Post M109 Updates

[K4sum1]

This just got released, which is Chromium 115 but it works on Vista, 7, and 8.x
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

Maybe you could base this off of that instead and get a more up to date Chromium version.

[Alex313031]

@K4sum1 I might use this when M115 comes around.

[Alex313031]

@K4sum1 M115 is coming soon, and I definitely want to try to make a Thorium 115 version for Win7.

[metapea]

There's now a supermium 117 version for win7

[fenopa]

well this would be awesome

[Alex313031]

@metapea @fenopa @K4sum1 I am probably going to target the M118 version for migrating to using Supermium as a base to build Thorium-Win7 on.

[Stepman123]

I am probably going to target the M118 version for migrating to using Supermium as a base to build Thorium-Win7 on.

Supermium 119 has been released. It seems that for ancient hardware (1GB RAM), an SSE2 build would be better on a base 109 or even older.
Practical usage shows that EDGE 115 and Supermium are 2-3 times slower than Thorium109. This is noticeable on heavy sites like Reddit, Discord.

[libreom]

hi @Alex313031 ,It would be helpful if you release thorium 119 based on supermium for windows 7.
Thank you

[Alex313031]

@Stepman123 @metapea @fenopa @K4sum1 Thorium M119 for Windows 7 BETA is out!

Final release should be coming any day now. I am still working out some kinks, but it is getting stabler and stabler.

[K4sum1]

@Stepman123 @metapea @fenopa @K4sum1 Thorium M119 for Windows 7 BETA is out!

Final release should be coming any day now. I am still working out some kinks, but it is getting stabler and stabler.

I wonder, could Supermium just become part of Thorium and make this Win7 version unnecessary?

[Alex313031]

@K4sum1 No, because he has seperate branding, and also adds a few patches that I don't want in Thorium. However, we do help each other. He helped me fix two bugs in Thorium, and I have sent two pull requests which he accepted, that fixed some issues in Supermium including compiling 32bit versions with SSE2 instead of SSE3.

So no, we wont be merging, but we hold each others hands lol.

[K4sum1]

So no, we wont be merging, but we hold each others hands lol.

I didn't mean that, I meant merging Thorium and Thorium-Win7. Probably should've just said that.

[libreom]

Please provide non avx sse4 builds

[Alex313031]

@K4sum1 Thats what I did. This repo is now a near identical mirror to the regular thorium repo. It just has a .patch file in the //patches dir to patch it for win7.

@libreom When the final M119 comes out, I will provide SSE3, SSE4, AVX, and AVX2 builds, as well as 32 bit builds. (However, the 32 bit builds are crashing, so they might have to come later)

[K4sum1]

@K4sum1 Thats what I did. This repo is now a near identical mirror to the regular thorium repo. It just has a .patch file in the //patches dir to patch it for win7.

Yeah, what I meant was just one repo. I don't think the Windows 7 fixes have any noticeable impact on performance or anything.

[K4sum1]

How come you "will never target Vista as my minimum baseline."? If Supermium supports it, why not?

[Alex313031]

@K4sum1 It requires linking in ntdll.dll, which slows the browser down, and requires progwrp.dll, which win32ss hasn't made open source yet. Also, most people aren't using Vista. The few Vista fans/users out there can use Supermium.

Another reason is it requires linking in psapi.lib, and setting PSAPI=1 instead of PSAPI=2. This also lowers performance, and makes it where it does not report memory usage correctly, either in the task manager (not Windows task manager, the one built into Chromium), or in crash dumps.

However, I DID specify the minimum NT version as 6.0 instead of 6.1, because you can still run it on Vista with Extended Kernel (also made by win32ss), and I didn't want to artificially limit it that way. It just can't run it on stock Windows Vista.

[libreom]

@Alex313031 do you plan to update thorium-win7 as you have updated other versions to 120 and supermium also updated to 121 https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases/tag/v121 No hurries. 👍

[p7r0x7]

@Alex313031 you should pin this if you want to keep this as a running dialogue about future updates for this flavor of Thorium.

[libreom]

@Alex313031 Supermium updated to 122 version so whichever version is more convenient you can update to(along with your other thorium builds)