Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90, Old Windows NT builds!
- Always built with the latest stable version of Chromium.
- Intended to behave like and have the featureset of Google Chrome, with differences/patches/enhancements listed below.
- Includes Widevine, All Codecs, Chrome Plugins, as well as thinLTO, CFlag, LDFlag, LLVM Loop, and PGO compiler optimizations. It is built with SSE4, AVX, and AES.
- Various compiler flags that improve performance and target AVX CPU's (read PATCHES.md)
- Experimental MPEG-DASH support.
- HEVC/H.265 support on Linux and Windows.
- JPEG XL Image File Format turned on by default.
- Enable Live Caption (SODA) on all builds.
- Experimental PDF annotation support (called "Ink" on ChromiumOS). # DISABLED FOR NOW BECAUSE OF CRASHES.
- Patches from Debian including font rendering patch, VAAPI Patch, Intel HD support patch, native notifications patch, title bar patch, and... the VDPAU Patch!! (Rejoice Nvidia users)
- Audio Sandbox patch.
- DoH (DNS over HTTPS) patches from Bromite.
- Enable Do Not Track by default patch from Vanadium.
- Show full URLs including trailing slashes in address bar by default.
- Disable FLOC patch.
- Disable annoying Google API Key Infobar warning (you can still use API Keys to enable sync) from Ungoogled Chromium.
- Disable annoying Default Browser Infobar warning.
- Adds DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Ecosia, Ask.com, and Yandex.com in US and other locales, along with the normal search engines.
- Always use the local NTP (New Tab Page) regardless of search engine.
- Fix icons when distilling page content in Reader Mode.
- Enable new Menu UI when right clicking the Reload button. (Adds 'Normal Reload', 'Hard Reload', and 'Clear Cache and Hard Reload')
- Home button and Chrome Labs shown by Default.
- Prefetch settings updated to respect privacy.
- Patches for GN and chrome_sandbox when building.
- Remove the addition of the Chrome APT sources.list during installation.
- Widevine CDM Patch for Linux.
- GTK auto dark mode patch
- Various new flags either developed from scratch, or added from Ungoogled Chromium. See PATCHES.md
- Enable Parallel Downloading by Default.
- Inclusion of
pak a utility for packing and unpacking the *.pak files in Thorium or any other Chromium based browser.
- Logo and Branding/Naming changed to the Thorium logo, Thorium name, and "Alex313031" being appended to "The Chromium Authors" in credits, etc.
- .desktop file includes useful cmdline flags that enable experimental or useful features. (See PATCHES.md)
- Includes installer patches and files to include ChromeDriver and thorium_shell (content_shell), with a .desktop file being provided for thorium_shell (named thorium-shell.desktop and shows in desktop environments as Thorium Content Shell). These are also included in the Windows releases, but it doesn't make a shorcut, although a .png and .ico is in the install directory for you to make your own shortcut with an icon. You can also run content_shell with the command thorium-shell (custom wrapper for it, located in /usr/bin/). You can run ChromeDriver at /usr/bin/chromedriver or chromedriver.exe on Windows. Also, patches for abseil library and mini_installer when building with AVX on Windows.
- Right clicking the launcher after install gives three additional desktop actions, one to open thorium-shell, another to open in Safe Mode which disables any flags one has set in chrome://flags until the next launch, and lastly to open in Dark Mode which appends the --force-dark-mode flag.
- For more info, read the PATCHES.md file.
- Known bugs are in the BUGS.md file.
- A list of Chromium command line flags can be found at > https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches
See > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-win7/blob/main/docs/BUILDING.md
See > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-win7/tree/main/infra/DEBUG#readme
− https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromiumBrowser/ is a subreddit I made for Thorium and general Thorium/Chromium discussion, https://thorium.rocks/ is the website I made for it, and https://alex313031.blogspot.com/ is a blog I made relating to Thorium/ThoriumOS.
− I also build ChromiumOS (now called ThoriumOS) with Thorium, Codecs, Widevine, linux-firmware/modules, and extra packages at > https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS/
− Thanks to https://github.com/robrich999/ for some info and fixes that went into this project.
− Thanks to https://github.com/midzer/ for support and helping with builds.
− Also thanks to https://github.com/bromite/bromite, https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-ubuntu-build, https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium, https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium, and https://github.com/iridium-browser/iridium-browser for patch code.
− The pak_src dir, and the binaries in pack_src/bin are credited to @freeer https://github.com/myfreeer/chrome-pak-customizer/
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Thanks for using Thorium!
