Dave-H

Well all my operating systems are on 'bare metal' and I hope they always will be! I didn't actually import my 360Chrome profile into Thorium. I imported it into Supermium, and then imported the Supermium profile into Thorium! As Thorium and Supermium are so similar, I thought that was the best way to do it. I can't think of any reason why a 360Chrome profile wouldn't work directly in Thorium though.

OK, I'm giving Thorium 122.0.6261.158 a try on 32 bit XP. I still managed to crash an Instagram tab with an 'out of memory' message, but it was a great deal more difficult to do it with Thorium than it is with Supermium! What seems to happen with Thorium is that as I scroll, the memory use does spiral up, but it gets to a certain point and then drops back again. I can scroll for a long time, and it keeps doing that, but eventually it does crash out. This is unlikely to happen in normal use though I would have thought. With Supermium, the memory just keeps going up, and it crashes relatively quickly. In most other respects the browsers seem to be pretty similar, although on one website I use regularly Thorium does not seem to be loading the web fonts, so the displayed font on the page is wrong. With Supermium, it's fine. Maybe a setting in Thorium? I will have to investigate.

Ah right. Just ignore me!

If that is a test page, it seems to work fine here.

I think maybe the emoticons look different on your grab to my grab because it says it's a 'Top 100', which presumably is constantly changing? Good to know that they are aware of the file selection problem.

On another subject, I've noticed when trying to add a file to a post here using Supermium, I get this - No option to actually select a file, the 'Dump Folder' folder shown definitely has files in it! Thankfully, dragging and dropping does work.

I'm seeing this, so it all looks as if it's OK.

Unfortunately I can't give you the address of that site as it's a private Health Service address which needs a login. If I spot the same issue anywhere that's generally available, I will certainly let you know. Presumably I'm not just getting squares for the same reason that the NoToEmoji font is displaying squares?

LOL! Interesting to hear that Thorium was actually around before Superium. My judgement was made purely on appearances, where the menus of Thorium and Superium appear to be identical, apart from where they reference the name of the browser. I did say earlier on in the Superium thread that there might well be differences under the bonnet though. The one thing that would possibly make me try Thorium again would be if its memory usage is better controlled than Superium.

Personally I wouldn't use Thorium. As has been said, it's just a ripped-off clone of Superium re-badged as far as I can see. And that's disregarding any moral reasons not to use it based on the accusations levelled at its 'creator'. Please keep any discussions about it here purely on a technical level though, or this thread will be closed. Thank you.

Dead right, thank you! Banned.

Right. Is this anything to do with the 'NoToEmoji' font which is bundled with the browser? If I open that in XP, it's just a load of boxes.

I've not been aware of any text actually missing in Superium 122, but I have seen this occasionally. As you can see, there are boxes where presumably there should be icons.

Thanks, good to know that there is a later version that's still compatible with XP. I don't think I'll bother to update what I've got though. There's no evidence to suggest that the Paragon driver was the cause of the issues I was having.

@UCyborg Can you give an example of the font problem you're seeing? I have seen occasional anomalies in places on a very few pages, such as squares where there should be characters, I just want to see if it's the same issue as you're mentioning. What is this business with the 'NoToEmoji' font BTW? It seems to be supplied with the browser, and I have copied it to my system, but I'm not sure why it's needed.

Now I've finally got it working properly, Superium 122 seems to be pretty good on 32 bit XP. It still eats memory voraciously, so I still get the 'out of memory' tab freezes, but I've not seen any problems with fonts or any other display issues, once I got the scaling right. I still think it's a very impressive piece of work, and a boon for XP users.

My motherboard BIOS allows both legacy and AHCI modes. I use legacy mode as Windows 98 won't boot otherwise.

@Cixert I didn't format the 3TB disk I was using, it was pre-formatted with NTFS and I just used it as it was. Maybe that was a mistake, and I should have tried formatting it in XP, using Partition Magic if XP couldn't do it itself, with it connected in the hardware configuration I was trying to use. All I know is that it had severe filesystem corruption on it as soon as I started using it, which became very obvious when switching between XP and Windows 10. This happened whether it was connected directly to the motherboard or via an add-in Asmedia SATA card, and whether I was using the Paragon GPT driver or the driver files from Windows 2003 which @Andalu kindly supplied for me. It looked fine until anything was written to it using XP, and it had nowhere near to 2TB of data on it.

Ah, so it looks like it was just re-named for some reason then.

Ah thanks. That's an older version of the Paragon driver than the one I have. IIRC it was buggy, and the version 10 driver is much better.

Where did gptmount.sys come from? My Paragon driver is GPT_Loader.sys.

Possibly, although I've always assumed that the actual design work for the board would have been done before Server 2008 was released. Anyway, it works fine with XP and 10, although Windows 98 was a bit more of a struggle to get working properly on it! Windows 11 works fine on it too, although not officially of course.

No problem, here it is! I'm pretty certain that the drivers came on the CD that goes with the motherboard (Supermicro X7DAL-E+). The board, which is a server board, is from 2009 so would have been designed for Windows Server 2003 I would have thought.

I just wanted to make sure that you had the same version of the Paragon GPT driver that I have. Sorry, I forgot about the IDE /SATA driver! All the driver files are standard (I assume) Microsoft files.

The version of my GPT_Loader.sys is 10.5.0.95. I have the full HFS+ program installed, but I don't think you need that just to get GPT support. I think this is probably all you need. GPTLoader.zip The 3TB disk details are - C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo I: NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x01da43553017acb0 NTFS Version : 3.1 LFS Version : 2.0 Total Sectors : 5,860,530,168 (2.7 TB) Total Clusters : 732,566,271 (2.7 TB) Free Clusters : 329,433,181 (1.2 TB) Total Reserved Clusters : 1,024 (4.0 MB) Reserved For Storage Reserve : 0 (0.0 KB) Bytes Per Sector : 512 Bytes Per Physical Sector : 512 Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0 Mft Valid Data Length : 107.75 MB Mft Start Lcn : 0x0000000000005a53 Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000004 Mft Zone Start : 0x000000002b9495a0 Mft Zone End : 0x000000002b955dc0 MFT Zone Size : 200.13 MB Max Device Trim Extent Count : 0 Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0 Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62 Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000 Resource Manager Identifier : 9710E0BD-AF47-11EE-A000-003048C77E47 I hope this helps!