STABLE version -- 4.2.10.171

[rch]

TBH for me it's not that I'm fanatical, it's that I literally get migraines without it (as do others, which is why we pushed back so hard when Chrome removed it). So my choices are basically a dwindling "Use Firefox or be unable to use the net" and Firefox has routinely hated me. :T

I'm sure many users sympathize with you, including me. The problem is, if trying to keep a deprecated feature is causing so much trouble for everything else, it may have to be moved onto a "slow ring", for want of a better term, or removed completely. Apart from that browser I linked to earlier that makes changes to Direct Write without actually disabling it, I don't know of any other Chromium browser that hasn't had to let it go. Now the devs have admitted it's a major problem, it's no surprise everyone else has dropped and forgotten about Direct Write.

This dual browser approach mentioned could satisfy everyone to a degree. Those that must have Direct Write or the troublesome bookmark features have a browser with full knowledge they will have a very slow update schedule, everyone else has the other version with much faster updates. I hope Cent's idea of a Lite version is more along those lines and not with most of the functions that make it so good ripped out.

Whether the Cent devs have the resources to develop and maintain two separate versions is another matter and only something they can answer...