Subj : Re: Supermium
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Sep 13 2025 12:15:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>>> 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!
> 
> I wonder if Supermium works with other versions of windows post-XP.  Looks
> like it says it will work with 7 or 8, too.  Good to know.

I've used it with XP64, 8.1, 10, and 11. Works equally well on all of 
them. Minimum requirement is Win2K.

It will occasionally silently crash, and it does not properly "restore 
pages" when you restart it. Small price to have a browser that works on 
any Windows I want. That is the only drawback I've come across, and I've 
been using it for everyday since March 2024, when I first encountered 
it. I have never seen it make Windows unstable, and I have it running 
all the time.

I get the ZIP version and when I bother upgrading, I install it next to 
the previous version. It is smart enough to pick up on all the settings 
and extensions even tho it's not in the same location.

And a couple times I just dragged the old install to a different PC, and 
it's portable enough that this worked fine.

There are also these browser builds for XP (from the Firefox and Pale 
Moon family)

http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/2025/08/weekly-browser-binaries-20250823.html

and I've used them for several years, but they're not as complete and 
compatible as Supermium. And Supermium (like Chrome which is really what 
it is) also renders pages a lot faster than anything in the Mozilla family.
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