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- Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Source code patch for enabling contrast text on Win XP?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 704
Re: Source code patch for enabling contrast text on Win XP?
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?
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Willing to share XP patches for Chrome 76
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10832
Re: Willing to share XP patches for Chrome 76
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.
Sadly, it is not open source and is sending some usage statistics data to China.
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Willing to share XP patches for Chrome 76
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10832
Re: Willing to share XP patches for Chrome 76
Any progress here? Will be good to have some newer Chromium version backported 

- Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Source code patch for enabling contrast text on Win XP?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 704
Source code patch for enabling contrast text on Win XP?
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...
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is there an archive of older Advanced Chrome builds?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6896
Re: Is there an archive of older Advanced Chrome builds?
If you need some extension much, I can try to backport it to ES5 (because I know JS quite well).
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12738
Re: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
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).
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is there a way to port the old non-material design to newer versions of Chrome?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9547
Re: Is there a way to port the old non-material design to newer versions of Chrome?
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? 

- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maxthon Browser for XP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9074
Re: Maxthon Browser for XP
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...
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maxthon Browser for XP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9074
Re: Maxthon Browser for XP
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maxthon Browser for XP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9074
Re: Maxthon Browser for XP
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 ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 5:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maxthon Browser for XP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9074
Re: Maxthon Browser for XP
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm curious about something
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8634
Re: I'm curious about something
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?
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
> 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).
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).
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
>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 ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm curious about something
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8634
Re: I'm curious about something
Guys, why do you all mention 48, when the correct version to work with is in fact 49?.. 

- Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
> 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
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

- Mon Apr 01, 2019 8:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
> 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)?
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)?
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
> 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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12738
Re: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
> 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
I'll check it out, thanks

- Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
> 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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
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.
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12738
Re: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
> 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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
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?
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
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 ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Re: Some strange JavaScript bug
> 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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Advanced Chrome Custom Build and newer Widevine plugins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12704
Re: Advanced Chrome Custom Build and newer Widevine plugins
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Trojan detected in Advanced Chrome 54.20.6530.0
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11762
Re: Trojan detected in Advanced Chrome 54.20.6530.0
I can do. Post the site URL where this can be done please 

- Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some strange JavaScript bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21718
Some strange JavaScript bug
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
- Replies: 23
- Views: 38330
Re: Help with compiling Chromium from 2015
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Advanced Chrome Custom Build and newer Widevine plugins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12704
Re: Advanced Chrome Custom Build and newer Widevine plugins
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12738
Re: Material Design porting to Advanced Chrome 54?
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
> 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

- Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New versions updates
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26401
Re: New versions updates
>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...
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New versions updates
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26401
Re: New versions updates
+1 about ECC certs 
Would be awesome to have it.

Would be awesome to have it.
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A feature request
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3503
Re: A feature request
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 ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A feature request
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3503
A feature request
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 ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speed of newer builds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14325
Re: Speed of newer builds
>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...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speed of newer builds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14325
Re: Speed of newer builds
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...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Speed of newer builds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14325
Speed of newer builds
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: VP9 support
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9452
Re: VP9 support
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...
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: VP9 support
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9452
VP9 support
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...