I......i think i figured out what the cause was: the firefox addon Poper Blocker. I disabled it, tried it in normal mode, and the cloudflare loop resolved. Yet for some reason, even when this addon...

would this prefs file help?

yep. i had the thought that maybe it was the cookies my browser had, so i used ccleaner to get rid of the specific cookies to ff(dot)net and the one othe rnsfw website, and gave it another...

tl;dr in firefox, the cloudflare verification for at least two websites (used to be just the one; also the second one IS NSFW), one of which is fanfiction(dot)net, shoves me in a verification loop....

I [EXTREMELY REDACTED FROM OVER-ENTHUSIASM] GOT IT!!!!!!!!!

So TL;DR, i have this program, NTLite, it lets me futz around with windows directly, or with the actual install.wim file itself from a...

My C: Drive was at 95% good, D: Drive was at 98% good, currently trying those fixes in that article rn

none of the potential issues were flagged, and the detection details said BITS was already active

I have not changed permissions on the windowsapps folder, i kept it at default. and i did try the windows apps troubleshooter, did absolutely nothing, nor did it fix anything

The repair install did work properly, at least in the way that i didn't get a "couldn't finish install, rolling back changes" message. And after it finished, windows update did download and install...

So.....uh....out of the blue, the microsoft store app on my computer has decided to completely die. Like, it won't open, at all.....no matter what i do. I ran the holy trinity (dism, chkdsk, sfc),...

cloudflare no longer flashbanges me with the discord light theme, it is back at proper dark mode again.....and i didn't do anything at all

i....shall choose NOT to look a gift horse in the mouth,...

Basically when i go to google translate in firefox, the input section has its language selection set to swedish instead of Detect Language......and idk when it got like that. weird enough, when i try...

one website that uses it is an NSFW website, but another that i frequent a bunch that uses it is fanfiction.net

I think there's a few more that i visited, some of them may/may not be NSFW, but i...

(if the following topic doesn't really end up counting/belonging in the browser & email section, feel free to move it to where is appropriate)

So lately when i browse the internet and i go onto...

I know this thread is basically done, but i wanted to add this anyway. on the possibility that this was a PUP, yesterday, i installed malwarebytes temporarily, did a scan, and besides some false...

aaaaaand its gone....just vanished after i accidentally shut off my browser when doing something and opened it back up......damn weird tho :/

guess its all good now?

Version of firefox in second screenshot, on Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

so i only NOW just noticed this (toolbar screenshot)......the heck is that?

this was it. I should've said the address bar looked a bit more slimmer and less WIDER, not longer. I used vivetool and enabled that feature, it all looks normal again, thanks :D

I only now noticed this, but the address bar here in file explorer looks a bit smaller than i last remembered....any chance there's a tutorial that can show me how i can make it a bit wider, or is...

i think i figured it out, although the sheer fact of it is.....both weird and very F-Word'ing stupid: its the Menu Bar/Bookmark Toolbar. if i have either/or turned off, and load firescans.xyz, the...

im running the most current stable 64-Bit release of firefox at the time of this post (120.0.1)

so the tl;dr is i can't seem to load firescans.xyz right. it gives me the cloudflare loading screen...

i apologize for any confusion over this, i did not intend this to think that i WANTED to defrag my SSD, i know that instead of defragging, it TRIMS it instead. overall, i guess i got my answer, and...

So i got bored and decided to futz around with HxD, and found out that if i had two files of the same format, and opened both in a hex editor like HxD, i could copy all the Hex values from one and...

true, but i swear i still could at one point before this happened

TL;DR at one random morning, i opened this and saw that the Optimize Drives program will no longer let me analyze my SSD drives for some reason. I did the holy trinity of error check tools (dism,...