Steam – way to replace the web browser in steam

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I would very much like a better web browser than the one currently in steam, and I know that I can run it without significant decline in performance. I was wondering if there is a way to change it and if there is also a way to embed a chat client as well. Any suggestions?

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Xfire and PlayXpert offer web browsers as part of their in-game overlays. There is also the Rogue in-game browser. Xfire offer a preview video of their web browser. All look to have tabbed browsing and offer more features than Steam's, though it's hard for me to say whether they meet your expectations.

Both Xfire and PlayXpert also ship with chat clients.

Raptr's in-game overlay supports AIM and I believe XChat makes available an addon to that end also. Personally I'd try Raptr first. Any of the web browsers may also support AIM Express, an official browser-based AIM client.

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I can confirm that creating/editing steam.cfg (in the same directory as the Steam executable) with the following lines works, as long as you've set Steam to remember your password (thanks DarkAnime):

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable
ForceOfflineMode=enable

If you want to manage this with a command-line parameter, you could create a script to do something like the following (Windows .bat file):

IF "%1"=="offline" (
    IF EXIST steam.cfgx (
        rename steam.cfgx steam.cfg
    )
)
ELSE (
    IF EXIST steam.cfg (
        rename steam.cfg steam.cfgx
    )
)
start steam.exe

It used to be that you could hit "Cancel" while Steam was starting up and it would allow you to start offline mode from there, but that no longer works.

Steam – way to get more than one thing to download at once

As stated in the comments, for all intents and purposes, you can't. Steam will automagically decide what is best for your connection and the Steam servers and will act accordingly.

My personal experience is that during times that Steam is relatively quiet, it will download a few games at a time, at reasonable speeds. Otherwise, it only downloads one game at a time. My own connection settings do not seem to have any influence on this.

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