Dave-H

Supermium 132.0.6834.191 R1 now released. "(#1229) Resolving status of experimental web features. They are now defaulting to off, and the wording has been reverted as well. This fixes issues with the British Gas website."

Yes, I'm well aware of that project, I use it with Supermium on Windows 10! It's a great thing, but as you rightly say, it does not work with Windows XP.

The Portable Registrator program should make it the default browser, or at least register it with Windows so you can do it manually. I would try that rather than just using the switch. If it were that easy to make it the default browser on XP just by using the switch, there would be no problem, and the developer would have probably built that option in. Making a browser the default I think uses a very different mechanism on XP than it does on later versions of Windows.

No, but you can do that with a switch. I use a launcher to run Supermium on XP, and its INI file contains the necessary switch. --user-data-dir="D:\Program Files\Supermium\User Data" You can also, of course, just add it to the shortcut you use to run the program. The disadvantage of that, I found, is that you need to add it to all the places in the registry that the program is run from too. I found the launcher solution much easier, as you just run the launcher from the registry and from the shortcut, and the switches are then automatically applied. If you need to change them, you can just change them in the launcher's INI file, and job done!

I've used this program with great success to register programs with the system. It works fine on XP.

Back on topic please.

Indeed so, but if an 'experimental' feature is actually breaking sites, I do hope that gets addressed!

Thanks again everyone. I reported the problem on GitHub, as you've seen, and I'm still trying to get my head around the response from Vangelis66 there! Whatever the ramifications are from changing the default status of that flag, surely the fundamental problem is that something when enabled by that flag is causing the British Gas site to break. Whatever it is, I hope it's addressed as if one site breaks, surely others will as well.

Thanks. Does anyone have the 'normal' Google Chrome browser installed? I don't have it installed now, and I would be interested to know if it has the same problem. I will feed this back to the developer on GitHub, because something is obviously amiss here, certainly with Supermium, especially as I gather that the preview 132 version has the same issue.

If it's any diagnostic help, this page is one of the ones that's completely blank for me if those options are enabled. https://www.britishgas.co.uk/identity/

So, which is the culprit here? I guess whichever it is, it's in version 132 as well. As an aside, double negatives always annoy me because they can so easily cause confusion. Having a flag which has to be enabled to disable something for instance!

Thank you, that has fixed it! So, what does that mean?

Interesting. Maybe I should report this to the developer on GitHub, especially if the problem is still there in version 132. I've just tried the 64 bit version on Windows 10 on another computer, and it's the same, although that's not surprising as that installation of Supermium is set up the same way. I'm quite sure that if it mis-renders this site, it will inevitably do the same on others, although I've not come across any (yet). Strange that some have said that it's working properly for them though, with the same version of Supermium on the same operating system.

Thanks everyone, as always! A lot of food for thought there. Some more information that I should have given the first time. I'm using Supermium 126.0.6478.260 R6. Off-topic here of course, but I'm using the 64 bit version on Windows 10, and the British Gas site looks exactly the same there, so it's presumably not an OS issue. I'm not using a loader on Windows 10, but I am using Chrome+ which gives me the additional function of always opening bookmarks in new tabs, something that I had got used to having in 360Chrome. Unfortunately Chrome+ does not work on XP, or I would be using it there as well! This is my version information page on Windows 10 - A lot more 'out of the box' than the XP installation of course, as most of the tweaks needed on XP are not needed on 10. This is really quite puzzling, as I'm using a recent Chromium version here. It will be interesting to see if the problem is still there in Supermium 132 when I get around to updating to it.

Thanks, so it is something in my setup then! My chrome://version page looks very different to yours. For instance, how come yours says 'Supermium' at the top right and mine says 'Chromium'? Is that perhaps because I'm on XP and not Vista as you are? I don't see why that would make any difference. You can see the flags and switches in the screen grab, do any of them stand out as possible culprits to the problem? I am using a launcher program to run the browser, with some switches in its INI file, such as the profile location.

Could someone who's using Supermium 126 check this site for me? https://www.britishgas.co.uk This is how it looks in Firefox 135 (and Edge) - This is how it looks in Supermium - As you can see, the elements above and immediately below the red bar are missing on Supermium, which apart from anything else means that you can't log in. Also, some other pages on the site are just showing as white pages in Supermium, and the same pages look fine in Firefox and Edge. Notice the big difference in the uBlock Origin count numbers on the two browsers. This is probably relevant, but disabling uBlock does not solve the problem! It's the same in an incognito window in Supermium too.

I think that sort of thing is getting pretty par for the course now with 360Chrome, because of its old Chromium version (86). Spoofing the UA string only has limited use now, as many sites use other methods to determine what level of browser you're using.

Thanks.

He hasn't posted here since last summer, although he is still a member. You could try sending a PM, but it would be much better to ask about your issue on the Supermium GitHub pages.

I haven't seen anything like that happen so far, thank goodness. So you're saying that just going into the Disk Management on XP causes the partition on your 6TB disk to vanish? Does it not appear at all, or does it appear and then disappear? Presumably it's gone in Device Manager too?

Thanks, but it's exactly the same on Windows 10, where I'm not using the Paragon driver of course. I was thinking that it was due to the fact that it's an IDE controller connection, not a mass storage device connection. I can't remember whether it was the same when the disk was connected directly to the motherboard. Incidentally @Cixert my card is actually made by a company called SSU. There is very little about the card on their site, but is does look as if they only make the SU-SA3004 four port version, not the SU-SA3002 two port version. There's a driver download page, but not much else!

That post did indeed refer to Windows 2000, but this isn't the thread for any prolonged discussion about Windows 2000 issues. If you post in the relevant Windows 2000 thread, you can always tag people in this thread to bring it to their attention.

@Xeno96 Post moved here. This thread is concerning Windows XP only.

If you edit the first post in the thread, you should be able to change the thread title there.

OK, back again. I did my phone backup, and system ISO backups yesterday onto the 3TB disk, and everything still seems to be OK. I'm still getting the message about 'making corrections to the uppercase file' when I run CHKDSK on Windows XP, but this does not seem to be anything serious. I did some research on it, and this was stated about the 'uppercase file' - "Windows changed the uppercase file -- that's the one that provides translation between uppercase and lowercase, to preserve case-insensitivity for path names -- a little bit, between XP and Vista. You get this error if you formatted the drive under Vista or later, and are running CHKDSK under XP or earlier." So, it looks like it's just a difference between the way that XP records case information and Windows 10 records case information, nothing to worry about. So, no file system corruption problems as yet, and the drive does have more than 2TB of data on it. There seemed to be two key things here. Firstly, finding the right version of the Paragon GPT driver to use on XP, for which thank you @Cixert. Secondly, finding a SATA interface card which would work with the disk without causing corruption, for which thank you @Andalu. The card I'm now using, which is this one, appears as an IDE controller, not a SCSI storage device, and that seems to have been the key, because it presumably is exactly the same as connecting the disk directly to the motherboard, which also works. The seller's information on Amazon describes the 'no boot' mode on the card as 'data disk', which is exactly right in my case. Whether this would work with a disk that you wanted to boot from I don't know, but for my usage it's fine. The card I have is actually a version 1 card, not the version 2 card I posted the image of. The Amazon seller says you could get either version, but the only difference that I can see is in the PCI-E interface version, which doesn't seem to matter. The card is apparently branded 'Mugast' which is not a name I'm familiar with. The only thing I've lost is the automatic detection and mounting of the drive when it's powered up in its enclosure, which is not a big deal. I think this is probably because of the way that the operating systems now see its connection. I'm just glad that it works! I will of course report immediately if I do find any issues after prolonged use. Cheers, Dave.