R3n wrote: * | 04 Mar 2021, 14:55 |
Any success so far?
So here´s the link that was posted in the period of time that was reset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180605223910/https://browser.taokaizen.com/
It's not truly Chromium 54, it's really just a modded 48 or 49. I wish someone would take at least the 58 or 60 engine, give it the full 48 UI, and make it work on XP.
Yeah, I also mentioned the following: I wonder why it seems to be so difficult to compile a modern version of Chromium even though they kind of exist, like the 360 Extreme Explorer
DirectWrite usage on Chromium 50 and later, TLS support, GPU hardware acceleration support, locale support... etc. - this is made far easier when you realise Opera Software ASA is owned by a Chinese firm backed by Qihoo and Tencent, both of which provide XP-compatible Chromium browsers built from the exact same source tree (which is identical to whatever Maxthon 5 used), so they probably have more 'insider knowledge' of the codebase than a bunch of random people who are toying with it as hobbyists. People who have a life in the real world don't give a shit about us, that's fact, that's why they don't want to support a 20+ years old OS.
Most of the Chinese browsers are using an identical source and recompiling it with their own build instructions that only they seem to have access to (note how many of them have identical UI design, and none of them are compiled with WebRTC support despite it being embedded deeply into Chromium since around version 56?). Also, 360 Extreme Explorer seems to be using its own certificate proxy for TLS connections as of version 13, eliminating issues on XP Pro x64.