Want to run Chrome on Windows XP? Supermium is here to help!
You can now run a modern version of Chrome on legacy Windows systems
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Many software developers are dropping support for older operating systems, and Chrome has dropped support for Windows 7 and 8.1 with version 110 last year.
But what if you’re still using an older version of Windows, is there any way to use Chrome? It seems so, so keep on reading to find out more.
Supermium lets you use a modern version of Chrome on legacy systems
If you’re still using Windows 7 or XP for some reason, you can still run Chrome on it, even though you don’t meet the software requirements.
In the latest article from The Register, they wrote about a browser called Supermium. The browser is based on Google Chrome 121, and it can run on Windows XP SP3 and newer.
The browser requires a CPU with SSE2 support, but once you install it, you can access services such as Gmail, Facebook and others without issues.
While this sounds impressive, the question remains, is Supermium safe? There was a discussion on this topic on Windows 7 subreddit, and since this is an open-source project, users concluded that it’s safe to use.
Few concerned users reported that its files are malicious, but here’s what the community had to say:
False positives because virus scanners compare it to actual chromium/Google chrome. Supermium is modified from chromium & google chrome’s coding. Meaning it has binary’s, hex edits, api’s, & etc that arn’t in actual Chromium/Google chrome.
So yes it’s safe also I know someone already mentioned this but Supermium is created by the windows Vista extended kernel creator & I say this in every post. I highly doubt he would just start infecting people with viruses.
Plus everything is open source so you could look at the coding/things your self in the GitHub. So yeah 100% false positives since they try to compare it to the actual coding of chromium/Google chrome.
Although this project sounds impressive, for your security we urge you to update to a modern version of Windows. Speaking of which, Windows 10 end of life is near, so maybe Windows 11 is a better option.
It’s also worth noting that Microsoft’s push for users to upgrade to Windows 11 has failed, and the majority of users are still on Windows 10, but as its end of life comes near, that will surely change.
