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@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?

Here's a good guide on what fonts are safe to remove in XP - https://forums.techguy.org/threads/which-fonts-can-i-remove.211371/

"Libre Franklin" (the font used on Digital Spy) and "Franklin Gothic" (default font installed with XP) are not the same thing. "Libre Franklin" is an 'interpretation and expansion of the classic Franklin Gothic typeface'. I guarantee you that 100% of the time that you encounter a problematic font (which, yes, does happen more in Chromium browsers than in Mozilla browsers), it's because that font does NOT EXIST in your Windows \ Fonts directory. Rather, that font is being "fetched" (from gstatic.com in the case of Digital Spy) by the web browser and used only for the web page being rendered (it is not being "installed" into Windows \ Fonts directory).

Cool. I used to go the route of emailing the web master on web sites that worked perfectly in one browser but looked terrible in another browser. I stopped doing that because I got sick and tired of the "answer" ALWAYS being "switch to Firefox". Rates right up there with "use Linux" as far as a totally USELESS "answer".

Thanks. That's exactly how I install extensions (as I use the "ungoogled" version). Guess I assumed that most people were already doing it that route.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring Generally speaking -- new = bloat, old = efficient But "to each their own". "Mileage may vary." Don't get me wrong, that does not mean that I don't look for "security issues" in older extensions. It's VERY SAD that "computer users" these days think they are going to get hit with a "security issue" unless they bend over backwards and "update" every THIRTY MINUTES. And these folks get very "cranky" at "minute 29" then 'all is good' when that timer resets and they are at "minute 0". But anywhoo...

Updated download for v13.0 and v13.5 in first post. edit - 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.

According to @VistaLover the answer is "no". I've never tried because I hate auto-updates. For reference, here is VistaLover's post -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/182304-extreme-explorer-360-chromium-78-86-general-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=1166078

The "ungoogled" versions definitely do not auto-update. I'm not sure on the "regular" versions. I personally hate auto-update so I've never "tried" to automatically update any of my extensions. I also personally prefer to use older versions of most of my extensions. Probably should say all because I don't even look for manual updates after I create my profile.

I guess that kinda doesn't surprise me. Somewhere WAAYYY back then, I stopped using Chromium and migrated to official Pale Moon (then to New Moon, then to Mypal) because I'm an XP-user. And nothing ticks me off more than a program's GUI that does NOT have XP-style title bar and min/max/restore/close icons. Seems minor, I know, but it's actually kind of a big deal to me

Fair enough. It was an honest mistake, I care ZERO about this and didn't take the time to "quote" word for word, letter for letter. Because, no offense, NOBODY CARES. There is no "prize" being handed out for "winning" this MEANINGLESS conversation. I yield the floor for you to have the last word, I spend too much time on the forum as-is without this thread, you can have it

Agreed. This whole 'incident' was a "nothing" (less than nothing!) in my book. But I did find some mole hills for you.

It's "over and done with" as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on, I wasn't offended at the time nor now. Certainly wasn't worth my time to scroll back a page or two for an "exact" quote, lol. I feel like this thread should be "locked", everybody has said their piece and I don't see the need to prolong the discussion. "Over and done with." Moving on.

I've used the word much differently so I personally did not feel attacked. If you look at my history of using that word, never once have I ever directed it at anyone specifically. In one instance, I referred to MYSELF as a "geeky dude". In the other instances, they were of "generalities", not "at" anyone in particular. I do think it is very different to start a sentence off with "Dude, did you even read" because in this context, "dude" and "you" is specifically being directed at "one person". I would have felt under attack if I felt that sentence was directed "at me". All in CONTEXT and CONTEXT doesn't always come across in WRITTEN FORM.

For those that prefer the Tampermonkey route, I no longer use this and prefer to block fonts by default with NoScript then use a "Clean Font Families" Tampermonkey script for the very few fonts that NoScript cannot block because they're not sourced externally. I don't recall where this originally came from and I know I've edited it since then, but this is the script I used to use to replace problematic fonts -

Yep, we got it figured out. As for your learning curve, I only use five extensions and three of them can fix Digital Spy fonts all by itself. 1) Easiest -- NoScript -- block fonts on gstatic.com 2) Medium difficulty -- Stylus -- unset body font-family 3) Hardest -- Tampermonkey -- replace "libre franklin" font-family with any font of your preference

It's been years since I've used it but I do seem to recall that I had to create the folder, that it did not exist by default. I cannot say if this will work though, it was pre-v49 that I've used it. I quickly turned into a Stylem/Stylus "junkie" and can't live without it.