I'm trying to reverse-engineer Microsoft's JS code for opening the Windows Store app when you open a Store page in the web browser. It's at assets.onestore.ms/cdnfiles/…

I think I've determined what it does. It analyzes the user agent to determine how to open the Windows Store app or its equivalent (depending on whether it's a Windows 10 device, Xbox One, Windows Phone device, etc.), and if so, constructs and injects a <meta> tag into the webpage's DOM that instructs the browser to open the appropriate app.

<meta name="ms.opennativepdp" content="ms-windows-store:[trimmed]">

@BenN?

@djsmiley2k arguable

Now that is a clever code snippet.

(inspired by superuser.com/questions/1238282/lanovo-battery-management/…)

That JavaScript file itself doesn't appear to do the meta tag creation, but it does return some info on whether/how it would be appropriate to generate a store link

The store is opened because the ms-windows-store protocol is registered to that app

Oh wait

It does indeed create the meta tag if appropriate, my mistake

Seen code like this before, @BenN? Not a JS guru, but can superficially read JS code.

You know there's an online JS beautifier, right?

Yeah, I used that but missed the meta creation because that bit was offscreen to the right

I had to examine the source code of the page as rendered in the Firefox dev tools to find the <meta> tag.

I can't recall a specific code fragment I've seen that analyzes the user agent, but I'm sure they're used for various things around the web

e.g. download sites often suggest a version appropriate for the client OS, though that check could be done on the server

oneStoreUserAgent = function() {
        var n = window && window.navigator && window.navigator.userAgent && window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase && window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase() || null;
        return {
            isFromThresholdDevice: function() {
                return n && (n.indexOf("windows nt 6.4") >= 0 || n.indexOf("windows nt 10") >= 0) && n.indexOf("xbox") < 0 && n.indexOf("arm") < 0
            },
            isFromWinPhone10Device: function() {
                return n && (n.indexOf("windows phone 10") >= 0 || n.indexOf("windows nt 10") >= 0 && n.indexOf("arm") >…

Google says this is my user agent:

> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0

(Firefox Developer Edition 56.0b12 on Windows 10 x64)

...wait a sec. Just updated Firefox and I get the Photon interface :o

> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

What in Oblivion...

(sadly, this means Greasemonkey is now broken :( )

I'm going to force-enable legacy extensions.

I seriously hope Greasemonkey can be updated for Firefox 57 soon.

(At least this is the only XUL/XPCOM extension left on my Firefox installation...)

It'll take me a long time to get used to the Photon interface.

TL;DR: Firefox Developer Edition on my main laptop has updated to version 57, resulting in unexpected and massive changes.

I realize that extensions.legacy.enabled = true is not a supported configuration for Firefox 57, and legacy extensions can break without warning in future updates. I seriously need to see an update for Greasemonkey soon.

greasespot.net/2017/09/greasemonkey-4-announcement.html

Hmm...

(via /r/firefox)

:)

Migrating scripts to Tampermonkey.

Done. Removed Greasemonkey and set extensions.legacy.enabled = false.

@Bob, any hints with Firefox 57?

Verbose logs again since previous change on retry? Did I miss that?

> Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device.

...is now...

> Please enter your master password.

Much better!

This Q's trying to connect two NICs to the same router, does anybody know offhand if it's possible to connect two NICs to completely different networks without bridging?

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306730

Two separate routers or gateways or what exactly? What are the subnet details?

Different, incompatible subnets

Of the networks per each NIC you wish to configure

Reading the link over

let's say network 1 is 192.168.1.x and network 2 is 192.168.2.x

Nice username

This bug is 12 years old and it's only been fixed in Firefox 57!

and there are no gateways involved between the two networks, and I'd prefer there not to be any

That bug seems out of my realm after looking at that!!

Actually, even older: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100979

then just assign each nic an IP and a subnet mask and be done

(exactly 16 years old, not a day more)

make the physical connections go to where those need to go obviously.

that's what I'd do, but this is wifi, not ethernet

I'm not aware of a way to have Windows connect to more than one wifi network without teaming

Not sure about routing between the subnets like that using the Windows OS as a router. I suppose adding something to the routing table but have to step away

sorry have to step away

well, that's the thing, I'm not looking for routing. I'm looking for something like having two ethernet cards on two separate networks, without any communication between the networks

no problem, thanks for the reply

I'm mostly just curious as to why wifi is more restricted than ethernet; I'm running a windows PC at work with 6 ethernet ports, all active at once, all on different subnets, no routing, no teaming, and no communication between networks

from what I've read for wifi, though, it seems like Windows itself can only handle one wireless access point at a time, which seems really odd

hello @allquixotic

See chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/40141918#40141918

@bwDraco o/

Long story short, just updated to Firefox Developer Edition 57.

...huh, another FF UI reboot?

morn

@bwDraco Ah, the wonders of Open Source!

@bwDraco I don't even know JS and that's a cool website.

@bwDraco iirc that's because you can have other NSS auth methods

@jrh I've never done that or tested that with wifi NICs, interesting. If I ever get a chance, I'll have to give that a whirl sometime and see if I have that same issue. Are you using both the same wifi NIC on same firmware, drivers, etc. What OS and what version and build number OS or whatever? Consider opening a question with all this detail perhaps if it's on topic.

let's just say it's Windows 7. I'm mostly interested in whether Windows is definitely limited to one AP/SSID at a time, regardless of how many wifi adapters you actually have

Is there now, or has there ever been, any version of Windows, or any Windows OS at all (including server) where you can connect to more than one SSID?

Have you Googled it a ton already?

yeah, came up with nothing

just the same old song and dance about wifi teaming (I know about that, but it's not what I want)

Linux may be able to do this, that's the closest I've got. No statement from anyone saying "No you absolutely can/cannot do this", or how to do it

short of reading the Linux kernel source, I am out of ideas; since this is a theoretical question about how Windows works I don't think it's a good fit for this site

lol @ "song and dance"

after the 15th article on wifi teaming that came up, no matter how I rephrased the question on Google, I started getting a bit silly, heh

@jrh I thought you could...

remind me in 10 hours and I'll give it a shot

I have four wifi cards on my laptop but no amount of prodding would let them connect to 4 different networks, I could connect to any of the four, but never more than one at a time.

this looks neat

@jrh steps 1 and 2 here imply it's very straightforward: support.speedify.com/article/…

@Bob that's the teaming song and dance I mentioned

I don't want to combine two connections

I want two independent connections

@jrh no it's not. that's step 3

I could probably actually test this. I have two APs (granted on the same network, that's fixable) and a spare USB wifi thing... somewhere

lol

hmm. A third party wireless manager

Okay guys, this is gonna be a stupid question, but I want to make sure I got this right.

If I get a CPU with no graphics, I just can't get a monitor output, but I should be able to SSH or any other remote connects to it just fine, right?

@jrh what?

steps 1 and 2 just tell you to connect to two networks with Windows' own control panel

ignore the whole speedify thing, that's irrelevant

pretty sure I tried that, but let me check, IIRC the control panel just directs you right to the standard "pick a wireless network" popup on the taskbar which only allows you to pick one network at a time