Windows 7 UI Slowness Test Chrome DLL

Users experiencing issue #889 should try substituting this 64 bit chrome.dll for their current DLL.

Supermium 126.0.6478.254 R4

The Chromium base was updated from 126.0.6478.249 to 126.0.6478.259 to reflect the ESR patches in that period. This may help with a few issues that were not tied to a Supermium-specific problem, such as random renderer crashes on Windows 7.

Other changes are as follows:
-(#760 and others) removed loader deadlock in memory partition area on Windows 7
-(#915) added option to disable Crashpad, --disable-crashpad
-(#588) changing default behaviour for icon loading on download page due to excessive process creation and poorer variety of icons. Use --force-generic-download-icons to restore this functionality.
-(#898) added double click to close tabs feature from Thorium, --double-click-close-tab
-(#946) crash when adding bookmarks while --no-sync in use, is fixed
-(#916) PDF loading bug on Windows 7 fixed, with change in fallback font from Arial to Arial Unicode MS
-(#937) Patcher introduced for Widevine CDM on Windows 7. It is located in the base Supermium directory and is named win7_fixwidevine.cmd. It is based on the default user data location, users with a non-default user data directory will have to change it accordingly. Use each time a new Widevine release has been downloaded (there are no auto-updates for integrity reasons, so this should only need to be done sparingly).
-(#912, #955) hashes are now available in SHA2-256 and SHA3-512 format for each file in the Releases directory
-(#906) --history-journeys and --side-panel-journeys restored
-(#871) Dark mode implementation fixed and duplicate options removed, replaced with unique options
-(#899) Zip distribution added for XP users who may not be able to run the installer due to error 6 (OS issue if persistent)

SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_126_64_setup.exe:
d9af9fe40bc6961671111c2a14a8bbab58d8169ecec6237167402604adf0d7f5
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_126_64_setup.exe:
e7dd8dc855b38e0c561ca55dcdd583a34f8b148a5e964e346f96d46efe2ff3e9e8e1bec71217453ef04d2afd6bd9f4bd41188f0f183c2c422b29476d0b494134
SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_126_32_setup.exe:
3fc83926f7017baa92d8b1cc1cf4f1e1772993ccba749997042c6580d323fef9
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_126_32_setup.exe:
ddc53b87f1bdafd281aa319f9e06613773b27d3add7e7ae944e940f736a6141935f1be50a3bc5d8b28558430ded75ebebe40934f72d079e8d3ae9748e1999ef1
SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_126_32_nonsetup.zip:
e1660c7bdb725a1cf6abbbb1d36e5285753d4815817de5403ccb25170a156e03
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_126_32_nonsetup.zip:
a31e1a81c9029a533ba2cd3076ad1cd6ee7a37ed850a5bb3407247b0e151f0aa6d63ba18c65adc8228324f33078e0e661b90795b0d9e59e0cb67a9d1647f6071
SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_126_64_nonsetup.zip:
fc0a361dac5109b02f5373c887fbc184880be83aeb7df9d40c7972c6b85fa525
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_126_64_nonsetup.zip:
3dd364ddaab451089e3abcdabf930efd314685b15d3cb0ec4b50c664bf38aee14ff81a8e88371aa6ed5fadc966799a63c03605d8f4a9ed42633320babfb5387e
SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_32_syms.7z:
0505ad8b85b40c80a14ce31cccd1545fd38b196ece819797f6be72e9583dd0cf
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_32_syms.7z:
360ad18c952cf99749cfad23eea071181828e6d4b916620fefa40e5c788093cb399e147a07dceabfbe854f0425248be281c5ecb4321627d365433ef927fc671e
SHA2-256 checksum for supermium_64_syms.7z:
9b762e41d0398167c9f8138abc821bff0ad3c8f72cd1a446102d3c85109eff49
SHA3-512 checksum for supermium_64_syms.7z:
dc7fc418e4468be6dad7365e2d9121036d4f2663fbb8b70fe05e1d0a12d0b1633d42cf7d377e663db0848f3f4d885b2257506fb0531efd00a21256cca0f44535

Supermium 126.0.6478.254 R4 (Debugging Release)

This release is to test for the continued presence of issues #889, #892 #916 and #959. Thin LTO optimization has been disabled.

Furthermore, the regular releases have been supplemented by special debugging releases, named supermium_debug_release_XX.7z, where XX represents the native architecture of the package. There is more debugging information available than usual, more sanity checks, and call stacks and dump information are written directly to logs and the command line (if command line logging is enabled).

Hashes

supermium_debug_release_32.7z:
SHA2-256: bbb11d6ffb218f04afc1e144ffb3cca53328a52370794357bf16c6c5a0397f3e
SHA3-512: e032d52afdebf864e4b42ca0ebb5346823a587e830cfabce2d0dbf2201e895992aced991ac4f54156798d85e0794af55a863538344dd8f53a6deb807c094a1ac
supermium_debug_release_64.7z:

SHA2-256: ba196e6807ea9808f8c9b46a0d4287623e19dffec1cd715a40637e698e74ef63

SHA3-512: 8b4114c423756b1169fbb466fb8d3fe86dca22e4d96d24d6abddb046aa0d5a71d0f92eede9ce42a53edb615fced67ef32d3efd21f99abde04012beee76a8ee66

Supermium 126.0.6478.249 R3 (XP x64 Hotfix)

The following issues have been resolved in this hotfix:
(#871) - Forced web dark mode should no longer produce inverted-colour images.
(#874, #880, #881, #885, #888) - Further changes to target stability issues, mostly targetting DirectWrite and Windows XP x64.

Supermium 126.0.6478.249 R2 (Security + Hotfix)

This version of Supermium includes:
-(#884) patches for CVE-2024-7965 and CVE-2024-7971
-(#874, #880, #881, #885) Windows XP launch issues should be fixed
-(#810, #877) Supermium installer version mismatch corrected (should read "126.0.6478.249 R2" in Installed Programs list)
-(#860) Chrome Refresh 2023 flag restored in addition to the command-line feature, ChromeRefresh2023
-(#873) Old extension icon returns when Chrome Refresh 2023 is disabled

Supermium 126.0.6478.249 (Release)

This release follows up from the pre-release of version 126, with the following changes:

-(#851, #861) sound restored on Windows XP
-(#813) Attempt to fix some DRM services that experienced issues after experimental DRM change in 124 R2
-(#853) Secondary monitor DPI fix for Windows 8.1 and up
-(#855) DWrite crash on exit fixed on Windows XP

Supermium 126.0.6478.249

Supermium 126 is the first release using Chromium ESR tags. This means that Supermium will remain on version 126 until February 2025 and focus on fixing bugs and adding features instead of continuously performing major rebases. This will be important to deal with the ongoing removal of classic Chrome theming and the upcoming removal of Manifest V3 from standard Chromium.

Re-download if you have installed Supermium 126 before 1945 UTC on September 3 2024. Issue #849 affected earlier releases of version 126, and it has now been corrected.

Changes in this release:
(#820) - heap corruption fixed when loading DirectWrite on Windows XP x86
(#814, #832) - libraries included to support DirectWrite now included
(#838) - UACH is now disabled using the following syntax: --disable-feature=EnableUserAgentClientHint and UACH data will no appear with JavaScript
(#807) - memory leak when searching long lines using Ctrl+F removed
-Classic Chrome theming maintained in address bar, menus, and the new tab button. Windows 11 menu metrics have been disabled by default; use --win11-menus to restore them or use them on non-Windows 11 systems.

Supermium 124.0.6367.245 R2

Last release before rebase to Supermium 126. This is a short-term release to serve users dealing with several issues before the rebase is completed within the next ten days, with changes specific to Chromium 126.

Some bug fixes have been applied:
-(#761) Anti-aliasing of fonts now enabled by default, even when system font smoothing is disabled, due to poor visual appearance. To revert this change, use the flag --disable-browser-font-smoothing-win.
-(#722) Black backgrounds no longer appear behind UI elements when DWM is disabled or not available.
-(#720) DirectWriteCore now bundled with Supermium, as well as Noto Color Emoji. Colour emojis and other modern DirectWrite features are now available on Windows XP/Vista/7/8.x, as well as remote fonts, printing, etc. VC++ 2015 runtime needed to use this version of DirectWrite, or else it will fall back to GDI or older DirectWrite
-(#779) UACH now defaults to Google Chrome. It is also possible to disable UACH outright using the flag --remove-client-hints or associated feature as done in older Chromium versions.
-(#733) Installer now places desktop shortcuts in proper locations. Browser is registered in HKCU on Windows 8 and above if installing for a single user. The changes have also reduced the number of AV detections for the 32 bit Supermium installer.
-(#588) Flag --force-generic-download-icons introduced to prevent creation of excess number of processes when viewing download history.

Supermium 124.0.6367.245

Here is the main release of Supermium 124.0.6367.245. It contains further enhancements over the previous Supermium 124 release:
(#687) - fixed Windows 8.1 NVIDIA instability issue.
(#692) - Colour issues fixed on bookmark UI.
(#645, #693) --disable-machine-id and --disable-encryption switches will no longer result in profile data loss. Furthermore a new switch named --revert-from-portable will allow the user to revert a portable user data directory to non-portable without data loss as well. Warning dialogs will appear if the latter switch is used as it is only to be used temporarily, and is to be disabled when the directory has been successfully moved.
(#588) - the number of simultaneous download view icon loader processes is limited to 25. Any other processes will wait for others to complete.
(#721) - a minor issue preventing Supermium from recognizing itself as the default browser on Windows Vista/7/8.x has been fixed.
-The user agent will now report as version 127 to prevent issues with web services detecting Supermium as an outdated browser. This practice will likely continue when Supermium makes use of 126 ESR patches starting in August or September, as Chromium ESR tags are not widely known.

Furthermore, a new icon has been implemented in this release. Thanks to user "XakerTwo" for discovering the issue with the previous icon, and thanks to user "Darthagnon" for creating the new icon.

Windows 8.1 D3D11 Video Decoder Test v2

This is another release (chrome.dll only) intended for continuing issues associated with certain NVIDIA GPUs on Windows 8.1.