Advanced Chrome

Alex654

Then why there is nothing in your patch connected with gamma? I just don't know what to change... Also, wasn't GDI support removed in version 22 completely from Chromium sources when the text became blurry for the first time?

Alex654

360 Extreme Explorer works great, it is a Chinese browser made upon newer versions of Chromium. So there is already at least one solution.
Sadly, it is not open source and is sending some usage statistics data to China.

Alex654

Any progress here? Will be good to have some newer Chromium version backported

Alex654

Hello, Could you please provide the changes in code that make the text look better (which is described on this page: https://browser.taokaizen.com/chrome-directwrite/)? I want to compile the patched version myself (based on sources of v49), compare binaries with the official build, find the differen...

Alex654

If you need some extension much, I can try to backport it to ES5 (because I know JS quite well).

Alex654

Checked this out. Sorry, I don't like it. It's some strange hybrid. Basic Chrome on Windows 7 with new shape is better for me (just needs some good color theme from the Chrome store).

Alex654

Very nice job! Hope one day it will really work on XP. Did you already cooperate with Advanced Chrome author about compatibility fixes that he made in order to restore NT 5.1 kernel support in Custom build? Maybe I can also provide some help?

Alex654

rasie1 wrote: > It works except for a few pages with incorrect text representation > amazingly well. Could you please make a screenshot of a web page? I'm insterested if I am the only one experiencing these issues with kerning. As for DevTools font it looks ugly on Windows 7 in the latest Chrome bui...

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docR wrote: > I was cool with it up til about a year ago, but after > that it just started to fall apart. I don't see anything falling apart. As for browsers I'm using Chrome 45 and Firefox 52.9 ESR on a daily basis (sometimes I have to switch to Chrome 49 or New Moon 27.9.6). For me XP is still the...

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I have tested the latest beta that I found on that page (and it is not V 5.3.8.300, but V 5.2.7.2300 for me, it is the max version that I see using Chrome 45 on Windows XP). Works fine, but the text looks not very good - as in basic Chrome (not Advanced Chrome, where the antialiased text looks much ...

Alex654

Wow, that's really cool! Will try it out. But nevertheless I prefer most of all alternatives a Chromium build with minimal changes to the UI, DevTools and such things (New Moon builds 27.9.x and 28.4.x with Gecko/Tycho/UXP engine are OK, but some things don't work there as they should). So I still h...

Alex654

Heh, I see now. But we really need version 49 because of ES6 support, especially for const/let keywords outside of strict mode. Any ideas how to make a hybrid of 48's incognito screen (and maybe overall UI design) and 49's V8 and Blink engines?

Alex654

> around 400 files to remove all stuff not compatible with XP

That's a huge amount of work. Though I think 60-70% of that can be simply cut out (some features that are used very seldom by people).

Alex654

>you will have to remove all of them Or implement them using Win XP kernel functions (emulate). Some people make patched kernels for Win 2K/XP, as you might know, so it is possible, though really hard. In fact I think the problem is not the sandbox (it can be disabled completely somewhere in source ...

Alex654

Guys, why do you all mention 48, when the correct version to work with is in fact 49?..

Alex654

> replacing the sandbox model of newer chrome to an unsafe way for XP won't be easy

Why the new sandbox cannot be run on XP under any circumstances? Maybe it may be ported?

>and probably will introduce many vulnerabilities

Many users as I just don't care

Alex654

> so might give problems with runhooks

What are runhooks anyway? Git hooks?

And if you are right, how do other people build older versions of Chromium based on Chromium 49 (Steam and Yandex Browser use it on Win XP, also Opera and Maxthon do)?

Alex654

> find a way to run gclient without updating itself to latest version You are wrong somewhere I think. I can download and run gclient, then it will fetch the latest revision of source code, but then I can pull the right version from their Git repository using Git command line. It should work, I made...

Alex654

admin wrote: > It is because you were on vmware fonts won't display properly I suppose that's not the reason, really. 1. I was looking at the text on notebooks with Windows 8.1 in stores, for example when I was buying myself a new monitor in November 2014. Didn't like the text appearance. Yes, it wa...

Alex654

> Have you tried v74.0.3840.0? I didn't like the google tab shape of v70+ and improved it, you might like it.
I'll check it out, thanks

Alex654

> That means that you need to update the hole thing to be able to build, you asked earlier about why is difficult Oh, I see the problem. > now try porting code between the dates they upgrade Visual Studio Here didn't get it quite well. You should get the latest code before applying patches and build...

Alex654

OK, do you have the right environment? My machine is not very powerful, but I can try to do it. And of course your patches should be applied to source code of v49 in the first place.

Alex654

admin wrote: > Will be better to build latest version 72 and make it compatible with XP, > many have tried... It seems to me it is nearly impossible - as you say the underlying NT 5.1 support was completely removed to version 54-56 or so. It would be nice to have more "modern" Chromium on XP (by the...

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> For ubuntu you can try: > System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts and make sure "Subpixel > smoothing (LCD)" is selected, then press "Details" then choose > "Full" under Hinting. I did this. It looks worse than ClearType on WinXP anyway. Also, I was using lower resolution than my physical displa...

Alex654

Thanks for detailed answer. Anyway, is it possible to build a version based on Chromium v49? Or it already uses ninja? Also, why do the switch to ninja make compiling the code by people other than Chromium developers difficult/impossible?

Alex654

admin wrote: > I like to play PC games so having XP makes no sense. Then I get your point :) Thanks for the commands, also. Though as for me - it seems that network speed is higher both on Windows 7 x86 and Windows 7 x64 than on Win XP (roughly about 13-18%). I read somewhere long ago it is because ...

Alex654

> and soon chrome v49 won't even load a webpage No, no, I'm not about this. I'm currently running version 45 and it is OK on 90% sites (even no warnings in console). 49 runs 95-97% sites fine. I'm just curious - maybe I was mistaken and build 54 was made on the base of Chromium 48, not 49. But if th...

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I guess you can save something, but it won't play since it is encrypted. So it is the build-in plugin that decodes the buffer before sending data to the decoder (and then it plays normally either via Flash or HTML5)? Clever, I think it is a reasonable idea to prevent saving of content (even though o...

Alex654

I can do. Post the site URL where this can be done please

Alex654

Good morning, I noticed that sites that work fine in Chrome 49 (which supports using let and const outside Strict Mode), don't work for me in Custom Build version 54. You wrote on this forum that Custom Build 54 is based on parts of Chrome 49, 50, 52 and 54. Then why does it not compile JS code that...

Alex654

admin wrote: > I wonder why people still use XP when fedora, mint and ubuntu will work > much better on older hardware. > XP is no longer good for games, no longer good for multimedia, maybe people > is afraid of linux but is as simple as burning the iso and install, then > download libre office, ko...

Alex654

Sorry for offtopic, could someone explain how Widevine and another DRM solutions work? Or post a link where I can read about this in more detail. I mean, you pay the online store when you buy some content (for example, you buy access via subscription). Now the server can identify you via cookies and...

Alex654

admin wrote:
> Google devs changed compiler settings and they seem to only look forward so
> they don't care about breaking older builds.

Is there a way to get around this? Maybe use older compiler settings? The code of version 54 is the same, I can't get the idea of the problem

Alex654

>given that non XP users are all moving to Chrome But why? In my opinion - maybe besides the DevTools which are better in Chrome (hmm, at least they were better until versions 46-48) - Mozilla Firefox is way better. It is faster, the text (especially after some advanced tuning) looks MUCH better the...

Alex654

+1 about ECC certs

Would be awesome to have it.

Alex654

And if you wish, you can also post some instructions on how to patch standard Chrome/Chromium to change that default color for Win XP (it is a horizontal linear gradient, actually). Because I would be glad also to patch my Chrome 45 myself to change it. It seems like a bug that these windows always ...

Alex654

Hello again, I was playing with some stuff recently and suddenly I realised that in Chrome (at least on Win XP, at least on versions that were released before the redesign of the main window in MD fashion) the themes are not changing any windows' color except the main window! For example, Dev Tools ...

Alex654

>actually google sends different javascript depending on user agent At least it's working, thanks for that :) The same is actual for YouTube. >Versions 42 to 52 are buggy I'm using 45 and don't see any bugs. Well, except for some strange system halts (without even BSOD) when trying to close Chrome w...

Alex654

No, the problem is not the scripts themselves. It is the browser. It's something with the browser itself, I think (at least when it comes to opening a folder with a large number of photos to save a picture,this operation somehow is slower on newer versions). The loading of pictures itself on a clean...

Alex654

Hi again, I made some kind of researh on my own (though it is very subjective and not accurate at all), and I feel that Chromium as a browser is performing slower and slower with every next version. For example (tested on Windows XP), version 45 is much faster than 47 (it is noticable when doing AJA...

Alex654

Thanks for the reply! I have checked, and unfortunately it seems that you are not right. I used emulation mode with user-agent spoofing (built-in feature), and just changed "NT 5.1" to "NT 6.1", and it worked like a charm. So it's the fault of YouTube and their JS code. Really it's such a shame that...

Alex654

Hello admin, Thanks for your job, the browser works like a charm. I have had only one issue when I tried to instal extensions frome Chrome Web Store (the browser askes an additional confirmation in yellow in the bottom pane, which is not happening in official Chrome). But one thing disappoints me: I...

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