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I disagree. I myself would "ignore" these types of "reports" if I were win32. You see, in life, we all place our own "scale" on things like this. On a scale of 1 to 10, this "brightness difference" is a ZERO on my radar. A zero on a scale of 1 to 10. But the three people on this forum that love, love, love to talk "brightness", this issue is clearly a 12 to them. A twelve on a scale of 1 to 10.

But it will certainly fiercefully try non-stop and waste CPU cycles on that.

On second thought, might as well go Vista, even less space will be wasted on the HDD.

The reason I suggested Win 7 RTM because the user is tight on space, and SP1 doesn't actually add anything useful, and esp. because he wrote the PC will be used for 1 one programme.

Hi, first I suggest to obtain Win7 without SP1, only RTM or OEM release. Second, go start/administrative tools/services, disable windows update.

I'm using version 1.2.0.5035 on Thorium and Supermium. I will try updating it.

My Thorium installation and configuration is very stable under Windows XP. I use the SSE2 edition which seems to be suitable to my Pentium 4 CPU with SSE2 instruction set at maximum. No browser or tab crashes, no problems with my USB hard disk which is currently connected. At the moment, I am writing this comment from Thorium on my XP machine.

@chermany4ever You can't configure much in Thorium's Settings to improve its performance and running behaviour under Windows XP. What I actually meant was to change other things like updating the Chrome XP API Adapter, disabling animations and media autoplay, using a mobile user agent, setting suitable internal and external flags and so on. I did that, and now, this browser is running much better than before. PS: Also very important is a well-configured content blocker. Yesterday, I had to buy some articles on Amazon. Among other browsers, I also tested this website in Thorium. If uBlock Origin is not well-configured, the Amazon website does not load that fluently as it should. At the moment, I use uBlock Origin Lite as it consumes far fewer resources in Thorium and seems to be better suited to this browser.

My Thorium browser needs round about 260 MB for one opened tab and eleven enabled extensions. In my opinion, that's really low for a modern Chrome browser running under Windows XP. And don't forget my hardware is very old and weak, Pentium 4 single-core CPU and only 1.5 GB SD-RAM! Here is a screenshot: Personally, I can't confirm that this browser is unstable. Thorium never crashed here and is very stable. And the page loading behaviour is much better than at the beginning of my test phase.

Regarding running Supermium under Windows XP on old, weak hardware, I definitely have to agree. This browser does not work properly there. On the other hand, Thorium does, though. But you have to exactly configure it suitable for your hardware. But TBH, my main browsers under Windows XP still remain New Moon 28 and Serpent.

Agreed, same here. That is to say, on my XP, there is ZERO reason to run either in my Win10 systems. Perhaps an "aero" or "glass" or "transparency" effect that XP would IGNORE? re: "30% brighter" All I can say is "don't care" - and that is 100% honesty. Supermium crashes my XP - and again, zero reason to run in my Win10. Citing "30%" does reveal BIAS - that is not a 30% difference. The "authentic look" inactive tabs technically have a gradient color whereas all other tabs do not have a gradient. But sure, out of curiosity, and being a three-day weekend, sure, I'll find a better "percentage" than throwing out a biased "30%" plucked-from-someone's-butt percentage. One minute... I'll report back...

On XP, Supermium looks exactly the same brightness as Thorium and 360Chrome for me, FWIW.

Meanwhile in the world of open source... https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/apt_gains_keepassxc_loses/ TL;DR the controversial part, a software package under the name of keepassxc, providing binary distribution of well known password manager KeePassXC, was suddenly turned into a stripped down version by its maintainer and full version that everyone expected and uses was moved into a separate package. A whole set of features can be disabled using special compile-time flags. The package maintainer was rather undiplomatic about it, calling the full version crappy and development of included extra features misguided, citing security concerns while failing to provide evidence of any possible real-life security incidents. Some people got locked out of their password databases, others were surprised by suddenly ending up without the web browser integration etc. "Just read the NEWS, bruh."

Hi guys. I want to say something regarding what you were chatting about a few posts ago. A bit off topic but I'll keep it short. I've been testing Supermium and Thorium. At least on my machine -XP SP2- Supermium started 2 times out of 8 and ran very unstable. It finally crashed my system one day when I was trying to block scripts with uBlock. I deleted it and had to revert back using an image. Then tried Thorium and although it seems more stable it also starts up when it wants, is unstable, freezes the machine at times and didn't inspire 10% of the confidence I feel browsing with Serpent. Sure it's nice to go back to using WhatsApp Web and browse some difficult sites in a more accessible way but I don't think it's worth it. I opted to stick with Serpent and only use 360Chrome for these other situations on relatively clean pages. That's about it.

Irrelevant! "To each their own."

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Congratulations on your first browser compilation!

I managed to get Python 2.7 going (installed). Pale Moon (64-bit GTK2 version) took slightly over 58 minutes to compile on a Raspberry Pi 5. I did not use --disable-debug-symbols option, used defaults as suggested in build instructions, the source code was downloaded to external WD 5 TB hard disk, the slower kind using SMR tech. Still can't believe the browser works, that was the first time I ever compiled any web browser from source code.

Technically, Chrome itself is a "port" or a "fork" or a "knock-off" !!! I'm still very much UNCLEAR of the DEFINITION of each. Without UPSTREAM CHROMIUM, Chrome itself would not exist.

As far as I have tested until now, the Chromium Web Store extension works really great in Thorium. It indeed allows adding extensions from Chrome Web Store on ungoogled Chromium versions and also enables the extension updating by dragging and dropping. Now, I always get an extension update notification on the Chromium Web Store badge when extension updates are available and can immediately archive the downloaded update files.

What a service!

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240525-3219d2d-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240525-3219d2d-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240525-3219d2d-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240525-d849524bd-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240525-d849524bd-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240525-d849524bd-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240525-d849524bd-uxp-f8f3b3ee43-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - [network] Make http digest auth cnonce length configurable. (f3413e94b9) - [gfx] Clear mSharedBlobData if blob creation failed. (552cd74b08) - [DOM] Clean up ReportLoadError and normalize error messages. (22830d18cf) - [gfx] Ensure font entry's unitsPerEm and font extents are initialized when gfxFont is created. (7672f932f7) - [gfx] Use calloc for cairo font-creation functions. (7d2ecc13dd) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

Thorium 122.0.6261.171? Where is such a version available?

In Thorium SSE2 122.0.6261.168 WINXP x32 under Windows XP, there is no update button on an extension page when an update is available. Updates of extensions are not shown on extension pages, and a manual update does not work. At least in my installation. That's why I installed the Chromium Web Store. I added one flag, switched an internal flag and now, updating works. PS: On an extension page, I can only see an Add or, if the extension has already been installed via the Chrome Web Store, an Remove button but never an Update button.

No. It is the Chromium Web Store extension in the latest version 1.5.4.2 from here: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

I don't know if this has already been mentioned here. Installing and removing extensions works perfectly in Thorium under Windows XP. Unfortunately, updating extensions does not. In my installation of Thorium SSE2 122.0.6261.168 WINXP x32, it does not matter whether the update is done by dragging and dropping the CRX file or by unpacking the extension (in developer mode). Both methods do not work as expected in a standard installation of Thorium, at least for me. Therefore, I changed some settings and installed the Chromium Web Store extension. Now, I can update my extensions simply by dragging and dropping the CRX file. And what I was always missing in Thorium, the Chromium Web Store badge additionally shows a red number indicating that updates are available. A click on the badge and then on the name of the offered extension update leads to the download of the latest version, which of course has still to be installed manually, based on my changed settings in Thorium. BTW, that's a very convenient method to directly archive all extension updates as I always do.

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Why do you always have to be rude? "System" requirements?

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"The #ungoogled-supermium flag enables all of ungoogled-chromium's core functionality (and a bit more, but the NTP is functioning as expected). Sync is also an expected casualty. Some unintended side effects will be split off into #ungoogled-supermium-aggressive in the next release." https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/597#issuecomment-2121624072 Someone checked? Again, "The #ungoogled-supermium flag enables all of ungoogled-chromium's core functionality".

Glad it worked for you!

Probably, the user isn't a native English speaker, I get this a lot here, but then again, it's an international forum, what else one would expect? @NotHereToPlayGames, in other words, win32ss wrote he will reduce the number of hostile connections, but won't eliminate them all, due to the public requests. Complaints, in this case, mean users aren't happy with the fully Ungoogled version. They still want the Google connections to leak data. Is it clearer?

A major progress -" involuntary connections to Google services, which will be pared back in response to users' complaints." https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/600

I found a German forum site where the same issue was reported under Windows XP long time ago: https://administrator.de/forum/win-xp-ereignis-id-3012-loadperf-16362.html Use an online translator! Maybe, the solution at the end of this thread works for you, too. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Caution! Might get bombarded with rotten apples.

Looks like you messed something up, because it should. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ctxa3v/twitterxitter_is_now_broken_in_ff_when/ "Twitter/Xitter is now broken in FF when anti-browse..." "x.com just doesn't work with the warning: "Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com" They've also enabled some form of mouse based fingerprinting too, with spoofers like MouseVader leading to glitchy behaviour."

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Axal. Pff! Giving up already? https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/axal

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