The possibility of running modern Chrome, Brave and Ungoogled on Win Vista 64bit with Manifest V2 using tricks.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 6/29/2025 at 6:32 PM, mjd79 said:

The first builds of Chromium 140 are available. As expected, flags have been removed and the policies entry in the registry no longer works. But after adding --enable-features=AllowLegacyMV2Extensions --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2DeprecationWarning,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled,ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported to the MV2 shortcut it still works. We will see for how long, as these are very early compilations.

That is Chromium for Windows 7 by e3kskoy7wqk*

Did you try to launch it on Vista with SM files? See if MV2 will also be supported?

[mjd79]

20 hours ago, Karla Sleutel said:

Did you try to launch it on Vista with SM files? See if MV2 will also be supported?

I used kernel33 from extended kernel and advapi32, ole32, shell32, user32 wrappers from Supermium 132.

As you can see, for example, ublock works.

I didn't need a platform upgrade or an extended kernel installation for this  

[Karla Sleutel]

13 hours ago, mjd79 said:

kernel33 from extended kernel and advapi32, ole32, shell32, user32 wrappers

 

[Karla Sleutel]

Then I saw an old advice from D.Draker and replaced it with just NtOpenKey. Now I get this.

[Karla Sleutel]

Then I deleted the Supermium wrapper NdDll, and without it I now see NO missing dependencies, but no start nevertheless.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 6/30/2025 at 10:12 AM, mjd79 said:

advapi32 from Supermium 132.

Supermium's advapi misses this api. How do you run it, then?