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You are being hit with witnessing the "spam redirect" discussed (but now seemingly dead) thread. I don't have that link offhand, there is a thread here at MSFN that discusses this very thing.

Okay, my page 1 and page 2 of those results all point to OTHER forums, none here at MSFN. Also none of the types of results indicated in the "gambling redirect" thread. And page 3 =

Seems like a legit search result for me. (edit: I myself never search via Google and prefer the "noai" version of DuckDuckGo and ocassionally use Bing when I "want" an AI Answer) (though mainly because Google for an AI always hits me with a Cloudflare capcha, but here lately so does Bing)

So ek3-random is YOU ??? If so, EXTREMELY nice to now have a REAL NAME to go with that project. Keep up the great work! Can we please have a DEDICATED THREAD here at MSFN for that project? With a LINK so that we don't all have to try to remember that random string of characters?

Chrome does have an ESR / Enterprise edition. At least they used to, we used it at work. But for some reason, either IT abandoned it or Google abandoned it, I cannot speak towards that. I do know that we used to only have a "you must close your browser to complete the update" every TWO MONTHS or so and now we get it every 3 or 4 d@mn weeks. WAY too often when you were used to that TWO MONTHS or so.

It's MY WAY of referencing a name that NOBODY CAN REMEMBER without scrolling through several pages to find the last reference and COPYING IT. Seriously, who can REMEMBER a RANDOM STRING OF CHARACTERS like "e3kskoy7wqk" ??? To me, it looks like somebody DIED while sitting at a keyboard, fell nose first into that keyboard, and his nose, ears, chin, and tongue spelled out his "dying word". Is that a WORD in ANY language on this planet ??? So yeah, instead of hunting hunting hunting for it, copying and pasting, I will forever henceforth refer to it as e3k-blah, ek3-blah, et cetera. "To each their own."

Scratch that. I *can* reproduce. I have to keep it open for longer than a few seconds before closing. I was launching and exiting, launching and exiting, launching and exiting - no event log. But if I *wait* a minute or so, then exit, yeah, event log EVERY TIME.

I'm going to give up also. But for the exact OPPOSITE reason. I'm not able to get the event log flooding - which is a "good thing", but why am I *not* getting it when the OP "can't not" (double negative) get the event log flooding ???

Eureka! That was it! But I'm still *not* able to get the event log issue. Not on XP x64. And not on XP x86.

His GitHub repo definitely hosts BOTH (normal and ungoogled). I'll leave it to somebody that USES google sync to test. The "normal" SHOULD work. But yeah, somebody would have to test. But it SHOULD work. I only use UNGOOGLED forks. "To each their own." v150 so far seems to only have the NORMAL. The ungoogled release is not out yet. Nothing against Supermium, but to me, the e3k-punch-keyboard is *FAR SUPERIOR* in essentially every way imaginable.

I'm the opposite, I have no use for Google Sync, lol. So I will have to set up a "fake" Google account and run a test. I "think" (but have to verify) that e3k-blah-blah-blah has both a "normal" and an "ungoogled".

This one is kind of difficult to track down. I haven't been able to "undo" whatever my uBO is doing and UNABLE to get the anti-adblock banner. UNABLE TO !!! Granted, I've been trying to disable ONE list at a time, but when I do, ANOTHER list prevents the anti banner. Makes me wonder just how 'bad' any uBO config "is" when any uBO user of any kind *DOES* get that banner. ie, if your uBO config is THAT *bad*, why are you even using uBO? But I digress, lol.

Correction. It's not "EasyList". It's uBlock filters - Ads that prevents the anti-adblock banner junk.

Which may or may not require this filter to be working in conjunction with. At any rate, my combination of filters "work" (for that site) and yours "do not". ie, you need a better combination of filters.

Found it. You are *NOT* using EasyList in uBO's Ads section. Blocking scripts from "adthrive.com" is why I'm not getting any anti-adblock banner junk.

What uBO version and what lists are you running? I'd kind of like to replicate your behavior (yeah, that's how we spell it over here, lol). While I *LOVE* that my setup did NOT behave that way, I'd still like to know WHY.

I tried to run Supermium in XP x86 but it would not even launch for me. Six or more chrome.exe's populate Task Manager but no Supermium ever appears. I had to terminate via Task Manager. But even that was enough to WITNESS your event log entry regarding garbage collector. But this is also a tad confusing, I thought that an EXTENSION needed to be installed? I couldn't even launch Supermium in XP x86 to even add any extension. That said, I don't own any XP x86, all of my real XP machines are x64. So this was inside a XP x86 VM (where ek3-whats-his-name works fine but Supermium has never really liked).

I don't get these event log entries so I can kind of only speculate at this point. If I were to fathom a *GUESS*, do you by chance have your Supermium sitting in the PROGRAM FILES directory? If so, MOVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE, but don't move it to any folder that is "protected" in XP by default. ie, ANYWHERE *except* any of the following -- C:\Windows C:\Program Files C:\Windows\System32 (you're on x86, x64 users would also exclude C:\Windows\SysWOW64) C:\Windows\Temp C:\Windows\Prefetch C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Local Settings C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data C:\Windows\System32\config\ C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\ C:\Windows\WinSxS C:\Windows\Logs C:\Windows\Help C:\Windows\Installer C:\Windows\Media

Why did you have to disable uBlock? I did not have to disable and the site works for me no matter how long I stay on the site, no time bombs or anti-adblock or anything. I'm using uBO v1.52.2 with all 5 of 5 uBO filters, the EasyList listed in Ads, the EasyPrivacy listed in Privacy, and both 2 of 2 EasyList/uBO Cookie Notices listed in Annoyances. People using Supermium do not (and I submit SHOULD NOT) be using any of the Manifest v3 versions of uBO. But they can go newer than my preferred v1.52.2. (As can I, but I've made too many mod's to it that I would have to do all over again if I upgrade.)

Noted, ooops. Correct, that is the e3k-weird-name fork and not Supermium. Regardless, it *DOES* work in XP and does *not* require 7.

Fairly decent Speedometer 2.1 score for an XP browser. But a very VERY slow 270! A ton of pauses and resumes. Kind of feels more like a 27 then a 270. Official Firefox v52.9.0 scores 63 but only takes 1 minute 42 seconds to run the test. Supermium Linked v150 scored 255, 270, and 264 when running three different times. I only timed the 264 and it took FOUR minutes FORTY seconds because of all of the pause-resumes.

Members in this discussion are permanently on my ignore list (via userstyle, so blocked/hidden even if I am not logged in!), so I apologize if this is a repeat. But I can confirm that Supermium linked v150 (I only extracted the mini-installer, I never execute "installers") does indeed work in XP. Supermium's "About" screen no longer shows it as "Supermium", but this is the extracted mini-installer. In fact, I couldn't find "Supermium" branding referenced anywhere, not in file properties, not in "About", not in "flags", but I can't claim to have spent a lot of time hunting. This is the most recent Supermium v150, not installed, just extracted, and running in XP.

This is kind of cool. A web site that you give it the URL and it analyzes for bloat -- https://www.ranknibbler.com/