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You'll notice that x64 XP itself uses more memory than x86 https://imgur.com/55YBb0O

Sorry, i just use the version that came with VMware 10, but a quick google gives https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1p03/windows/x64/ (9.0). P.S. not really sure if simply downgrading the tools is enough, a complete downgrade to VMware 10 (or 12) might be necessary. IIRC current releases of VMware no longer fully support Vista, but not sure @ which version. If you have a bunch of VMs in latest VMware, there's a way to downgrade them to v.10 & install VMware 10.

Try an earlier version of VMware tools. I use VMware 10 (not sure which version tools it uses edit: 9.6.0), and Aero works.

Curious factoid: Supermium renders *some* fonts with grayscale anti-alising where other browsers, e.g. Mypal, use cleartype. No idea if this has anything to do with perceived 'brightness,' but a verifiable difference. BTW, this happens only on some sites/fonts, Google results, for instance, appear in cleartype.

Everything up to 10-series works without mods, but people are choosy about drivers (i'm not enough of a gamer to know the difference).

If brightness bothers you, try Dark Reader -- an extension that turns black text on white background to light text on dark background, e.g. from this to this. Might make the browser slightly laggier with just 2GB, but i doubt it.

Did you first run Options Menu.cmd & add drivers & patches?

I always install VC-all-in-one whenever i install an OS, probably why there was such a huge difference.

These: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/files/14141689/corrected_api_sets.zip

Bizarre. Just to make sure, you're sticking them in Chrome-bin folder, where chrome.exe sits, right? In 32-bit XP, how much memory does Chrome 121 with just this tab open use?

Cuts my memory use in ~half. Actually did a double take -- removed those DLLs from the folder, relaunched Chrome ... memory use doubled. Put them back, it halves again. I think it's more about GPU & driver than the CPU's feature set. Could be mistaken. P.S. those old Xeons are missing AVX2 though, some stuff simply won't run on them. In their defense: cheaper than dirt. BTW, what OS are you in?

Different box. This is an x58 with a Westmere Xeon & a pair of 960s in SLI (i know, i know, but one of those would be sitting in a drawer if i din't stick in this box). BTW, check out VistaLover's comment -- on 32-bit XP the difference is night & day (for me). Without new DLLs With new .DLLs

Hi, seems to be working for me (software) in XP x64, will update on 32-bit & Vista in a few mins. Edit: works in 32-bit XP and Vista, but running on software across the board (at least on this box). Another edit: partial HW acceleration in 7 on this box

At least you have video encode/decode (watch YT at glorious resolutions) & some semblance of HW WebGL (to watch aquarium, i guess)

Try different USB ports, and, if all else fails, there's a PS/2 port on your MB, pretty much for this.

Version 121.0.6167.81 Hotfix is out. GPU acceleration's back for Vista & 7

Disabled by default in XP, i think (or am i missing something?)

Didn't those gents cost Feodor his last git? Anyhow, last XP-compatible version released ~10 years ago, so irrelevant to this thread. Last XP/Vista-compatible build released ~5 years ago. Are you suggesting the wellbeing of our beloved Information Superhighway depends on these? And the question stands: what, specifically, are they saving?

Sometimes, dead is better. What, specifically, is FF saving? I mean it's literally kept by Google.

Has trapezoid tabs by default, but disabling #custom-tab-shapes in chrome://flags reverts it back to generic Chrome.

Didn't know that, but started using Supermium as my main XP/Vista browser. Works well with all my HW, even with 32-bit_XP_without_PAE issues.

Lol, i knew i'd get caught. Not sure whose build that is, probably one of Humming Owl's, though the missing font/boxes tell me i downloaded the wrong one. Not sure why, but Humming Owl's Kafan Minibrowser was the Chrome port4me (iirc the spellchecker didn't work in that one, but it took dark themes well & could search from the address bar).

The post you quoted compares 121 on XP to 117 on 7. Here's a fresh 117, running on 7 and here's 121, running on 7

360 Chrome worked for me (x58 XP x64 w/ too much memory), nothing other than Supermium did (froze @ 5%).

x58 with 2.5GB available memory This is a bit misleading -- Supermium lags/freezes for up to several secs when launched, memory use spikes. Once running, the numbers seem representative. Mypal 68 benches similarly to Chrome backports. <-click See above. It's a memory hog, like most full-featured modern browsers.