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If this was directed at me - then my reply is that such commentary is "uncalled for" here at MSFN. But zero offense also. I am not a "developer", what I do with these browsers can be done by anybody - no "compiling" skills whatsoever. I have done startup tests with these flags and they make no difference on my computers - other users have to perform their own tests on their computers. "One size does not fit all." I do suggest something quantitative, measureable, and repeatable - elliminate "placebo effect". I'm sure there are others, but I use PassMark AppTimer to "time" software startup.
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I honestly have never had any YouTube crash issues - not in v11, not in v12, not in v13, not in v13.5. I do use v11 for 99% of my browsing needs. I think almost everybody here has "several" web browsers and has resigned the notion of using one browser for "everything". I "could" use v13 build 2206 for "everything" but I myself prefer not to because web browsing is not the only thing I use my computer for and I'd rather allocate RAM towards CAD software then to the web browser. When I do YouTube (which is RARE for me), I use v11 - are other users needing a more "modern" browser just for YouTube?
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Please provide screencap'd proof. No "placebo effect" allowed. Here's what I use -- https://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer/
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How's this for proof (sorry, only used mic for audio) -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcqtug229ck6f59/what-crashes-question-mark.mp4?dl=1
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I "might" play around with v13.6, during days of complete boredom with nothing else to do I've found nothing but problem after problem with anything "newer" than v13 build 2206 (on XP!) Everything "newer" (in v13, v13.5, and v13.6) is all the same "core engine" with just a crapload of bloatware added left and right (I am merely speculating at this point regarding v13.6). All I've ever seen "improved" with newer builds is "where" the telemetry is stored (mangled in with profile settings where if you delete the telemetry, you also delete portions of your profile settings [extension-dependent]). I have very little optimism toward anything in the 13-branch "newer" than build 2206.
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A musical number comprised entirely of 98 and XP sound files -- https://www.youtube.com/embed/dsU3B0W3TMs
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The MSFN café - A Penny for Your Thoughts
NotHereToPlayGames replied to XPerceniol's topic in Funny Farm
Make sure you put them on a leash so they don't run into traffic. -
Another forum update - cosmetic change
NotHereToPlayGames replied to UCyborg's topic in Site & Forum Issues
I'm always tinkering with my style sheet for much more than just whitespace and I thought the same, what "purpose" did that whitespace serve? -
Mozilla adds its own emoji font, a font that does not work as a system font, a font that does not work as a Chromium font. It's a Mozilla font and Mozilla is "hard-coded" to take advantage of that font. Don't know "how", per se. Mozilla adds its own emoji font, it all boils down to that.
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Unless I'm mistaken, they will always be in black and white on XP.
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Evaporating polymer plasticizers. Or so that's what I've pretty much always thought the "smell" was attributed to. It's also the cause of the hazy film on the interior windshield that looks like a smoker's car but is actually a non-smoker's car and all "plastic" cars do that as they age.
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I think most of us here tend to forget, we (the MSFN member) have almost ZERO in common with the "average computer user". To the "average computer user", upgrading from XP to 7 to 10 to 11 is like buying a brand new car every three years. The "average computer user" LOVES the new-car smell, the new bells and whistles. The "average computer user" will take the 'financial hit' of that "new car" every three years and walk in pride, "look at me and my shiny new ride". Or something like that...
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There is no "modification fix" to v11 to resolve rem/em fonts. These will always occur with Chromium v69 browsers. This "bug" dates back to 2013 (circa version 24 through 31) and was never fixed until v79 (after originally being scheduled for v77 (I've read some unverified reports that some users of v81 still have this rem/em font-size issue). I fix these using Proxomitron, they can just as easily be fixed via Tampermonkey. Another fix is Stylus. Or just fix them "when encountered" by using the "Inspect" console and unchecking the problematic font-family or font-size.
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I'm showing 14-seconds in NM28. Much better. And 8-seconds in 360Chrome v11 after I installed a temporary emoji font. So yeah, that page only loads terribly slow on a setup without emojis (because the emoji table is created using "data" embeds).
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Haven't tried it in a Mozilla browser - but I suspect that it is the "included" emoji font. Everybody is different, I'll take a 5-second page load with "squares" over a 45-second sit-and-wait for a bunch of "stickers"
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I guess that's my Proxomitron background. Proxomitron began as a means to take a web page like that (which took 44 seconds to fully load!) and block "crap" and get the page to load in under 5 seconds instead. But "back in the day", it wasn't emojis that slowed page load to a crawl, it was "banners and ads and popups". Some people like "cute and cuddly" 'stickers' plastered all over their web page - some do not
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Um, seriously?!
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Fair enough. Saying "non-standard" is a bad choice of words. I still have zero desire to "enable" my screen to look like a 4yr old plastered the screen with a bunch of "stickers". <pukeface>
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I don't use either of these "apps" but this sounds like something that should be "fixed" via Stylus/Stylem as opposed to "non-standard" OS fonts. edit - To clarify, I have some finance sites that use "non-standard" fonts in the web site's toolbar menu. More aptly they should be called "glyphs" as opposed to a "font" (but the idea is identical to that of an "emoji"). I use Stylus to change the font name that way I don't need to install the (childish, IMO) "glyphs" font (and I don't need to 'enable' a ssl finance site to connect to a third-party non-ssl just for a couple of "glyphs").
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I am 1,234,567% positive that "Palette Title" affected my 360Chrome registry setting in XP x86 the other day but I cannot repeat that today. I changed it from Tahoma to Arial then back again the other day but it's locked at Tahoma today and won't change with any system setting.
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Note that there is a "MS Shell Dlg" and a "MS Shell Dlg 2".
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I don't think it is that one because my 360Chrome font says Tahoma and that registry key says Microsoft Sans Serif (not MS Sans Serif, but Microsoft Sans Serif - if there's a difference). Also, the registry key would have to say Segoe UI on a Win10 system, from the limited digging I've done. Seems a "patched" system font is probably the easiest route - replace your "MS Sans Serif" with <cough, cough></end sarcasm> an emoji font.
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Hmm. Palette Title changes it on my XP x64 but not on my XP x86. I admit that I don't quite follow the infatuation with this (zero interest in emoji fonts, a "Mozilla-ism" to the best I can surmise, I prefer to see a "square" for the missing font), but I'll still see what I can do to help. What fonts do you have listed for the following? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\Scripts\19 -->> IEFixedFontName and IEPropFontName (ignore this one, just noticed that it's an IE setting) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes -->> MS Shell Dlg 2
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Cool! Ignore previous post. We criss-crossed.