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I will not continue with this project, I have outgrown it. Thank you for all your kind comments, advice, etc. My modified versions are removed - they are unsafe due to sandbox bypass, embeded videos do not work.

A quick update (I noticed a few of my downloads last night were not the "latest" for each version [GitHub doesn't list releases in order apparently]). Yes, I've always been happy with v96 builds. They tend to be a nice sweet spot in performance and "newer" versions add a lot of "bloat" like side-bar "features" that just degrade performance. What I actually find as a positive (for the future) is the good results for v104+. While I do not "like" them for my tastes, what it suggests is that Chromium is getting "better" and perhaps dropping support for Win7 will only prove how much FASTER the browser can become on Win10! Yet to be seen, of course, but it would be very positive (for the future of web browsers) if Chromium becomes FASTER FASTER FASTER after they abandon Win7. Not to be misread though, I still use XP most of the time here at home (I've been transitioning to Win10 but only as a "hobby" for now).

Agreed. I didn't go back as far as v90 with my tests yesterday. Here's what I am showing on one of my low-end PCs with Hibbiki versions on Win10. I have not yet compared his "nosync" versus an "ungoogled" as far as Google connections.

don't get too exited to use vista as you have a haswell cpu which causes the os to not boot properly

I guarantee you that you won't make an extended kernel better than VxKex - none, to be precise! You don't have even a basic knowledge of the construction of operating systems and the interdependence of system components, let alone programming (you will need knowledge of C++) If I understand your post correctly - there is NO WAY that extended kernel will work simultaneously with Windows 7 and Windows 8. I very much appreciate your desire to keep these systems alive, but so far you are at best compromising yourself. Learn the basics, and then I think, for example, win32 will be able to help you get started.

Since I don't know whether the guys (and girls?) from WiseVector have finally given up on their WiseVector StopX program or not, I have first completely deactivated it in my system, i.e. deactivated autostart of the program and its system service. Perhaps, they will reconsider their decision. After a deep research, I decided to give Panda Dome 22.00.00 a chance. This version is the most recent and fully compatible with Windows XP. Here are two screenshots of Panda Dome: So far, I am quite enthusiastic. The system load of Panda Dome is very low (lower than it was with WiseVector StopX), and the detection rate is supposed to be very good according to my research. I will keep you updated. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Personally, I see less and less need for an email account... all official needs go through my wife's account... I've never had any real spam from any company, except someone who sent me pseudo-religious emails... that's over, I don't even remember how... Also, I don't check my email very often now, only every two weeks or so... this wasn't the case before my terrible illness, but I changed some of my views - and now everything is calm, flat calm, tranquility... (when I search for flat calm in English: I always find this crazy Amazon that makes me laugh: "Great deals on flat calm in books on Amazon. Low prices on flat calm. Free shipping (see cond.)" Think "Flat Calm on a Moonless Night" is best?... Well, if you're laughing already, it means that the purpose of this post has come to a good end. In any circumstance, the best thing to do in life is to laugh a little...

Very interesting results! It seems the Chromium engine got some significant speed optimizations starting with version 96. Performance seems to have stayed more or less consistent since then, with some versions being faster than others. Of course Hibbiki's builds aren't the only game in town...I ended up finding out about them when I figured out how to download the 'stock' Chromium 95, only to discover it didn't come with a full set of codecs. As it turns out, there are multiple maintainers who have been nice enough to work on and share Chromium builds that restore some of the better aspects of 'normal' Google Chrome (including proper codec support), and Hibbiki seems to be one of the trusted folks in that regard. So far I haven't had any issues with Hibbiki's builds...Chromium 90 is working great. Smooth, speedy, and stable.

My dad used to complain constantly about the amount of spam in his inbox (and in the mailbox at the end of the driveway). It took *years* to convince him that it was basically HIS FAULT. My credit card accounts, my utility bills, my checking and savings account, they all ask for an email address when establishing online access - NONE OF MINE have my "real" email address! That could be too extreme, but the point is you have to draw a line on just who you TRUST with your "real" email address and don't just give it to "every" online web site you come accross. MSFN obviously has my real one - but my WORK email and not my HOME email. Truth be told, I did not want to but this is like the ONLY web site I've ever signed up for that would not "activate" using a 'throw-away' Gmail or Guerrilla Mail email address. But that was years ago and I don't recall the details as to why a Gmail or Guerrilla Mail account would not work at the time.

I don't use Google though. Google had blocked all of my acoounts long time ago.

Never had anything even remotely similar ! Yes, some spam is there, but mostly from the online shops I used some time ago.

Why use Win8/10/11? I cannot understand this. Capitalism is their goal. On every new M$ OS, more backward compatibilty is missing. They implement newer DirextX for every new OS, so that gamers need to switch their OS to newer ones if they want to play modern games. High OS -> more CPU power is needed, thats an insane policy against sustainably living, hundreds of (modern) "old" computers got thrown into city trash area every day. Programmers could do everything, but they don't want to, money interests are far more important than humanity. The same thing exist in the game developer industry. Userfriendly programmers would never remove compatibility. Hope to see a XP revival (driver support for all new GPUs, DX12 support, possibilty to install modern browser) or a massive switch-over-to-linux. It is time to stop the insanity, it's already urgent since 20 years...

Through cosmic connections ? Astral plane ?

@msfntor, thank you for your worries, but it doesn't bother me much. I'm able to give likes almost everywhere (except for the non-technical discussions).

But you wrote you also had a problem with likes, just the error message sounded differently. So @msfntor is right.

No it would not work. The problem is that UpdateProcThreadAttribute does not support Job Objects as an attribute until Windows 10 (actually since build 98xx where it works too). I actually suppressed the UpdateProcThreadAttribute error on Vista and it does not "crash" as such, but pages do not work, probably because it still does not actually initialize the job objects as such.