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@Alex313031 Alex313031 released this 09 Oct 00:10
· 760 commits to main since this release

UPDATE: I am back after a month, and during that month, some stuff happened with an inappropriate easter egg and some stuff I had on the site that people misunderstood. I also have some other news. It's a bunch of stuff and more than I can type here, so please wait till the next release, where I will have a full blog post/explanation/apology/response to all of the stuff, as well as a full explanation of what I am guilty of (and not guilty of). Although for the new user or someone updating, one thing I want to clear right away is there is nothing malicious in Thorium, its not a virus.

  • Removed VDPAU patch as Chromium has unified the VAAPI backend. It didn't work half the time anyway. If you have an Nvidia card like me, sorry but we're stuck with software video decoding (except for H.264 with the FOSS nouveau drivers). This also removed 4 files that were always alot of work for me to rebase.
  • Removed Linux middle click autoscroll by default because it caused bugs for some people. You can still enable it by using the cmdline flag --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll (and I removed the warning bar for people who do). Fixes > #199
  • You can now choose to not show full URLs. Previously it was forced to true, and selecting/unselecting "Always show full URLs" would do nothing. It is now still enabled by default, but you can choose to unselect it. I will be making a PR to Ungoogled Chromium about this.
  • HEVC/H.265 decoding is now multi-threaded. Thanks to @RobRich999 for pointing this out and where to enable it.
  • Two major security vulnerabilities in libwebp and libvpx were fixed. See the new security policy for info about submitting security bugs, and a list of fixed vulnerabilities (which will be updated henceforth). If you use any of my Electron apps, those were also recently fixed.
  • On top of my Thorium-Win7 fork, which will soon be updated to be based on Supermium M118 (me and @gz83 are working on a unified patch for this), I also made a new repo: https://github.com/Alex313031/chromium-xp with ongoing work to resurrect Chromium on XP. I currently have fixed google search, compiling with the windows 10 sdk, and added Thorium's optimizations (minus AVX).
  • chrome_management_service should work properly now, if any of you out there are using Thorium with enterprise policies set.
  • Slightly higher Speedometer scores, due to both upstream optimizations, and me tweaking rustflags in the compiler config.