Polyfill: What's all this, then?

[D.Draker]

5 hours ago, Dixel said:

At least, it's less of a bother with polyfilling.

I have a rule of updating my browser in about a year, maybe a bit over a year. 15-16 versions is the maximum where it needs to be thrown away.

Just polyfilling simply isn't enough. 

[Mathwiz]

On 6/27/2024 at 1:46 PM, UCyborg said:

You can always go with standard Google Chrome with auto-update, then it will just work.

I couldn't resist (cue basso profundo voice with reverb):

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Web browsing as you have known it is over.

You will be assimilated into the Goog.....

Resistance is futile....

16 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

110 is where gradual/experimental sandbox "enhancements/improvements" set in.

I personally consider 110 an "alpha release".

Though with the high-paced rollout of new versions, one could easily argue that EVERYTHING is CONSTANT ALPHA.

110 is also the first version to require Win 10. Probably not a coincidence.

[Dixel]

On 6/28/2024 at 9:42 PM, Mathwiz said:

110 is also the first version to require Win 10. Probably not a coincidence.

I think you confuse 110 with 120. 110 works on Vista pretty well, and that only with API redirects/stubs.

Starting 111 is only where they began to fiddle/mess with memory functioning and Dwrite.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, Dixel said:

I think you confuse 110 with 120.

Nope.  110 was very much an experimental release.  You'd have to read the "whatsnew" blogs beginning with the disappointment with 109 for everything that was delayed to be included as a first with 110.

It's like buying a remodeled model of a car - never buy that "first year" because it will spend a lot of time in the repair shop (under warranty but still a nuisance to your day).

[Dixel]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Nope.  110 was very much an experimental release.  You'd have to read the "whatsnew" blogs beginning with the disappointment with 109 for everything that was delayed to be included as a first with 110.

I don't care what they write about user serviceable parts of Chrome. Under the bonnet, it was the same ol' Chrome. In 111 they made drastic changes, so it wasn't possible to run it even with Ex-kernel (vista and 7, both).

That was one of the reasons for starting Supermium, as per win32's words.

 

[Dixel]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

It's like buying a remodeled model of a car - never buy that "first year" because it will spend a lot of time in the repair shop (under warranty but still a nuisance to your day).

 I have an opposite experience, on later batches they always cheap out on parts. The same goes for hardware and games. v1.0 is the golden standard, at least it was, until they started to use free workers everywhere.

[Mathwiz]

3 hours ago, Dixel said:

110 works on Vista pretty well, and that only with API redirects/stubs.

C'mon; I meant Chrome 110 requires Win 10 OOTB and you know that. 99% of Chrome users wouldn't know how to redirect or stub a Windows API if their lives depended on it. Even Win 7 users turn to Supermium/Thorium where that work has already been done for them.

Why do people have to be so argumentative?

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, Mathwiz said:

C'mon; I meant Chrome 110 requires Win 10 OOTB and you know that. 99% of Chrome users wouldn't know how to redirect or stub a Windows API if their lives depended on it. Even Win 7 users turn to Supermium/Thorium where that work has already been done for them.

Why do people have to be so argumentative?

I started the talk about Chrome 110, and @Dixel wrote what you see as "argument" in the context of @NotHereToPlayGames, who is a repacker/modder, is he not? 

[Dixel]

12 hours ago, Mathwiz said:

C'mon; I meant Chrome 110 requires Win 10 OOTB and you know that. 99% of Chrome users wouldn't know how to redirect or stub a Windows API if their lives depended on it. Even Win 7 users turn to Supermium/Thorium where that work has already been done for them.

Why do people have to be so argumentative?

I know, but it was a purely personal suggestion to that specific user, what does it have to do with "99% of Chrome users"?

There was no "argument", until you abruptly intervened our pleasant conversation with such baseless accusations.

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