New Mypal 68 release

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    I went and had a look, but could only find 2 source code zips.

    Saying that, the "about" of this mypal browser says 68.13.0b

    did it auto update?

    I still need to use mypal 23.3.0, if I want to see any video
     
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    I just downloaded and tested - seems to work better than previous versions due to javascript engine being updated to 78. Bitchute now works in MyPal 68.

    [​IMG]

    Other sites tested: Youtube, Facebook videos, ESPN videos, CNN videos.

    You can install extensions from addons.mozilla.org

    Going to keep testing and see if I encounter any other issues.

    Mypal 68.13.0b can be downloaded from here:

    https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/218#issuecomment-1604518883
     
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    Right, I can see video is working on sites which I had abandoned because of problems such as youtube, which I was now using through Duckduckgo's search engine page.

    The site I use the most is the BBC for weather & news, but they appear to reject video requests if the "User Agent" is set for firefox compatibility. Gekko & Native are OK.

    As I can't find the User Agent setting in version 68, that's stopped the video from the BBC and necessarily using 68 daily; although I do try it when certain buttons like "place a bid" on ebay UK won't work, instead of using auctionsniper as the work around.

    I have to say the options page is huge, but very little on it compared to 29.3 dialog boxes.

    It seems like "win some / lose some" but I seem to lose more than we win at the moment.
     
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    Download the following addon:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...la.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

    Go to the extension's options menu and paste the following user agent string into the user preset field and hit 'save'.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

    [​IMG]

    If you added the user agent correctly it should appear at the bottom of the list in the extension's drop down menu.

    Go to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/

    You should see this screen:

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    BBC videos should now play in MyPal 68 (they wouldn't play for me either without changing the user agent).

    [​IMG]

    It's sad that websites still rely on user agents rather than browser capability before serving content.

    I also recommend ArcticFoxie's 360Chrome builds for XP. Try it and see if it works better for you.

    https://msfn.org/board/topic/184624-arcticfoxienotheretoplaygames-360chrome-v1352036-rebuild-1/
     
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    here is the top-class test:

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    Clippy,
    I'm glad you're keeping on top of this. I tried both the agent addon & ArcticFoxie's 360Chrome. Both worked a treat although I'm having trouble remembering which browser I'm using these days and where to find things like bookmarks/tabs etc as they are all consonantly changing, so still using 29.3 most of the time.

    Today I noticed this -mypal-68.13.1.en-US.win32.zip
    https://www.mypal-browser.org/download.html

    I tried it for a few minutes, but the tabs at the top drive me to distraction.

    Do you remember firefox's mantra, something about customizing it the way YOU
    wanted it to look, a bit like Microsoft in the 1990's, "all apps to look the same, making
    them easier to use". Well we've certainly moved on from those halcyon days.

    Tim
     
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