Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
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Published by Alex313031 about 2 years ago
Published by Alex313031 about 2 years ago
To learn about important stuffz regarding Windows 7, I have made a page about this (which also regards M108) here > https://thorium.rocks/win7
Published by Alex313031 about 2 years ago
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 new 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".
Published by Alex313031 about 2 years ago
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".
Published by Alex313031 about 2 years ago
M106
NTP "Customize Thorium" and Search Settings crash bugs have finally been fixed! Finally, we have a fully bug free Windows release!
All the patches and chrome://flags flags from the latest release notice on this page > https://thorium.rocks/misc/history.html
Thanks muchly to @gz83 for helping me debug this!
See also : My write up explaining the optimizations of Thorium > https://thorium.rocks/optimizations
and a new in-progress site > https://thorium.rocks/new
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
--custom-ntp=http://www.example.com/
--hide-sidepanel-button
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
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
IMPORTANT The main executable is now named thorium.exe instead of chrome.exe, and the main thorium shell executable is now named thorium_shell.exe instead of content_shell.exe. The Readmes and portable scripts and building instructions have been updated. You MUST uninstall Thorium before installing this new release, I.E. do NOT just install the new .exe in place over the old one. You can uninstall it in control panel, and choose whether or not to keep your user profile data.
ALSO We are making a new website for Thorium! Check it out at > https://thorium.rocks/
Thorium UI Debug Shell A program for tinkerers, lets you explore inside the Thorium UI. Try it by running the thorium_debug_shell.exe in the .zip.
Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars It's great in dark mode!
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
NOTE: The thorium_compat_mode.bat is a little batch file I made to automate the setting of compatibility mode on windows 10/11 to mitigate the bug where it will say "Error code: RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA". You will have to right click and select "run as administrator" because it sets compatibility mode for all users, which means it writes to the HKLM registry hive which is restricted to admins.
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
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
This is a special program, built on top of content_shell and incorporating a multitude of options for testing, viewing, and debugging UI resources in Thorium.
Run the views_examples_with_content.exe, and you can select from the menu. Some things are interactive, some load internal resources, and some require loading external resources like viewing .icon files. In that case, you can load a file using its full path in the box towards the bottom.
I built this to view and test native Chromium UI icons in the .icon format.
These files are in:
//chromium/src/ui/views/vector_icons ## For many subcomponents like native UI views.
//chromium/src/ui/views/window/vector_icons ## For icons relating to the top bar.
//chromium/src/components/vector_icons ## For components that affect many build targets.
//chromium/src/chrome/app/vector_icons ## For icons only used in the browser.
//chromium/src/ash/resources/vector_icons ## For icons used in Chromium on ChromiumOS.
//chromium/src/chromeos/ui/vector_icons ## For icons specific to ChromiumOS.
//chromium/src/chromecast/ui/vector_icons ## For icons specific to ChromeCast.
To build, use: autoninja -C out/thorium chrome chromedriver content_shell setup mini_installer views_examples_with_content or just
autoninja -C out/thorium views_examples_with_content to exclude building the rest of Thorium.
More info can be found at > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/heads/main/components/vector_icons/README.md
@gz83 @midzer @dabugen
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
The thorium_compat_mode.bat is a little batch file I made to automate the setting of compatibility mode on windows 10/11 to mitigate the bug where it will say "Error code: RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA". You will have to right click and select "run as administrator" because it sets compatibility mode for all users, which means it writes to the HKLM registry hive which is restricted to admins.
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
-- Same information from previous release below↓
NOTE: There is an upstream bug in Chromium. It only appears on Windows 10/11. Windows 7/8/8.1 are fine.
Problem: You may get a condition when launching where extensions will not start and open tabs will say "RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA" or "STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN".
To fix this: Right click the Thorium shortcut, or the actual executable at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\chrome.exe , go to properties, and set the compatibility mode to windows 7 or 8.
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
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
Same release compiled with AVX2 can be found at > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2/releases/tag/M102.0.4952.0
NOTE: There is an upstream bug in Chromium. It only appears on Windows 10/11. Windows 7/8/8.1 are fine.
Problem: You may get a condition when launching where extensions will not start and open tabs will say "RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA" or "STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN".
To fix this: Right click the Thorium shortcut, or the actual executable at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\chrome.exe , go to properties, and set the compatibility mode to windows 7 or 8.
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
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
As per previous release, I finally fixed the icon issue as described at https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win/issues/5
This is an AVX2 release, and to direct people to the new repo I am not putting the actual files here.
Starting with this release, and going forward, AVX2 releases will be at https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2/
This new repo will host Windows AVX2 releases, and I will occasionally also put Linux AVX2 releases in there.
This repo will continue hosting AVX releases. Thank you everyone for using Thorium!
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
NEW: AVX2 Builds are now being served at https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2
FIXED: FINALLY fixed the icon issue!!
Speaking of Logos, this release is based on Chromium 101 so it has Thorium's new logo which is in line with the upstream Chrome/Chromium Logo change. If you wanna see the difference, go to the main repo and look in the logos directory and compare with the icons in the NEW
subdir of the logos dir.
Also, so much thanks to @RobRich999 as he helped so much with this project. He has sadly stopped making public Chromium builds, but I use all of his compiler optimizations as well as some others, so I welcome people coming from https://chromium.woolyss.com looking for an alternative to his builds. I was a frequent user of the site and much thanks to @woolyss for accepting my work.
Also, in relation to this, I will be making a separate Thorium Windows repo specifically for AVX2 builds, since I know they are in demand.
Thanks, everyone for using Thorium, it keeps my motivated to keep improving it and keep it updated.
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
This release is only going to be offered as an installer, as I work out some bugs. Especially this darn icon bug. Work is ongoing.
to fix this, I know its ugly and annoying, but at least the browser works. It only appears on windows builds, and only since M100.x.xxx.x
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
This is an experimental release for AVX2 CPU's! Will not work on CPU's older than Intel Haswell or AMD "Bristol Ridge".
UPDATE: Reuploaded the portable .zip because of a dumb error in the launcher .bat files. Thanks to @K4sum1 for pointing it out.
ALSO: I know about the icon issue that has been plaguing my last few releases, where the icon on the taskbar is a yellow "warning icon" rather than the proper Thorium logo. I am working on a fix as we speak!
Published by Alex313031 over 2 years ago
Chromium's 100th Birthday!
ALSO: I know about the icon issue that has been plaguing my last few releases, where the icon on the taskbar is a yellow "warning icon" rather than the proper Thorium logo. I am working on a fix as we speak!
Published by Alex313031 almost 3 years ago
Windows Installers now contain the extra stuff that was only in the portable .zips and linux installers: chromedriver and content_shell and an icon to set for content_shell if you make a shortcut to it.