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  • Seek XP browser which supports Google Drive

    From Pamela@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 30 15:20:06 2022
    My web browsers on XP no longer display Google Drive's web page properly.
    They don't show the list of folders and files.

    Instead there's a banner saying "A Place For All Your Files". See https://ibb.co/McmdZXV

    This means file downloads from Google Drive are not possible.

    Is there a browser on XP which shows this page properly?

    I've tried:

    Firefox v53
    MyPal v29
    Serpent/Basilisk v52.

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  • From G.F.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 30 20:59:31 2022
    "Pamela" <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:XnsAF229BFF05B3037B93@88.198.57.247...

    Dear Pamela,
    with regard to Internet by now XP is over. I still keep it for lazyness but
    I realize my activity on Internet is hopeless. Every while something in internet no longer works. Our field of action is increasingly restricted.
    It would be time to bury our loved XP.

    GF

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  • From The Mangler@21:1/5 to pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com on Sat Oct 1 02:45:32 2022
    On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:20:06 +0100, Pamela
    <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

    My web browsers on XP no longer display Google Drive's web page properly. >They don't show the list of folders and files.

    Instead there's a banner saying "A Place For All Your Files". See >https://ibb.co/McmdZXV

    This means file downloads from Google Drive are not possible.

    Is there a browser on XP which shows this page properly?

    I've tried:

    Firefox v53
    MyPal v29
    Serpent/Basilisk v52.

    I was in the same situation you are in. I switched to Microsoft
    OneDrive with is working with MyPal.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to G.F. on Sat Oct 1 03:58:35 2022
    On 9/30/2022 2:59 PM, G.F. wrote:
    "Pamela" <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:XnsAF229BFF05B3037B93@88.198.57.247...

    Dear Pamela,
    with regard to Internet by now XP is over. I still keep it for lazyness but
    I realize my activity on Internet is hopeless. Every while something in internet no longer works. Our field of action is increasingly restricted.
    It would be time to bury our loved XP.

    GF

    https://windowsreport.com/best-browser-for-windows-xp/

    # In the comment section.

    nathan 3 weeks
    None of these browsers will load any current webpage in windows XP.

    *******

    Try this one out. Download, is the portable version.
    The empty profile.ini will be populated with a pointer
    to a folder next to the profile.ini .

    https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM76.4.6-Goanna-20221001.7z

    Presumably, that's like Firefox 52.9, at least partially.
    The XUL.dll has a credit to Moonchild Productions. but the
    build would be a fork.

    Paul

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  • From Mayayana@21:1/5 to Pamela on Sat Oct 1 07:54:59 2022
    "Pamela" <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote
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    | This means file downloads from Google Drive are not possible.
    |
    I can usually download files, but I don't remember the
    details offhand. I don't enable script. When the page loads
    it's just a number of URLs because it's really not a webpage.
    It's a script-based software program. Many such things are
    using script that's too noew for older browsers. Javascript
    has gone "cutting edge". I find the same with the website
    for my doctor. I have to use it on a newer computer. XP
    is not the problem. It's the dropped support by browser
    makers, combined with constantly changing web standards
    and lack of backward compatibility from webmasters.

    I think that sometimes one of the links I see is a URL to a file.
    Or maybe sometimes I have to get it from the source code. I'm
    sorry I can't be more helpful. I just don't deal with it very often.
    Sometimes the links will work if you do something like replace
    "edit" with "download".

    Or you could just contact your friend, ask them to learn
    how to use software and stop being a slave to a nasty spyware
    company, and then send you the file in email. I live with a woman
    who supervises college students and she has to do that. The kids
    don't know Google Drive from C drive. She has to ask them to
    save out the file and email it to her.

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