Tried the royal mail above with ancient Opera12.02 on ancient hardware, and the images load!
Except, as usual, after a few rounds google breaks the connection for no apparent reason, but that happens rather randomly. Suspect it could also be related to slow connection or some overload (the images look like 2kB, but the scripts are ultraheavy!)
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pejayuk
I tried the reCaptcha test you linked and it does seem to work. It loads okay, though I did have to go through many many rounds to complete it.
So I'm even more puzzled as to why it won't load on any website I've tried. It's almost like I'm being blocked by Google after my failed attempts the one and only time it did load.
Very interesting, so it's not Google who's blocking you completely...
Not sure if perhaps those sites are using different captcha versions...
Or an old cookie as culprit? Or one of the many other persisting storing methods.
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pejayuk
I have Adblock Prime installed but disabled.
Just disabling isn't always reliable. In the palemoon forum are many discussions that those adblock thingees are stubborn, simply disabling often isn't enough, users are struggling extremely with that prob.
The culprit is probably the xul cache for addons (not the normal website cache.) Not quite sure where that's hiding now in KG76, but at any rate, each time after installing/removing/disabling addons, it's a good idea to delete the
StartupCache folder in the current profile and restart. The next start may be rather slow, but only 1x because the browser rebuilds that addon cache stuff again.
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JohnHell
Unless you have clean, fresh, untouched profile, have you already tested with a new Profile:
(command line or modified shortcut)
k-meleon.exe -new -P newprofilename
Ah right, of course. Or also possible by menu:
Edit > Manage Profiles > New (check "ask at startup" and restart)
Or best: make a backup copy of current profile (Edit>Configuration>Profile folder), then test with a completely new, fresh unzipped K-Meleon, unzipped into a separate new folder. Builds from here:
https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/
(some addons may be broken since 76.1 and 76.1.1)
Regarding the number of circling rounds in different browsers, a theory:
couldn't it also be privacy related? Meaning, if Google can identify the specific person very easily, as in their own max-spying browser, perhaps then they only run 1 symbolic round? Something like that WebRTC stuff for identifying users, which is removed completely in Goanna browsers. Or that marionet serviceworkers stuff which exists, but is disabled by default in Goannas, for more privacy/security? (enable "serviceworker" pref in about:config, only temporarily for testing) Or whatever helps fingerprinting, supercookies of any flavor, ajax etc
Here's a site for testing enabled browser features:
https://browserleaks.com