Supermium

[VistaLover]

49 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Will Thorium do the same?  No clue,

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... thanks to @win32ss for making the original patchset for Win7 that this is based off of, and for his work making progwrp.dll, without which, bringing XP support to Thorium would not have been possible.

... I haven't yet tried this on my Vista SP2 x86 machine, but my "gut feeling" (sorry NHTPG  ) is that, since the XP/Vista enabling "plumbing" is the same as the one in Supermium, Thorium "legacy" should be, for most intents and purposes, behaving on XP SP3 like Supermium currently does, just that it has a different branding/icon ; I do hope I'll be proven wrong  ...

Edited April 11 by VistaLover

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I agree.  

My gut feeling is that neither is ready for prime time  --  yet . . .

[Dave-H]

Not having a lot of luck with Superium 122.

I'm just getting this all the time.

All the extensions are crashing and then closing, and no web pages will load.
Anyone any ideas?

[Dave-H]

I've also now tried Thorium 122, and that works, albeit not using my Supermium profile.
As far as I can see, it's superficially identical to Supermium as far as the GUI is concerned, just with 'Supermium' replaced with 'Thorium' in the text!
Unless it's got worthwhile changes under the bonnet compared with Superium, I can see no compelling reason to use it instead of Superium.
Now back with Superium 121.
Can anyone report Superium 122 working for them on XP 32 bit?

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, Dave-H said:

Anyone any ideas?

1. Make sure you have the latest version of progwrp.dll (v1.1.0.1), the one that comes with v122
2. Looks like a pref/profile corruption to me ; something inside your previous (Sm121) profile doesn't go down well with v122 of the browser... You can always back-up your existing profile and attempt to launch Sm122 with a pristine new profile - if the fresh profile behaves normally (e.g. loads fine websites), then you'll be sure that what you're facing now isn't H/W related, but attributed to your migrated Sm profile from v121...
3. Launch your existing profile (migrated from Sm121) but, if possible, disable first ALL already installed extensions (implies you have access and control over "chrome://extensions/" ) - relaunch and check how it goes from there; if it was one of the extensions the culprit, then start enabling extensions one-by-one to find the one misbehaving in Sm122...
4. Provided you have access to "chrome://flags" in Sm122, click "Reset all" (top bar, right button) and relaunch; see how you fare...

Imported bookmarks/history/saved account credentials shouldn't be affected by 3 or 4... NB: In the off-chance you have ProxHTTPSProxy configured system-wide, please disable it!

Edit: 

5. If you're launching Sm122 with custom cmdline flags (Windows shortcut to chrome.exe + various cmd flags), make sure you're not issuing any flag rendered incompatible with Sm122;
6. Revisit the v122 and v122-hf release notes, in case you come up with something else yourself  ...

Edited April 11 by VistaLover

[Dixel]

3 hours ago, Dave-H said:

I've also now tried Thorium 122, and that works, albeit not using my Supermium profile.
As far as I can see, it's superficially identical to Supermium as far as the GUI is concerned, just with 'Supermium' replaced with 'Thorium' in the text!
Unless it's got worthwhile changes under the bonnet compared with Superium, I can see no compelling reason to use it instead of Superium.
Now back with Superium 121.
Can anyone report Superium 122 working for them on XP 32 bit?

Dave, be on your guard with that "Thorium". Recently, there was a scandal with the author of "Thorium," something involving child abuse, and the files were inside that browser. The author had to acknowledge and came out with with a confession, all that after numerous attempts of denying it. I shan't post links, I don't want to get MSFN involved in that drama. And who knows what else is stuffed in that browser! All is easily googleable.

[Saxon]

3 hours ago, Dave-H said:

I've also now tried Thorium

Delete it ASAP! Erase the HDD with at least two passes! From what many people already wrote, they somehow discovered highly illegal content on their PC. Laws in UK are very strict when it comes to children.

Is it true? Looks like it! Why would they all lie? No smoke without a fire. I wouldn't want to check it out myself. It may involve troubles with the police.

I'll give only one (*very soft) link from Reddit testers. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18ihls8/dont_use_thorium_browser_if_you_have_it_installed/

[66cats]

18 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Is it true?

Nah, just interweb drama. 

20 minutes ago, Saxon said:

highly illegal content on their PC

[Cartoon] furry pron is illegal in UK? The dev left a furry pron Easter egg (long since removed).

[Saxon]

3 hours ago, 66cats said:

Nah, just interweb drama. 

[Cartoon] furry pron is illegal in UK? The dev left a furry pron Easter egg (long since removed).

No, it was "explicit", there was an official investigation on github, with the help of their users community.

"Anti-Circumcision (sexuallymutilatedchild) pages with documentary images were found in Thorium author page source code repository. They have been removed from the main branch with commit 15f9d5bd9a50f85f0019ec9bcc2d4183f868a6b5. This is exactly what the community has decided to mark as the child pornography distribution."

"In the same source repo from above, a small collection of "hidden" furry pornography (soft and explicit) was also found"

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18ihls8/dont_use_thorium_browser_if_you_have_it_installed/

[Saxon]

3 hours ago, 66cats said:

(long since removed).

I wouldn't risk my computer with the officially proven to be compromised browser. In the comments they wrote many other nasty things it does, in addition to what already been found, but of course, everyone decides for himself.

The Reddit community advises to delete it. Are the just stupid? I don't think so.

 

[66cats]

Just now, Saxon said:

No, it was "explicit",

"Explicit" as in showing [cartoon] genitalia? Horrifying...

 

4 minutes ago, Saxon said:

Anti-Circumcision (sexuallymutilatedchild) pages with documentary images

The dev has stolen my dreams and my childhood; my innocence is gone! Yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying

[Dave-H]

OK, that's enough about this guys!

I wasn't going to use Thorium anyway, and I've cleaned my system of all references to it.

Anyway, back on topic, I will do some more tests with Supermium 122 to see if I can pin down why it doesn't want to run properly on my system
It could indeed well be something in my user profile, but I hope it's something which can be fixed, as I've no intention of building the whole profile from scratch again!

 

[XPerceniol]

Yeah, I don't know, Dave, must be something in the profile because I'm running it and I don't get that page "Can't open this page" .... so I wonder what extensions you are using that seem for you to work in Supermium 122 and 260 Chrome ... I hope we can get to the bottom of this.122 is better for me, but still on my system with 3GB of RAM and a Pentium D I can't go too far with it without running into slow browsing. I've had to learn to be very patient with it.

Edited April 12 by XPerceniol

[Dixel]

4 hours ago, XPerceniol said:

Yeah, I don't know, Dave, must be something in the profile because I'm running it and I don't get that page "Can't open this page" ....

Same for me, probably needs to make sure whether the portable flags are on.

--disable-encryption

--disable-machine-id

some versions use --disable-encryption-win

[Karla Sleutel]

3 hours ago, Dixel said:

Same for me, probably needs to make sure whether the portable flags are on.

--disable-encryption

--disable-machine-id

some versions use --disable-encryption-win

For Ungoogled:

--disable-encryption

--disable-machine-id

For Brave

--disable-machine-id

--disable-encryption-win

For Supermium, the first one, in theory.

Back up your profile first!