Supermium

[D.Draker]

21 hours ago, hidao said:

Chinese...

you can install some other fonts,maybe it could help you

Thank you for the advice, but no, I don't install custom fonts, otherwise the system would be compromised and prone to more extensive fingerprinting.

What I love in Chinese browsers (Cent, CatsXP), they try to already include most fonts and certificates within them, it's not the case with Supermium, unfortunately.

 

[Klemper]

On 12/24/2024 at 2:44 AM, D.Draker said:

I have zero brightness troubles with Brave, CatsXP, Cent is a bit brighter, but it's tolerable.

I wanted to add my two cents, I also used @D.Draker ported Opera, then Blunovitch ported Opera (not sure if I spelt the surname correctly).

Both were on the normal level of brightness, the fonts were a bit blurry to my taste, but doable.

@D.Draker 's Opera had no memory leak, Blaunovitch's had, both are outdated now. So I tried Supermium.

Using Supermium on a 27inch monitor is a torture, I really wish the creator would intervene.

 

[D.Draker]

12 hours ago, Klemper said:

Using Supermium on a 27inch monitor is a torture, I really wish the creator would intervene.

I wish too, not happening, I just looked at his github, which I hadn't done in a year, it's simply too much to do on the first priority routine, and he's alone.

Get back to me in case you find a good replacement with the normal brightness. Thanks.

[D.Draker]

12 hours ago, Klemper said:

I wanted to add my two cents, I also used @D.Draker ported Opera, then Blunovitch ported Opera (not sure if I spelt the surname correctly).

Both were on the normal level of brightness, the fonts were a bit blurry to my taste, but doable.

@D.Draker 's Opera had no memory leak, Blaunovitch's had, both are outdated now.

I had dropped Opera porting, don't wait, so as Balunovich, as it seems. Why? Opera is simply way over-bloated now, too heavy, versions come out as hot pies.

Probably the reason Supermium will stay at this old version, and only later will skip to 13x.xx, during the next year, as win32 declared at github.

 

[UCyborg]

Chrome Font Super Enhancer makes fonts easier readable for me in typical Chromium. I don't know any other tricks for vanilla Chromium.

I wonder if this could be transplanted to Firefox.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

37 minutes ago, UCyborg said:

Chrome Font Super Enhancer makes fonts easier readable for me in typical Chromium. I don't know any other tricks for vanilla Chromium.

I wonder if this could be transplanted to Firefox.

Piece of cake!  You don't need the extension.  All it does is apply a .css text shadow to all text.  You can do that in any style editor such as Stylus/Stylish/Stylem or even via Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey or even via Firefox's own userChrome.css.

To me, the font enhancer extension is "redundant" if the browser profile is already utilizing something like Stylus/Tampermonkey/etc.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Here's a userscript that does the same thing (applies a text shadow to all text)  --  https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3779-defprefs/code

By using a userscript instead of the font enhancer extension, you have more control over the parameters of the text shadow (and one less extension to load).

 

Edited December 27, 2024 by NotHereToPlayGames

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Here's one that sets font weight minimum to 400.  We have font weights of 200 here at MSFN so the change will be noticeable herein.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32220-set-minimum-font-weight/code

[UCyborg]

Or just turn that extension's content.js into a user script, that also works. I have no need for dark mode, so threw that part of logic out along with Chrome's extensions' storage logic. Text comes out a bit darker than on Pale Moon, but that's OK.

Edited December 27, 2024 by UCyborg

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Out of curiousity, what does your userscript look like?  I tried and it didn't seem to work.  I missed something simple, I suspect.

[UCyborg]

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Font Enhancer
// @namespace     https://github.com/UCyborg
// @description   Improves font contrast. Sourced from Chrome Font Super Enhancer.
// @version       1.0
// @author        UCyborg
// @match         *://*/*
// @grant         none
// ==/UserScript==

'use strict';

var isRunning;

function applyFilter() {
    var AllElem = document.querySelectorAll(':not(script):not(style):not(area):not(base):not(br):not(col):not(embed):not(hr):not(img):not(input):not(keygen):not(link):not(meta):not(param):not(source):not(track):not(wbr):not(table):not(tbody):not(tr):not(ul)');
    for (var i = 0; i < AllElem.length; i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < AllElem[i].childNodes.length; j++) { // cycle through element nodes
            if (AllElem[i].childNodes[j].nodeType === 3 && AllElem[i].childNodes[j].textContent.trim().length > 0) { // is it a text node?
                if (window.getComputedStyle(AllElem[i]).getPropertyValue('text-shadow') == 'none') { // do not run if text-shadow is already present
                    var Col = window.getComputedStyle(AllElem[i]).getPropertyValue('color').replace(/[^\d,.]/g, '').split(','); // text color array (R/G/B/A)

                    if (typeof(Col[3]) == 'undefined' || Col[3].split('.')[0] == '1') { // run if element does not have an alpha channel  already applied
                        var Lum = Math.round(0.2126 * Col[0] + 0.7152 * Col[1] + 0.0722 * Col[2]); // luminosity
                        var Opa = parseFloat(255 * (255 - Lum) / 65025).toFixed(1); // opacity between 0 and 1
                        if (Lum < 128) {
                            Opa = 1;
                        }
                        AllElem[i].style.setProperty('text-shadow','0 0 0px rgba(' + Col[0] + ',' + Col[1] + ',' + Col[2] + ',' + Opa + ')', 'important'); // set text shadow with alpha
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

function waitAndApplyFilter() {
    if (typeof(isRunning) != 'undefined') {
        clearTimeout(isRunning);
    }
    isRunning = setTimeout(applyFilter, 100);
}

const callback = (mutationList, observer) => { // called every time BODY has changed
    for (const mutation of mutationList) {
        if (mutation.type === "childList") {
            waitAndApplyFilter();
        }
    }
};

applyFilter();

// Options for the observer (which mutations to observe)
const config = { attributes: false, childList: true, subtree: true };
// Create an observer instance linked to the callback function
const observer = new MutationObserver(callback);
// Start observing the target node for configured mutations
observer.observe(document.body, config);

Edited January 1 by UCyborg
Must have ;, formatting

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Thanks!  Works like a charm.  Not sure what I did wrong my first trial.  

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Officially added to my arsenal.    This route works hand-in-hand with my other "stuff".

The as-an-extension route was not "playing well" with several userstyles where I intentionally use text shadows to hide input field "placeholders" (things like "Search" inside YouTube's search bar).

Why hide "placeholders"?  Because I employ a routine that automatically enters usernames/passwords but nobody looking over my shoulder (can't prevent at work) can actually "see" the entry.  

[j7n]

Is it possible to set videos to not  play automatically in Supermium like in New Moon? The CPU load of video playing (advertisements playing) makes the rest of the page load longer and unresponsive.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Is it possible?  YES.
Have I tried?  No (I don't "do" videos on computers that cannot handle them, lol).

Try these.  I'd be interested in your findings.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/440872-disable-autoplay
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/8022-disable-audio-video-autoplay

I'm sure that there are others (MANY others), those are just the first two from a quick search.