NotHereToPlayGames

I get the delay with ALL skins. But only in XP.

Agreed! I am actually in-process of that very thing. My hopes are to prevent/decrease the address bar delay. You may notice that when you FIRST launch 360Chrome, if you start typing in the address bar "right away", you have to start your typing over after a second or two. I'm hoping to prevent/decrease that delay. For me, this delay is ONLY with the very FIRST launch after a reboot or coming out of system hibernate. Every successive launch before the next power cycle or hibernate, I have no delay in the address bar.

Because of the collection not matching! I personally trust the collection from "chrome-pak-customizer" over-and-above the collection from Python. So I'm comparing just "why" the collections do not match. These files are only the files that 7Zip could not extract from the "chrome-pak-customizer" collection.

In Python, I can extract the entire resources.pak file and all of the brotli-compressed files extract in the process. But for comparison's sake, I would rather brotli decompress ONE FILE AT A TIME. ie, use "chrome-pak-customizer" to unpack resources.pak but only use Python to brotli decompress ONE FILE AT A TIME from what "chrome-pak-customizer" extracted. Any suggestions?

For anyone that may be interested, here are the 249 files that were originally Brotli-compressed. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nunqk0fcv7m4efi/brotli%20decompressed%20249%20files.7z?dl=1

I don't mind answering this if it is asked without the negative connotation.

No luck! Not even with the RC4 "nightly". But there does also not seem to be any "brotli" files within Universal Extractor, so unsure if it supports brotli or not.

Not sure I've seen that - do you have a link? Found it. I have Universal Extractor and no luck with it (but I should probably revisit with a .br or .tar extension and see if that gets somewhere).

Even assuming them to be in a "tar container" (common for brotli compressed files from what I see "so far"), PeaZip still cannot -

ps - I plan on using Python "for now". BUT if anyone finds some sort of program like 7Zip or PeaZip that can extract and recompress these files (giving them a .br extension will force brotli extract), I would be forever thankful PeaZip is "supposed to" be able to - it does not! Or even a bat file that I could drag and drop "onto" like we can do with "chrome-pak-customizer".

Until I familiarize myself more with Python and track these down myself, I wouldn't mind an Ungoogled version that REMOVES these two entries from the context menu. I disable these via other means, but it would be nice to not even have the entries in the context menu. I'm assuming these are going to be found in the 249 files I am now reviewing, I have not gotten that far yet.

For now, it seems IDLE and Command Prompt is getting me everything I need. I am seeing references in several tutorials for shells like IPython and Jupyter - is one of these what you use or do you have another?

Please give me more credit than that! This was technically a project "for me to use" but there was an online need for it so I shared HOW to START the process. It was "over everybody's head" at the time and so I shared my own work. Or others just didn't want to spend the time because they knew how much time it was going to take. Only 1,394 of the 1,558 should be counted (ie, you can't count the html, js, json, and png files. My 7zip shows 249 that do not extract. What I did (and the new discovery does indicate more to be done, so again, thanks!) is drag and drop all 1,394 into Notepad++. Notepad++ will "view" them whether or not they are Brotli compressed or not. The Brotli compressed will show up as "random character strings" BUT you can still see what SOME of the files are doing even "around" those random characters. It's been a while, but I know that I visually inspected ALL 1,451 PLUS files within resources.pak [I did nothing with the png files] (and now I have the means to view the 249 that I had to "trust", though I dislike resorting to that word choice). I say PLUS because my resources.pak file has FEWER files (I remove an Incognito background, some deprecated APIs, etc). And, um, one has to "draw the line somewhere". My "system32" Windows folder has 1,633 files in it, I use XP despite not knowing what all 1,633 files "do". My Microsoft Office 2003 folder has only 89 files, excluding sub-folders, no clue what any of them "do". Sure, we could have used you during the beta-testing stage. But here we are, "fighting" over whether it was done "the right way" or not. WHY? I'll get to those 249 files that I now have a way to investigate further. But even without that investigation, I still feel that this project has served its purpose - "trustingly".

Almost ALL of the files "inside" resources.pak extract-and-edit "inside" of 7Zip. Regular ol' 7Zip. No command line and no "addons". PIcs below. It is certainly "curious" that THESE THREE files do NOT. Please remember that this started out as a "community project" - several beta testers spanning several months. It was not put together over a weekend Mountain Dew binge, lol. I was here before Humming Owl (the only other 360Chrome "modder" [there has been IM "invites" for others to contribute in this fashion, deaf ears]). And seemingly the only one still here. So a BIG THANKS for your discovery! And YES, I use these builds for my banking and investment accounts. In fact, I trust them MORE than official Chrome/Chromium and even official Firefox, Pale Moon, and "Iron" -- I do base that off of Proxomitron logs "during" banking and investment account login sessions. But most of the time based on DNS logs (much faster than browsing through Proxomitron logs). FIREFOX scares the living sh#t out of me! Compare your own logs one of these days. But I digress... As I've often stated in the past, the only way to be "100%" 'safe-and-secure' on the internet is to live in the hills, no running water, no electricty, no phone, no internet. But who among us wants to live that sort of life, lol?

But enough for the OT for now - I'd like to get back to the above, please.

The font issue is not really an XP issue. I actually kind of wish this thread was split into two because "older NT-Family OSes" puts XP and 7 in the same basket and they are DRASTICALLY different - ESPECIALLY in font-rendering. For Win7 and higher, I suggest GDIChromium - https://github.com/GTANAdam/GDIChromium/releases (currently at 103.0.5060.122, have not compared directly to 102 which you fork from). I also like Ungoogled v97 - it has been my experience that v97 is the fastest and everything newer has some performance degradation (as does each and every "newer" 360Chrome and each and every "newer" roytam1 release). 360Chrome (in my opinion) is really only for XP users - far FAR better browser options out there for Win7 and higher. 360Chrome "enabled" me to stay on XP much longer than I probably should have, to be honest. But I still use my XP machine "most" of the time (it has five widescreen monitors). 360Chrome basically "bought me time" to learn the ins-and-outs of Win10 tweaks and customizations - still in-process before I can define it as my "default OS".

If you're going to pay me a SALARY, then YES, I am a "some sort of programmer". "This" (360Chrome) is actually one of my SMALLEST "hobbies". I'll convert your vehicle from mass air flow to speed density, drop in dual turbo's, reprogram your ECU's ignition tables accordingly, and hit 1/4 mile in 10 seconds. And will spend all summer doing it - for free. But no, I do not spend that much "time and energy" on 360Chrome.

Being completely brand new to Python, I guess I need a small nudge in the right direction. I right-clicked on pak_util.py and selected Edit with IDLE. Then selected Run... Customized and entered -h for the command line argument.

Thanks for the instructions. I have never used Python but it appears "easy to learn" - but very low priority at the moment.

No real clue, to be honest. The rendering engine is technically "identical" and I never read any "whatsnew" release notes due to original being Chinese. The biggest difference would be "ungoogled" versus "regular". Since you opted for "regular", I doubt you would like the "hurdle" of manually installing extensions in an "ungoogled" version. Technically, the ONLY difference between "ungoogled" and "regular" is the word "google" existing two times in one internal API being changed to "9oo9le" (same way official Ungoogled Chromium "ungoogles" their releases).

Speaking solely for myself, "do not care" I was "hesitant" to go public with build 2022. Rest assured, there is no hesitation regarding build 2036. The user base is just too tiny. I applaud roytam1's constant updates, but this project will NOT follow that same course. NONE of roytam1's releases 'work' for MY "modern" web sites - 360Chrome still works for MY "modern" web sites. And TWO-PLUS YEARS LATER, after weekly updates, NONE of the roytam1 releases has gained functionality for MY "modern" web sites. I have no plans to perform "constant" updates herein and never gain any true "functionality". Seems pointless "to me". BUT this test is probably solely for Mr. D.Draker - to the best of my knowledge, your gym membership web site is one of a very small handful of web sites that 360Chrome can not "do". I could be wrong (I am "sometimes", lol), but you seem to NOT WANT to test your gym membership on build 2036. So TO ME, the post regarding it is basically a TINY degree of "stirring the pot" (I doubt that was the intent, lol). Because XP browsers will ALWAYS be "outdated" - and us XP Users really "do not care". We have other reasons for running XP and "constantly" DEBATING this is NOT "open for debate" - ESPECIALLY here at MSFN (ask any of the moderators). IF, on the other hand, build 2036 does return functionality to one of the very small handful of web sites that the current release can not "do", then (and only then) shall hesitation be removed Maybe "too early" for me to have "replied", but I think I worded it "okay"...

Please share what software package you used. These are not extracting for me.

I cannot get any of these three files to extract/edit. What software package did you use?

Agreed. I will revisit the Win10 skin one of these days.

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