Subj : Re: Supermium
To   : August Abolins
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Sep 13 2025 10:17:00

AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:
> Hello Ky.Moffet!
> 
> ** On Thursday 11.09.25 - 17:27, Ky.Moffet wrote to Mike Dippel:
> 
>> But, you cry, outdated browsers! Supermium is current Chrome
>> compiled for XP, and it has become my preferred browser even
>> on modern Windows (uses about half as much RAM as Chrome, and
>> is less annoying).
> 
> I never heard of Supermium before.  I just tried it.  It
> cooperates quite well with my XP.  There was a B2B site that I
> could work with in Win7 and Firefox/Chrome.  But Supermium
> handles it quite well!

Yep. It runs on Win2K too.

I install only two extensions: DarkReader, to prevent eye-fry, and 
UblockOriginLite (the old version no longer works, but UOL seems to do 
the same job just as well).


> Supermium only has a problem with one other B2B site.  It gets
> stuck in a "Wait for response" state:
> 
> https://selfservice.penguinrandomhouse.biz/

The site is running some ugly javascript. It comes up in Supermium, but 
there's a long delay (30 seconds or so) between the first indication 
that it's connected and when it finally displays the page, and that's 
99% the site and 1% my slow connection.

If your connection is slow (3Mbps is about the dead minimum anymore), or 
if there's some delay along the chain of internet servers, javascript 
can fail to execute. I think that's what's happening there, judging by 
how long it took to display. It wouldn't surprise me if Firefox (which 
is much slower than the Chrome family) fails to execute the scripts at all.
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