On 8/3/2024 at 4:13 AM, VistaLover said:

... And just out of the blue, KMB just got an unexpected official update yesterday, Aug 1st 2024: 

https://browser-download.kfsafe.cn/MiniBrowserSetup.exe

The Chinese installer (not recommended to execute directly  ) the above URI affords is of version 1.0.0.134, has a digital file signature of 20240801 and comes more than two and a half years after previous official release, 1.0.0.127, which was digitally signed on 20211209...

I wasn't able to find any changelog for this release; the installer is 7-zip extract-able, thus I verified the app is still based on the M87 Chromium kernel...

@Humming Owl, would you please oblige?  

It told us it's based on Chrome 87...

Right.  I was considering modifying/repacking as a tribute of sorts to Humming Owl.  But I have since reconsidered and see it as essentially a "waste of time".

18 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Right.  I was considering modifying/repacking as a tribute of sorts to Humming Owl.  But I have since reconsidered and see it as essentially a "waste of time".

It's not that long! He may be on a long vacation, went to Bahamas or so.

*long

Edited August 9, 20242 yr by Dixel

You may be right.  But I still stand by my view that modifying/repacking something based on Chrome v87 is still a "waste of time".

16 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

You may be right.  But I still stand by my view that modifying/repacking something based on Chrome v87 is still a "waste of time".

Yeah, I usually go on vacations in Autumn (The Fall, or whatever you call it), but it's just me. I know a lot of folks that do it during the summer.

As for the browser, I agree, it's waaay too old. What about the China fork 115, then? Don't remember the exact name.

Edited August 9, 20242 yr by Dixel
typo

XPChrome.

11 hours ago, mina7601 said:

XPChrome.

The name is so generic, really hard to memorise.

26 minutes ago, mina7601 said:

XPChrome.

Have you tried that one?  If so - good, bad, or indifferent?

I thought I tried it on XP x64 and it DID NOT LAUNCH.  Do not recall offhand.

Edited August 9, 20242 yr by NotHereToPlayGames

23 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Have you tried that one?  If so - good, bad, or indifferent?

Yes, I tried it, but it's been a long time ago since I did so. It's indifferent.

Edited August 9, 20242 yr by mina7601

Surely now you're much better off using Thorium or Supermium on XP.
At least they're using relatively up-to-date Chromium versions.

6 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

Surely now you're much better off using Thorium or Supermium on XP.
At least they're using relatively up-to-date Chromium versions.

Yes, of course. I already abandoned XPChrome a long time ago, ever since Supermium got XP support.

I've had better luck with Thorium.  Not such luck with Supermium.  Both are early in development so time will tell.

My remaining XP machines are either dual-core without hyperthreading or Intel Atom processors.  Supermium crashes for me on these XP machines.

14 hours ago, Dixel said:

As for the browser, I agree, it's waaay too old. What about the China fork 115, then? Don't remember the exact name.

On the other hand, if that update is honest, could probably help. I remember some sites that didn't work in earlier 36 versions, started to work in the patched 13.5

On 8/9/2024 at 7:13 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I've had better luck with Thorium.  Not such luck with Supermium.  Both are early in development so time will tell.

My remaining XP machines are either dual-core without hyperthreading or Intel Atom processors.  Supermium crashes for me on these XP machines.

Supermium(122 R4 and 126 R7) is worked very well on XP on my laptop, I3 2450M/4G RAM/500G HDD

12 hours ago, hidao said:

Supermium(122 R4 and 126 R7) is worked very well on XP on my laptop, I3 2450M/4G RAM/500G HDD

You can;t compare I3 2450M with his weakest hardware, namely dual-core without hyperthreading or Intel Atom processors.