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  #1  
Old May 25th 17, 06:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
and Windows firewall.

(1) TB HD
Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz
Ram 12.0 GB
System type : 64-bit operating system

I also have

I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional,
SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
and Windows firewall.

Intel (R) Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz
4GB RAM, 750 GB HD
System type : 64-bit operating system

and (external hard drives)

Seagate Backup Plus 1(TB) 2.5 USB Portable HD

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200
RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
Hard Drive


My question is that when ever I go to Fox News
the video's are staggered instead of just playing
all the way through it keeps cycling

http://www.foxnews.com/

and many times it just locks up or goes into some
sort of loop? Also backspacing is useless. I have
no problems like this with any other site e.g. MSN
or Yahoo so it Fox ? I have the latest version of
Adobe Flash Player. Just curious, because I like to
read all the news and it's kinda of hard to do on Fox.

Thanks,
Robert
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  #2  
Old May 25th 17, 07:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Mark Twain wrote:

My question is that when ever I go to Fox News
the video's are staggered instead of just playing
all the way through it keeps cycling

http://www.foxnews.com/

and many times it just locks up or goes into some
sort of loop? Also backspacing is useless. I have
no problems like this with any other site e.g. MSN
or Yahoo so it Fox ? I have the latest version of
Adobe Flash Player. Just curious, because I like to
read all the news and it's kinda of hard to do on Fox.

Thanks,
Robert


You could try another browser. This is similar to Google
Chrome. Chrome has the closed source Google side, as
well as the "Chromium" open-source version. The people
in this case, take Chromium and modify it a tiny bit.
As the article explains, to not a great effect. It's not
really materially better. It just presets some things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

http://www.srware.net/en/software_sr...n_download.php

Datum: 03.05.2017
Version: 58.0.3050.0

http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe

(A person visiting with a WinXP machine will receive version 49)

Once installed, if you go to this page, all the media tests should
be "tick marked". That means as far as Youtube is concerned, Iron
has a working set of HTML5 video features.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

The Chrome family of browsers used PepperFlash. This is "PPAPI"
rather than the "NPAPI" that Firefox Flash uses. NPAPI can be
auto-updated by Adobe, or manually updated by the user.

Google Chrome has a Google version of Flash built in. As far
as I know, Google takes care of updating the PPAPI Flash plugin in Chrome.

On SRWare Iron, the Flash can be manually operated.

You go here, to get Flash to use with Iron browser.

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Step 1: "Windows 7/Vista/XP"
Step 2: "FP 25 for Opera and Chromium - PPAPI"

In the middle column, untick the optional offer!!!
Adobe bundles adware, unless you untick stuff.

Then go to the yellow-orange "Download now" button.

I'm offered "flashplayer25pp_ga_install.exe". That's
an approximately 1MB downloader stub, which will deliver
a 20MB flash plugin when you execute it.

It's also possible to get the file directly. I haven't
tested that this is the same file, as the stub download program
would have delivered.

https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/fla...ayer_ppapi.exe

You run that, after Iron is installed. Then in Iron,
enter this URL and verify the Flash version it is using.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

Then go test Foxnews again.

Paul
  #3  
Old May 25th 17, 04:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Darrell[_2_]
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On Thu, 25 May 2017 02:59:23 -0400, Paul wrote:

You could try another browser. This is similar to Google
Chrome. Chrome has the closed source Google side, as
well as the "Chromium" open-source version. The people
in this case, take Chromium and modify it a tiny bit.
As the article explains, to not a great effect. It's not
really materially better. It just presets some things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

http://www.srware.net/en/software_sr...n_download.php

Datum: 03.05.2017
Version: 58.0.3050.0

http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe

(A person visiting with a WinXP machine will receive version 49)


Do you know if viewing videos from Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook is
possable with 'SRWare Iron'on Windows XP?
Sadly, Chrome is the only browser I'm aware of that does (on Windows
XP). FF and Chromium do not.

Examples(membership/sign-on is not necessary):
https://twitter.com/AP/status/865525080884891649
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4Qu-bh...y=animalplanet
https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/vid...951336/?type=1
  #4  
Old May 25th 17, 05:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Darrell wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2017 02:59:23 -0400, Paul wrote:

You could try another browser. This is similar to Google
Chrome. Chrome has the closed source Google side, as
well as the "Chromium" open-source version. The people
in this case, take Chromium and modify it a tiny bit.
As the article explains, to not a great effect. It's not
really materially better. It just presets some things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

http://www.srware.net/en/software_sr...n_download.php

Datum: 03.05.2017
Version: 58.0.3050.0

http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe

(A person visiting with a WinXP machine will receive version 49)


Do you know if viewing videos from Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook is
possable with 'SRWare Iron'on Windows XP?
Sadly, Chrome is the only browser I'm aware of that does (on Windows
XP). FF and Chromium do not.

Examples(membership/sign-on is not necessary):
https://twitter.com/AP/status/865525080884891649
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4Qu-bh...y=animalplanet
https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/vid...951336/?type=1


On twitter.com/AP right now, there is a video of Queen Elizabeth
paying a visit to a bombing victim. The video auto-played.
So yes, I was able to view a video on the first page.

When it comes to commercial sites, the "wrapper" around the
video makes all the difference.

But in terms of supporting basic capabilities, it's the
best browser I've got for video. When stuff won't play on the
others, that's the *only* time I run Iron. Iron is only for
"tough video problems". It's not my everyday surf machine.

Paul
  #5  
Old May 26th 17, 02:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 11:59:28 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Mark Twain wrote:

My question is that when ever I go to Fox News
the video's are staggered instead of just playing
all the way through it keeps cycling

http://www.foxnews.com/

and many times it just locks up or goes into some
sort of loop? Also backspacing is useless. I have
no problems like this with any other site e.g. MSN
or Yahoo so it Fox ? I have the latest version of
Adobe Flash Player. Just curious, because I like to
read all the news and it's kinda of hard to do on Fox.

Thanks,
Robert


You could try another browser. This is similar to Google
Chrome. Chrome has the closed source Google side, as
well as the "Chromium" open-source version. The people
in this case, take Chromium and modify it a tiny bit.
As the article explains, to not a great effect. It's not
really materially better. It just presets some things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

http://www.srware.net/en/software_sr...n_download.php

Datum: 03.05.2017
Version: 58.0.3050.0

http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe

(A person visiting with a WinXP machine will receive version 49)

Once installed, if you go to this page, all the media tests should
be "tick marked". That means as far as Youtube is concerned, Iron
has a working set of HTML5 video features.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

The Chrome family of browsers used PepperFlash. This is "PPAPI"
rather than the "NPAPI" that Firefox Flash uses. NPAPI can be
auto-updated by Adobe, or manually updated by the user.

Google Chrome has a Google version of Flash built in. As far
as I know, Google takes care of updating the PPAPI Flash plugin in Chrome.

On SRWare Iron, the Flash can be manually operated.

You go here, to get Flash to use with Iron browser.

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Step 1: "Windows 7/Vista/XP"
Step 2: "FP 25 for Opera and Chromium - PPAPI"

In the middle column, untick the optional offer!!!
Adobe bundles adware, unless you untick stuff.

Then go to the yellow-orange "Download now" button.

I'm offered "flashplayer25pp_ga_install.exe". That's
an approximately 1MB downloader stub, which will deliver
a 20MB flash plugin when you execute it.

It's also possible to get the file directly. I haven't
tested that this is the same file, as the stub download program
would have delivered.

https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/fla...ayer_ppapi.exe

You run that, after Iron is installed. Then in Iron,
enter this URL and verify the Flash version it is using.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

Then go test Foxnews again.

Paul



I always thought Chrome was bad but as you
say it's been tweeked but seems allot to do
just to read the news on one site and you
know my history. If it isn't broken ,.... *L*

Robert




  #6  
Old May 30th 17, 01:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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Default O.T. Fox News

I don't know if it has anything to
do with the problem but the last day
or so I keep getting this message
when trying to contact Outlook/Hotmail.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2e3vjpj.jpg


However, I can log onto Outlook via
Explorer. I also looked at Fox News
and MSN and 'seemed' better although
it didn't have the usual stories on
the side on Fox News.


Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert
  #7  
Old May 30th 17, 07:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default O.T. Fox News

Mark Twain wrote:
I don't know if it has anything to
do with the problem but the last day
or so I keep getting this message
when trying to contact Outlook/Hotmail.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2e3vjpj.jpg


However, I can log onto Outlook via
Explorer. I also looked at Fox News
and MSN and 'seemed' better although
it didn't have the usual stories on
the side on Fox News.


Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert


For some reason, I'm not able to view the tinypic link above.

*******

I can show you a sample of Foxnews, as viewed from Canada.
By geolocation, they will show me different articles and
advertising than you will see. But at least if your
browser is currently hijacked, the format in my
picture may represent what you're used to.

https://s29.postimg.org/kjqeugvrr/fox_sample.jpg

Near the four red squares at the bottom in the "Market"
section, is a video window on the right. And at the moment,
that video window was autoplaying. There was no sound.
The other video windows just presented static images.

Paul


  #8  
Old May 31st 17, 01:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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Here you go :

https://s7.postimg.org/tgo0qsc8n/image.jpg

In any case I'm able to login again
and the News is OK again. Your Fox News
looks like mine on FF but not on Explorer

https://s23.postimg.org/lzfj4e4tz/14_Fox.jpg

As you can see it's missing the stories on
the right hand side.

Robert
  #9  
Old May 31st 17, 02:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default O.T. Fox News

Mark Twain wrote:
Here you go :

https://s7.postimg.org/tgo0qsc8n/image.jpg

In any case I'm able to login again
and the News is OK again. Your Fox News
looks like mine on FF but not on Explorer

https://s23.postimg.org/lzfj4e4tz/14_Fox.jpg

As you can see it's missing the stories on
the right hand side.

Robert


When I upload a photo to the postimg page,
I use the "two browser method".

In one browser, I do the upload and get the link
from the copy/paste region at the bottom of the page.

In the second browser, I paste the link, then verify
I got the right piece of stuff copied.

As it's very easy to copy a "thumbnail", instead
of a full sized image.

Paul
  #10  
Old May 31st 17, 03:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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That's how I did it I thought?
You've seen all my other screen
shots and they didn't have any
issues and I didn't do anything
different this time. I used Tinypic

I spoke too soon,. Fox on FF is
again cycling and stopping/starting
during the broadcast. Same as before.

Robert

 




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