Dave-H

Thanks. This is off-topic here of course, but the driver I'm using for the M4000 on XP is version 368.91. Are any of the ones you've referred to later than that?

I can use either GPU with Windows XP, I have drivers for both. There are no Windows 10 drivers for the X600, and of course no Windows 98 drivers for the M4000! I tend to keep using the X600 on XP, as it causes boot complications if I set the M4000 to be the primary card in the BIOS. It works fine, and as I said, I've had no video performance problems with it.

My XP graphics card is pretty ancient now, an ATI X600. I keep it for compatibility with Windows 98! I've been using the #ignore-gpu-blocklist flag for a long time on XP already.

Early tests on IG with the new 32-bit version on XP look promising, but as far as I know the issue I reported has never been flagged on GitHub anyway! I was thinking of doing so. I will try later with the 64-bit version on Windows 10. Twitch and TikTok I don't use, I'm afraid.

A new update of Supermium 132.0.6834.222 R3 has been released. Changelog - This exceptional release of Supermium includes various enhancements over Supermium 132 R3, including: (#1372) - some tweaks to the look-and-feel of v109 Tabs. Tab-specific compact UI options are separated from #compact-ui, now in #compact-tab-ui. (#1370) - a new feature named #open-bookmark-option allows users to open bookmarks in new tabs, either in the foreground or background. This replaces the equivalent Chrome++ functionality that is currently unstable with Supermium. (#1382) - drag-and-drop fully restored on NT 5.x. (#1368) - CR23: tab separator duplication disabled by default, other metrics modified including tab gaps (#1367) - Widevine patch updated for version 4.10.2891.0 Glad that drag and drop has been restored to the XP version, you couldn't even re-order the extension icons on the previous version! The feature to always open bookmarks in a new tab is one I've lobbied for for ages, so I'm really pleased with that too. It means that I don't have to use Chrome++ on Windows 10 any more, and I now have that facility on XP (Chrome++ doesn't work on XP). If it all works as it should, I'm really delighted with this!

The query on GitHub has been updated. It seems the problem went away with a new clean profile.

Does anyone else use Supermium with Instagram? The reason I ask is because recent versions for me seem to have trouble with the overlays which should come up if you click on the link in a post to view the comments. What often happens for me is that the screen darkens down, but the overlay does not appear. The only way I can view the whole list of comments is to open the link in a new tab, which I shouldn't have to do. The equivalent overlay on Facebook works fine. I'm pretty sure this isn't being cause by any of my extensions. I did suspect uBlock, but I've switched it off on IG and the problem is still happening.

Strange, I have no problems with YouTube at all, even on 32-bit XP.

The British Gas site still has the same issues. I haven't tried the other two. At least the 'experimental features' are disabled by default now!

You're right, #compact-mode doesn't seem to do anything (I hadn't actually tried it before, as I'm very happy with it the way it is!) 132 looks exactly the same to me as 126 did.

Have you tried #compact-mode in the flags?

Supermium 132.0.6834.222 R3 has just been released. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases/tag/v132-r3 Release notes - Supermium 132 has been updated to Chromium ESR version 132.0.6834.222, including all security patches and other fixes incorporated in this version, in addition to: (#670) Flag #show-managed-ui has been added to toggle the presence of "managed by your organisation" in various parts of the browser when enterprise policies are in effect (#1258) Links to external applications should now work with Safe Browsing disabled/ungoogled-supermium enabled (#1306) Further changes to favicon positioning; they should be fixed in place now (#1292) Sandbox fully restored for all users (#1280) Drag-and-drop disabled on NT 5.x due to various responsiveness issues A new flag, named #supermium-tab-options has been added with support for multiple tab options: v109-style tabs, v60-style tabs, CR23-style tabs and rectangular tabs. The tabs can also be made smaller with the #compact-ui flag.

If you had a local copy of Office 2024 installed on the machine, its files should still be there, and it should still be in the 'Programs and features' list. 🤔

This thread is now locked until the next Supermium version is released, which might give some answers to resolve this pointless and increasingly personal argument, where neither side can be proved. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

With respect, that's not what @NotHereToPlayGames was saying. What he was saying was that if exactly the same modifications were made to other Chromium browsers as have been made to Supermium, for whatever reasons, then the Twitch login would almost certainly break there too. I'm sure that win32ss is investigating the reason why this is happening.

FWIW, I've just tried it, and the British Gas site breaks in exactly the same way on the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Edge if the experimental features are enabled, so this at least is not a problem peculiar to Supermium!

If that really is the case, then they are completely useless.

So how do you explain the result at https://chromiumchecker.com/? That site would be pretty much discredited if it couldn't detect an old Chromium version masquerading as a newer one!

Surely he had to 'fiddle' with the Chromium code or the browser wouldn't run on XP?!

Quite. Just because Twitch works in a Chromium 110 browser but not in Supermium 126 or 132 doesn't mean that the latter browsers are using even older Chromium versions, despite their names. There could surely be any number of reasons why Twitch doesn't work in Supermium which are nothing whatsoever to do with the underlying Chromium version. I'm sure that the reason is being investigated. The fact that it apparently comes good when the experimental features are enabled must surely be a very big clue as to the cause!

It will be interesting to see if this is addressed in the next Supermium release.

Ah right, I'm still using R6.

I'm well aware that deception is possible, but Supermium 126 appears legit when tested here. It's spoofing version 130 in its default User Agent string, but we all knew that. I don't know about version 132, as I haven't installed it yet. I'm waiting for at least one more update before I do!

It was a silly thing to do in the first place. AFAIK it was because a few users reported that they were having problems with Twitch. These problems went away if the experimental features were enabled. What the developer should probably have done is simply to tell them to switch them on. What he actually did was change the default settings so they were on by default. This was fine until people found problems with other sites, like the British Gas one. Fortunately this has been corrected, but presumably the problems with Twitch are still there with the default settings now, and that does need to be addressed.

Why on earth would the Supermium developer release a version of the browser purporting to be based on Chromium 132, but actually based on an earlier version? That would make no sense at all if it can easily be checked, and he must be well aware that it can be. Surely it's much more likely that the core is indeed Chromium 132 but one or more of the tweaks which have been made to it, especially for compatibility with earlier operating systems, have resulted in the mutually exclusive issues with Twitch and the British Gas site, which now cannot both work properly at the same time.