NotHereToPlayGames

Always a totally clean OS. I always do browser tests in a VM "clone" of a totally clean brand new OS install. My brand new OS install is NEVER touched. It is "cloned" and any-and-all tests are done in that CLONE. Then the CLONE is DELETED. Then the NEVER TOUCHED is re-CLONED the next time I need to run the VM. The never-touched VM basically STAYS at "seconds from just after a brand new install" for LIFE.

Zero third-party codecs in 10. Zero in the XP VM that browsers are tested in. Do use an older version of K-Lite on my host XP.

Nope, not in XP and not in 10.

"Upstream" is the 'official' version by the 'official' developer. That 'official' developer abandoned XP. So the versions you download in this thread are the 'downstream developer' (Roytam1/Feodor2/etc) efforts to restore XP-compatibility to a browser that would not otherwise work in XP.

me neither it only shifts "trust" from one party to another

That request needs made at the appropriate thread -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/71610-you-want-to-change-your-username/

I still have mine around here somewhere! But no, I no longer use it as my Roku wireless devices would not connect to it.

25-40W is fine for hobbyist 60-40 / 63-37 tin-lead solder. But 60W works better on today's lead-free solder. My tin-lead equipment at work runs at 330 deg-C to 350 deg-C [626 deg-F to 662 deg-F]. My lead-free equipment can be set as high as 850 deg-F [454 deg-C]. But generally runs at only 370 deg-C to 400 deg-C. Some of our boards are "cured" in ovens and those boards take some HEAT to undo that lead-free stuff.

When I first read that, my thought was "uh oh, another false positive", lol.

So vanilla is fine? On my end, I've only noticed a CPU max when I leave Thorium open and go into HIBERNATE. When I come out of hibernate, the CPU maxes out. But I can generally just "wait it out" (90 seconds or so!). To be fair though, Serpent 52 does the same thing. Acer Aspire 1 with XP x86. Intel Atom. circa 2008/2009.

Google only finds DIXEL's comment which starts Page 28. So should Dixel be banned? Or the profile that was clearly created by a BOT?

I'm still at 114. But like everything else, "who knows how long that will last".

Same here! But you and I <insert classifier here that would only upset the XP Crowd> are both on Win10. ie, we have ZERO use for not only Supermium or Thorium, but also, technically, NONE of the other "offerings" here at MSFN. "To each their own."

To be "fair" and "equal" - all of this flash drive talk sure sounds like rambling to me. waka waka waka Yeah, when A points that out to B, my thoughts go immediately to "what an A.." So how's that for a "ramble"?

Agreed! Absolute BS! I have one account that has to be logged into at least THREE times per week all from the same EXACT computer. If I do one of those three from a different computer, I have to call a 1-800 number to have my MFA (multi-factor authentication) reset! If I fail to log in THREE times within a week, I have to call a 1-800 number to reset MFA. Any week that contains the 28th thru 31st day of the month, I have to call a 1-800 number to reset MFA even if I log in three times per DAY each and every day of that week! When asked why that last day of the month always always ALWAYS triggers a "you must call", they tell me it's because "we tried to email you but we have no email on file". And no! They will NEVER be given an email address! PRIVACY RIGHTS are virtually NON-EXISTENT in this day and age.

Agreed. As an admin on another forum, we get these ALL THE TIME. Sure, a "bot" created them, but the "member" visits ONCE and never again, no spam posts ever posted by the "member". Makes for a tough world for "statisticians" (do you really think there are 2.5 billion users on Instagram? how many have multiple accounts, how many are "bot accounts", et cetera)

My dad would buy a brand new computer every two years! Complained it was "slow" so he would just go out and buy new! It took YEARS to finally convince him that "electrons don't slow down with AGE, your computer is slow because the REGISTRY is not being MAINTAINED". Of course, I could never "train an old dog" on how to MAINTAIN the registy. But I could teach him to REINSTALL WINDOWS every two years and be back to BRAND-NEW FAST without spending money on a new computer.

Where is the nearest brick wall? I'd like to argue with the brick wall instead.

I cannot replicate what you are seeing, Astro. This could be YOUR Thorium and not "everybody's" Thorium. Even without my "loader", I can carry my EXTENSIONS, settings and all!, from one computer to another - even to one that has NEVER had Thorium on it and does NOT have Thorium's registry-writes. You just might be "adamant" about something that is only true for you. Again, even without my "loader", I cannot replicate your notion that extensions are tied to registry-writes. You keep pounding the table with this, over and over. I've asked for extension examples in the past and you declined to provide, claiming it is with all extension. Again, I cannot replicate. This may be YOUR profile and yours ALONE. Or just ONE of your extensions and you won't reveal that to us for us to verify. I cannot replicate your claim.

Ever want to totally corrupt your computer - install Avast or McAfee then try to uninstall it. Be warned.

Personal preference. I run 50-some programs on my computer. Only TWO of them are allowed to write to the registry. I do that because Windows is NOTORIOUS for *mangled* registries. Uninstall a program, portions are still left in the registry, et cetera. 99 times out of 100, if your computer is "slow", it's because the registry is "mangled". Okay, call it 89 times out of 100, lol.

I can take my PORTABLE browser anywhere and pick up EXACTLY where I left off. I can browse in XP at home and then take it to work and pick up EXACTLY where I left off in Win10. I do that via X-Chrome's "loader". I've never actually tried Thorium via the .bat (I use a "loader" for ALL my browsers, be it Chrome/Chromium-based or Mozilla-based).

That .bat file does NOT make Thorium "portable" because registry-writes are stored on the host computer. That is a "simplistic" way of setting two "flags" for "encryption" and "machine-id", but a true PORTABLE browser requires more than that.

To me, it was more of a tie-in to this -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%27_Money But that "didn't make sense" so then I assumed it was a new fork I've not yet heard of.