360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version

[hidao]

4 hours ago, dextyckroms said:

Today in softpedia.com i saw listed catsxp browser https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Catsxp.shtml.The current version is 2.4.4 chromium 100.0 based. The autor list Windows vista as compatible https://www.catsxp.com/faq and the last version with xp support was released in October 29, 2020,https://www.catsxp.com/history#  v0.7.7 [2020-10-28 11:29:46].
 

I don't found the download link of Caatsxp 0.7.7, it's a chinese browser, someone said it's based on brave, and it's devlopment by one person, I don't know it's true or not

[hidao]

2 hours ago, Humming Owl said:

Added both versions with the modifications you suggested. Can you test them to see if they work? Thanks.

Yes, that browser has versions that were compatible with XP, unfortunately I don't know where to download older releases. But now that I think of, @hidao, can you write an email to the author of that browser asking for a way to download older releases of the browser? I didn't want to do it myself because it would look kind of bad  but another person can, and of course, only if you want. Thanks.

Cheers. 

I'll try, and I will ask some other people in Chinese IT forum

[hidao]

1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Wasn't direct to me but since I run XP x64 I gave it a go and it's working  

I only tested .127 as it seems to be basically identical to .121.

 

I heard that XP x64  software compatibility was bad , so in China ,I never heard people used XP x64

[hidao]

1 hour ago, dextyckroms said:

Just now, i send an email requesting a way to download an xp compatible version, 

Good, if you have reply ,i don't have to ask

[NotHereToPlayGames]

6 minutes ago, hidao said:

I heard that XP x64  software compatibility was bad , so in China ,I never heard people used XP x64

Seems pretty stable to me.

360Chrome seems to have better process management on multi-core CPUs, MiniBrowser requires more background processes then 360Chrome.

YouTube on MiniBrowser seems on-par with 360Chrome v13.  I had lots of stutter on several YouTube videos that did not stutter in 360Chrome v11.

Users that prefer 360Chrome v11 because it uses less resources than comparable browsers won't really gain much with MiniBrowser.

Some of it's options are confusing - when you toggle the blue switch, the setting text changes and some text is confusing, do I hit the blue switch to activate what the text says before I hit the switch?

Built-in Ad Blocker is "all or nothing" - would be nice to have an idea of what it considers an ad and what it does not consider an ad.

Only real gain is it having a polyfill javascript engine but that only puts it on-par with 360Chrome v13 and v13.5.

I do have a personal bias against any "XP" program that doesn't use a "real" title bar with XP-themed colors and icons, but that aside it does seem to work well.

I would prefer a "portable" loader, but I could create that on my own - had it met other requirements, which it fails to do for my usage.

I didn't really run it long enough for a long-term stability test and didn't load up an "unrealistic" number of YouTube tabs just to intentionally try to crash it.

[hidao]

1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Seems pretty stable to me.

360Chrome seems to have better process management on multi-core CPUs, MiniBrowser requires more background processes then 360Chrome.

YouTube on MiniBrowser seems on-par with 360Chrome v13.  I had lots of stutter on several YouTube videos that did not stutter in 360Chrome v11.

Users that prefer 360Chrome v11 because it uses less resources than comparable browsers won't really gain much with MiniBrowser.

Some of it's options are confusing - when you toggle the blue switch, the setting text changes and some text is confusing, do I hit the blue switch to activate what the text says before I hit the switch?

Built-in Ad Blocker is "all or nothing" - would be nice to have an idea of what it considers an ad and what it does not consider an ad.

Only real gain is it having a polyfill javascript engine but that only puts it on-par with 360Chrome v13 and v13.5.

I do have a personal bias against any "XP" program that doesn't use a "real" title bar with XP-themed colors and icons, but that aside it does seem to work well.

I would prefer a "portable" loader, but I could create that on my own - had it met other requirements, which it fails to do for my usage.

I didn't really run it long enough for a long-term stability test and didn't load up an "unrealistic" number of YouTube tabs just to intentionally try to crash it.

I don't like the MiniBrowser's UI,so I always used 360 EE v11

About the option , if you don't know, you can show me the screenshot picture, I'll help you if I can

About the built-in ad blocker, I think it's not useful, I used Adblock Plus or uBlock Origin extention

Edited April 10, 2022 by hidao

[dextyckroms]

@NotHereToPlayGames, I have a problem con all 360 browser modified, they close without message, close after a few minutes in use. Yours are terrific good i think is because a lockdown too much here, my XP is vanilla with Windows updates from MS but i disable several services and did try to reduce conexion surface to minimal. Minibrowser only crash/close rarely when I open some particular site whitout disable javascript.

I replace youtube with Invidous.fdn.fr there are several instances or mirrors and can play HD videos nicely  

Edited April 10, 2022 by dextyckroms

[Matias Groen]

7 hours ago, Humming Owl said:

Added both versions with the modifications you suggested. Can you test them to see if they work? Thanks.

Can confirm that both of them work.

6 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

It creates a "debug.log" file - [0409/214327.207:ERROR:directory_reader_win.cc(43)] FindFirstFile: The parameter is incorrect. (0x57)

Might be related to it failing at fetching a dictionary (which could have been my system setup that prevented it, unsure).

It seemed to do that on my XP32 machine as well, not sure what it is.

5 hours ago, hidao said:

I heard that XP x64  software compatibility was bad , so in China ,I never heard people used XP x64

I've been running XP64 24/7 on my Sandy Bridge server since August 2019 and have yet to run into any major issues.

[hidao]

1 hour ago, Matias Groen said:

Can confirm that both of them work.

It seemed to do that on my XP32 machine as well, not sure what it is.

I've been running XP64 24/7 on my Sandy Bridge server since August 2019 and have yet to run into any major issues.

About the "debug.log", some times I found it too, but I'm not find any other problems, so let it go

About the XP x64, I just heard, not tried

[Humming Owl]

Updated v9, v11, v12 and v13, English version:

- It is a very minor translation update (I finally translated the last piece of Chinese I experienced). No need to update if you have the 24-10-21 version.

...

Regarding the "debug.log" file, it also creates on Win7. I think it is related to the edits to the DLL files. I don't remember seeing that file when I was testing the vanilla version of the browser.

@dextyckroms if you get a positive response from the author of Catsxp browser also ask him if he is willing to share the source code of those older versions of the browser compatible with XP. It would be pretty nice to see if that could happen. There hasn't been any source code of a newer version of a complete browser for XP for many time and after what @feodor2 was capable of I am pretty excited to see what is comming.

Cheers.

 

[hidao]

3 hours ago, Humming Owl said:

Updated v9, v11, v12 and v13, English version:

- It is a very minor translation update (I finally translated the last piece of Chinese I experienced). No need to update if you have the 24-10-21 version.

...

Regarding the "debug.log" file, it also creates on Win7. I think it is related to the edits to the DLL files. I don't remember seeing that file when I was testing the vanilla version of the browser.

@dextyckroms if you get a positive response from the author of Catsxp browser also ask him if he is willing to share the source code of those older versions of the browser compatible with XP. It would be pretty nice to see if that could happen. There hasn't been any source code of a newer version of a complete browser for XP for many time and after what @feodor2 was capable of I am pretty excited to see what is comming.

Cheers.

 

Just translated? 

Has the Chinese version need to update?

About the browser for XP, the Mypal program wan updated by FireFox 68 Quantum

Github: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/

Language package download link: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.1.0esr/win32/xpi/

And if who knew @feodor2, could tell him choose some other clouddisk,because these two were not friendly to chinese people

For example:

https://app.mediafire.com/myfiles

https://ena.teracloud.jp/browser/

https://www.mydrive.ch/en/login

These clouddisk all could used in China, even not useful  than the Chines clouddisk

Edited April 11, 2022 by hidao

[v3cv]

Hello,

I've been using 360chrome for quite a while already and for the most part it's doing fine except some problems:

- chrome://gpu tells me hardware acceleration is unavailable, but i enabled override flag, hardware acceleration switch is enabled in settings and my hardware is relatively modern

- text disappears on page randomly if i leave it inactive for too long

- browser crashes often completely (all processes)

Does anyone happen to know solution for any of those problems? Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

[Humming Owl]

12 hours ago, hidao said:

Has the Chinese version need to update?

No. If I update it, it would be something minimal (polishing).

47 minutes ago, v3cv said:

Hello,

I've been using 360chrome for quite a while already and for the most part it's doing fine except some problems:

- chrome://gpu tells me hardware acceleration is unavailable, but i enabled override flag, hardware acceleration switch is enabled in settings and my hardware is relatively modern

- text disappears on page randomly if i leave it inactive for too long

- browser crashes often completely (all processes)

Does anyone happen to know solution for any of those problems? Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

Try adding "--enable-logging --v=1" at the end of the "Target" line as this guide --> https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271282#zippy=%2Cwindows

That will enable a "chrome_debug.log" file inside the "User Data" folder. You can then post it here when you experience any of the crashes you mention.

I don't know how to read those but it should be a good starting point to see if those issues can be fixed or not. Which version are you using?

Hardware acceleration might be responsible of some issues as well. Try using these flags to see if they do something:

--disable-webgl (erasing or renaming the “swiftshader” folder and the “libglesv2.dll” file will have the same effect as this flag) 

--no-default-browser-check

--disable-component-update 

--disable-background-networking

Cheers. 

[v3cv]

Thank you for your fast reply,

I used disable webgl flag and enable logging, but my problem was hardware acceelration is Not working, not that i want to disable it.

I managed to get crash again and the log file ends with

[3112:748:0411/222600.484:ERROR:database.cc(1698)] TopSites sqlite error 1, errno 0: table thumbnails has no column named last_forced, sql: INSERT OR REPLACE INTO thumbnails (url, url_rank, title, thumbnail, redirects, boring_score, good_clipping, at_top, last_updated, load_completed, last_forced) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
[3112:748:0411/222600.484:ERROR:database.cc(1698)] TopSites sqlite error 1, errno 0: table thumbnails has no column named last_forced, sql: INSERT OR REPLACE INTO thumbnails (url, url_rank, title, thumbnail, redirects, boring_score, good_clipping, at_top, last_updated, load_completed, last_forced) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B335AE0 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B311690 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B3076F0 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B35D288 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B330B10 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B33BEC0 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B325760 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B356EA8 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B30C6C0 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B302070 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B32A730 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B34BAF8 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B351ED8 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B3A1BB8 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B3863C8 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B3BA998 destroyed.
[2032:2560:0411/222604.515:INFO:page.cc(1055)] page: 0B345DC8 destroyed.
[3112:748:0411/222605.218:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(393)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 0
[3112:748:0411/222605.218:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(393)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 0
[3112:748:0411/222605.218:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(393)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 0
[3112:748:0411/222605.218:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(393)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 0
[3112:748:0411/222605.218:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(393)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 0

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by v3cv

[NotHereToPlayGames]

31 minutes ago, v3cv said:

but my problem was hardware acceelration is Not working, not that i want to disable it.

I would suggest disabling Hardware Acceleration.

Having it enabled is a very common cause for problems, it seems to create more problems than it is intended to solve.

I disable Accelerated 2D Canvas via chrome://flags and this solved the random disappearing text on my system - it seems to be hit or miss on other people's systems though so mileage may vary.