XPerceniol Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) On 1/9/2022 at 7:33 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said: Yep, we got it figured out. As for your learning curve, I only use five extensions and three of them can fix Digital Spy fonts all by itself. 1) Easiest -- NoScript -- block fonts on gstatic.com 2) Medium difficulty -- Stylus -- unset body font-family 3) Hardest -- Tampermonkey -- replace "libre franklin" font-family with any font of your preference Wanted to thank you ... I have blocked: 0.0.0.0 csi.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 accounts.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 fonts.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 mail.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 maps.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com 0.0.0.0 encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com I've removed Franklin Gothic (2 fonts) and am doing fine without them totally gone with no replacement. This has has made a HUGE difference in browsing. EDIT: Please do not mess with gstatic other than csi and fonts - I ran into trouble today until I reset my entire connection. I made google VERY angry. https://yoodley.com/gstatic-meaning/ https://www.thewindowsclub.com/what-is-gstatic-com-used-for-all-you-need-to-know I feel disgusted that we can not rid ourselves of evil google. Edited January 12, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) Plus they have links to older versions. Edit: crx4chrome.com I mean. Edited January 11, 2022 by UCyborg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Yes indeed, I have sometimes had to revert to older versions because updates don't actually work any more with the browser. I've done that on Firefox a few times, one recent update was to the Avast Online Security extension, which updated and no longer worked in Firefox 52.9 ESR, even though the extensions page for it said that it should do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, XPerceniol said: This has has made a HUGE difference in browsing. Cool. I used to go the route of emailing the web master on web sites that worked perfectly in one browser but looked terrible in another browser. I stopped doing that because I got sick and tired of the "answer" ALWAYS being "switch to Firefox". Rates right up there with "use Linux" as far as a totally USELESS "answer". Edited January 11, 2022 by NotHereToPlayGames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) 48 minutes ago, XPerceniol said: I've removed Franklin Gothic (2 fonts) and am doing fine without them totally gone with no replacement. "Libre Franklin" (the font used on Digital Spy) and "Franklin Gothic" (default font installed with XP) are not the same thing. "Libre Franklin" is an 'interpretation and expansion of the classic Franklin Gothic typeface'. I guarantee you that 100% of the time that you encounter a problematic font (which, yes, does happen more in Chromium browsers than in Mozilla browsers), it's because that font does NOT EXIST in your Windows \ Fonts directory. Rather, that font is being "fetched" (from gstatic.com in the case of Digital Spy) by the web browser and used only for the web page being rendered (it is not being "installed" into Windows \ Fonts directory). Edited January 11, 2022 by NotHereToPlayGames 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Here's a good guide on what fonts are safe to remove in XP - https://forums.techguy.org/threads/which-fonts-can-i-remove.211371/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) Thank you EDIT: Quick queston ... are we keeping these flags at the defaults in v11? #disable-direct-write #enable-font-cache-scaling Edited January 11, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 I disable DirectWrite (default is enabled). I have not experimented with FontCache scaling and still have it set to default - have you experimented with FontCache scaling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) Technically, the DirectWrite setting should only come into play if you use the same exact profile on Win7 or higher (unsure on Vista). This setting should not have any effect in XP. Edited January 11, 2022 by NotHereToPlayGames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 5 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: I disable DirectWrite (default is enabled). I have not experimented with FontCache scaling and still have it set to default - have you experimented with FontCache scaling? Thanks again and will disable it. I'm going to disable FontCache and roll with that today and let you know what happenes. Sorry to report this, but the text vanashing issue is still there in v11 and has already happend 2 times this morning on two other forum not computer ralted ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 2 hours ago, XPerceniol said: the text vanashing issue is still there in v11 Yeah, I've not been able to find a root cause for this. The recent update was for other minor issues but still nothing for the vanishing text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Updated download for v12 in first post. Hard-coding out some default search engines (which do not appear unless you use your own "Web Data" [this file contains profile settings, not telemetry, so should not be deleted as a means towards preventing telemetry] file or your file somehow becomes corrupted [or you deleted it thinking it contained telemetry]) is still in-process and did not make it into this update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 2 hours ago, XPerceniol said: the text vanashing issue is still there in v11 I disable Accelerated 2D canvas on my local profile (it is not disabled in the uploaded version) and this seems to greatly reduce the number of times that my text vanishes. I still get the vanishing text, just not nearly as often. Mileage may vary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Yes. I read that in a posting a while back and disabled 2d canvas. I have 3d set to its default which is enabled (even though I don't play 3d games), and pixel canvas recording to its default, I'm not sure if that should be enabled or disabled or left alone? Not sure of its status at default. I hope you'll keep looking and will discover the cause. 3D software rasterizer Fall back to a 3D software rasterizer when the GPU cannot be used. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android #disable-software-rasterizer Enable pixel canvas recording Pixel canvas recording allows the compositor to raster contents aligned with the pixel and improves text rendering. This should be enabled when a device is using fractional scale factor. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS #enable-pixel-canvas-recording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) LCD text antialiasing If disabled, text is rendered with grayscale antialiasing instead of LCD (subpixel) when doing accelerated compositing. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS #lcd-text-aa Also have this set to default and not sure of its status (enabled or disabled) Not sure about this either. Edited January 11, 2022 by XPerceniol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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