"Mayayana" wrote in
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

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| By the time I saw this thread, the description of the problem -
| assuming Lu Wei was even the OP - had been snipped to what is
| shown above, so I have no idea what the problem actually was.

Lu Wei couldn't open https://msfn.org/board/forum/34-windows-xp/

Surprisingly, my New Moon with just about everything disabled
shows a fully functional website that doesn't even seem to
need script to follow the discussions. Lu Wei later found
he could access it. In the meantime, I suggested he could
get New Moon if he keeps having trouble. In my experience,
userAgent sniffing for no good reason has become an increasing
problem, so it's a good idea to spoof that. But perhaps in
second place is the problem of people writing webpages to
depend on the very latest functionality. And many people
don't realize that they can get a recent version of Mozilla
browser for XP by using New Moon.

So it's a bad combination: Webmasters who often
don't even realize what they've done, produce webpages
that fail with no information when using a browser that's
not fairly new. Meanwhile, XP users use old browsers
because they don't know they can get a new one. More
often than not, the pages will work just fine once the site
is tricked into thinking you have the latest browser on
7, 8, or 10.

A follow-up note on that: New Moon seems to be made
in several versions that are updated concurrently. I don't
know why or what the differences are. But I found that one
of them (v. 27, if I remember correctly) broke my CSS toggle
button extension. Yet the current version I have, 28.10.2a1,
breaks nothing.... Life's little pleasures.

Thank you for your post with instructions on spoofing the UA. I
changed mine in Firefox 52, and it has helped with a few sites
already.

I downloaded the New Moon version you mentioned. I would like to use
it but NoScript extension does not work with it. What do you use to
disenable/enable scripts?

Thanks, Dee