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I can take an educated guess, if we are to assume @Saxon and @NotHereToPlayGames live in different countries, that part doesn't include the IP. Also, looks like you're both on different OS, we exclude the OS from there, too.

Now, I 'm starting to add extensions, build a new "identity", Thorium and Supermium immediately start to add another ones to the list. But the firstly generated fingerprint 5e3..... doesn't change, I mean the one that has the first half of the hash the same as yours.

It's not just "alarming", sorry my friend, you're basically finished. I have all them different. But in Thorium or Supermium the first half of the hash is the same as yours.

On a clean, fresh profile Supermium and Thorium, both have only ONE for me, too!

But you said I promised? That implies I responded. I'm not usually adding options for the sake of one person.

Good comparison! This clearly shows the positive effect of rebasing I stated in previous posts. 66.6% less RAM consumption. That's a lot. BTW, maybe your CPU is weaker (I can't remember what kind of CPU you have) but your system is equipped with 4 GB RAM, mine with only 1.5 GB RAM (slow SD-RAM, i.e., no DDR-RAM).

Can you define, what do you mean under "work", without going into deep technical analysis and speculation. Do you mean a simple playback, or HARDWARE accelerated GPU processing?

Maxed out CPU means you have no HARDWARE acceleration at work. G610 doesn't support accelerating of HEVC. Plain and simple. "The GT 610 is VERY old (2012) and will not support hardware decode or encode of x265 (HEVC) at all, and x264 support may well be somewhat limited compared to more modern cards. It corresponds to Nvidia Purevideo 5" https://superuser.com/questions/1846015/using-low-end-nvidia-gt-610-gpu-with-ffmpeg-and-linux-ryzen-5600

What are you surprised about> that's how they track people across different devices. Ever heard of canvas database? Well, it's the same, you're in their database, and I strongly suggest to remove your unique ID screenshot!

@NotHereToPlayGames, if we are to assume you got your Ungoogled from proper channels, them I'm rather disappointed in it, as we know, it claims to be really "Ungoogled", but the variation hash is the core of Evil. It's still there! How so? I was never able to switch them off in Thorium either.

Deleting things just for the sake of deleting things could easily send Supermium into the black abyss. Cloudflare "protections" being BROKEN are the "unintended consequence" of deleting code. win32s is wise! I defer to him, of course. I haven't followed the report to see if win32s has chimed in yet or not. In fact, I'll go so far as this, why not "suggest" to win32s to remove Chrome_proxy.exe from Supermium. But "you heard it here first" that I don't see that happening! It's there for a reason and we do have Win10-users that also follow Supermium and whether it evolves into something they/we/me can use in the future.

NOT TRUE. I do not now, nor then, condone deleting files without knowing their true purpose.

You're right, and I have no problems admitting I sometimes overpush, but then again, it's a standard practice to mask reporting tools under the guise of casual files, hence the oddly big size. So fair is fair, I accept your opinion, too.

Not really sure. I myself (even on Win10) do not use it and I ALSO DELETE IT! My point here is that I'm not "hinting" to others to delete a file without also INFORMING them of the REAL FUNCTION of that file. You're smart enough to see that difference. But also TOO PROUD to admit that maybe somebody else may be "more right" than you. I know because I'm that way too! "Takes one to know one." Just watch, THIS IS WHAT MSFN HAS TURNED INTO. Watch, your "hint" post of a REPORTING tool *WILL* get "likes" and my post informing users of that files REAL FUNCTION *will NOT*. Sit back and watch. That is MSFN these days.

I hope you are listening to yourself. You just delete files willy nilly without even knowing what they are! Got it. I hope the Lemmings that follow your every word are also listening. And we ALL know that they are. The "likes" are about to tROLL in. Sit back and watch. We all know it! "I don't know, but Dixel deletes it and that's good enough for me."

But Firefox 128 is a normal browser, it's up-to-date, just softpedia protection is overdone, I get such sites that show captcha on any browser, maybe they react to my IP.

Please do not mislead like that. Just because YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, that does NOT MAKE IT A REPORTING TOOL. For those that REALLY want to know what chrome_proxy.exe is, please read here and even those that don't see me as part of their "inner circle" should admit that this is a "like" instead of "liking" the MISLEAD above that the rest of MSFN already knows you will "like".

I have it open, Supermium 126 R2, Win XP SP3, I have not changed the user agent.

I'm on rest, no desktop PC around, could you kindly tell, what about the buggy CH implementation you wrote about? Is it solved?

On one hand, yes, on the other, kinda scary future. 126 version still had some remnants of the old GUI, which were completely removed now, but the China fork counterpart is already at version 129 for quite some time, so.... looks like the creator solved the GUI removal problem. That said, I trust in win32.

Just an update. I have now indeed uninstalled Google Chrome from Windows 10, and I've installed Supermium 126 x64 instead, as the default browser. It works fine, and I've now got uBlock Origin back again! I've also updated my Supermium x86 installation on XP to version 126, all good. I'm still using Thorium 122 as the default browser on XP.

anything but a 3050ti, 3060ti, 3070ti or a 3080ti. make sure you buy one with csm support & muxxed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexing) support so you can just get the display off the dgpu. i have a friend that bought this laptop that has a 3080 and supports all of the above, it should run windows 7 just fine beaware: youre gonna have issues with the trackpad cuz yk.. i2c, and youre also gonna need to swap out the wifi card for a 8265 (also forget about EVEN running vista lol) i think its this one, but do your research before buying it https://www.newegg.com/Storm-Grey-Lenovo-Legion-7-16ACHg6-82N600DUUS-Gaming/p/N82E16834646366

About four-five years ago they were simply renamed to Active Variations. Because their properties had been extended along with the collected data, and they can change themselves dynamically (hence the new "Active" word).

Thorium/Supermium have even more of those. But I already decided to hold off them for a while, per your advice. To improve the performance of the browser, Google tries new ideas out in the real world to discover useful features. These are called Field Trials. The "Variations" section seen in the output of chrome://version is a part of Google's Field Trials. Users of the Release version of the Chrome browser can see a series of hash-hash pairs in the "Variations" section of chrome://version since Chrome 23. More information on the purpose of Chrome Variations can be found in Google Chrome Privacy Whitepaper; Sourced from. https://superuser.com/questions/541466/what-is-the-variations-section-in-the-output-of-aboutversion-or-chrome-v

Despite what you do or don't do, the metrics are still active to the full extent. If you successfully block, your variations tag will be empty. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/chrome-variations Active Variations: n/a

Didn't you just contradicted yourself? This flag only has an effect if you are TAB HOARDING !!! No. If you open two or three tabs of the same domain to really work with them, then this has nothing to do with tab hoarding as they are closed immediately when all is done.

And now, all in a minimal, quite fresh profile of Mypal 68.14.4b in multiprocess mode, only one empty tab open, 3 extensions installed with 1 enabled, no themes installed, 1 UC.JS script enabled, no CSS stylesheets enabled, xul.dll file rebased and memory minimisation performed. The RAM usage is then round about 120 MB a few minutes after starting the browser: I am generally interested in RAM usage values of other users to see how Mypal 68.14.4b behaves on different computers. And of course, I am particularly interested in comparative values under Windows XP 32-bit on old, weak computers such as mine.

StartAllBack 3.8.7

StartAllBack 3.8.7 to test https://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe

Instead of linking to something from 2016, why won't you tell us about the latest Google "achievement", another anti-feature to be included in the next Supermium release? https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/private-advertising/enrollment It has a mysterious name "Privacy Sandbox Attestations". Already there, in Chrome v.128, maybe even lower.

@Dave-H When my Thorium problem still existed, and this browser was crashing permanently, I was still able to open it with a link from a document by a single left-click. And all internal pages were accessible at any time. Furthermore, the Default Browser 1.8 tool successfully made Thorium my default browser. I suspect that something in your Windows XP installation is preventing all this. These culprits or perhaps still problematic registry entries seem to be causing this. Have you tried the Default Browser 1.8 tool at all? I hadn't seen any feedback from you.

BTW, I have found in the c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\ folder other drivers that also originated from former security programmes and were not removed when their corresponding programmes were uninstalled. These are two SYS files, aswrdr.sys and aswsnx.sys, from Avast! Antivirus and the SYS file KeyCrypt32.sys from Zemana AntiLogger. They are all leftovers, i.e., these files were not removed by the uninstallers which came with their corresponding programmes. However, these drivers were not involved in the Thorium crashes. Nevertheless, they have absolutely no business in the Windows system folder drivers any longer. Thus, I removed them, too.

My investigation of all other drivers, which might be problematic in that partition, has been finally finished. After all these already performed measures and all this hypothesis stuff , here's now a little and in my opinion quite interesting proof (what else could you expect from me ): Prerequisites: A native Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit without any POSReady updates, Thorium SSE2 122.0.6261.171 WINXP x32, Total Commander and Process Hacker. Assertion: Driver remnants from previously uninstalled programmes can cause spontaneous, irregular crashes of the Thorium browser under Windows XP Professional 32-bit. Proof: The current status at the beginning of this proof: Thorium is still crashing spontaneously, sooner or later, without any recognisable pattern. After a thorough investigation of all installed drivers in this Windows XP partition listed in the prerequisites, I found three drivers in the c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\ folder in the form of SYS files, which are loaded correctly after system startup, though. These files are avgntflt.sys, avipbb.sys and avkmgr.sys whose manufacturer is Avira. They are automatically loaded at system startup and logged in the Event Viewer as properly loaded drivers. That's why I didn't notice them earlier as I only looked there for errors. However, there are no programmes of this manufacturer installed any longer in this partition. This was indeed the crucial hint. After checking and unpacking all installation files that could have installed these drivers in the past, I was able to identify the culprit. It was the crappy Wise Anti Malware 2.2.1, which was installed for a short time for testing purposes only. With the help of Process Hacker and Total Commander, I was able to stop the associated processes and completely remove all three driver files, but only after restarting the system. Immediately afterwards, I opened the Thorium browser, configured it completely and restarted the browser several times. No first launch crashes anymore! Various pages were called up. The browser did not crash even once, no matter what actions were performed. Now, Thorium is working absolute stably in this partition as it is in my POSReady partition. So, these three drivers or at least, one of them (probably the avgntflt.sys driver as it is a filter driver and was more difficult to remove), were definitely the cause of the permanent Thorium crashes. q.e.d. PS: So, forget about my formerly created hypotheses H0! They all have to be rejected with an empirically determined probability of type I error of nearly 0. There is no indication that Thorium requires POSReady updates under Windows XP 32-bit, at least at the moment.

Yep! No problem using most recent definition updates for an old version as long as the format is compatible. PS: I agree capitalisation is annoying, hard to read, and actually means shouting in forums. Therefore, it is considered impolite.

For me, Kaspersky AV now quits. Which antivirus would you recommend for XP? What is the new one you wrote about? I would have to renew Kaspersky otherwise. As far as I can see in your profile, you are using Windows XP Professional 32 Bit. What are your CPU specs?

Looking at the images @Monroe has attached in his post: one can clearly see that updating of definitions in Malwarebytes v1.75.0.1300 is working in its Free version, too. Furthermore, I was able to activate the Pro version by using my lifetime licence. Only in the Pro version, you will have a real-time protection as is usual with Malwarebytes and many other manufactures of antimalware programmes. Cheers, AstroSkipper PS: If you have problems to open a CLP file, install IrfanView! The most recent version 4.62 is still XP-compatible and free of charge. IrfanView is a great piece of software. I use it since the 90's of last century, starting under Windows 95.

I'm going to have to copy that one and use often, lol.

I'm sorry, but this can not be taken serious in 2023 year. The first CPU with SSE2 was released in year 2000. That's more then 22 years ago. Let those people go and upgrade to something more modern. Windows XP works so much better on 4-core systems. Now we have even 8 core Ryzen work with XP. There is no excuses left for staying on none SSE2 system now. Go and upgrade to at least Core2Duo or Athlon64X2 - they are dirt cheap now. I repeat there is no excuses to seat on, like Pentium 3 or Athlon XP and demand everyone attention. Those systems are completely obsolete, they serve people well for 2 decades, now live them alone and upgrade! It is more than serious. And you do not have to understand that, either. There are users who are, for whatever reason, still interested in antimalware programmes targeting Windows XP on old hardware, whose CPU does not have more than the SSE instruction set. And it doesn't matter why. In any case, these computers still exist. For example, one of my computers is equipped with an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Thoroughbred (Model 8). But frankly, I wonder what your problem is. It doesn't concern you anyway. I think the following rule should be applied: