STABLE version -- 4.2.10.171

[Admin]

Thanks for actually opening up a little bit to give us more detail on some of the features causing delays.

If Direct Write is such a major issue, it may be painful to hear but I think some users might have to accept it may have to be dropped at some point in the future. It's probably why every other Chromium dev has dropped support for it, these "legacy" functions can't stay around forever. Advanced Chrome is interesting because it doesn't disable Direct Write but changes font rendering to supposedly make it look better. https://browser.taokaizen.com/chrome-directwrite/

Perhaps the bookmark options causing trouble can be slimmed down to some degree or taken out for the time being and reworked or reintroduced later on? I don't know who uses what bookmark functions but maybe if everyone knew what the problematic options were, and understood the issues, they'd be OK with any changes?

Nobody likes to see features removed from software, but sometimes you have to take a few steps back to start going forward again...

In fact we have already adopted the patches from Advanced Chrome, but it is not enough for MacType users.
They still needs the Disabling DirectWrite flag to make MacType work smoothly.