Dave-H

I deleted the original posts because they were off-topic. Unfortunately, they then still generated an ongoing conversation. Perhaps I should have just moved them to the forum issues section.

Having added the switch, there are now no components listed in chrome://components/ so it looks as if the switch doesn't only stop components being downloaded, as its name implies, it disables any components already on the system! Google Translate still seems to work, so that's a bonus!

Yes, a big difference. As mentioned elsewhere, I had also been aware of 'stuck processes' being left running when Thorium was supposedly closed down. Hopefully this will now be fixed too.

Thank you, that sounds like a very good 'fix', as long as I never want to use any downloaded components of course! I'm pretty sure that what trigged the download was using the Google Translate function, but I can always replace that with an extension. I have loads of things listed under chrome://components/ BTW, including "ScreenAI Library - Version: 123.9.3" which is causing the errors to be logged.

OK, understood. The site looks exactly the same in Thorium and 360Chrome. I don't have any other browsers on XP which are recent enough to test it on. It looks fine in both of them, but while looking around it, Thorium suddenly closed down on me, something I'd not seen before! I guess this is the problem you're seeing too. Going back to Thorium and restoring the session, it then seemed to be fine and didn't crash again. Instagram is fine on Thorium apart from the memory problem. the tab will crash if I scroll for too long. Strangely perhaps, Facebook does not have this issue.

Not sure why posting the link for testing purposes would be a problem, unless it's a 'dodgy' site of course, which I'm sure it isn't!

Any chance of actually having the link, I can't find it?! In my experience sites work very well in the recent Chrome browsers for XP, I've had very few problems, although some are inevitably starting to malfunction or are blocked in 360Chrome because of its old Chromium version.

Any examples of problem sites? I have to say that I haven't found a site which doesn't display correctly in Thorium (apart from the incorrect font on the Digital Spy forum site which I mentioned earlier).

I still get out of memory crashes on tabs with Thorium, but it's nowhere near as bad as Supermium was. Supermium may have improved in that respect of course, I haven't yet updated from version 122.0.6261.85. My 360Chome (13.5.2036.0) does use a rebased chrome.dll of course.

360Chrome starts fastest for me.

Using --disable-highres-timer did more harm than good on my system. Yes, the browser loaded a bit more quickly, but Instagrm looked a total mess, like the CSS files weren't loaded, and several other sites also produced a mess before rendering properly. I removed the switch pretty quickly! Things don't take very long to load on my system anyway, I think Thorium is noticeably faster than Supermium in that respect.

No surprise there, good to hear!

Glad that explains it, I do have the Segoe UI fonts installed on XP. I can't remember why.

What a pity, but it was worth a try!

See what it looks like if you use the scaling switches I'm using. /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1 That fixed a lot of font issues for me.

Sorry guys, this is all getting way off-topic again. General security and privacy issues are off-topic here unless they specifically relate to the Thorium browser, and only the Thorium browser. Thank you.

FWIW Alex tells me that uBlock Origin is bundled with Thorium. 🙂

Yes, back on topic please, this thread is to specifically discuss the Thorium browser, not the relative merits and disadvantages of different operating systems. Back to the Digital Spy site problem yet again. I've now discovered that the missing icons are actually being caused by Stylus. If I switch off Stylus, the missing icons come back, but of course the page font is then wrong!

Thanks. FWIW, the display of the DigitalSpy site is exactly the same in the new Thorium Legacy 122.0.6261.169. I have reported it again on GitHub (in the right place this time!)

As Alex is quite openly stating publicly that he's using code from Supermium, not trying to do it behind Win32ss's back, I would have thought that Win32ss would have done something about it by now if they objected, even if only by initially asking Alex nicely to stop doing it!

Quite. Alex is not hiding the fact that he's using code from Win32ss. 🙂

I don't know, and I'm not sure how we would know if the poster didn't reveal that was the case!

I'm not actually seeing that effect. I don't know if that's what Alex is referring to. Good to see that Alex and Win32ss are apparently stealing from each other working together! I had pointed out to Alex that the DigitalSpy forum site displays perfectly natively in Supermium and 360Chrome. There should be a new Thorium XP build soon which hopefully will fix it.

I've reported the DigitalSpy site font and icon problems to the developer on GitHub. We'll see what happens.

Just going back to the Digital Spy forums site again (sorry!) It's a good example of a site with missing icons, too. This is Supermium - and this is Thorium - Likewise at the bottom of the same page. Supermium - Thorium - Quite why Thorium should have such problems with this site, when Supermium doesn't, is a bit of a mystery to me, and certainly proves that the two browsers are not 'clones'!