Thorium

[AstroSkipper]

4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

For me, using --no-sandbox helps to solve it, but I don't want to run without sandbox. So using these browsers is currently on hold. Also, due to the brightness issue.

For security reasons, I do not use the --no-sandbox flag, either.

[AstroSkipper]

4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

I too have this issue related to USB in both. Any simple USB stick is not detected when one of either browsers is opened. 2009 motherboard. USB 2.0.

The last weeks, I have permanently attached an USB 2.0 hard disk to my Windows XP computer while using Thorium. It is shown correctly connected and functional. I will test connecting USB sticks the next time when I am back at my desktop machine. 

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

The last weeks, I have permanently attached an USB 2.0 hard disk to my Windows XP computer while using Thorium. It is shown correctly connected and functional. I will test connecting USB sticks the next time when I am back at my desktop machine. 

Yes, when USB device was attached before, it works, it doesn't work if I attach when the browser was already opened.

[AstroSkipper]

5 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Yes, when USB device was attached before, it works, it doesn't work if I attach when the browser was already opened.

Ok. So far, I didn't attach a USB device while Thorium is running but I will do so the next time. 

Edited May 28, 2024 by AstroSkipper
correction

[D.Draker]

2 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Ok. So far, I didn't attach an USB device while Thorium is running but I will do so the next time. 

Thanks, I tried with an old Kingston USB flash 32GB (2013 year or so).

[AstroSkipper]

1 hour ago, D.Draker said:

Yes, when USB device was attached before, it works, it doesn't work if I attach when the browser was already opened.

 

57 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

59 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

Ok. So far, I didn't attach an USB device while Thorium is running but I will do so the next time. 

Thanks, I tried with an old Kingston USB flash 32GB (2013 year or so).

I attached a Medion USB 32 GB stick to my machine while Thorium was running. No problems here.  Attaching and removing the stick works as it should. Thus, I can't see any issues in my system. Maybe, it depends on the USB chip that is used. I had a lot of problems with the VIA chip in the past.  I replaced my USB card one or two years ago by one with a NEC chip. No connection errors anymore.  The NEC chip is very stable and simply great.

Edited May 28, 2024 by AstroSkipper

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

 

I attached a Medion USB 32 GB stick to my machine while Thorium was running. No problems here.  Attaching and removing the stick works as it should. Thus, I can't see any issues in my system. Maybe, it depends on the USB chip that is used. I had a lot of problems with the VIA chip in the past.  I replaced my USB card one or two years ago by one with a NEC chip. No connection errors anymore.  The NEC chip is very stable and simply great.

Thanks, I have a standard Intel USB device (the one that was built in). No USB addon cards.

 Workstation CELSIUS W280

Systemboard D2912-A1x

Personal Computer ESPRIMO P9900

https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/Search/SWP1081232.asp

[AstroSkipper]

52 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Thanks, I have a standard Intel USB device (the one that was built in). No USB addon cards.

 Workstation CELSIUS W280

Systemboard D2912-A1x

Personal Computer ESPRIMO P9900

https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/Search/SWP1081232.asp

Thanks for providing your hardware specs! My on-board connectors are still USB 1.1 ports due to the age of the motherboard which was manufactured in 2000.  Therefore, I had to retrofit USB 2.0. Since I have installed the expansion card from Exsys with the NEC chip, everything that has to do with USB runs like clockwork. And Thorium doesn't seem to have a problem with this chip, either. 

PS: By the way, it was rather a stroke of luck that I was still able to purchase this card via eBay classifieds. The Exsys USB 2.0 PCI card is more of a Mercedes among USB expansion cards and can no longer be purchased officially.

Edited May 28, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[Dave-H]

14 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Which version of the Chrome XP API Adapter do you use for Thorium?  The most recent one is 1.2.0.5057.

I've now updated it to the 1.2.0.5055 version of progwrp.dll and the 1.2.0.5057 version of chrome-xpapi-adapter.dll which now seems to have to be in the same folder.
Early days, but first impressions are that Thorium tabs no longer crash on my netbook, which is great!

[mockingbird]

23 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

I've now updated it to the 1.2.0.5055 version of progwrp.dll and the 1.2.0.5057 version of chrome-xpapi-adapter.dll which now seems to have to be in the same folder.
Early days, but first impressions are that Thorium tabs no longer crash on my netbook, which is great!

Look what came out today:

v1.2.0.5058 (2024.05.28)

[+] XP: Added support for Hardware Accelerated rendering for XP. With it, browser will use less CPU to render pages, and while playing videos.
To use, run it with switches: --use-angle=d3d9 --ignore-gpu-blocklist.
With it, you will see this features in about:gpu for XP, as you see it on NT6+ systems.

Wow!  Time to test this out!

Edited May 28, 2024 by mockingbird

[Dave-H]

Great, but I'll leave things as they are for now as I am about to take my netbook away on holiday, and I want to make sure it's OK for that!
I'll update when I get back.

[AstroSkipper]

1 hour ago, mockingbird said:

Look what came out today:

v1.2.0.5058 (2024.05.28)

[+] XP: Added support for Hardware Accelerated rendering for XP. With it, browser will use less CPU to render pages, and while playing videos.
To use, run it with switches: --use-angle=d3d9 --ignore-gpu-blocklist.
With it, you will see this features in about:gpu for XP, as you see it on NT6+ systems.

Wow!  Time to test this out!

Especially the --ignore-gpu-blocklist flag leads to a disappearance of tool bar icons which belong to the extensions "User Agent Switcher and Manager 0.5.0" and "Window Resizer 2.6.4". I should mention that my my old computer is equipped with a NVIDIA GeForce 6200 graphic card with 256 MB. A very, very old graphic card, of course. Thus, I removed both flags from my installation. In any case, I will have to test this more deeply. Perhaps, other things are also negatively affected. 

Edited May 28, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[hidao]

4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Yes, when USB device was attached before, it works, it doesn't work if I attach when the browser was already opened.

I have never found this problem...

[hidao]

3 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Thanks, I have a standard Intel USB device (the one that was built in). No USB addon cards.

 Workstation CELSIUS W280

Systemboard D2912-A1x

Personal Computer ESPRIMO P9900

https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/Search/SWP1081232.asp

Such old computer...

[AstroSkipper]

1 minute ago, hidao said:

Such old computer...

Not really. My computer is much older, my dear. It is from 2000. And TBH, such comments are not really helpful.