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Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up
https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/
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Supermium won't start on my Dell Dimension 3000 MT #880

Closed TheSystemGuy1337 closed 2 months ago

TheSystemGuy1337 commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug I suspect that Supermium is incompatible, but I'll throw my hat into the ringer. I tried to install Supermium on my recently acquired Dell Dimension 3000 MT, with a 3 GHz Prescott Pentium 4 and 512 MB of RAM and a 6 GB hard drive running Windows XP. If I try to run it, it will use 6 MB and after a moment simply quit. I tried the classic mode initially, so I tried removing it to see if that would help. No difference.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Start Supermium on my exact configuration

Expected behavior Supermium starts, but will be very slow due to the lack of RAM and having to use the swapfile

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Additional context I tried looking at the debug logs, but it didn't reveal anything useful. Not even a "Out of RAM" error. Just something about a pipe being broken.

Half-Modern commented 2 months ago

If you want to save your mentality, do not attempt to use that browser with such low RAM and a Pentium 4. Maybe XP-compatible Pale Moon forks (New Moon) would help, but I wouldn't expect a good performance since one website will use the most of your memory anyway. If you want to visit Youtube, force to mobile site (https://youtube.com/?app=m) or use alternatives like Invidious. Well, I can provide more help if you tell me what websites you want to visit with that machine.

TheSystemGuy1337 commented 2 months ago

Yeah, I would rather torture myself by trying to run Windows Vista on a 286. Where can I get an XP compatible version of New Moon anyway?

Half-Modern commented 2 months ago

Go to http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/ and download "NM28XP build Win32" one in the news feed.

TheSystemGuy1337 commented 2 months ago

The latest update of Supermium fixed this issue; now it starts up and runs as expected. Very slow, but it does work. Now I can finally torture myself with NetBurst and see it's flaws even more obvious than before! If I dare visit YouTube, please warn me that what I'm about to do will cause my Pentium 4 to achieve nuclear fusion.

Half-Modern commented 2 months ago

If you still want to use Supermium and wanting to watch Youtube videos, I recommend visiting Invidious site as it's a lot lighter than YT. If you visit the regular site, it's enough to make that old poor microprocessor reach sun level temperatures. 😂

TheSystemGuy1337 commented 2 months ago

If you still want to use Supermium and wanting to watch Youtube videos, I recommend visiting Invidious site as it's a lot lighter than YT. If you visit the regular site, it's enough to make that old poor microprocessor reach sun level temperatures. 😂

I wouldn't even dare visit YouTube, because that poor Pentium 4 even with Hyperthreading can barely even handle Supermium. NetBurst is SO INEFFICIENT that paired with a 6 GB hard drive, a terrible Intel AGP graphics chipset with no proper hardware acceleration for Supermium and 512 MB of RAM, it takes literal minutes to start up, more minutes to become responsive, and even more minutes to start browsing, and that's if it doesn't crash! If I dared to visit YouTube, I am absolutely certain it would go into a nuclear meltdown and melt through the floor. I would love to see a Supermium Lite version for systems like mine.

Half-Modern commented 2 months ago

I can't find anything in my mind, other than MiniBrowser that is based on Chromium 87. It's a lot lighter than those newer versions. Link Credits to HummingOwl (MSFN User) for cleaning it out from Chinese stuff.