BETA WINDOWS XP BUILD!!!!!

Thorium M122 for Windows XP/Vista

At long last folks, previously only a possibility in legacy OS enthusiast's dreams, wishing they could browse properly on the modern web with all their *certified Y2K cool kid ™* Windows XP and Vista machines, I present to you: Thorium for Windows XP!!!

This is the fastest, most up to date browser for Windows XP in existence (as of yet lol).

• Only 32 Bit build is provided (for now).

• No installer (yet).
  To "install" it, unzip and copy it to C:\Program Files, make a shortcut to thorium.exe and put the shortcut i.e. in your Start menu or desktop. During the first run, the correct registry entries will be made.

• It will work on Windows XP SP1 (At a minimum, of course SP3 + all updates is recommended for stable operation), and Windows Vista SP2. Will not work on Windows XP RTM or Vista RTM, and media features won't work correctly on Vista SP1.

• 1 Core @1.0 Ghz. & 512Mb RAM minimum, 2+ Cores @2.0+ Ghz. & 1Gb+ RAM recommended. Also, the faster your HDD, and the more defragmented it is, the faster it will load. Not recommended to install XP on an SSD due to it lacking the TRIM feature within the NT kernel and scsi_miniport.sys

The NotoEmoji-Regular_winXP.zip is ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH XP/VISTA. Do NOT install this font on a Windows 7/8/8.1 machine, and Do NOT install the one from the previous release, which is only for Win7/8/8.1, on a Win XP/Vista machine. Future releases will have "_xp" or "_7" at the end of the .zip's name, with a README.txt inside the .zip describing proper usage, installation, etc.

The reason for the above is that the latest Noto-Emoji fonts are needed for displaying Emojis the web, but the .ttf (True Type Font) downloads that Google provides are only compatible with Win 7 and above. The ones for XP have some metadata removed, and sizes changed. Installing the wrong one on the wrong OS will lead to breakage, and will make it impossible to uninstall via normal means, you would have to do a manual font uninstall via deleting files and registry entries. Not the end of the world, but very annoying. Any bugs filed about this will be ignored because you have been warned lol.

Of course thanks to @win32ss for making the original patchset for Win7 that this is based off of, and for his work making progwrp.dll, without which, bringing XP support to Thorium would not have been possible. Again, think about donating to him (and/or me lol), for the development time/work.

> Also you might want to read the README inside the new progwrp directory in this repo, for a little more info about how it works and support. > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-win7/tree/main/patches/progwrp#readme

Next release will have the normal Windows 7 builds (built without progwrp.dll at all) + SSE2 and SSE3 releases for both 32 bit and 64 bit XP/Vista. No promises on making a fancy GUI installer like Supermium, I might make a .bat file to do everything for you instead (which also lets you see everything being done, and edit it as you wish).