NotHereToPlayGames

I'm keeping it. I will *not* be keeping any Supermium builds - at least not yet, I'll try future builds, but none to date will work on my system - NONE. While real hardware is the goal here, tyr Supermium in a VM. Not sure why it should matter, but it does! Run Supermium in a VM and you WILL throw your computer out the window, throw the keyboard out right behind it, flush your mouse down the toilet, and take your printer outside and hit it with a baseball bat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

Use - body, body *, body h1, body h2, body h3, body h4 {font-family: unset !important;}

I'm confused. If your computer is single-core, then why were you testing in multi-process mode? Guess I "assumed" that multi-proces was ONLY for multi-core. But it is an "assumption".

That would suggest that the phone is recognized as a "hub" and what is disconnected/powered down is a "secondary" port, the port that does picture/video transfer versus the port that charges the phone. XP powers down the port when disconnected. x86 and x64.

I wouldn't rule it out, if you have a way to test without POSReady. We (plural) [work-related] had several several SEVERAL issues with POSReady. Our IT ended up "banning" POSReady on all factory computers running XP.

Possible. But I have ran both on real hardware on old laptop and from VM on fairly-modern hardware. I get the same results in both - Supermium is the only one pegging at 100% for 2 to 4 minutes, dropping to 2% for 10 seconds, then pegging again for another 2 to 4 minutes. I can only speak towards what I witness - and that is that Thorium works better, much MUCH better, on my hardware. Supermium can NOT be ran from a VM, the 100% CPU is far FAR worse when ran from a VM. But I suppose that's okay, we should be targeting real hardware.

Then you missed when the OP replied that he doesn't want something in the systray so we had to move away from that suggestion. No clue on assistant service, that is "OT to the OP". I'm liking that phrase, I may trademark it.

@bookie32 -- after a whole page of derailment, did the above link solve your issue? the discussion in that link can very easily be converted to a desktop .bat file.

No. But more importantly, why the derailing of the OP's topic?

As far as I can tell, it is Thorium that is behaving identical to Ungoogled Chromium v114 as far as fonts on Digital Spy. But I'm unsure if they are doing what they are being "told" to do (at least as far as the first issue, you seem to have two issues here). In any programming language, there is always a degree of "junk in, junk out". You have two things going on. First, your style sheet is MISSING the closing }. Your style sheet should read - from body {font-family: unset !important; to body {font-family: unset !important;} (note that the only difference is the } at the very end. Thorium and Ungoogled v114 both seem to add this missing } "for you". Second, Digital Spy &/or Stylus is not applying your style sheet for "body" to "body h4" (unsure what the official CSS guideline is on this). In your style sheet for Digital Spy, change it - from body {font-family: unset !important;} to body, body * {font-family: unset !important;} (note the added , body * so we catch not only "body" but "body h4" and "body h2", both being used at Digital Spy)

You need to ask our Singapore IT "professionals" for the answer to that.

Are you testing on a "real" system? Or an "extended kernel" system?

For me, everything falls back to sans-serif. Unsure where it pulls this from because my system font settings should have it falling back to Tahoma. The font causing all the parsing errors is a "gstatic" font, which I wouldn't normally allow a connection to anyway (I block via uMatrix).

I am hereby GIVING UP COMPLETELY on Supermium! I do NOT have the patience of this thing pegging my CPU at 100% for two to four minutes at a time, wait 10 seconds, then peg again. While I continue to have "high hopes" for Supermium, this is by far the WORST browser I've ever ran! It will improve, I have no doubt about that! But THORIUM does not do this pegging for SEVERAL minutes at a time !!!

Second post on this page (page 2). Whether this is SP1, RTM, SP2, or whatever is unknown on my end. All I can tell you is that ALL of our factory machines that run Win7 or higher had this "feature" where if our maintenance crew unplugged a USB camera "thinking" that they knew what they were doing, our entire assembly line went down! It's also a corporate environment that the updates are performed by Singapore IT, no matter what country the factory floor sits in, it is Singapore IT that controls the updates. Updates were "rolled" in a very systematic process. Updates are technically "tested" by NOT rolling them out to the entire factory floor "all at once". This Win7 "feature" is an issue REGARDLESS of what rollout phase our updates are at. And yeah, just as our maintenance crew might "think" they know what they are doing, I will say the same for our Singapore IT department! Point is, ALL of our Win7 machines do NOT power off the USB port when the device plugged into that port is "removed".

Win7 required a registry hack to power down the USB port when the device connected to that port was "removed" via built-in removal. Google it, hundreds of articles on it. Here is but one of them -- https://winaero.com/fix-usb-device-remains-active-after-you-safely-eject-it-in-windows-7-or-windows-8/ Here is another -- https://www.groovypost.com/howto/windows-safely-remove-usb-devices-power-off/

I do not, nor ever have, used any "preload" functions. It's just a fancy way of saying "We are spying on you and trying to predict your next click, we will load our prediction in the background so that when you do make that click, we have half that page already loaded." Think about it, that means that if the "algorithm" made a WRONG PREDICTION, then the algorithm made a connection to a web site that you yourself never actually visited.

I did. I went from XP to 10. But still use ALL of my XP programs. No new programs other than now I use Ungoogled Chromium v114 as my web browser. Re: desktop shortcut -- https://superuser.com/questions/443162/remove-usb-device-from-command-line

Unsure if that is what the OP wants or not. But I do know that is why I do NOT use Windows built-in removal function ever since using Win7 on machines at work (removing USB-based Optical Inspection cameras forced machines to reset if removed while still POWERED). This was never an issue with Embedded XP. It IS an issue with Win7 and various versions of KDE (Linux). I cannot speak to whether Microsoft fixed this DESIGN FLAW with Vista/8/8.1/10/11.

Thanks. I personally disable WU and will also now be disabling these CTL updates. "My computer, my preference."

Intriguing. I'll see if I can find anything this evening. I'd be flagged by IT in three different countries if I so much as downloaded Supermium or Thorium here at work. Irony there is they've never noticed my 360Chrome 1030 but they did "slap my hand" when I tried 2044.

I have tried Privoxy. Hated it! May work for other's needs, but not mine.

Agreed! SNAKE OIL