NotHereToPlayGames

The smooth scrolling does work. How many OS-level and browser-level "font-altering" changes do you have in place? Seems that you and @rereser both have some very unique and user-specific font needs.

The biggest difference between the two is the order in which several hexadecimal values were replaced. v4 was a complete rebuild from the ground up based on several tweaks and modifications learned over nearly a year of using 360Chrome as my default-for-all web browser. v3 had all of those tweaks and modifications performed in a rather random order as we-the-community discovered new modifications along the way (and Humming Owl showed up midway through that process). Consider it this way, one of the very first modifications was to remove all hexadecimal occurrences of "360.cn". Later on, we decided to remove all hexadecimal occurrences of "ext.chrome.360.cn" before we remove "360.cn". BOTH methods will "break" the URL so I do not think this is the reason for the differnce in bold versus unbold in your GUI (a difference that seems isolated to only your OS config). But it is a "difference" between v3 and v4. Another difference is that v3 breaks a resolver function (a discovery by Dixel) that "calls" an IP Address while v4 breaks the IP Address (Humming Owl's approach) but leaves the resolver function intact. Both methods will "break" what the original 360Chrome was attempting to "do" so again I do not think this is the reason for the difference in bold versus unbold in your GUI. The last major difference becomes extremely difficult to isolate. v3 did not make a "gstatic" connection because of a command line startup prompt that my rebuilds utilize but that Humming Owl's builds do not utilize. So it was a much higher priority for Humming Owl to hard-code methods to prevent that "gstatic" connection than for my builds. v4 implements Humming Owl's hard-coded method that prevents this "gstatic" connection (which my version technically did not make anyway). I do not think this is the reason for the difference in bold versus unbold in your GUI. At the same time, v3 also replaced all hexadecimal "googleapis" values. But v4 does this also. I cannot rule this out and this could be a cause for bold versus unbold in your GUI. Again, at the same time, v3 replaced several hexadecimal occurrences of "i.360.cn", "browser.360.cn", "se.360.cn", "360safe.com", "chrome.360.cn" and "360.cn". This gets tricky to track because "360.cn" was ALREADY removed SEVERAL months prior so a search-and-replace for "i.360.cn" won't find anything because the "360.cn" portion is no longer present. I do not think this is the reason for the difference in bold versus unbold in your GUI. But it is a "difference" between v3 and v4. v4 goes one step further and not only removes the hexadecimal occurrences of "i.360.cn", "browser.360.cn", "se.360.cn", "360safe.com", "chrome.360.cn" and "360.cn" but also removes the unicode occurrences. I do not think this is the reason for the difference in bold versus unbold in your GUI. Long story short ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCP2QQH4uuQ ) -- there is a HUGE list of differences between v3 and v4. I still "trust" both but I can replicate v4 and recreate it whereas v3 spanned so many months and small changes along the way that the actual "order" cannot be replicated. It is very interesting that it seems to be tracked down to chrome.dll instead of any of the .srx files, anything inside options.zip, or anything inside resources.pak. Because all it really takes is accidentally missing a closing quotation mark in a line of code that makes an entry bold and everything BELOW that line of code "could" render in bold. But something in chrome.dll instead of any of those files? Very peculiar.

For your fonts issue, I don't think it's uBlock "by itself". I seem to recall witnessing issues similar to what you describe when I was experimenting with various extensions. What is your full list of extensions (including version number)?

If you wish to enable WebGL in my versions, edit the 360Loader.ini file and remove the --disable-webgl portion from the Parameters= line. Then copy the swiftshader folder and the libGLESv2.dll file from Humming Owl's version over to my version.

AGREED! It does get annoying to always, and I do mean ALWAYS, search through forums dedicated to MICROSOFT TWEAKS AND FIXES (not referring to MSFN, all DIY web sites have this nuance) in order to track down a fix or tweak for a various issue here or there and ALWAYS find some Linux Kid post "switch to Linux". USELESS to the conversation! But then again, maybe this post is useless also, lol.

Good thinking! You may have saved a gigantic heart-break down the road. I'm not even sure if I'll ever "need" this archive, but I wanted a local copy in case it "disappeared". My uTorrent 2.2.1 checked the file and found that only 99.9% (3647 pieces) was downloaded. Of course it also added 3 "padding files", an .sqlite file, and an .xml file. But now my tar.xz file is showing 100% (but still shows 3647 pieces). Many thanks!

LUCKY YOU! Because I'm getting nothing but fail after fail after fail. Even tried "download managers". FINALLY got 'er to download! This download manager worked when others would fail -- https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/uget-portable VERY irratating to try and download a 14 GB file at 2.3 MB/s when my connection speed is twenty times that at least even on wireless and get an hour in to a 2hr download and it fail... over, and over, and over, and over again!

Same here! It kinda confuses me on wny people install "certificate updates". I've never needed any of these "updates" and I have a "green padlock". I personally think that people have "broken" things when they installed these so-called non-Microsoft "certificate updates".

Do you have POSReady updates installed? I seem to recall that they broke XP's certificate store - but I don't think we ever really got far enough to prove this 100%. People running un-hacked XP SP2 and un-hacked XP SP3 seem to have zero issues with the "green padlock".

I cannot replicate, fonts are fine here. Can you post a screencap with these blurred fonts? Your profiles indicates XP x86 so this shouldn't be the issue, but if you are in something "newer" than XP, then I suggest opening chrome://flags then search for and disable DirectWrite. Also in the chrome://settings/lab page, disable hardware acceleration and disable DirectWrite.

Appears to only be a hosting issue. Good luck trying to download just for the sake of a local archive. Tried 7 or 8 times from three different web browsers and the download keeps failing! Ah, didn't see the torrent the first time. Trying that route... Torrent not connecting

I'm a die-hard Mets fan -- Brooklyn Blue + Giants Orange. We were doing GREAT until the schedule had us play 13 in a row against the Giants and Dodgers. Mets only won two of those 13 But have come back to win 8 of their last 10 We're still in this!

Nice Find! Interesting thing though, none of my XP 360Chrome portable's are creating that Application Data\Microsoft\Protect file (five different computers). When I navigate to that folder, I only have two files, one called Preferred with no file extension and one 32-character (plus 4 dashes for a total of 36 in files name) hexadecimal-named file with no file extension. Both have a file-properties created/modified/accessed date coinciding with the date that the OS was installed (LOOONG before I ever started using 360Chrome). This is true on both my 32bit XP and on my 64bit XP. So somehow, thankfully, I have this OS "feature" DISABLED. My XP's are pretty heavily nLite'd and my base XP 32bit only has 16 processes in Task Manager upon startup. My XP VM's from that same base XP boot in 17 seconds - which could actually probably be improved. Several "services" aren't simply just disabled, they aren't even installed in the first place. My Win7 360Chrome portable's are creating that Microsoft\Protect file. But my profile migration is only in one direction -- created on XP then migrated to 7 (and 10 but did not look for the Microsoft\Protect file in 10). Interesting indeed...

I delete worker folder on every exit. I delete cookies on every exit. I delete extension log files on every exit. That .ini file was not a "suggestion" for use (it's a direct-copy of the Russian Repack DEFAULT .ini), it was an attempt at resolving a cookie issue for a user that doesn't delete cookies on every exit. I personally strongly suggest a cleared cache, no saved cookies, no saved anything - axe EVERYTHING when the browser exits. But not all users want to set their browser up that way -- "to each their own". For those that use my rebuild, they know this, I delete EVERYTHING on every exit - it has been suggested by a few that I not do this for the distributed rebuild. But that's not the way I roll, I clear cache/cookies at exit, always have, always will. I will post better notes when uploading any new rebuilds that my builds DELETE COOKIES BY DEFAULT - because as mentioned, some users don't like that setup -- "to each their own".

Not sure of what else to try. I've personally never carried a cookie from one computer to another. But ALL of my extension settings do carry from one computer to another. I actually create my "profile" on my XP x64 primary computer and that "profile" is distributed across my network to all of my computers. And those range from XP x86, XP x64, Win7 x86, Win10 x86, and Win10 x64. I use the same exact profile on each and every one of those OS's. What version of NoScript are you using because my NoScript settings carry from one computer to the next. I don't use a "large" number of extensions, but they all have settings created on one computer and they carry over to other computers. My list of extensions -

I personally disagree and see no "legal" reason to ever need anything like Tor. If you need THAT level of "anonymity", then I firmly believe that you are breaking a law somewhere, accessing "illegal" sites, browsing the "dark web". I also have family that work for various departments within Law Enforcement and have friends that work for the FBI. If you are doing something so "shady" that you only do it on some "Tor network", then rest assure, you WILL be found! Apologies for that "rant"... Agreed! I kind of wondered if Tobin had an account here, I thought I saw posts by him in the past but I stopped using Mozilla-based and went Chromium-based at the early offset of all this "chaos" so stopped following as closely as I used to. I think you can still read content here when you are banned, not positive though. But you definitely cannot log in and do any posts.

Not "as" open. But there are always "loopholes". That screencap says to PM to create an account - don't you have to have an account in order to PM?

Try this for the loader .ini file and see if that helps --

I personally disable that animation completely. I combine the non-animated "refresh" button and non-animated "stop" button into ONE icon where it toggles between the two depending on if the page is fully loaded (the "refresh" is displayed) or in-process of loading (the "stop" is displayed). Zero animation, just toggles back and forth between two buttons.

I disable the touchpad on all four of my laptops, they always get in the way of typing and I prefer an actual mouse.

Not sure if this is the case for Win7, but I do know that "uptime" in Win10 is easily cheated. In Win10, you can do a full reboot to "reset" the uptime timer, go into Sleep/Standby/Hibernate two minutes later, wake the computer up a YEAR from now, and that uptime will show that YEAR.

I also own a Thinkpad T43 running XP x86 SP3 with similar updates! -- as previously introduced in this post - https://msfn.org/board/topic/182536-how-many-computers-do-you-own/?do=findComment&comment=1198578 Though I personally never use it for YouTube. I really think you are trying to ask too much out of that T43. People post issues with YouTube "every day" here at MSFN and on computers no where near the 16 Year Old mark for our T43. Although... Having said that... Have you tried this extension -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle ? Then go to its settings and set Playback quality to something ridiculously low, like 240p or so, and see where that gets you? There is also a setting to force standard frame rate formats and one to force MP4/AVC instead of WebM/VP9, I'd suggest experimenting with those two settings also. I personally also use that extension to block ads, hide comments, and hide chat. I use a different extension to axe annotations -- https://www.crx4chrome.com/crx/36578/ I'm not too inclined to even TRY to run YouTube on my T43 - but will go ahead and try it in order to assist you but I'll see how far you get on your own first.

What "flavor" of XP Pro x86 are you using? SP2? SP3? POSReady? What's your CPU and how much RAM?

Unfreakin' Real! That 3D webgl site required a Google Login. I figured what the heck out of curiosity and logged in, against my general rule of thumb. THEY'VE ALREADY SPAMMED MY EMAIL. At least it's my "junk account".