Unfortunately, it also seems to have mixed opinions on the security of the program and no real validity testing has been done on it. I've just read over later portions of the thread from late 2020 to now and I'll try to compile what people have talked about and add my own two cents into the mix.Ĭatsxp is what people are saying to use as a replacement browser now that it has the ability to disable DirectWrite in the latest version. I do not need to run third party programs to get pleasing font rendering in non-material/metro/modern/whatever UI programs in v1703. I've never been able to find out a way to revert any of the UI (beyond changing system fonts) back to how it functioned pre-1809, short of making a custom WindowsBlinds theme which I have no hope of doing. For some reason the font in some programs (like Cent) changes after v1703. The font also renders better, both on desktop, and in programs (and I've changed most things to ' Microsoft Sans Serif' like in Windows XP). There's no way to get explorer to be as it was pre-1803 without setting the system to 'light mode', which changes all the Metro/Modern UI to light mode, whereas before it would be in dark mode. I'm also on Windows 10 v1703 because newer versions of the OS (well, beyond 1803) change the look of Explorer (to support dark mode) and how Windows handles dark/light mode between system/apps.

If you're confused, they're displayed in the order I listed them above. The downgrade in later Cent should be obvious even without labeling due to the aberration artifacting. Here's a comparison of my current Vivalid version, the latest Cent, and 3.0.4:

Yes, Cent still has an option to disable directwrite, but it changed after 3.0.4, and that change was for the worse. The color/contrast Cent 3.0.4's theme is great, the look of it is great, and the GDI rendering is way better than any version of Cent passed this point. I'm still over here using Cent 3.0.4 (from 2017) with multiple websites broken (notably logging-in, like on Steam, Twitch or Disqus to name a few).

Catsxp portable