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I'm on XP. You're on Vista. That's likely the only reason for ESENT. No clue what it is.

Humming Owl's v13 --

Dixel's v13 --

Here is my v13 compared to Dixel's v13 compared to Humming Owl's v13 as far as registry entries in a brand new XP x86 VM. Three completely new VMs. Only one 360Chrome "install" per VM. my v13 --

If you are referring to OpenSearch, that feature only adds to the search engine list if you USE that search engine (ie, perform an actual search, not just "visit" the search engine homepage). You can prevent them using Tampermonkey.

No, I was not.

When time permits, I'll hard-code out the default search engines. This will add a "fail-safe fall-back" of sorts, but I still would not suggest running ANY browser (mine or otherwise) without a "loader".

Agreed! The browser will create registry entries "while" the browser is running. But the loader deletes them when you exit. Humming Owl's releases write to the registry and those entries stay forever, I'm not a fan of that route. Again, I was kinda unaware some of you guys were NOT using the loader - I don't suggest not using the loader. I almost throw my computer out the window when Humming Owl's "nag screen" pops up when you close the last tab for the first time in a new profile - very confusing, do I hit OK, do I hit Continue, do I hit the Escape key on the keyboard? Don't recall what the button choices are on that "nag screen", I just know the ears turn red with hate every time I see it.

Made perfect sense. I was kinda unaware some of you guys were NOT using the loader. I never tested without the loader.

I never use any browser without a loader (be it Mozilla or Chromium). That's one of my paranoias, I won't even run it "temporarily" without a loader just to see how it behaves without one. One of the downfalls (in my opinion) of all "ee" (Extreme Explorer) browsers [and the "se" browsers] is that they all write to the Windows Registry and in the same exact location no matter what version of 360Chrome you are on. So without the loader, who knows how every version interacts with each other when they "share" registry strings.

And here's where that still exists in my v13.5 -

And here's where that still exists in my v13.5 -

The source=hp is how your browser configuration is telling Google that your search originated from a homepage. None of the rest in blue is hard-coded in 360Chrome. Your issue all boils down to this homepage parameter and where it came from. A hard-coded search would have client=aff-cs-360se in the URL location you have source=hp. What did you set up as your 360Chrome's homepage? Do you have any extensions that alter your homepage? Please also verify that you are not directing through a Proxy (or verify that your proxy is not altering your search query).

I did not say that I "can't and won't do anything about it". I did say that if you use my version AS-IS then I do NOT see the behavior that you guys are reporting. AS-IS when you search for "movies" (without the quotes), you should be sent to here -- https://www.google.com/search?q=movies&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 (even in Incognito, you do not need added extensions) Without knowing a detailed step-by-step process of what you guys did that "broke" the AS-IS functionality then there is nothing for me to do, I cannot repeat what you guys are seeing, I only have the ONE google search engine in my list of search engines. I need to know what process you took that ended up reverting the list of search engines. I cannot repeat what you guys are seeing. I'll do what I can to help, but I need detailed step-by-step process of what reverted the list of search engines.

That only happens if the original official Google search engine is in your list of default search engines. Which it should NOT be if you run by build AS-IS and rebuild your profile from scratch. Not sure what else to tell you. Being PORTABLE, you can download AGAIN, close your current profile, extract the new download, and when you run that new download AS-IS without trying to change skin, without trying to import previous extensions, et cetera, but run AS-IS, your default search engine list should only contain ONE entry and that it is used for both the search bar and the popup menu. Not sure what else to tell you.

Fair enough. All I can say is that if you use my builds AS-IS, then the default Google search engine is NOT the one where you screencap'd the hard-code for.

I know where those hard-codes are (I am not stupid! Nor was I claiming anyone else to be!). I could screencap a crapload of Chinese URLs that are still in the .dll - but "in" and "executed" really are two different things. I'm not here to "fight". Just trying to offer an XP browser that works where Roytam's releases FAIL as far as "modern web". It's not going to fit "everybody's" needs. Humming Owl's releases will work better for you if you want everything hard-coded. My builds rely on a portable file structure, work does need done to import/export profiles, but download my build and run AS-IS and the default search engine list only has ONE entry and it is NOT the original official Google. If the Chinese search engines are in that list, then your profile became corrupted. Don't know how! My profiles have never become corrupted (which is kind of a surprise for v13 because it randomly used to crash quite a bit). Attempts to save/import previous profiles is a "nightmare". I don't have any good answers for that. Other than it has become a thorn in the side and why I kinda stopped doing "updates". Humming Owl's releases will work better for you if you want everything hard-coded. The Chinese reference is the Developer Tools defaulting to Chinese in v13.5 for all Incognito Mode windows - I have not dug into it yet, I only know that it's on the to-do list and that I was going to look into that when you pointed it out once. But I admit that I have not had the chance to do that yet. Both versions have their pros and cons (I kinda have an immense hatred for the way Humming Owl's releases throw a nag screen when you close the last tab on a new profile, but do not recall if that is v11, v12, v13, or all of them). If you want everything hard-coded, Humming Owl's releases may work better for you. I'm not here to "fight".

That "might" work, haven't tried it. But I don't see that as the real solution, I think the status bar disappearing was unintentional and therefor a "bug". I feel that the default status bar needs returned, not "replaced" with a "new toolbar". Kind of like "replacing" the IE desktop icon on XP with a "shortcut", the shortcut doesn't have the same context menu as the "real" IE desktop icon.

Google Chrome version 33 was the last version that would run on non-SSE2 hardware.

That's not the same one that I use so I'm not familiar with it. What I have already works so I'm not going to rock the boat and try something new.

Jeff Dunham Christmas Special

Awesome! Many thanks! Monitor the "Manage Search Engines" page in Settings -> Basics. If you see the Default search settings on search bar change, try to keep track of what steps you took leading up to them changing. The Other search engines is "designed" to change itself (unless you use Tampermonkey to disable "OpenSearch").

I don't have the Chrome Web Store links, but the two YouTube extensions that I use are -- 1) AdBlocker for YouTube version 0.3.4 2) Enhancer for YouTube version 2.0.105

Your profile likely became corrupted also. Unsure the "exacts" on how swapping skin files willy-nilly affects things, but I do know that it does effect things.

But you changed the SKIN file (and I know that D.Draker does also, that's where his Chinese is coming from, he shared a link but I was unable to download so I cannot verify fully). The way that all of the puzzle pieces fit together, that really is all it takes for things to not work as intended. One "text string" can exist, literally, in AT LEAST four different files. When you change the SKIN file, you change the "priority" of where that text string is pulled from. My ungoogled v11 should look like this - only one default search engine and it's not the original Google but a replaced Google without the telemetry.