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How does one measure? Got 2 open side-by-side, both open in less than a second in W10 (i guess i could screen-record & count the number of frames, though sub-second seems good 'nuff). You got me there, don't have anything with a HDD. Out of curiosity, why does heavier HDD & GPU use matter if it doesn't slow the browser down?

Does 'heavier' translate to 'slower,' or is it about 'task manager number go up'? Edit: Disregard, it doesn't (W10 LTSC IoT, i7 4770). My browser customization doesn't get more involved than using the Nord-looking color scheme & Dark Reader to match. What flags do you use? Sure, though will boot into 10 or 11 and give it another shot. Would be fun to see if 'light' really does mean fast (just to satisfy my curiosity -- i'm pretty reliant on my Google account (Gmail, YT, Sync, etc.)).

What is it about vanilla Chrome that makes you dislike it? What data, specifically, do you not want Google to lay its prying corporate hands on? Or is it a religious/political thing? Serious question, since i use Chrome, YT & Google search.

Hoarding. The hoard. P.S. Anyone else get this when trying to post images? "Maximum file size" changes, depending on the size of the file i try to drag in.

The cruelest joke XP has ever played. Not what you asked, but have you tried drive-swapping to another box -> installing some drivers on that -> swapping the drive back in? If your HP has a working Ethernet port, you could also enable RDP while the drive's in the other box.

Hi we3fan, it's a regular MBR scheme, 3 primary and 2 extended [edit: one extended with 2 volumes, can never remember the jargon]. Extended partitions can have operating systems, the only thing they can't have is a boot manager (which goes on one of the primary partitions). On a different box now, but this one has similar layout.

W11; FF 115.7 esr doesn't start (same box as in my XP pic above, current Chrome on the right). Edit: Current FF works.

Yikes. Supermium almost in single digits, nothing else even starts. Number go down; my sadness very big :'(

Thanks, gotcha. On my x64: Inexplicable :| P.S. just in case there's doubt, both notepads are empty.

Dual-boot XP 32 & 64. What am i doing wrong? https://imgur.com/Daa5VB8

Supermium 32 usues 32-bit code, supermium 64 use 64; 64-bit code uses more memory, because it uses 64-bit words. Think of it this way: One book is written in a language in which all words are exactly 32-letters long. Each word, no matter how simple, is made up of 32 letters. The book becomes a best seller, and is translated into an even stupider language -- one in which every word is exactly 64 letters long. The languages are otherwise identical, so the translation's both accurate and exact, though the translated book is somehow thicker than the original. Why would that be? Edit: of course it's more complicated than this, but 32-bit code will always be lighter. not 50% lighter, but lighter. Not sure what WOW64 does with 32-bit code, so could be totally wrong here.

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)