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John Prine was born in Maywood, IL which is adjacent to Chicago, IL the city in which I was born, raised and live. I’ve seen John perform, many, many times. His Thanksgiving shows, somewhat of a tradition for quite a while, were always memorable because he’d bring out members of his family to join him on stage. His last performance in Chicago was on April 27, 2018 at the historic Chicago Theatre.  It was his finest show in “Chicago” in quite some time. For those interested, you can find the setlist here: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/john-prine/2018/the-chicago-theatre-chicago-il-3ec71b3.html . There exist links to versions of all the songs performed that night to the right of each title.  It’s as good an introduction to John’s body of work as anything.  Fittingly, as it turns out, he was joined by his older brother Dave, on fiddle, for the last song “Paradise”.  “Paradise” comes from John’s first album and is noteworthy, not only because the song is about his family’s history, but also because he recorded the song not only Dave Prine, but his best friend, the late Steve Goodman.  John was a great songwriter, distinct American voice and a very giving person.

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Steve, Perq, SueW, woody, Myst

It might still require manual updating.  In any event, it can be downloaded here: https://www.waterfox.net/releases/

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Nathan Parker

I successfully installed kb3133977 in May 2016. Do I have to run bcdboot.exe, which I have in two locations, system32 and winsx64\amd64, on my hard drive and do I have to run it in both locations?  Thanks.

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jburk07

Is there any particular urgency to patch now to address CVE-2019-0722?  Thanks.

I don’t know if this indicates anything, but with both the security update and the IE update, and the “pciclearstalecache” file in the same folder with the other two files, once you hit the install tab, for a fraction of a second, you will see some sort of message flash about the cache file being enabled, or something like that.  As I’ve already installed the updates on my two computers, I am sorry I can’t provide the exact message that flashes.

Thanks, this is great!  One stop shopping for both files.  Many thanks.

Thanks, I see it now.  Really, appreciate you guys keeping us up to date.

PK, I am a bit confused, this happens a lot to me :).  I am in Group B and the last security only update I installed was the April 2019: KB 409310.   I see the May Security only update in AKB2000003 but I don’t see anything for the pciclearstalecache file. What am I missing? What should I do when I decide to install the May update?  Could you kindly break this down a bit more?  Thanks.

Perhaps this is idiosycratic to my setup, Dell Desktop Computer, Win 7, Group B, Waterfox is my main browser, but KB4491113 caused a significant disruption to my start-up programs and caused other oddities with my boot-up to the desktop, including slowing it down.  Once KB4491113 was removed, via the Windows Update protocol, everything immediately went back to normal.  As Group B IE updates are cumulative, I will wait until the March update appears stable before trying an IE KB.

I wanted to write an update on what I find to be the state of the Waterfox/Pale Moon/Basilsk browser comparison.  The week of January 11, 2019, was not a good week for Basilisk.  A decision was made to reverse the attempt to make Basilisk fully compatible with WebExtensions.  What this did, summarily, was to disable any WebExtension a person might be running.  If this was all the reversal did the problems that ensued would not have been as profound.  However, there seem to be quite a number of extensions people have been running, for some time, in the pre-Firefox 60 days, which were hybrid extensions.  These extensions had, at least, some WebExtension code inside them.  For instance, I had two of these, and one of them had pre-WebExtension code in it since November 2017.  When I updated Basilisk my partial WebExtension code extensions failed to work in some manor or another.  Others had similar experiences when they updated Basilisk.  Eventually, I was able to get back my extensions, by finding old versions of the extensions that did not contain any WebExtension code, but it was not a pleasant task, although some on the Basilisk/Pale Moon support page tried their best to be helpful.

Additionally, Basilisk made another change, at the same time as the WebExtension change, that being the look of the Add-Ons Manager.  Gone was the familiar pre-Firefox 60 look we Firefoxers are all familiar with and it was replaced by the same simple, less informative, Pale Moon Add-Ons Manager look.

At the same time I was having trouble with Basilisk, I gave another look at Waterfox.  The strides the Waterfox developer has made since I tried it last year are amazing.  I was able to port my Basilisk profile right into Waterfox and, with a tweak here and there, a reinstall of some extensions, I was up and running in no time.

Over the course of a couple of days, I compared the modified Basilisk browser, with my extensions restored, with the Waterfox browser, with my pre-existing extensions in place, and I have come to the conclusion that I now prefer Waterfox.  It seems faster and less quirky than Basilisk.  Thus, it has become my post Firefox 59 browser.  Additionally, I have a suspicion the decision to start using the Pale Moon Add-Ons Manager might signal that, at the very least, the developers of PaleMoon and Basilisk are contemplating merging the two browsers at some point.

So, if you are running Basilisk, or Pale Moon, and have a 64-bit OS, Waterfox may now be the best successor to pre-Firefox 60 around.  It is for me.

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OscarCP

Susan, Thanks for the clarification.

I think it would be helpful, at this point in time, if there was a clear statement on the status of the Activation Verification issue and the subsequent hotfix.  Is the hotfix still needed?  If so, should it be installed before the Security Only or the Security Rollup updates?  Does the answer to these first two questions depend on whether one is in Group A or Group B?  Does this whole thing require Woody writing a January 2019 Windows Updates for Dummies book ?  Thanks.

I’m sorry, I cannot answer your question. It was so long ago, I’ve forgotten the issues with Waterfox.

The developers of Pale Moon also have the Basilisk project: http://www.basilisk-browser.org/ which is more pre-Firefox 60.0 than Pale Moon and one of the members of the Pale Moon/Basilisk team is responsible for the Classic Add-On Archive: https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive.  I migrated to Basilisk, while I was running FF ESR, and everything works perfectly, although there were one or two tweaks needed to get to perfect.  I was even able to port my FF ESR profile directly into Basilisk, although this is not recommended.  At the time I did my migration, Basilisk was far less buggy than Waterfox, but I don’t know what advancements the developer of Waterfox has made since I tried it in the fall of 2018.  But note, all of these are somewhat slower the Firefox.  How much that matters is a personal decision but, for me, the trade off of keeping my add-ons more than makes up for the slightly slower speed.