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Updated links (first post of this thread) for my v11, v12, and v13 rebuilds. Regular and Ungoogled.

When you open your XP's Task Manager and go to the Performance tab, how many Processes are reported in the lower left corner and what is displayed as Available for Physical Memory?

Your profile reports "XP Pro x86". So are you running SP2 or SP3?

Looks like nothing but Section 230 propaganda to me.

You may also want to try this. For me, the registry key that Humming Owl found points to a Tahoma font. For my system, I intentionally set Tahoma and I no longer recall what XP uses as its default. Right-click on top of empty space on your desktop, select Properties in the context menu, select the Appearance tab, click the Advanced button, go to the Item dropdown and select Menu, change that font setting and please report back if this worked or not.

@NoBuggingPlz - Did you try @Humming Owl's suggestion that he replied when you brought up fonts the first time around?

I've used that and similar extensions to always download .crx (sometimes .zip). I personally never install from the Chrome Web Store. I keep my own archived .crx's (most edited to my needs) and personally don't agree with getting caught in the endless cycle of always feeling like the "newest" is the "best" or "most secure" (it seldom is!).

I have officially lost all interest in getting an old Compaq Presario up-and-running on XP x86 SP2. I will eventually port @we3fan's and @Humming Owl's XP x86 SP2 modifications to my own builds, but I leave the testing to those that use XP x86 SP2 (I dislike having to type that all out but to me XP SP2 indicates 64-bit).

Same effect in official "ungoogled-chromium". It restores the "Add to" button but it doesn't actually 'add to', all I got was an error that says extensions cannot be loaded from this page (Official Chrome Web Store). May revisit later but for now I'm sticking with a "regular" and an "ungoogled" version and advanced users will already know how to download and manually install extensions in the "ungoogled" version.

Will have to verify in an official "ungoogled-chromium". This restores the "Add to" button in ungoogled-360Chrome but it doesn't actually 'add to', it downloads the .crx instead and the user still has to manually drag-and-drop to the extension page to install.

On 9/25/2021 at 3:49 PM, msfntor said: On this webrtc test page: https://test.webrtc.org/ - in 360Chrome 12 12247 r 7 build - have chinese text in the yellow popup for some seconds at the top of the page, then it disappears by itself, and I've blocked connection to 74.125.247.128 - owned by Google... ... then no test results (all are with red stop mark). (copied to this thread so I don't forget looking into this)

When time permits, I'll be including a "hybrid" version. It will basically be the "ungoogled" version with the NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store extension included. I'm also contemplating a "YouTube" version which will include some extensions that make YouTube a little less "heavy" - unsure at this point (in-process of building an XP x86 SP2).

Next "dark theme" question - for the tab bar, do you users of a dark theme prefer the active tab to be "darker" (more black) or "lighter" (less black) than inactive tabs? ps - yes, I am creating a dark theme, still undecided if I'll go so far as creating a Win2k theme or not (as far as close/minimize/maximize/restore buttons go)... no estimate on release...

It can easily be fixed by using Stylus, as far as that goes. An extension I already use, no need to add another @Humming Owl - I get this "font squish" in both of our v11 versions, have you been able to confirn if you get this "font squish" ?

Also note that it's only the alegreya font that is being used on that web page that isn't displaying correctly.

DirectWrite doesn't fix it in XP. Googling around and rem font-size scaling seems to have been a big issue on several Q-and-A forums in 2013/2014. Still reading through several of them, several suggestions cited do not fix the "squish" (but nor did they for several followers of those threads at the time). It seems for most that this was introduced in Chrome 72 and resolved when upgrading to Chrome 73. Even seen some posts where a background gradient causes fonts to "squish".

Humming Owl now has an experimental version (with assistance from @we3fan) of v9.5 and v11 that targets XP x86 SP2 -- have you tried either of those to see if they will run on your XP system?

I'll update the first thread post of this post thread. I've been waiting until I get my v13 caught up with my v11 and v12. But that could be a week or two (remodeling a bathroom, all new drywall, flooring, shower, sink, toilet, vanity, lighting, and exhaust fan - the whole nine yards and doing all the work myself).

Good question. "During" loading would tend to indicate a .css issue with transition or tranform types of .css functions - from the best I can tell all of these work fine. I have found several pages that "squish" the font in both mine and Humming Owl's v11. The commonality is that the squished font always (so far) has a .css "font-size" in rem.

I tried that page at 100% zoom, default XP DPI (96), and Incognito Mode (no fonts or js blocked) and both my v11 and Humming Owl's v11 "squished" the font.

Your comment didn't dawn on me until I returned from lunch break. I own a '50s classic car with white wall tires and also a '60s classic car with white wall tires, do lunch breaks on occasion with a guy in another '50s classic car with white wall tires and another guy in another '60s classic car with white wall tires. But that's not what you meant, you meant the walls IN MY HOUSE -- they are not white walls, they are an eggshell tan that FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY tends to make them look like they are white. But no, I am not one of these people with walls so dark that it looks like the inside of a cave. edit - removed names of cars, I kind of feel "stalked" that people (think they) know the color of my living room walls and "memorize" such trivial tidbits... oh well...

It appears as though you might be comparing my v11 to Humming Owl's v12. My v11 and Humming Owl's v11 both display that "squished in and crowded" font for me.

Noted, thanks, will see what I can find.

Oh wow! Is that v11 by chance?

What am I looking for in particular? Can you post a screencap? I open that link and everything looks normal, not finding anything "wrong with fonts".