is not owned or operated by Google!

Google did not "write" ECMA-262.  They only implemented it and "competed" with Mozilla and the rest of the "world" in HOW they would IMPLEMENT IT.

Google did not "write" ECMAScript2015 (ES6).  They only implemented it and "competed" with Mozilla and the rest of the "world" in HOW they would IMPLEMENT IT.

Heck, as far as that goes, ECMA-262 "first edition" is dated June 1997.

Google Chrome didn't even exist until 2008!

It's all based on COMPETITION.  Hating Google is no different than hating the New York Yankees or the Boston Celtics or the Green Bay Packers - people love to hate "winners" and root for the underdog instead.

 

[Leokids123]

@roytam1 Should look at his fork that i made some pull requests improving Retrozilla,to make SSL suite preferences more consistent and make web browsing less annoying,the same thing @Nicholas McAnespy did with his fork,I'd call him ClassicNick but he's phasing out that name for no reason.

[roytam1]

1 hour ago, Leokids123 said:

@roytam1 Should look at his fork that i made some pull requests improving Retrozilla,to make SSL suite preferences more consistent and make web browsing less annoying,the same thing @Nicholas McAnespy did with his fork,I'd call him ClassicNick but he's phasing out that name for no reason.

I don't think renaming TLS1.3 pref names to SSL3 is a good idea.

[Leokids123]

51 minutes ago, roytam1 said:

I don't think renaming TLS1.3 pref names to SSL3 is a good idea.

It's for consistency with other pref names that are just named SSL3,doesn't need much explanation.

[modnar]

15 hours ago, Asp said:

I don't know if this is the right place to report issues,  please advise if not.

I'm using New Moon on WinXP SP3. 

Problem with DuckDuckGo for a while now, and update to the latest New Moon 2024-10-24 did not help.

I can enter a search term in DDG's search box and get a page of results. But every link gives me a "400 Bad Request" page.

Apparently the DDG server thinks I am doing something nasty.

No problem using other browsers on other devices at home, so my IP isn't blacklisted. And Google is working fine. Disabling uBlock for the site did not help.

Perhaps try startpage.com (a NL based privacy search page that searches with Google, while the Duck searches with Bing).

[UCyborg]

9 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

This is pure BS, if I may be so bold.  There really is no such thing as a "Chromium-exclusive" feature.

It's getting old. Old men yelling at the clouds? Though I get the same vibes on this forum.

But their work is still impressive, especially considering it's not copy-paste of current Firefox or Chrome.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

32 minutes ago, UCyborg said:

their work is still impressive

Agreed.  I actually used Official Pale Moon for several years as my default.  I went from IE6 to Official Firefox to Sleipnir to GreenBrowser to Official Pale Moon to Mypal to New Moon to 360Chrome to Ungoogled Chromium.

With many MANY dozens upon DOZENS scattered throughout just for experimentation.

[Kmuland]

@roytam1

My most sincere gratitude for your work and releases... I continue using them in all my machines over the years!! Thanks a lot for your patience and time.

 

A question.

What  adblocker is recommend to use with NM28?

Sometimes I suspect that ublockorigin is just another piece of spyware... the telemetry removed by roytam1 is back again with the adblock addon that I install.

Advice and comments are welcome.

[vinifera]

On 10/26/2024 at 9:44 PM, modnar said:

Perhaps try startpage.com (a NL based privacy search page that searches with Google, while the Duck searches with Bing).

isn't it other way around ?

DDG to use filtered google and StrtPG uses bing ?

[Asp]

On 10/26/2024 at 7:47 PM, UCyborg said:

Check your user agent, should include Firefox for DDG to be happy.
 

User Agent is the default:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.7) Goanna/6.7 PaleMoon/33.2

 

If "Mozilla" isn't what they want,, what should it be?

I installed the Sasuga add-on to have site-specific user agents.  (https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/sasuga/)

Maybe that will let me use Twitter again. Have been locked out of that for a while too.

 

 

Edited October 29, 2024 by Asp

[modnar]

8 hours ago, vinifera said:

isn't it other way around ?

DDG to use filtered google and StrtPG uses bing ?

Read for example here and here. That is to say startpage.com now apparently uses Bing too as well as all the others...

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Personally, I DO NOT TRUST DUCKDUCKGO !!!

While I'm sure there is a method to prevent this, I've not dug deep, but "by default", DUCKDUCKGO DISABLES UBO (at least it disables AdNauseum which is a fork of uBO)!

The green icon is BAD, it is the website turning OFF my adblocker!!!

[Sampei.Nihira]

@NotHereToPlayGames

Try this:

https://start.duckduckgo.com/

P.S.

I use Start.DDG with search settings, with custom links,no problem:

Edited October 29, 2024 by Sampei.Nihira