06-04-2019, 02:06 PM
They'll know exactly what I'm talking about. It's the native html5 player, which is used whenever a site serves up a video without a custom html5 player specified. Chromium used to have a very simple, resource-friendly native html5 player, but switched to one with all kinds of unnecessary buffering/loading animations, plus the same type of animations in the timeline anytime you seek. Cent has wisely kept the simplified native player, but the last update broke that.
Reverting to 4.0.9.102 was not as simple as I anticipated. I had both 4.0.9.102 and 4.0.9.112 folders, so I thought it was as simple as switching to old_chrome.exe, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Ended up making a new portable 4.0.9.102 install and copying all my user data and side-loaded extensions over to it, then quickly disabling automatic updates. Won't leave that enabled anymore. I stay on top of updates anyway, and I don't wanna be surprised by some random update again.
Reverting to 4.0.9.102 was not as simple as I anticipated. I had both 4.0.9.102 and 4.0.9.112 folders, so I thought it was as simple as switching to old_chrome.exe, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Ended up making a new portable 4.0.9.102 install and copying all my user data and side-loaded extensions over to it, then quickly disabling automatic updates. Won't leave that enabled anymore. I stay on top of updates anyway, and I don't wanna be surprised by some random update again.