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55 minutes ago, Dixel said:
[Chrome is] simply heavier.
Does 'heavier' translate to 'slower,' or is it about 'task manager number go up'?Edit: Disregard, it doesn't (W10 LTSC IoT, i7 4770).55 minutes ago, Dixel said:Ungoogled version has more useful flags
My browser customization doesn't get more involved than using the Nord-looking color scheme & Dark Reader to match. What flags do you use?
55 minutes ago, Dixel said:Are you sure you ever tried it?
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.)).
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2 hours ago, seven4ever said:
waiting for the Ungoogled version
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.
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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.
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14 minutes ago, Dietmar said:
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.
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21 minutes ago, we3fan said:
5 Partitions
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.
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27 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
minimum requirement
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.
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50 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
Yikes. Supermium almost in single digits, nothing else even starts. Number go down; my sadness very big :'(
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5 hours ago, VistaLover said:
The KBs in reboot12's post were pertaining to RAM usage, not to .EXE file sizes,
Thanks, gotcha. On my x64:
Inexplicable :|
P.S. just in case there's doubt, both notepads are empty.
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18 minutes ago, reboot12 said:
x64 C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe > 3 464 KB
x86 C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\notepad.exe > 4 072 KBDual-boot XP 32 & 64. What am i doing wrong? https://imgur.com/Daa5VB8
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48 minutes ago, reboot12 said:
What does it have to do with it ?
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.
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17 minutes ago, reboot12 said:
x86 version uses less RAM than x64 version
You'll notice that x64 XP itself uses more memory than x86 https://imgur.com/55YBb0O
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1 hour ago, ginger1234 said:
vmware tools 9.6.0
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.
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2 hours ago, ginger1234 said:
latest VMware tools
Try an earlier version of VMware tools. I use VMware 10 (
not sure which version tools it usesedit: 9.6.0), and Aero works.0 -
1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:
anti-alias
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.
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11 minutes ago, Milkinis said:
modded driver
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).
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12 minutes ago, SEDANEH said:
i copy this windows xp to usb flash
Did you first run Options Menu.cmd & add drivers & patches?
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4 minutes ago, VistaLover said:
this only has an impact if you have the Visual C++ 2015-19 runtime installed.
I always install VC-all-in-one whenever i install an OS, probably why there was such a huge difference.
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9 minutes ago, XPerceniol said:
2 files posted
These: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/files/14141689/corrected_api_sets.zip
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3 minutes ago, Milkinis said:
tried this myself
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?
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15 minutes ago, Milkinis said:
does nothing for me
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.
20 minutes ago, Milkinis said:Xean processors don't fully support hardware acceleration
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?
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26 minutes ago, Milkinis said:
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).
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1 hour ago, Milkinis said:
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
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7 minutes ago, Dixel said:
Gpu compositing has been disabled
At least you have video encode/decode (watch YT at glorious resolutions) & some semblance of HW WebGL (to watch aquarium, i guess)
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Supermium
in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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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?