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  1. When I started my test phase with the Thorium browser, the browser start was slow and the page loading behaviour was beyond good and evil. But for some time now, it has been running better and better on my old computer and one of the main reasons was the permanent improvement of the Chrome XP API Adapter. And on the other hand, all the time-consuming configuration work I did, of course. I think this is necessary on old, weak computers under Windows XP.
    4 points
  2. Look what came out today: v1.2.0.5058 (2024.05.28) [+] XP: Added support for Hardware Accelerated rendering for XP. With it, browser will use less CPU to render pages, and while playing videos. To use, run it with switches: --use-angle=d3d9 --ignore-gpu-blocklist. With it, you will see this features in about:gpu for XP, as you see it on NT6+ systems. Wow! Time to test this out!
    3 points
  3. No problems here in Thorium. I have just logged into my Google account and Google Drive opens fine here. No crashes to observe. All seems to be normal. And it runs surprisingly quite fast on my old machine.
    3 points
  4. What are you hardware specs? And which version of Thorium and the Chrome XP API Adapter do you use?
    3 points
  5. I wrote I tried the programme on a clean, new OS install. There's nothing on it, simply nothing, except the OS components themselves.
    3 points
  6. Oh, and just noticed EtwRTNT Kernel Logger.etl is pretty much intact and the log file has grown to approx. 10mb, all after I ran the programme on a new OS installation.
    3 points
  7. Hello, this feature will work not with each Gfx card, as I noted in release notes. I'm not the whole browser developer to fix other bugs in whole browser code. The feature implemented just by providing D3DCompiler dll for shaders, compatible with XP. (Analog of D3DCompiler_47.dll for Vista+) But all this works on my graphics cards. Which system you are using ? I can't test it with all possible system configs. Does it work with any of previous versions/builds ? When I test it, the browser sometime not load at all, and then I do investigation and fixing of problem. If you provide more info in "issues" section, I will fix it.
    2 points
  8. For me, using --no-sandbox helps to solve it, but I don't want to run without sandbox. So using these browsers is currently on hold. Also, due to the brightness issue.
    2 points
  9. Which version of the Chrome XP API Adapter do you use for Thorium? The most recent one is 1.2.0.5057.
    2 points
  10. 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.
    2 points
  11. I'm starting to think win32 simply has a dull monitor, probably misconfigured videocard/driver setup. It's been reported too many times already, including that github report.
    2 points
  12. Not from my experience, I agree with Klemper, I once had Win7 updated itself, even with the update service unchecked via the system configuration! The only way is to prevent it from starting via services. (choose disabled at startup). Startup type = disabled.
    2 points
  13. I use the THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat, too. I try to avoid installing those ported browsers. When you copied these three files of the Chrome XP API Adapter into your Thorium main folder, did you also rename the chrome-win7-xp-api-router.dll file to progwrp.dll?
    1 point
  14. The were several iterations of Direct X 9. Example - B, C, etc.
    1 point
  15. @AstroSkippercan't update his driver past 307.90. Geforce 8000 and 9000 can't go higher than 341.xx
    1 point
  16. Thank you, very helpful! members must take example from you!
    1 point
  17. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Translation of missing program lines into Russian 1049.dll
    1 point
  18. I think I have already written enough helpful comments and articles. And I replied to a rather disrespectful statement. Thorium is also made for Windows XP. And there are members and readers here who are using this OS on old or very old hardware. You understand what I want to say? Anyway! I don't like such comments "Such old computer ..." which are therefore absolutely superfluous. Such as yours. Sorry to say that!
    1 point
  19. I'm using the one that says it was uploaded three hours ago. I have in fact now tried it on my netbook, and it works, and on Thorium and Supermium on my desktop as well. Too early to say whether there's any significant performance improvements on my system, but I'm not holding my breath for any acceleration on the XP side of my netbook, the graphics driver I'm having to use just doesn't have it.
    1 point
  20. I have never found this problem...
    1 point
  21. I've now updated it to the 1.2.0.5055 version of progwrp.dll and the 1.2.0.5057 version of chrome-xpapi-adapter.dll which now seems to have to be in the same folder. Early days, but first impressions are that Thorium tabs no longer crash on my netbook, which is great!
    1 point
  22. Thanks, I have a standard Intel USB device (the one that was built in). No USB addon cards. Workstation CELSIUS W280 Systemboard D2912-A1x Personal Computer ESPRIMO P9900 https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/Search/SWP1081232.asp
    1 point
  23. All I can tell you, "beyond a shadow of doubt", is that "real" Chrome/Chromium v122 and Supermium v122 both use PURE WHITE (RGB 255,255,255) for the active tab. Anything beyond that is "not my problem". My name was specifically invoked so I answered what was asked of me.
    1 point
  24. The github report is asking for v69 colorization/brightness Supermium creator hasn't "changed" anything. He is creating a v122 and is using v122 colorization/brightness. If the Supermium creator wants to "bend over backwards" and add patch v122 to v69 colorization/brightness, "all the power to him". But is it really "fair" for users to make such a request ??? What next? "I like the colorization/brightness in v19, can you please implement that instead?" "I like the colorization/brightness in v39, can you please implement that instead?" "I like the colorization/brightness in v49, can you please implement that instead?"
    1 point
  25. Yes, when USB device was attached before, it works, it doesn't work if I attach when the browser was already opened.
    1 point
  26. My own eye doctors [plural] (optometrist and ophthalmologist) tells me that if I want to RUIN my eyesight, then "use dark mode". The *three* people on this forum that discuss these "brightness" issues (in more than just web browsers) perhaps have already "ruined" their eyesight. I am not an optometrist or an ophthalmologists but I do try to heed their advise when they tell me to "do not use dark mode". Does it make any sense to me why this is the case? No! But I try to always do what the doc tells me. Is their advise "biased"? Doesn't appear to be, several medical web sites agree with them. But there is also no doubt that "coders" and "gamers" LOVE LOVE LOVE dark mode. It seems to me that it's because the "coder" and "gamer" has this infatuation with dark mode, that it is them that FLOOD the internet with PROS versus CONS. "To each their own."
    1 point
  27. well i think you might should gonna turn the brightness and contrast settings a little lower, every monitor has that
    1 point
  28. Ok. Your hardware is much more powerful than mine. You are using the same Thorium release as I do. The first measure you can do is updating the Chrome XP API Adapter which you can get here: https://github.com/IDA-RE-things/Chrome-xp-api-adapter/releases
    1 point
  29. Again, you are being biased. The original was not changed by the developer. "Real" Chrome/Chromium uses PURE WHITE for the active tab, as does Supermium's active tab. I meant to grab a screencap of v122 and not v125 but both use PURE WHITE for the active tab. Win10 "app light mode" is where this PURE WHITE comes from. Perhaps the underlying issue here is only for those using "dark mode"? But the github report is showing tab colors for "app light mode" as that report is "complaining" about a PURE WHITE active tab. And both Supermium and "real" Chrome/Chrome BOTH have this PURE WHITE active tab.
    1 point
  30. You don't have to agree or disagree with the facts. You don't take part in the development. but many thanks from all of us for the measurements! What I really wonder is why the default Chromium values, the right ones, where changed by the developer?
    1 point
  31. Yeah, for those with a dead CCFL bulbs monitor. For me, Supermium lights up the whole room, I don't need to turn on the lights anymore, so yeah, again, a feature. Mind you, it's with the dark theme! So it's not XP claissic theme bug only, I'm on Vista.
    1 point
  32. I too have this issue related to USB in both. Any simple USB stick is not detected when one of either browsers is opened. 2009 motherboard. USB 2.0.
    1 point
  33. I'd like to report some problems I am having using Serpent 52 (G4.8 win32) if I may. 1) Starting with build basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod, some of my tabs get a blank title. Thus far, I have only experienced it with local image files; I expect to see their file name instead. The file names and their paths don't contain any special characters that aren't present in image files showing in tabs where the title does appear, so I don't know what could be causing this. Clicking such tab makes the file name appear briefly, but then it turns blank again. This problem is still there in build 20240525. Reverting to build 20240511 fixes the problem. 2) For a couple of months now, I have experienced issues related to session management. I have lost tabs that were opened up to 3-4 hours prior to a forced restart following unresponsiveness due to 100% CPU and memory usage, including tabs that were opened while the browser was still fully responsive. This happened twice so far. Also, if the browser is starting to become slow and I restart it (via File>Restart provided by Classic Theme Restorer), I am sometimes met with an error message from Session Manager saying "The session/window data is corrupted". Clearing the closed windows/tabs list using Session Manager prior to restarting can increase the chances of this happening. Similarly, if the browser is getting slow or nearly unresponsive and I try to save the session using Session Manager, I will always get an error saying "This operation failed due to a file access error". I can only save a session shortly after opening the browser. I don't know if it's related, but I used to experience freezes after leaving the browser idle; the duration of these freezes would last anywhere from a few seconds to around 5 minutes, depending on how many windows/tabs were left open and for how long. The freezes still happen, but they don't seem to last 5 minutes anymore. Could it be that a time limit was implemented a few months ago which somehow corrupts the session management? I could revert to an older build from late 2023, but then some websites (such as WIX sites) won't load properly. 3) I have found that some forum-based websites using a specific software don't load properly. I get a basic version with disabled scrollbar. Example: https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/modded-intel-ahci-and-raid-drivers-digitally-signed/19691 I think it's Discourse. 4) Any way to fix the "new" Hotmail website? MS abandoned the old Hotmail site in favor of a Microsoft Exchange layout, but I'm getting the dumbed down version even when "Use the light version" is unchecked. I don't really mind the smaller font, but the From and the Subject fields are truncated after just a few words even though there's ample space in the column to show a lot more (up to three times and four times respectively).
    1 point
  34. Thorium (and Supermium) are very stable for me too. In fact, I don't think I've ever had a crash while using them unless they run out of memory, in which case only the current tab crashes, as designed. Occasionally I have had Thorium crash on start up. It appears for an instant in the taskbar, and then vanishes. Task Manager shows several thorium.exe processes still running. If I leave them alone, and just run the browser again, it then opens fine. That's on my main desktop. I've now put Thorium on the XP side of my very underpowered netbook, and that's very unstable. It opens fine, but trying to do anything often just produces a crashed tab with a 'status_access_violation' error. If I keep trying, however, the tab always eventually opens, and once the tab is open, it seems to be perfectly stable. Very odd!
    1 point
  35. Both Thorium and Supermium manage to destabilize my XP's USB stack to the point it's not detecting things being unplugged and plugged until the browser is closed. Thorium specifically is useless for Google Drive here as well, tab crashes as soon as I'm in. Both are buggy in fonts department (from disappearing fonts to incorrect rendering).
    1 point
  36. Agreed! Same here.
    1 point
  37. 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.
    1 point
  38. jaclaz, unfortunately the programme doesn't disable SCM logger, ideas?
    1 point
  39. On second thought, might as well go Vista, even less space will be wasted on the HDD.
    1 point
  40. 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.
    1 point
  41. a trouble about search menu. Hi Tihiy!I have a trouble, hope you help me to solve. After installing StartAllBack v3.7.9 on the latest version of Windows 11, click on the new tab function of explorer, after opening the second window, the search function of explorer can still be used, but the search menu no longer appears, so you can no longer set the search function, this is terrible! Can you help me for this?
    1 point
  42. That functionality is not recreated yet and provided by existing taskbar code. Refer to checklist
    1 point
  43. grash https://www.definitions.net/definition/grash
    1 point
  44. I'd even say @jumperlost two times already, because there's not such word. https://msfn.org/board/topic/102111-change-a-letter-game/?do=findComment&comment=1265939
    1 point
  45. Of course it has! And I'm closely watching the topic. @jumper, @EliraFriesnan, earlier @XPercenioland @NotHereToPlayGames - all lost one time.
    1 point
  46. Some reported success with RTX3080, so if you still can return that notebook and replace it, perhaps worth a try, but then again, no 100% guarantees.
    1 point
  47. Thanks goes to hag672. Thank you for allowing me to supply people on your board with an nLite Reference Guide. When I told nuhi that I was attempting to do this he was amazed. I guess that is because I am blind and multiply disabled (I am paralyzed from the neck down and use a mouthstick to type). I was able to find one of his screen shots that had its' bottom cut off. I made a few corrections in the manual; gramatic mostly. I suggested to nuhi about letting me add a section on RunOnce and the $OEM$ structure within the guide, but I haven't heard back from him as of yet. I am still attempting to create my first RunOnce. This was my first time crating a pdf under Acrobat 9. If people have comments, suggestions, or even critisms (I'm not perfect), please add a link to my hag email on your site. I will gladly listen to all suggestions and hopefully impliment them. I myself am a one-man software developer. I create specialized computer software for multiply disabled students and their teachers. If you visit my website: www.functionkey.net you will see the work that I am doing. Thanks to Howard nlite_reference_guide_EN_Rev_B.pdf
    1 point
  48. Starting from January 2018, TLS is a recommended standard for email, see RFC 8314. There were some updates and multiple fixes for encryption, cryptography and other security issues in Windows POSREady 2009 added in 2015-2018. The most important are: Added support for AES-128 and AES-256 encryption (2015+) Added support for SHA-2 (SHA256, SHA384, SHA512) hashes (2017+) Added support for TLS 1.1/1.2 (2017+) However, there is missing support for TLS extensions and TLS 1.3 (standard since August 2018): If the server side uses extension for Server Name Indication (SNI, 2003+), you can ignore warnings that the certificate is issued for another domain. SNI was added to Vista. If the server side uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC, 2006+) for digital signing in certificate, you can do NOTHING. Windows XP libs cannot verify such a certificate and cannot connect to the server. There are some programs which use either updated OpenSSL libs or Gecko-based engine and can properly work with TLS 1.3 and TLS extensions. For example, Eudora OSE is a fork of Thunderbird so it uses Gecko engine, but it is outdated (2010), so it may not work properly with TLS 1.3 or extensions for TLS 1.2 updated in 2011.
    1 point
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