annoying message for Win7/8/8.1 users since Chromium 108

[stano22]

Hi team,
many thanks for your nice work regarding this project.
I use Win7 (also I will continue to use Win7) and since version 108, there is annoying message/warning with every run of ungoogled-chromium:
"To get future Chromium updates, you´ll need Windows 10 or later. This computer is using Windows 7."
There is a solution to create a new registry entry for Chromium policies (SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning), but after using this workaround, Chromium will state "Managed by your organization" and it means another issue - Secure DNS is not available (grayed out) in browser Settings and therefore browser starts to use system DNS instead.
I cannot find any flag or switch to remove this annoyance.
Is there any solution or planned patch to get rid of this annoying message for Win7/8/8.1 users?

[networkException]

I think we should consider this but its ultimately up to the windows maintainers

See also ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#2173

[stano22]

It is no problem for me to stay on 109 (the last supported Chromium version for Win7), but this message/warning is really annoying with every run of browser.
Regarding #2173: to disable infobar completely is not a solution, because infobar also shows useful info (about extensions etc.).

[Rusenche]

Yes, the problem is confirmed! For now, it seems better to find another solution instead of the regedit method, which creates a new problem instead of a solution!

Still, it's better to craft some kind of patch from the masters here.

Ariweee said on 06.12 at 16:41:

I came across a serious problem with this “solution” I published.

When you go: Chrome://Settings/Privacy -> Chrome://Settings/Security -> The menu “Use Secure DNS.
This setting is disabled on managed browsers” is disabled without any ability to activate it.

If you use me DNS, do you remove Google’s unwanted inscription for Windows 7 support – horror!

There are two options:
1. To work with the DNS menu – manually delete the settings/directory created from regedit;
2. You reconcile with the available unwanted and annoying inscription on Google.

https://postimg.cc/cK6xzJqC

[Rusenche]

@stano22

A working solution without any negative consequences or limitations: --test-type=ui

[greenozon]

a question regarding Windows 7: was the support of w7 dropped due to start using some w10 only WinAPI?
or this is just a political decision by Google and one could build up binaries for w7 even from lets say version 112?

[Nicolai-Nielsen]

will this problem ever be fixed or does anyone have a better fix?
Thanks.

[PF4Public]

will this problem ever be fixed or does anyone have a better fix?

It is not an issue of ungoogled-chromium, so please be mindful with your demands.

[TorutheRedFox]

will this problem ever be fixed or does anyone have a better fix?

It is not an issue of ungoogled-chromium, so please be mindful with your demands.

it's an issue for the windows maintainers for as long as they plan on maintaining support for these versions (since it's false until support is dropped)

[tomasz1986]

Support has been gone for a long time. The last version that can run on Windows 7 and 8 is Chromium 109. We are at v117 right now.

[greenozon]

why not v118?