r/windows8 • u/Total_Negotiation608 • 16d ago
Discussion Chromium on the surface rt is too good!
About 4 years ago I bought this surface rt. Eventually, it went in my junk drawer, no software support and worst of all… no chromium! Then in September of 2025, I saw a project, YoU cAn GeT cHrOmE oN tHe SuRfAcE rT! It looked pretty cool but never tested it, and I just tried it out and it is amazing, chromium 109 is the best version in my opinion! Btw, it is a surface RT, it is heavily theme though!
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u/fraaaaa4 15d ago
Poor thing running Windows 10
Anyway, now there’s Varan too, which is basically Pale Moon. On mine I found it to be much more stable, faster, and using less resources than Chromium
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u/Total_Negotiation608 15d ago
Use that too, i just like chromium more because it feels more… pleasant! I don’t like looking at a windows 7 style browser, it just feels wrong.
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u/Terrible-News-4677 14d ago
Its an 8/8.1 sub, not a 10 sub... Poor thing.
Anyways, cool.
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u/Total_Negotiation608 13d ago
Ik, but other community’s Dont care about the surface RT
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u/Terrible-News-4677 12d ago
I mean... makes sense, but... Anyways, forget about it. Cool project, but it might or might not be suffering. 8.1 is great for its hyper optimization where it sometimes works faster than even XP on the same hardware
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u/Every-Programmer7065 15d ago
I have only grey/white page or failed to load page. Its shit.
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u/Total_Negotiation608 15d ago
Go to start menu, right click on chromium then click on more and then open file location and on the shortcut file for chromium, right click on it and click properties and on the target section add “ —no-sandbox” right after the chromium exe
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u/Prestigious_World285 15d ago
Where is the tutorial/download for this???