36th Release - M106.0.5197.0

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

35th Release - M105.0.5183.0

• 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

34th Release - M105.0.5167.0

• 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.)

33rd Release - M105.0.5127.0

• 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

32nd Release - M104.0.5107.0

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

31st Release - M104.0.5083.0

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

30th Release - M104.0.5073.0

• 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

29th Release - M103.0.5055.0

• 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

28th Release - M103.0.5036.0

• M103 refresh

27th Release - M103.0.5006.0

• 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