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Wow! Huge list. I guess I was hoping for a "few". For me, the vanishing text is rare enough (once only every two weeks or so), so I think I'll just stick with exiting-and-relaunching when I encounter the vanishing text.

TV commercial featuring (pos predatory misleading) Joe Namath. The commercial sounds like a hoax. Medicare coverage isn't tied to a "zip code", why is this TV commercial making it sound like a "lottery", that "you win if your zip code qualifies" ??? Then I found this -- https://justcareusa.org/the-medicare-advantage-scam-and-beyond/

Any luck with coming up with a combination where text doesn't vanish?

re: lawmakers who are more often than not poorly educated, technology-wise, and poorly aware of the consequences closed, proprietary systems have on the economy and society. No offense, but "closed, proprietary systems" are NEVER going to be made "illegal". And most forget, even monopolies are LEGAL (here in the US) - they are only illegal "if they are established or maintained through improper conduct". Not to be confused with "proprietary specifications", which are prohibited by most federal agencies (here in the US).

I've looked down at that new icon every time I opened my browser today, lol. It's quite literally the same exact image, just with a different color palette. Meant to fix that like a year ago, just kept forgetting.

So I installed a new furnace and air conditioner two years ago and now have two years of utility bill data on the new and can compare that to two years of utility bill data on the old. Mind you, I did the install myself so this is strictly for the cost of the furnace, air conditioner, and I did have to pay a "pro" (I use the term losely) to add the refrigerant. ie, NO LABOR COST by hiring this out, I did the install myself. So based on two years of data on the new compared to two years of data on the old, I am saving $33.23 per year on my gas bill every winter and am saving $15.34 on my electric bill every summer. So of course the next question you have to ask is how long does the "savings" have the new furnace and air conditioner "pay for itself" ??? Answer - fifty four years and eight months. I'd probably pass out or slip into a coma if I ran the numbers that would have included labor costs for a "pro" to do the install.

Keep us posted of how many disables and enables you came up with so I can try that combo here also.

If you are copying from v11 to v11 or from v12 to v12, et cetera, then that should work. I personally don't let my browser save passwords so I've never looked into "where" they are saved, to be honest.

I plan on creating an AutoIt program as an export/import profile tool, but I haven't done that yet.

If you have an "Add to" or "Remove from" button/link when you visit the Chrome Web Store, then you have the "regular" version and not the "ungoogled". I basically have the disclaimer about starting from scratch because you can "break" the way that the browser is "supposed" to work if you try to import or use an existing profile without knowing what you are doing. It's easiest to always start from scratch and re-install all of your extensions.

It's a must-have especially in preventing (what this forum refers to as) "Googlisms".

Not an easy program to learn. But well worth the learning curve once you do learn it. The original author passed away some time ago and the online presence dwindled pretty fast. It's still a must-have on my systems but I have to answer all of my own questions through trial and error. I still use the sidki3003 config from 2011 as my "base". Yes, knowing v11 and v13.5 definitely helps. Thanks again.

Speaking of v11, it will likely get another update in a week or so. There are several "mobile phone" embedded 'features' that are not required on a web browser that none of us are using on a "mobile phone". These were removed by the original creators of 360Chrome in v12 and higher but are still there in v11 (and admittedly never noticed on my end until hunting for possible fixes to vanishing text issues that seem to only exist in v11 [also exist in Humming Owl's v11, in official Chinese v11, in repack Russian v11, and in orginal Chromium v69 that 360Chrome v11 is based from].

Not the only change. Also some capitalization errors corrected on error codes you shouldn't ever see to begin with. v11 had the biggest changes due to unicode characters used in the Developer Tools status bar that did not use default XP fonts.

That's the power of uMatrix. "Granular" control for the OCD Types like me

Ha! You noticed that, did you? That was one of my funnest "learns" this go-around - converting a "grayscale" image to what is called a "duotone" image where I basically inverted black/white on the original image while retaining transparent background, defined two shades of blue (pulled from the "broom" icon to the right of the "rocket" icon) as my min/max shades for the image and all shades of "gray" were converted to shades of "blue" within that min/max range of shades. Definitely possible! Especially if the https sites you are referring to uses autocomplete = off html coding. Proxomitron simply edits the off to on and the web browser does the rest. Theoretically yes, all "traffic" has to bottleneck through Proximitron. But it's been my experience that pages load FASTER using Proxomitron (the page load timer is displayed right in the status bar, so this is not "placebo effect", the pages load FASTER based on that page load timer). Don't need to do anything. It's a legit font. Not a "default" XP font so one of your other apps installed it. It's more of a Google OS / Android font than a "Windows" font. I do not have this font on my XP install and was surprised to see 360Chrome internal files call for it (but they fallback to arial which then has a fallback to sans-serif). So anything that 360Chrome is trying to display using Roboto, it can't so it falls back to Arial on my systems.

@rereser -- can you open your file manager to Windows \ Fonts directory and tell me if you have a font called "Roboto" ? Thanks in advance. edit - 360Chrome also uses Segoe UI in v12 and higher and my OS installs avoid Segoe UI at all costs. Neither Roboto nor Segoe UI are default XP fonts. Trying to track down why you sometimes get bold fonts for GUI menus.

Proxomitron can do a thousand things that nothing else on the planet can do! Let's say that the web site that you are visiting has 30 javascript files and you use NoScript to block 25 of them and the web site still does everything that it needs to do, those 25 blocked scripts were unneeded bloat. The web site doesn't function without the 5 javascripts files so you cannot block them with NoScript. But let's say that the web site still has some javascript that you find offensive (I'll use the "keylogger" in MSFN.org's "forum reply box" as an example, because that has been a topic in the past). It's fairly easy to track down where that "offense" is among the five remaining javacript files. With Proxomitron, you can take the "offense" which comprises, merely as an example, 2000 lines of code. Proxomitron can "filter" line 1234 and remove "six letters", again merely as an example, and "break" the keylogger. And your web browser never knows. It requested data from MSFN.org. Proxomitron provided that data but filtered and edited before the browser ever "decoded and rendered" that data.

As a former Proximitron-user (actually, I still use it [I was a site admin on a Proxomitron forum], but for Microsoft Excel web queries and not for my web browser), Proxomitron and ProxHTTPSProxy both can be thought of as a "VPN". I shall refer to both as simply Prox. ALL of your web browser "data" flows "thru" Prox. Your web browser does not request data from MSFN.org, for example. Rather, your web browser requests data from Prox. Then Prox requests the identical data from MSFN.org. MSFN.org then sends that data not to your web browser but to Prox instead. Prox is located on the same "computer", but the data is not being sent to your web browser, it is being sent to Prox. Prox then sends that data to your web browser. Your web browser never "touches" MSFN.org. Your web browser only "touches" Prox - it requests data from Prox, it receives data from Prox. So as far as an "SSL Certificate Chain", you only need to maintain ONE. The connection between your web browser and Prox. The Proxomitron community referred to this as "rolling your own" Proxomitron SSL Certificate. As long as the web browser sees a "secure" connection to Prox, the ONE and ONLY certificate now needed for SSL, then the web browser will always display a "green padlock". So your web browser (especially Firefox and the damn "nag screen") never EVER "knows" that MSFN.org's certificate "chain" is 'broken' because the connection between the web browser and Prox is "not broken". I'm over-simplifying, but that's the general idea.

I've tried those also. Only one that "seems" to make a difference is the Accelerated 2D Canvas. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a "Seven Step Sequence" where I do this, then this, then that, and I can repeat the vanishing fonts every time I do the "Seven Steps". It's only with v11. But still rare enough that v11's pros far outweigh the inconvenience of fonts vanishing every once in a while.

I disable Accelerated 2D canvas on my local profile (it is not disabled in the uploaded version) and this seems to greatly reduce the number of times that my text vanishes. I still get the vanishing text, just not nearly as often. Mileage may vary.

Updated download for v12 in first post. Hard-coding out some default search engines (which do not appear unless you use your own "Web Data" [this file contains profile settings, not telemetry, so should not be deleted as a means towards preventing telemetry] file or your file somehow becomes corrupted [or you deleted it thinking it contained telemetry]) is still in-process and did not make it into this update.

Yeah, I've not been able to find a root cause for this. The recent update was for other minor issues but still nothing for the vanishing text.

Technically, the DirectWrite setting should only come into play if you use the same exact profile on Win7 or higher (unsure on Vista). This setting should not have any effect in XP.

I disable DirectWrite (default is enabled). I have not experimented with FontCache scaling and still have it set to default - have you experimented with FontCache scaling?