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It's free, no activation required. You have the correct file. Lightweight, fast, efficient, parent-based rules (ie, you can block your default browser from accessing the internet if launched by another browser but allow it access if launched from a shortcut on the desktop).

I suggest version 2.4.18.184. If you can't find the installer then I can PM it to you.

I do have a sign hanging out in my garage. <last name> for Sheriff But it was actually my cousin that ran for sheriff about 18 years ago. One of my coworkers at the time "stole" it (after elections) on his way to work and gave it to me.

Sometimes I kinda have to wonder what some of you folks do in your spare time. Killing operating system .dll's and calling it "privacy" or "security" - trying to hide from the law? JUST JOKING. But maybe, just maybe, my browsing habits are more innocent than some of us that lay asleep at night wondering what operating system .dll's are "doing". But like I say, JUST JOKING... Mostly...

I seem to recall that @msfntor listed a very long list of IP Addresses that DCBrowser reaches out to. I've never been satisfied with DCBrowser but it does still remain on my To-Do List. I would encourage caution only in the sense that when 360Chrome was being "critiqued" for telemetry, we had between a dozen and two dozen folks doing that "critique". msfntor is basically the ONLY person that has done any level of critiquing on DCBrowser.

Puppy Knoppix Red Hat Mint Cinnamon Kubuntu

Bummer. I let Recuva scan for files overnight. It found files on the hard drive from 2017! I have a stack of installation disks for every install (AutoIt scripts are updated with every installation disk). I've installed Windows XP x64 SP2 ELEVEN times since then! But it couldn't find files accidentally deleted a mere half an hour before running Recuva because (I think) the folder file name began with a "!" so that it would list at the top in my file manager when listed in alphabetical order.

Do not delete this file just because Vista works without it. XP may work without it also, I have not tested, just saying that 360Chrome did not put that .dll in your system32 folder. For reference -- https://xpdll.nirsoft.net/esent_dll.html

Neither is telling people to use Linux on a thread entitled "Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes" !!! !!! !!! Seriously! I get so d@mn tired of "use Linux, use Linux, use Linux". But anywhoo...

Recuva took an hour and a half to get to 18% and the estimate jumped to 6 hours! Aborted scan. Trying Wise Data Recovery. It's at 28% after half an hour or so. Fingers crossed. It's all AMERICAN WATER'S FAULT (my local water "monopoly"). Their d@mn billpay website requires v13 or v13.5 effective as of a month and a half or so ago. So I was in the middle of a ground-up profile-build of NoScript, uMatrix, Tampermonkey, and Stylus for site-specific configs. Most was all Stylus style sheets to cut down on "heavy" billpay websites (internet/cable, water, sewage, natural gas, electric) that were not an issue in v11 but are in v13. Use my favorite lightweight v11 for everything except paying bills. Use v13 for paying bills. I HATE HAVING TO DO THIS. ONE BROWSER SHOULD BE USED FOR "EVERYTHING". But v13 is way too much of a memory hog for me to use on a daily basis.

That option does not avoid "all problems". It simply creates an entirely NEW set of problems.

Ugh! Holy H#77! Kicking myself all the way into next year! I had FOUR v13 360Chrome folders on the desktop so that I could load THREE of them into VMs for this "discussion". I accidentally deleted ALL FOUR and then deleted from the Recycle Bin also. ONE of those FOUR was six days work on a completely different and unrelated project! Fingers crossed that Recuva Scan can find them. Popup window for Recuva Scan says scan is going to take THREE HOURS! That's what I get for logging three registry files while I was already in the middle of a different v13 project! Ugh! Holy H#77!

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).