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uMatrix is for those that want EXACT and PRECISE control over EVERYTHING. uBlock is for those that trust lists made by people they've never met. Or something like that Everyone is going to have different "needs". "I'm unique. Just like everybody else."

I should state that a little differently - backports do not exist until they are needed. You cannot backport beforehand.

edit - Just where is the thread supposed to go? Isn't the topic kind of "speculative" at this point? Here is Chromium v103 running in Win7. I believe the topic was in regards to v102 and higher, unless I'm mistaken? But again, entirely speculative as Chrome/Chromium still supports Win7. My Win7's Chromium will be following the GDIChromium project to see if its developer will continue Win7 support after Chrome/Chromium discontinues their "support" some time next year. edit - until "upstream" does end support, the nature of this thread is entirely speculative. How can we know what developers will maintain Win7 support before Win7 support has even ended? Kafan Mini-Browser, DCBrowser, 360Chrome - all extend web browser support for XP but none existed until "upstream" support for XP had ended several weeks/months prior. So yeah, this thread will become much MUCH more important after "upstream" officially ends Win7 "support".

In my versions, open 360Loader.ini while 360Chrome is not running and add whatever useragent you want in the Parameters line. I use: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36" Make sure the entire useragent string starts with and ends with a quote (")

Here's a GDI (ie, DirectWrite is disabled!) Chromium v103 both in x86 and x64 -- https://github.com/GTANAdam/GDIChromium/releases

You will find that many people will be reluctant to assist folks that type in ALL CAPS.

Unsure. I have always felt uBlock to be an inferior product and I use uMatrix (and intentionally an older version by choice). uMatrix blocks most of them by default because they tend to always be "third-party" or "sub-domain" .js files. ie, this one is at st.deviantart.net instead of the page you are visiting which is www.deviantart.com.

According to here ( https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/06/02/improving-font-rendering-in-microsoft-edge/ ), Chromium uses DirectWrite. Unsure how "old" the article is and if it "still" is true or not. I use "Ungoogled Chromium v97" on my Win10 (and one Win7, but have not booted that for quite some time) and it shows skia as enabled by default. I do not have the font issues in Ungoogled Chromium v97 that I have on Edge v107 (where the edge://flags#edge-enhance-text-contrast was required for better font rendering). Ungoogled Chromium v97 does not have a #edge-enhance-text-contrast flag.

Color me blue. I didn't know "skia" was a form of hardware acceleration. Just thought it was a rendering "technique" and thought it affected the way that fonts rendered.

You could always set uBlock (since you're a fan of uBlock) to block any .js file with the name "browser-support".

What user agent are you sending in DCB vs v13.5 vs v13 vs v12? Because that website does a simple substring test from this one .js file -- https://st.deviantart.net/eclipse/browser-support.min.js?20220218

I don't have any Win 7 Chrome. My thanks was in reference to @UCyborg's edge://flags/#edge-enhance-text-contrast suggestion as it resolved some fuzzy font edges I was seeing on a sudoku web page in Win10 and Chromium v97. I'll abandon this thread now. There's four times as many replies by "us" that are not even on Win 7 (yourself included, aren't you on Vista?). So I'm confused on why the thread has had my attention in the first place

Thanks!

Easy. Frame of reference, at least on my end. Scientific Method - change only one variable at a time.

I've sent you a PM regarding v13.5.

Ganesh scores 2464 - new high!

Disabled Skia in chrome://flags - ie, ORIGINAL SETUP. Score went to 2375. HIGHEST score so far! So all of this is simply "margin of error". Abandoning and keeping my ORIGINAL SETUP.

No flag changes in loader.ini. Enabled Skia API for compositing in chrome://flags. Score went from 2249 to 2302.

For now, I will limit this test to my XP x64 machine. I rarely use my Win10 installs because I can "still" get EVERYTHING done (that I need to do!) in XP. Original setup flags: --disable-logging --no-default-browser-check --disable-component-update --disable-background-networking --allow-outdated-plugins --kiosk-printing --disable-print-preview --cipher-suite-blacklist=0xcc14,0xe013 --ignore-certificate-errors --disable-webgl --js-flags=--noexpose_wasm --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36"

Also note that none of my Win10 install's have Chrome v97's hardware acceleration enabled. I have much MUCH better performance with hardware acceleration DISABLED. Nothing infuriates me more than having three to five monitors on all of my computers and running background window on one of those monitors for YouTube and all three to five other monitors will "blip" occasionally whenever "hardware acceleration" is enabled. I have never had any luck with "acceleration" enabled - it SOUNDS LIKE a nice "feature", but it ALWAYS has NEGATIVE side effects on my computers.

I applied those flags to v97 and, um, didn't notice any difference in performance so I've reverted to my original setup. Coupled with other members citing dropped frames (which I did not test myself). I guess I didn't see the need in using "too many" flags without any noticeable performance boost.

I only use v97 on my Win10 installs. And I highly prefer uMatrix over uBlock.

I kind of learned long ago to keep my nose to the grindstone. https://www.bookbrowse.com/expressions/detail/index.cfm/expression_number/444/keep-your-nose-to-the-grindstone When working with a couple dozen coworkers per project, a different couple dozen coworkers on a different project, et cetera, there's "one in every crowd" that WILL take "jokes" or "sarcasm" OUT OF CONTEXT and turn an "ant hill into a mountain". So I've learned to STAY OUT OF THE FRAY and just keep doing MY JOB instead. I have coworkers that INSIST upon reading political news OUT LOUD and try to ENGAGE others in POLITICS at work! I just put the earbuds in or noise-cancelling headphones and YouTube to the Rescue - I do not engage in those topics at work, no matter how hard they try to reel me in. One of my funnest YouTube clips is this one and then leave the web browser on top of all other windows so that my coworkers can READ the lyrics -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfJhMfOPWdE I just remind them that I am "task-oriented" and non-work "tasks" on company time wastes too much of my time.

Ignoring everything else in this thread! But regarding uninstalling Edge - try this -- https://winaero.com/how-to-uninstall-and-remove-edge-browser-in-windows-10/ or https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/uninstall_edge.html or https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-uninstall-microsoft-edge

It IS "extreme" for XP Users. But no, it's "nothing special" for non-XP. And I don't even put it on my Win10 installs.