As it's now been well over two years since any new version of Otter has appeared, release or weekly, can I safely assume that this project is now dead, and forget about it? It's very sad, but especially as I believe that Windows XP support is now dropped anyway, my hope of something to replace Opera 12 on my legcacy system is no more.
FWIW it doesn't work on Firefox 52.9.1 ESR on Windows XP either, but that isn't now a supported browser of course. I would report it on GitHub, it's more likely that @Emdek will pick it up there I would have thought.
I'm still on Windows XP, so when I update I extract the files from the zip file of the XP version, and then just move them all across to my Otter folder, overwriting as necessary. That's always woked for me.
Thanks for the new build, and it's now reporting the right version so no more spurious update nags! All working fine, keep up the good work. Thanks, Dave.
Thanks Frenzie, let's hope @Emdek can suggest a reason. I'm sure this is something new, I'm pretty sure I've saved to that folder before in the past without any issues, but that might have been before I made it the XP Documents and Setting user folder. Normally I would suspect a permissions issue, but surely that shouldn't happen with XP, it's not even an NTFS formatted folder, it's FAT32!
In addition to the Otter version problem I now have (see the "Otter and Windows XP" thread) I've now found that when I try to download an update to my XP "Documents and Settings" folder, which is mapped to "E:\Dump Folder" on my archive drive, I get a message saying that "the folder is not writable, choose another". If I hit cancel Otter immediately crashes. There is nothing wrong with the folder I'm trying to save the download to, I write to it all the time with loads of programs! I can save to a subfolder within that folder, but not to the folder itself. Any idea why this might be happening? Thanks, Dave.
After a long gap, I've finally just looked to see if there is an update for weekly #360 on XP, and was pleased to find that there's a weekly #380 available now. After the update, Help>About Otter still says "Otter 1.0.8.1 weekly 360" though. Any idea why? Doing a check for updates still prompts me to update to weekly #380. I've downloaded it and replaced the files several times, but no difference.
Was fine until a few days ago, now won't load properly, just shows the pulsing logo permanently and never goes to the login page. Anyone any idea why? Using Weekly #333 on XP.
OK, changing the user agent string on the Google login page finally enabled me to sign in, and I then had to play around with different strings for YouTube as well. Unfirtunately, the only ones which actually work cause the annoying banner at the top saying my browser will soon be unsupported! I have a good user agent string which I use on Firefox 52.9 ESR (I'm on Windows XP so can't use anything newer) and I would like to try that on Otter as well, but I can't see any obvious way of putting in a custom user agent string for a site. Is that really not possible?
I just updated to weekly #333, and testing YouTube I now cannot use it. I get a message to sign into Google, but when I try to do it I get a message saying - "The browser that you're using doesn't support JavaScript, or has JavaScript turned off. To keep your Google Account secure, try signing in on a browser that has JavaScript turned on." I've checked the Otter settings, and javascript is turned on! Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Dave.
Sorry I should have added this to this thread ages ago, and forgot about it! The Windows sound when using the browser "back" button no longer happens now, and hasn't done for quite a few weeklies now. I don't know whether this change was by accident or design, but I just thought I ought to mention that it isn't an issue any more!
Well yes that could well be true, but as you say it's finding someone with the necessary knowledge (and will) to look at fixing the issues. Thank you very much for still providing builds that work at all on XP for us diehards! Almost all other browsers have abandoned XP completely now (Firefox is just about to when 52ESR is retired).