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General Software Discussion / Re: Why does Mozilla claim that my version 18 is a version 11?

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2013, 06:58 PM »

Try changing the userAgent^w that's sent forward either permanently:

Changing User Agent in Firefox

or on a per site basis:

UAControl

Note that these methods won't interfere with reporting the correct userAgent if it's via JavaScript but it might allow you to install later versions from Mozilla' addon site.

eg. To emulate Firefox 18 try a userAgent string of: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20130108 Firefox/18.0.1

For current v20 alpha try: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130108 Firefox/20.0a1

Get the Firefox release dates from here: Rapid/Release Calendar

To check what your browser reports, go to Analyze My Browser, click on the Browser tab and scroll down to Navigator.

Download the current version of Firefox Portable, see what it reports then substitute that string in.

eg. To get Firebug 1.11.1 installed:
1) Change the userAgent to: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130108 Firefox/20.0a1
2) Right click and choose Save As... on the button, don't just click it.  This will download v1.11.1, (if you don't change the userAgent you get 1.7.3).
3) Open the xpi with a zip program and edit the install.rdf file, new values for minVersion and maxVersion:

Code: Text [Select]

1. <!-- Firefox -->
2.     <em:targetApplication>
3.       <Description>
4.         <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
5.         <em:minVersion>15.0</em:minVersion>
6.         <em:maxVersion>21.0a1</em:maxVersion>
7.       </Description>
8.     </em:targetApplication>

4) Resave the install.rdf back into the archive (xpi).
5) Drop it on Pale Moon' window, it should install - it did here.

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Living Room / Re: I did not realize how bad Google has become

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2013, 06:06 PM »

 I haven't used any Google products since they became public back in 2004, when their bread and butter was spying and selling your information to marketers and the government....

-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 04:12 PM)

How is that different from your Government who you pay for the privilege of doing it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2013, 04:54 PM »

...but it also bought about horrid UI paradigms (tabs in title bar), insane numbering schemes etc.

-MrCrispy (January 29, 2013, 04:27 PM)

+1000!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2013, 12:38 AM »

I wasn't defending by any means- I just didn't get what you meant, as basic security could mean a lot of things.

-wraith808 (January 28, 2013, 11:20 PM)

Sorry, didn't mean to appear as if I was jumping on you 

I don't save my passwords in my browser, and have that shut off, as I use 1Password to save my passwords in my browser (and have never used any browser for that, for a few reasons).

Never quite got the hang of using yet another program to store passwords since the only reason I need to store them is for websites, anything else, (banking, LAN, VPS, the important stuff, etc), isn't stored anywhere except in braincells.

Got KeePass on the Android phone so I can always look up the password to a website if I can't remember it but that's about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2013, 08:59 PM »

I have to sign into a web service just to get basic security for the browser?

-4wd (January 28, 2013, 08:11 PM)

Eh?  What do you mean?

-wraith808 (January 28, 2013, 08:41 PM)

Please point out where I can enter a Master Password to encrypt any saved passwords.  Unless it's changed really recently, they've stated that they're not going to do it and they'll implement it by having you log into your Google account, (and that seems to be for syncing your unencrypted passwords so you can have them spread across even more devices).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Correct the Win7 Boot Menu, add Winxp entry...!!!

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2013, 08:50 PM »

So after restoring the XP image i booted from a Win7 Repair Disc and although it corrected the Win7 entry, and after a restart it would boot only to Win7.

-hulkbuster (January 25, 2013, 01:06 AM)

Install EasyBCD and add the XP entry back in again.

How to Add Windows XP to Windows 7 Boot Manager Using EasyBCD

-4wd (January 25, 2013, 05:48 AM)

...i installed it under Win7 first and the entry exitsted for Winxp.

-hulkbuster (January 28, 2013, 03:54 AM)

Did you delete the entry first and then insert it back, (recommended), or just leave it as it was?

But i was hoping for a more concrete approach through repair disc or winpe disc. Any chance i can achieve that , by the disc.

Use bcdedit with the /store parameter but it's easier to boot into 7 and use EasyBCD: Adding Boot Entries

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2013, 08:11 PM »

Firefox or one of its 32/64bit derivatives.

Never really got into Opera, too much like the old Netscape Navigator, tries to do everything instead of doing one thing really, really well, (yes, I know I can just not use the parts I don't want to but then...why have them there in the first place?).

Chrome/Dragon/SW Iron is too crippled.  I have to sign into a web service just to get basic security for the browser?  Give me a break.
Not to mention the interface basically can't be customised to my needs/wants.  I use Dragon Portable occasionally when I just want to quickly look at a site but that's about it.

IE....yes well....everything that applies to Chrome based browsers plus a fair bit more but I do use it occasionally for those sites even more retarded than it, (usually because they can't track me enough in Firefox).

Interesting. I had the same page open in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, and the Chrome version text was noticeably worse - as in OBVIOUSLY!!!!!!! worse.

-Renegade (January 28, 2013, 06:29 AM)

Using Pale Moon and Dragon for comparison, the only difference I can see is that Dragon has less contrast otherwise, on my screen, apart from a 1 pixel difference in spacing that creeps in they are exactly the same.

Pale Moon on top:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Run several programs then shutdown

« Last post by 4wd on January 27, 2013, 06:40 PM »

Over here I wrote a program that checks for the existance of specified running tasks, effectively pausing a batch file until they're all finished.

So you could write a batch file something like:

Code: Text [Select]

1. <path to>\ccleaner.exe
2. <path to>\bleachbit.exe
3. <path to>\defrag.exe c:
4. WTPF.exe ccleaner.exe bleachbit.exe defrag.exe
5. shutdown -s

Or you could set up the tasks in Task Scheduler to be performed at shutdown.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by 4wd on January 27, 2013, 03:21 AM »

Already done way back here and the next couple of posts in the thread.

I hate glaringly white screens.

Code: CSS [Select]

1. @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
2.  
3. @-moz-document domain("www.donationcoder.com") {
4.  
5. /* Outer background - works on complete DC site (without subdomains) */
6. body, #topnavbar, .forumbodytop {
7.   background-color: #444444 !important;
8.   background-image: none !important;
9. }
10.  
11. /* Content background */
12. .windowbg, .post, .windowbgdc, .windowbgdc2b, .windowbg2,
13. .windowbgdc2, .windowbgdc5, td.smalltext {
14.   background-color: #666666 !important;
15. }
16.  
17. /* Quotes, Recent posts */
18. .quote, .code, .orangemed, .orangesmall {
19.   background-color: #aaaaaa !important;
20.   border-color: #828181 !important;
21. }
22.  
23. /* Navigation links (at top DC site + forum tree) */
24. a.nav:visited, #topnavbar a:visited {
25.  color: #C46200 !important;
26. }
27.  
28. a.nav:link, #topnavbar a:link {
29.  color: #1B7FD0 !important;
30. }
31.  
32. a.nav:hover, #topnavbar a:hover {
33.  color: #38A7E2 !important;
34. }
35.  
36. /* Forum tree enhancements */
37. div.nav img[src="https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/icons/folder_open.gif"] {
38.  /* Icon from famfamfam Silk Icon Set - http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ */
39.  background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,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") !important;
40.  background-position: 0px 3px !important;
41.  background-repeat: no-repeat!important;
42.  height: 15px !important;
43.  margin-right: -5px !important;
44.  padding-left: 12px !important;
45.  width: 0 !important;
46. }
47.  
48. div.nav img[src="https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/icons/linktree_side.gif"],
49. div.nav img[src="https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/icons/linktree_main.gif"] {
50.  padding-left: 12px !important;
51.  width: 0 !important;
52. }
53.  
54. /* Code (and other preformatted text?) */
55. pre {
56.   background-color: cornsilk !important;
57. }
58. }

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Living Room / Re: NASA OOPS!

« Last post by 4wd on January 27, 2013, 03:07 AM »

Just in:

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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on

« Last post by 4wd on January 27, 2013, 02:47 AM »

I originally had CRB set to send no referer and then added sites where they needed a referer into RefControl, (which was set to the default of Normal - Send Referer), but then I changed RefControl to Forge and CRB to set the referer as the destination, (Mode 1, equivalent to RefControl Forge mode).

That seems to make all the sites that I've visited happy and I don't need any site specific settings in RefControl, (at least for any sites I've frequented so far).

I also run ProxyTool so that when/if I hit a site that requires something more, I'll have the info available to input into RefControl.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2013, 08:45 PM »

The GreaseMonkey scripts I'm using, ("GoogleMonkeyR" and "I don't want to Install Google Chrome" only added from IainB' mention above, along with the Stylish scripts.

I don't actually use Google much these days so it remains to be seen how useful those two new scripts will be.



One particularly handy addon that's GreaseMonkey related: GreaseFire, (which I mentioned earlier in the thread).

When you visit a web page that has compatible user scripts on Userscripts.org, this extension will highlight the Greasemonkey/Scriptish icon in the toolbar button

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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2013, 08:24 PM »

Well, after three weeks of running Change Referer Button and RefControl my Collusion graph looks like this:



A vast improvement over what it was before - I could probably do away with Change Referer Button as I have both it and RefControl set to forge the destination site but it gives a faster method of switching between modes.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: THQ is no more...

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2013, 05:08 AM »

• Crytek
        To purchase the Homefront license for $544,218.

-lanux128 (January 25, 2013, 01:43 AM)

$544,216 too much - a serious bit of crap that game, I hope Crytek can turn it into something half decent.

Now we know why there's been a lot of THQ bundle sales recently 

-4wd (January 25, 2013, 05:25 PM)

I actually liked the game...

-wraith808 (January 25, 2013, 06:56 PM)

To me it seemed like there was far too much "hand holding" as you were led from one point to another, almost as bad as Battlefield 3 single-player.

I think I played it for about an hour and then went back to Crysis 2....speaking of which, Crysis 3 release is imminent - already I'm drooling 

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Living Room / Re: NASA OOPS!

« Last post by 4wd on January 25, 2013, 09:22 PM »

My guess is it's a piece of the Monolith that's fallen into near Earth orbit. 

more rational

Artifact from a rather poor joining of multiple images.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: THQ is no more...

« Last post by 4wd on January 25, 2013, 05:25 PM »

• Crytek
        To purchase the Homefront license for $544,218.

-lanux128 (January 25, 2013, 01:43 AM)

$544,216 too much - a serious bit of crap that game, I hope Crytek can turn it into something half decent.

Now we know why there's been a lot of THQ bundle sales recently 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Who is still runnig XP?

« Last post by 4wd on January 25, 2013, 05:19 PM »

Still running XP Pro on my download/PVR machine because it works and I'm loath to screw up the DVB-T setup, still running XP Pro on my old Aspire One netbook and XP HP on an old laptop.

Although I'm going to try Win8Pro on the netbook, (before it jumps in price at the end of the month), to see if it's more efficient than XP on an Atom N270 based machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Correct the Win7 Boot Menu, add Winxp entry...!!!

« Last post by 4wd on January 25, 2013, 05:48 AM »

So after restoring the XP image i booted from a Win7 Repair Disc and although it corrected the Win7 entry, and after a restart it would boot only to Win7.

-hulkbuster (January 25, 2013, 01:06 AM)

Install EasyBCD and add the XP entry back in again.

How to Add Windows XP to Windows 7 Boot Manager Using EasyBCD

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General Software Discussion / Re: Requesting a comic book editor

« Last post by 4wd on January 24, 2013, 01:27 AM »

Okay, I tried it out. As a side note (not that I mentioned it before), but I must say that I have never liked online tools because of how long it can take, not to mention needing an internet connection. I was hoping from your writeup that online was optional as well as local view/editing. But, not.

-fdwojo (January 24, 2013, 12:02 AM)

To run locally: download the archive, extract and open the index.html in your browser.

Anyway, I tried it out with a typical CBZ file and I tried it again with a CBR file.  I went thru the process of opening, picked out a few images and deleted them and then the moment of truth: I tried to export to CBZ and boom, it failed.

Any chance of a link to the CBZ you used?

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General Software Discussion / Re: switch black and white in tiff files

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2013, 10:24 PM »

It can handle multi-page tiffs as well.

-Edvard (January 23, 2013, 10:17 PM)

Strange, I thought of XnView yesterday when I read the thread but when I tried a multipage TIFF, (that I created for the test), it resulted in a TIFF with the first page only.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Requesting a comic book editor

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2013, 09:59 PM »

Yep, my bad, because it could view the contents of archives I assumed it would operate on them as most other file managers do.

However, I have found one that works quite well you need a web browser and SilverLight installed.

ComicTool

Comic Tool feature:

• Zooming
• CBZ/CBR support
• Drag file from local machine support
• Editing/Saving
•  - Delete Pages
•  - Add/Reorder Pages?
•  - Save edited comics as PDF
•  - Save viewed file with no changes
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Translation Viewing (via ComicInfo schema with embedded SVG to display foreign languages)
• OOB Support on Windows and OS X

You can view the pages and then right-click->Delete page and when you're finished, right-click->Export CBZ



He mentions having to fix CBZ export on the website but it seemed to work OK for the limited test I did.  Also, there's nothing to stop you from running this from your web server, (if you have one), then as long as the computer you're using has SilverLight you can run it from anywhere.

Addendum to that, he runs it on his server also, so you have an online editor available now here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Requesting a comic book editor

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2013, 09:01 PM »

Never mind, it can't delete within the archive, (nice little explorer though).

PowerArchiver can do it although it isn't free, same with DOpus.

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2013 Giveaway Winners!

« Last post by 4wd on January 21, 2013, 07:18 PM »

Thanks for organising wraith!!

Also thanks to mouser and the people at Hard Disk Sentinel!

Together with the White Elephant fun, all my Christmases have come at once 

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Living Room / Re: PowerPwn: Power strip by day, Hacking device by night!

« Last post by 4wd on January 20, 2013, 03:39 AM »

Raspberry Pi Power Strip

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Living Room / Re: Internet Suicide

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2013, 07:00 PM »

If you want to retain your Google data in some form before nuking the account then check out The Data Liberation Front.