Dave-H

FWIW, I have no idea how much Thorium and Supermium can be considered to be 'clones'. As far as I'm concerned if they were clones they would be identical, and that they are not! Although they look so similar they must have both started from the same base, they have different developers working on them, so they have diverged. I'm still very grateful (and still astounded!) that they both work on Windows XP, albeit with some issues, using such a recent Chromium version. A few years ago, I'm sure we all thought that would be absolutely impossible! I'm sticking with Thorium now, although still keeping an eye on where Supermium is going too of course. Thorium has a couple of facilities now that I was really missing after using 360Chrome, natively keeping the browser open when the last tab is closed, without having to use an extension to do it, and double-clicking to close tabs, which I use all the time, and I first got used to back in the days of Presto Opera! The only important (to me) thing still missing is a setting to always open bookmarks in a new tab, which you could also do on 360Chrome. I hate it when you click on a link and it overwrites the current tab. I know you can do it with middle click and the right click menu, but I got used to opening bookmarks automatically in new tabs without having to think about it! There doesn't seem to be an extension which will easily and simply fix that, not that I've found, anyway. I'm very pleased that both the Thorium and Supermium developers seem to now be committed to producing un-Googled versions. For those that want that, I hope they don't have to wait for too long.

That seems to have worked. I tried the script (in OrangeMonkey, which I already have installed for other scripts) but it didn't seem to do anything. Thanks @nicolaasjan for your suggestion too. Let's hope that's finally it!

Sorry @NotHereToPlayGames, I think I was a bit premature saying that the Digital Spy site fonts were all fixed. Although it's all now OK on the main pages, if I go to a forum thread, the header is still the wrong font. I've tried a few experimental changes to the Stylus script, but nothing seems to make any difference. Not a big deal, it's still much better than it was before, but just thought I'd mention it in case there is an easy fix. I'm afraid I don't know very much about this sort of problem.

Right. Oh well, at least the presence of that flag I hope shows an intent by the developer to eventually produce an Un-Googled version of Thorium. Let's hope it becomes a reality soon for those who want it.

I thought at the very least it would have removed the 'You and Google' page in the settings!

Has anyone tried using the chrome://flags/#ungoogled-thorium flag? If so, are there any downsides to it?

Thank you, that has fixed it completely!

Thank you, that seems to have largely fixed the incorrect font on the Digital Spy forum site! It does look as if some of the site is still wrong though, like the 'Sky' header here, which looks as if it's still in the wrong font. All the rest looks now correct. Is that perhaps because it's a larger size?

Just to illustrate, this is what I'm seeing with Supermium, and 360Chrome - And this is what I'm seeing in Thorium - As you can see, the font is completely different. Looks like Time New Roman to me, but might not be from what @NotHereToPlayGames said!

I've had a look just in case it was stopping web fonts from downloading and causing the issue on the Digital Spy forums. That option is switched off though.

Absolutely right, I can't imagine that it's something that I would ever actually want to use! I was just a bit puzzled as to what uBlock had to do with it. Is it something that uBlock would block as a matter of course, regardless of its settings?

Looking at the Thorium performance settings, I was intrigued by this - Switching u-Block off for just that page makes no difference, but if uBlock is disabled completely, the option becomes available again. This is the same in Supermium BTW.

Thanks.

Funny you should say that! The mention of Stylus jogged my memory that I was already doing exactly that on 360Chrome, and have been doing so for well over a year! Strangely though, if I switch off Stylus now the Digital Spy forum site still looks OK, so they've obviously changed something. I've tried installing Stylus on Thorium, and importing the Stylus settings from 360Chrome, but it doesn't work, the font is still wrong. I've attached my Stylus settings file, do you think it's still correct? The site still looks correct in Supermium without Stylus even installed. stylus-2024-04-23.json

Thanks, I'll check that out. I can put up with the wrong font on sites occasionally, but it's annoying when it happens on a site you use all the time!

Back on topic please!

Back on topic, has anyone else using Thorium noticed it sometimes not loading web fonts? I've noticed it on this forum site which I use a lot - https://forums.digitalspy.com/ It looks fine in 360Chrome and Supermium, but not in Thorium, where it falls back to Times New Roman. The console shows many entries saying "OTS parsing error: Unable to instantiate font face from font data." I assume this is the cause.

Absolutely right, certainly in my case!

Just to clarify, I have never run 360Chrome on the Windows 10 side of my machine, I've never had any reason to! The history problem was not just the hour's discrepancy in the times displayed, which I could have just lived with, it was the fact that history items from earlier in the current day were not displayed at all.

I agree about that, I don't like the scrolling single bookmark lists either.

Thank you so much, that's great! Perhaps rather strangely as it's superficially so similar, that option does not seem to exist in Supermium.

Please don't ask about things only related to Thorium in this thread, which is about Supermium. There is a dedicated thread for Thorium.

Not now, certainly, even though they probably started from the same base. They are diverging, as these things always do with different developers working on them.

Again off-topic, but the faulty file open dialogue has been fixed on the latest version of Thorium, so I guess Supermium will not be far behind!

The new 122.0.6261.168 version of Thorium seems to be working fine. One thing I have found is that it generated a folder in my profile folder called 'Screen_AI'. This appears to be a Google AI thing which it presumably downloaded in the background. Unfortunately, whatever it is, it doesn't work on XP, just generating errors in my Windows System event log whenever Thorium is started. Looking at other Chrome browsers, there should be an option in the settings to switch off this AI stuff, but that option is not there in Thorium, and I can't find any relevant flags to disable it either. I have worked around it by simply disabling chrome_screen_ai.dll by re-naming it.