AstroSkipper

BTW, Amazon, eBay and Paypal have become really bad. These sites are much more sluggish in New Monn 28 than months ago.

Unfortunately, I have to report that the payment of an eBay item with Paypal in New Moon 28 no longer works. You get stuck when logging into your Paypal account after a captcha request. Therefore, I had to make the purchase via my tablet. Can anyone confirm this issue?

I don't think that's the reason. I have several, most recent browsers installed on my Android 9 tablet, some with and some without uBlock Origin. And I have the same issues with the MSFN forum editor there as I have on my Windows XP machine. The forum editor has still problems with posting special links or pasted code. And that for many months now.

Same here. Posting code here has been a pure game of chance for months. The forum editor is still totally buggy and constantly spinning around although all has been reported months ago.

I don't know, either. Trial and error is the only method to gain clarity. But I assume it won't do anything in terms of hardware acceleration in Thorium when it comes to my acient NVIDIA Geforce 6200.

Thanks again for your assessment! What I actually meant was the fact that NVIDIA does not offer the driver version 307.90 but 307.83 as the latest version for the Geforce series 6. Generally, I am very careful when it comes to updating graphics card drivers in my very old system, as I have had some very unpleasant experiences in the past. But I will create a current image of my system and then test the version 307.90 offered by Microsoft.

Just a small note. Due to the circumstance that the hardware acceleration does not work properly on my old machine, I have reverted my Chrome XP API Adapter from version 1.2.0.5058 to version 1.2.0.5057 which now runs smoothly again on my machine.

You're welcome! Glad it finally works for you. TBH, your hardware is much more recent and powerful than mine. Therefore, I couldn't imagine that Thorium does not run on your system at all, but does on my ancient box from 2000. The manual execution of the command I posted for you is actually just a test whether the Thorium browser can be started in your system at all or not. I observed in my installation that from time to time the execution of the batch file didn't do anything for whatever reason. Thus, I modified the code of this batch starter file and compiled it to an EXE file which now runs reliably without any problems. BTW, I brought your comment here as a deeper discussion would have been off-topic in @roytam1's browser thread. This thread here is a better place to get help in terms of Thorium related stuff and discuss its issues.

@chermany4ever Replace the string %~dp0% by the path to your main Thorium folder! That is the path where the thorium.exe file is located.

Hope I've done what you ask correctly. By doing so a folder was created called %~dp0% which has more folders and files inside. Actually, a user data folder should be created with the name USER_DATA and not %~dp0%. The whole command starts the browser with some flags which were originally part of the batch file and creates the user data folder USER_DATA if not already existent.

Ok. What did you see when you applied the starter batch file? Open a command line window in the main folder of Thorium and execute the following command: thorium.exe --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-breakpad --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id What do you see now?

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?

My NVIDIA driver version is 307.83, the last official version I got via the updater from NVIDIA. This version is also the last officially offered one when performing a driver search on their homepage. However, I could update to the more unofficial 307.90 version which was offered by Microsoft but there was never any need to do that. And I don't think such a minor update could change anything. My DirectX version is indeed 9.0c.

If I understand you correctly, the NVIDIA 6200 graphics card is not supported. Am I right? BTW, I didn't see any notes about supported graphics cards or chips. Where are them?

Although my Thorium browser starts as usual, the new Chrome XP API Adapter 1.2.0.5058 in combination with the --use-angle=d3d9 and --ignore-gpu-blocklist flags causes black frames, wherever pop-ups, menus or preview windows are opened, and the disappearance of tool bar icons. Round about six extensions are affected. Unfortunately, this type of hardware acceleration doesn't help me at all. Thus, I will remove both flags.

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!

Not really. My computer is much older, my dear. It is from 2000. And TBH, such comments are not really helpful.

Especially the --ignore-gpu-blocklist flag leads to a disappearance of tool bar icons which belong to the extensions "User Agent Switcher and Manager 0.5.0" and "Window Resizer 2.6.4". I should mention that my my old computer is equipped with a NVIDIA GeForce 6200 graphic card with 256 MB. A very, very old graphic card, of course. Thus, I removed both flags from my installation. In any case, I will have to test this more deeply. Perhaps, other things are also negatively affected.

Thanks for providing your hardware specs! My on-board connectors are still USB 1.1 ports due to the age of the motherboard which was manufactured in 2000. Therefore, I had to retrofit USB 2.0. Since I have installed the expansion card from Exsys with the NEC chip, everything that has to do with USB runs like clockwork. And Thorium doesn't seem to have a problem with this chip, either. PS: By the way, it was rather a stroke of luck that I was still able to purchase this card via eBay classifieds. The Exsys USB 2.0 PCI card is more of a Mercedes among USB expansion cards and can no longer be purchased officially.

Thanks, I tried with an old Kingston USB flash 32GB (2013 year or so). I attached a Medion USB 32 GB stick to my machine while Thorium was running. No problems here. Attaching and removing the stick works as it should. Thus, I can't see any issues in my system. Maybe, it depends on the USB chip that is used. I had a lot of problems with the VIA chip in the past. I replaced my USB card one or two years ago by one with a NEC chip. No connection errors anymore. The NEC chip is very stable and simply great.

Ok. So far, I didn't attach a USB device while Thorium is running but I will do so the next time.

The last weeks, I have permanently attached an USB 2.0 hard disk to my Windows XP computer while using Thorium. It is shown correctly connected and functional. I will test connecting USB sticks the next time when I am back at my desktop machine.

For security reasons, I do not use the --no-sandbox flag, either.

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

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.