Chrome on Windows 8.1

[Jaguarek62]

I know that we have supermium browser and that it works flawlessly, I myself use it on daily basis, but I was bored the other day and discovered, that the newest chrome works on Windows "10" 9888, so how hard is it really to fix it for 8.1?

[upadi]

i did a little try with ungoogled chrome 128.0 and chrome 130.0 by blaukovith both have good cpu/ram memory usage, but was imposible to use UBO. Same situation with current catsxp 131.0. Edited December 7, 2024 by upadi

[NotHereToPlayGames]

6 hours ago, upadi said:

ungoogled chrome 128.0 and chrome 130.0 by blaukovith

Cool!  I was unaware of these forks.  Will be trying the ungoogled 128 over the weekend.  Thanks!

[D.Draker]

14 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Cool!  I was unaware of these forks.  Will be trying the ungoogled 128 over the weekend.  Thanks!

Without uBo?

[D.Draker]

20 hours ago, upadi said:

i did a little try with ungoogled chrome 128.0 and chrome 130.0 by blaukovith both have good cpu/ram memory usage, but was imposible to use UBO. Same situation with current catsxp 131.0.

Any? V2/V3 manifest doesn't matter?

[D.Draker]

15 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Cool!  I was unaware of these forks.  Will be trying the ungoogled 128 over the weekend.  Thanks!

Why? Last time I heard, you never used 8, and for 10 they aren't needed at all. Just an unnecessary security risk.

[D.Draker]

21 hours ago, upadi said:

Same situation with current catsxp 131.0

Does the internal CatsXP blocker work?

[D.Draker]

On 12/6/2024 at 6:38 PM, Jaguarek62 said:

I know that we have supermium browser and that it works flawlessly, I myself use it on daily basis, but I was bored the other day and discovered, that the newest chrome works on Windows "10" 9888, so how hard is it really to fix it for 8.1?

From a quick look, the main problem is dwrite.dll. Dependencies could be subbed, but's in not all.

[D.Draker]

21 hours ago, upadi said:

i did a little try with ungoogled chrome 128.0 and chrome 130.0 by blaukovith both have good cpu/ram memory usage,

I dunno, I just checked, and they write:

"x64 still affected by VirtualAlloc (HUGE MEMORY) serious bug. Run x64 if you have 8 Gb or above RAM."

[D.Draker]

15 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Will be trying the ungoogled 128

"running the 32-Bit version (as no 64-Bit version has been provided yet) without the --no-sandbox flag results in an app crash on startup."

 --no-sandbox flag results in an unnecessary security risk.

[Klemper]

On 12/6/2024 at 11:38 PM, Jaguarek62 said:

I know that we have supermium browser and that it works flawlessly, I myself use it on daily basis, but I was bored the other day and discovered, that the newest chrome works on Windows "10" 9888, so how hard is it really to fix it for 8.1?

From what is already known, many extensions will not function anyways. There's a sophisticated OS version check, blaukovitzch writes he removed it, but it's not true.

Most of my extensions simply won't load. Like it was before, if you remember, in 2021.

[Klemper]

 

I dunno, I just checked, and they write:

"x64 still affected by VirtualAlloc (HUGE MEMORY) serious bug. Run x64 if you have 8 Gb or above RAM."

Yes, I already tried Blaukovish's Opera, as a Win8 user, it worked awfully. 16GB page file was always full, RAM up to 14GB.

[Jaguarek62]

23 minutes ago, Klemper said:

Most of my extensions simply won't load. Like it was before, if you remember, in 2021.

I don't know, I got ublock origin working in chrome 114 on windows 8.1 as that is the last chrome version I'm able to run. on windows 10 9888 all extensions work just fine

[NotHereToPlayGames]

18 hours ago, upadi said:

ungoogled chrome 128.0 and chrome 130.0 by blaukovith

Blaukovith's ungoogled 128 would not launch for me.

And not that it's really anyone's business (you know who you are), I need UNGOOGLED anything newer than v122 because as I have said over and over here at MSFN, for SOME REASON, cannot track down the exacts, but my bank works ONLY with UNGOOGLED v122, v123, and v124.  NOTHING older.  NOTHING newer.  Same bank is reported on Brave Browser forums also.  Regular Chrome works, but have no interest in Regular Chrome.  Regular Firefox works, but have no interest in Regular Firefox.

If something UNGOOGLED comes along that is NEWER than v122, v123, or v124 and WORKS FOR MY BANK, then quite frankly, why should I "care" if it was written for XP, or 7, or Vista, or 8 ???

Edited December 7, 2024 by NotHereToPlayGames

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

why should I "care"

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186586-chrome-on-windows-81/#findComment-1275497