thorium

• M107 refresh
• Discovery should now work
• Added link on chrome://version as per @trimechee request > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2/issues/38#issue-1353337049
• Added GTK auto dark/light mode patch as per @icepie request > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/issues/74
  Yay, 40th Release!

Also, I made a page that Windows users should take a look at > https://thorium.rocks/win7

• M107
• Reload Icon changed to blue
• Cookies Icon reverted to default and coloured blue
• H.265/HEVC Patch
• Bookmarks bar now shows "Apps" by default like it used to, (you can still disable it.)

Built with new optimization: Polly
You can see a write up of the optimizations Thorium uses (including the new Polly) here > https://thorium.rocks/optimizations, and a page with speed comparisons with screenshots here > https://thorium.rocks/performance. I compare Thorium against Chromium, Chrome, Brave, and Vivaldi.

• Chrome flags now has the old hazard icon.
• Thorium Dino now works full screen and has correct branding.
• RSA Patch updated.

Built with new optimization: Polly
You can see a write up of the optimizations Thorium uses (including the new Polly) Here, and a page with speed comparisons with screenshots Here. I compare Thorium against Chromium, Chrome, Brave, and Vivaldi.

Also, try my extensions: Thorium Scroll Tweaker (for increasing scroll speed on linux), and Resources Saver (allows you to save a full website, keeping directory structure and downloading resources that would otherwise be missed by just right clicking and using "Save As".

• Updated Tab audio muting icon.
• New setting in chrome://settings to toggle whether it will offer Reader Mode on sites that support it.
• All changes from the previous release (in case you missed it) > https://thorium.rocks/misc/history.html

Also try out my two new Chrome Extensions:

Thorium Scroll Tweaker (Useful for linux because you often can't change the scroll speed) > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-scroll-tweaker/dgnjhkngmbcdbdmpbeechgihgijlajkf

Tab Shortcut Tools (Useful for when you have lots of tabs open) > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-shortcut-tools/ecfmgmpggijgmnjolmaegkhkcdkbookp

The source code for these can be found Here, and Here.

There are many changes in this release, too long for here, so I made a new page > https://thorium.rocks/misc/history.html on thorium.rocks as a release/version notes and history page.

• Please see > https://thorium.rocks/misc/history.html#M106.0.5197.0 including the "Windows Specific Flags" section for windows users.

Also this release includes Thorium UI Debug Shell V2, for devs and tinkerers.

Also, I know that scrolling speed can sometimes be frustrating and hard/impossible to adjust on linux, depending on factors like distro, version, drivers installed, and model of mouse/trackpad. SO I made an extension to adjust scrolling. > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-scroll-tweaker/dgnjhkngmbcdbdmpbeechgihgijlajkf

• Side panel, Home, and Refresh button colours changed.

IMPORTANT: See release notes of previous release, which also apply to this one > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/releases/tag/M105.0.5167.0

Attention Users: I have created a 10 question survey to view user satisfaction and how people are installing Thorium. It was created with surverymonkey, and I checked the boxes to anonymize your answers and to allow multiple responses. I would appreciate it if you guys would complete it (should only take ~2 minutes) It is here > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TJHX7R7

• M105 Refresh
• New chrome://flags flag to use dark mode. You can also do it with cmdline flag --force-dark-mode
• New chrome//flags flag to disable autoplay. You can also do it with cmdline flag --no-autoplay
• New chrome://flags flag to allow setting a custom NTP. You can also do it with cmdline flag --custom-ntp=http://www.example.com/
• New chrome://flags flag to allow removing the Side Panel button. You can also do it with cmdline flag --hide-sidepanel-button

· Kudos to ungoogled-chromium for the NTP and Side Panel patches, Dark Mode and AutoPlay patches were made by me for Thorium.

IMPORTANT The install directory is now /opt/chromium.org/thorium instead of /opt/chromium.org/thorium-unstable, so you should do a sudo apt purge thorium-browser-unstable, and then install the new one. (.zip and .appimage users don't need to pay attention to this.)

• See release notes for previous version as well as below:
• New icons for main menu and extensions menu
• New Thorium Dino game at chrome://dino!
• M105
• Multiple patches rebased.
• APPIMAGE!

ALSO I finally got my extensions/apps on the web store, have a looksie!:

• COG app > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cog-system-info-viewer/bkapefioegaebnkbjpfbbemmmcholeii
• Thorium Scrollbars > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-scrollbars/ilhogmofjjmlbjoceipichhgfnnbldcn
• Thorium Material Dark Theme > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-material-dark-the/dahfohiipmpcppjbablgfoggbogdmddp

IMPORTANT The main executable is now named thorium instead of chrome, and the main thorium shell executable is now named thorium_shell instead of content_shell. The Readmes and portable scripts and building instructions have been updated. You MUST do a sudo apt remove thorium-browser-unstable before upgrading, I.E. do NOT just install the new .deb in place over the old one.

NEWS for Linux Users: Me and @midzer are preparing a new website for Thorium, > https://thorium.rocks/ to replace [email protected]. The debian repo is now WORKING, it is located at https://dl.thorium.rocks/, you can follow the directions toward the bottom of thorium.rocks to add it to your system.

• M104 Second Refresh
• NEW Appimage builds!
• Intel HD/VAAPI Patches Rebased
• Extension icon and main menu icon changed.
• Improvements to chrome://about
• favicon on chrome://kill corrected

Try my theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Theme It's great for Dark Mode!
Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars. It's great in Dark Mode!

.deb was built by @midzer
.zip built by me
check_avx.sh was based on https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/get-started/compatibility-check.html and brought to my attention by @oczt

IMPORTANT The main executable is now named thorium instead of chrome, and the main thorium shell executable is now named thorium_shell instead of content_shell. The Readmes and portable scripts and building instructions have been updated. You MUST do a sudo apt remove thorium-browser-unstable before upgrading, I.E. do NOT just install the new .deb in place over the old one.

NEWS for Linux Users: Me and @midzer are preparing a new website for Thorium, > https://thorium.rocks/ to replace [email protected]. This website will also be a tentative new place for a debian repo that one could add to their /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for automatic upgrades, similar to the Google Chrome .deb. I was going to set up a PPA on Launchpad, but realized I would be space limited, would not be able to build locally, and would have to make separate releases for every ubuntu/debian version. Plus we just wanted a proper site for branding, promotion, and explanation, so we are working on this as of yesterday.

• M104 Refresh
• Executable names changed to reflect Thorium name
• GNOME integration now shows Thorium-browser on the icon instead of Chromium-browser. Next release will just say Thorium.
• New Security Patch : RSA uses 2048 bit length instead of 1024
• Show all extensions by default patch
• Better tab outline when running with dark theme/in dark mode
• Parallel Downloading enabled by default
• Tab Hover Cards enabled by default
• Drag and Drop tabs between windows on Wayland patch
• Updated logo on chrome://components page
• Chrome Labs shown by default with a new logo I made.
• Support for FLAC audio
• New script to check for required CPU extensions to build/run Thorium (check_avx.sh)

Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars. It's great in Dark Mode!

.deb was built by @midzer
.zip built by me
check_avx.sh was based on https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/get-started/compatibility-check.html and brought to my attention by @oczt

• M104
• New Security Patch : RSA uses 2048 bit length instead of 1024
• Show all extensions by default patch
• Better tab outline when running with dark theme/in dark mode
• Parallel Downloading enabled by default
• Tab Hover Cards enabled by default
• Drag and Drop tabs between windows on Wayland patch
• Updated logo on chrome://components page
• Chrome Labs shown by default with a new logo I made.
• Support for FLAC audio
• New script to check for required CPU extensions to build/run Thorium (check_avx.sh)

Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars It's great in dark mode!

.deb was built by @midzer
.zip built by me
check_avx.sh was based on https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/get-started/compatibility-check.html and brought to my attention by @oczt

• Updated Icons
• Custom UI Colours for some icons
• New Dark Mode (Right click thorium launcher and it will be under the other extra desktop actions)
• Updated portable scripts.
• New WidevineCDM patch.
• Updated V8 SEGV bug patch.
• An easter egg (Go to chrome://kill, it will simulate a tab crash, see new sad tab icon and text underneath lol. This easter egg will only show otherwise if a tab actually crashes)

Also

Includes Thorium_UI_Debug_Shell, for devs and tinkerers, a linux build of this > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win/releases/tag/M103.0.5054.0-1

Also, try out my simple scrollbar theme for Thorium, Thorium Scrollbars. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium_ScrollBars If you are not familiar with how to manually install a chrome extension see https://stackoverflow.com/a/11879334/19023992

• M103 refresh

• M103
• Branding fixes in components
• User profile dir now set to ~/.config/thorium, and C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Thorium\User Data in source code, not relying on the .desktop, wrapper, or .bat file anymore.
• Easter egg (see if you can find it)
• Build scripts updated and patches updated.

ALSO, check out the (finally) public beta release of ThoriumOS! >
https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS/releases/tag/V102.0.5005.4

• M102

Same info as previous release regarding patches and sync.

Thank you all for using Thorium, and remember never hesitate to file bugs or suggestions or post in the discussions!

Thanks for using Thorium!

• Added small patch, and disabled fieldtrial testing (like ungoogled chromium as well as debian's/ubuntu's chromium packages.)

ALSO: INFORMATION REGARDING SYNC. To enable sync on these releases, please add your google account to https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/chromium.org/g/google-browser-signin-testaccounts as per the official documentation at https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys/#signing-in-to-chromium-is-restricted

Based on latest Chromium version 101.

Includes new logo, as the Chromium and Chrome logo have been updated upstream.
Includes some more new patches, from various sources and some written by me, see Readme.
Also includes a new binary, called pak, which can be used to pak and unpack the .pak files used in Thorium or any other Chromium based browser.
Usage: ./pak -u and ./pak -p, help via the normal ./pak -h
Useful for just seeing what's inside them, and the assets Thorium uses to work, or also modifying them and adding your own pictures/assets for things in the UI.

Also, thank you @raingart for making a runner script and .desktop file, which are both useful for installing Thorium on Arch linux with some better integration than the ones inside the portable .zip, which are written for generic linux usage. Note these could also be used on other linux distros, but please look inside them and compare with the default ones in the .zip, and modify as necessary for your needs.
https://github.com/raingart/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/thorium-browser
https://github.com/raingart/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/share/applications/thorium-browser.desktop
AND, thank you @JPratama7 for a pkgbuild (which would need to be modified for the specific Thorium version you want) for making a package for Arch linux. Could also be modified to make an .ebuild for Gentoo.
https://github.com/JPratama7/test-cicd/blob/master/thorium/PKGBUILD

Also to help spread the word, check out my new ChromiumOS builds.
https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS

Fixed some things in the portable zip.

Also to help spread the word, check out my new ChromiumOS builds.
https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS