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Doesn't that make you afraid of drowning instead of afraid of water? When a waitress walks around with a pitcher of ice water to refill your glass, do you hide under the table and tremble in fear? waka waka waka Kind of like not being agraid of heights but being afraid of falling and hitting the pavement. If I had half a million lying around, sure, I'd go for it.

Not necessarily. There are some weather sites that have radar and maps that require WebGL, which I disable by default in my releases. So yes, weather questions are allowed as some users may not know how to enable WebGL.

"Cheaper than a condominium" - article cites "less than 500,000 euros. Nowhere my definition of "cheap", lol. 500,000 euros is roughly $541,500.00 US Dollars. ie, over half a million. I'll have to pass Oh, and would the island have electricity and internet service?

I'm not well-versed in those types of changes but have experimented with them several months ago. Some of those types of Chrome flags also require hardware acceleration (which does not work in XP even if you set the setting to use it). There are flags which affect Skia subpixel positioning when running "headless" (don't know what "headless" is). --font-render-hinting Sets font render hinting when running headless, affects Skia rendering and whether glyph subpixel positioning is enabled. Possible values: none|slight|medium|full|max. Default: full. A full list of Command Line Switches - https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

With the XP's Standard method, I don't notice any "global" non-crisp fonts. Can you demonstrate via screencap? Upon limited research via internet searches, it seems that both Firefox and Chrome still antialias "some fonts" REGARDLESS of XP being set to NOT smooth font edges (which the PM'd web site clearly demonstrates). The difference is "what" fonts they BOTH deem as fonts which require antialiasing - font-family A will be antialiased in Chrome but not in Firefox, while font-family B will be antialiased in Firefox but not in Chrome, and font-family C will not be antialiased in either. And that forcing "Standard" (clear and crisp to me) or "ClearType" (which looks TERRIBLE to my eyes) is the only way for a "universal" (all apps) font rendering, font-family A, B, and C identical in app X, app Y, and app Z.

My hunch was that the BSODs were caused by pushing the envelope on RAM consumption. Before we rebased, it was not uncommon for 360Chrome v13/v13.5 to consume 90+% of my RAM on my 4 GB RAM XP x86 (but no BSODs) whenever I opened half a dozen tabs or so. But I've yet to ever see even 50% of RAM being used now that it's been rebased (still dislike the very very long launch time for first launch after system hibernate but have decided to accept as-is).

My setup IS using font smoothing. It uses STANDARD method instead of ClearType method. ClearType gives me migraines because there are red and green "dancing pixels" in every corner of every letter that triggers migraines for me (among others, was very big in tech news back when Vista first came out).

Nope. But I hope answering your question isn't "stalking". My apologies for overstepping. Not to make excuses, but my doctor took me off caffeine on Monday. Getting old sucks, lol. My bookmark is the "unread content" link, so I kinda reply to anything and everything, there is no "stalking", but ACTIVE THREADS that have a higher chance of pulling me in over time, lol. But anyway... Sipping my hot apple cider. Still no replacement for my long-loved Mountain Dew.

DirectWrite disabled resolves that font issue in my Win7. But agreed, no change in XP. That font issue is resolved on my end via - Right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and click Settings under Performance. Make sure that the Smooth edges of screen fonts is selected. Click Apply if you had to select it because if was previously unselected. Click OK to close out of those and that web page should now display fonts correctly. Unsure if this is also required, but I also have this option set. Right-click on empty space on the desktop and select Properties. Select the Appearance tab then select the Effects button. Under Effects, I use the Standard method for screen fonts and NOT the ClearType method. Much cleaner - Hope that works for you also.

Eureka! I am able to replicate your font issue -

Nope, no UserContent.css for Chrome-based browsers. But you can do the same thing that a UserContent.css does by using the extension Stylus.

I'll visit when I get home. Only one of my computers is XP x64. The other five are all XP x86. I definitely do NOT have the fuzzy fonts issue on any of my setups (I'd throw them out the window if I did, lol).

You want it on DISABLED. When you go to chrome://flags, if it doesn't say DISABLED then you need to disable, exit, and restart 360Chrome. The ghacks link does not apply to 360Chrome v13.5.

You'll have to close all 360Chrome windows then relaunch for the DirectWrite flag to take effect. That flag should look like this -

Another shameless self-promotion. If you're going to do this "all the time", why not make a download available? Google has NO INTEREST in reverse-engineering "your work".

I'm familiar with what you are referring to. On my XP, the only thing I need to do is DISABLE DirectWrite within 360Chrome. There's also an XP setting for "smooth edge fonts" that I also DISABLE, but cannot screencap from here at work (Win10 here). In Win7 and higher, you may also need to disable ClearType.

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"Ditto". waka waka waka

Same here. HOPEFULLY it was some sort of update to PREVENT the d#mn crypto spam that has hit MSFN hard over the last 24 hours (over six posts, under a dozen). Admins are quick to remove - but should a brand new member have been able to pollute MSFN in the first place?

What web site is this screencap coming from?

SIXTH or SEVENTH crypto spam BS in a 24hr period! Do the admins need to investigate ways to prevent MSFN from being run down by CRYPTO SPAM ???

Several of my 360Chrome threads have been "hot" in the past. I think that there are a few forms of "hot". I thought I saw it once not for hitting so many thousands of replies, but for hitting so many replies by several members all in the same day or all within an hour or two.

Ugh! This is the FOURTH or FIFTH crypto spam BS that I've reported just today alone! Do the admins need to investigate ways to prevent MSFN from being run down by CRYPTO SPAM ???

Nobody should name names! Let them step on their own tongues. The rest of us can decide for ourselves. Some people just get "bored" and find ways to "entertain themselves". The rest of us just need to learn to not let that "entertainment" be at 'our expense'.