- This is not DE-GOOGLED. It still has the sign-in. - The Drama with Furries and Alex's Response: alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugly.html - Addressing old version concerns with M119 release in 01/2024 - If you are a firefox user he makes Mecury Browser - thorium.rocks/mercury - Wildvine is installed by default so all codecs and videos play without additional installs. - uBlock is need to block ads on youtube and other sites. Here are my filter lists (Also blocks all KZread Shorts) - ix.io/4Jeh

@haariger_wookie5646

6 ай бұрын

One Disclaimer for Arch Users: Widevine does not seem to work in the AUR package of Thorium-Browser. I had to install chromium-widevine separately to view DRM content.

@c-v-n3322

6 ай бұрын

I wonder if you could do a video on Norton's browser.

@mkonji8522

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the filter lists. I'm surprised I didn't think about filter lists to remove KZread shorts. Damn I hate shorts and short form content. It's so mind numbing. Thanks a ton for that!

@gabrielpar3519

6 ай бұрын

Just the sign-in? Yea, it is basically de-googled

@astreakaito5625

6 ай бұрын

blocking shorts? Based

The same dev also has a compiler optimized version of Firefox called Mercury. Got 10% higher performance on Speedometer 2.0 compared to vanilla Firefox.

@sensor

6 ай бұрын

I switched to vanilla ff because Mercury didn't work properly in Artix Linux. Will check it again. Update: Mercury is still bad because it doesn't have support for Wivedine (can't play Spotify) and speed is the same as vanilla ff (but without bloat and telemetry).

@JesJex22

6 ай бұрын

Do you think Thorium is better than Mercury?

@sensor

6 ай бұрын

@@JesJex22 It depends

@patrxgt9691

6 ай бұрын

To be fair, most of the things, that Mercury does can be done in vanilla Firefox, if you know how to edit config files, since Mercury is just a Firefox with custom config and branding. Thorium is a little bit different, since Chromium is very limited, when it comes to configuration and many things have to be changed/added in the browser's source code. PS. Also, Mercury's release cycle leaves a lot to be desired, since it's still stuck on 115 build, when Firefox and Librewolf are on 118.

@burhanbudak6041

6 ай бұрын

Is it better then floorp

Hey Chris, Thorium looks great so thanks for sharing this with all of us! Aren't you concerned about updates, however, since Chromium (engine) gets regular updates but the browser itself can take a bit of time to update (based on the latest Github builds the last update was 2 weeks ago)? I guess it wouldn't matter too much on just regular engine updates but what about pressing security flaws that need fixing?

I've been browser hopping for a couple of months now, and some of the features I found were unnecessary to me. For the ones that are, I can just use extensions, so nice video Chris! 👍

It’s been a while since I’ve been on your channel. Never felt like I was browsing slowly but this is a good one. Keep up to good work man

I love how this guy is crazy enough to compile Thorium OS as well, a Chrome OS to his own browser. Once he figures out the in-place OTA updates it will be a crazy competitor to Chrome OS Flex for sure.

@MarkLuffman

6 ай бұрын

“Thorium OS FIX” ❤ Can’t wait!

i wonder how proud the dev is to have his browser featured on a youtube video

Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention, it's appreciated. A couple other notable features: Ublock Origin pre-installed. Can run in Portable mode. Wierdly, it runs the same speed as Chrome does for me (1% better), but I do have Ublock Origin installed there too. Note that the Windows AVX2 version is supposed to be the fastest version, though I saw just a 1% benefit to doing so over the regular Windows version.

@erzviv

6 ай бұрын

how do you install the windows version ?

Hello Chris. I must say that you are really contributing to the tech community. Can you kindly do an in depth video tutorial on Windows Registry Edit, how to appropriately use and tweak around it. Thank you beforehand.

Hey Chris, thank you so much for bringing this browser to light. Any tips for the average user to setup thorium (migrating from brave) would be amazing! Thanks a lot!

Thanks for shining a light on this Dev's work, we all love a clean fast experience whilst browsing, I do love Brave, shock horror, but will use this for a month to fully appreciate its speed and privacy, as I've said previously....Thanks to the Dev and yourself for highlighting this guy's attention to detail... I've a feeling I'll be using this over Brave, non commercial.

@brunoggdev6305

6 ай бұрын

Mind to share what you think of the experience later?

I used this browser 2 months ago it was great it had hardware acceleration working out the box which is rare to see in Linux but I switched back to Firefox I hope the project will get bigger and better I will give it a shot again after watching this video

This looks like such a cool project! I would be interested in seeing the Firefox video you referenced.

Brave did a great job with debloating google but they did a horrible job adding their own bloat, I'm happy to see this lmao

@joesu1833

6 ай бұрын

You can just turn off the bloat no? Also brave has a few features chromium and thorium don't that are actually useful.

@nimmy404

6 ай бұрын

@@joesu1833 you can disable the brave crypto stuff but there really should be a brave "lite" or something, also I think thorium is perfect for me when it comes to features, dk what brave has that would make me stick with it.

@_DeadBeat_

6 ай бұрын

@@joesu1833 which features?

@linusgoblin

6 ай бұрын

@@joesu1833 having to turn of bloat is still bloat

@Electrodexify

6 ай бұрын

Has anyone done any benchmarks to see if turning off the bloat of Brave improves the speed? I tested Thorium browser but its Google promotion in the Sync and Sign-in and the default search engine, turned me off. At least offer Presearch as an option.

Is it odd that I'm fairly new to this channel, but been an LTT "fan" for years yet Chris is the only techie I actually trust?... his debloat and debug scripts are phenomenal, his info is always straight and to the point, and I have a way better experience in my own daily computing following his instructions and recommendations than any other tech channel...

@gor.

6 ай бұрын

Never trust anyone (c)

@soymadip

6 ай бұрын

LTT is techy for I would say not so useful for daily life products but youtubers like Chris are here for us, our daily life...

@mrawther

6 ай бұрын

Debloat irrespective of who recommends is bad than good. I am pretty sure none of these guys do it in their own computers.

@lylewarren4391

6 ай бұрын

@@mrawther I do, I reformat a lot of computers from my customers, I use his debloat utility all the time although I dont use every setting in it, only the ones that wouldn't bother with the customer's experience, such as not removing search and somtimes not removing edge if they use it as their browser.

@poluefemus

6 ай бұрын

same

Thx a lot for highlighting this project, pretty cool! I hope there's not some kind of shady security stuff going on in the background after using it and that sensitive data isn't collected by the project leaders.

You have helped me discover my favorite browser! I just installed it on my retro Win 8.1 and modern Linux Mint XFCE builds.

As comments have suggested, please also review his other browser, Mercury, and Floorp (Another Firefox fork). Love to know your take on this, despite you being a Chromium guy.

Going to give this a try, but TBH...I can't give up Vivaldi's workspace setup. I run chrome for personal use...mostly for cross-device sync. Been looking to change off. Have done firefox a number of times but always have some issue or another. I run Vivaldi at work and I LOVE the workspaces. Chrome's groups still requires a tab for each group to stay on-screen.

thanks for covering browsers like this. I will be trying Thorium myself to see if I can get away from Brave. I do have a little concern about updates though. I keep Firefox on the side as well (trying Betterfox on that too) and I might try Mercury as well.

Thanks for the heads-up on this exceptional browser. I installed the Mercury browser on my Windows 11 laptop last night. I noticed a hefty speed increase!

I tried Thorium for the first time and I'm a Firefox user - its a good alternative for sure since I'm able to save more RAM and uses less power, my only gripes on Chromium is its lack of ability to remember storage locations per website whenever I save/download things which is really a Quality of LIfe feature for Firefox. I wish this can be done on Thorium then it will be my Daily Driver cause its on par with Vanilla Firefox in terms of performance but uses less resources.

Chris, I gave this browser a whirl and wow this is by far the fastest, easiest browser I've ever used! Thank you for your work in finding better GUI's Very Cool!

just did the speedometer after installing thorium: safari: 258 (+-40); chrome 319 (+-13); thorium _365_ (+-14) ... Thank you Chris for pointing me towards Thorium!

Glad you moved on from Brave. Always found it kinda ironic you de-bloated Windows just to install a bloated browser "suite." This developer also makes Mercury which is a Firefox version with his optimizations. Cheers

@raikaru0

6 ай бұрын

Mercury is useless. It's literally slower or on par with regular Firefox

@DoubsGaming

6 ай бұрын

Wonder how they compare to the security of Tor. Trying to be a security enthusiast is hard given any time you try the browser it ends up breaking functionality.

@thedeemon

6 ай бұрын

Without Brave's built-in adblock here you either have to load & display more crap on web sites, or use an adblock extension like uBlock that eats a lot of memory. So I have big doubts about Thorium using less memory or loading sites faster, don't see how it would work.

@markh.6687

6 ай бұрын

But he's got like eleventy billion extensions bloating up Thorium, no?? :) That's bloat right there.

@shApYT

6 ай бұрын

​@@jsega996kiwi is a chromium fork that allows all chrome extensions.

If we're being honest, Windows 7 is probably still less bloated with telemetry stuff than Windows 10.

@madness1931

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Most of the telemetry was added in W10. Some at launch, some over time as it updated. I still wouldn't use W7, though. W7 was EOL as of 2020, and shouldn't be used. Security should be taken seriously.

@uruacufutsal1

6 ай бұрын

Win 7 is goated

@markh.6687

6 ай бұрын

@@madness1931 What specific security threats which cannot be secured, or is this just M$ FUDD being spread yet again?? "Oh you MUST upgrade to our new ver$ion and new $urface machine to be secure."

@sihamhamda47

6 ай бұрын

Windows 10 can consume 2.5GB of RAM for OS only with all those bloat stuff, when Windows 7 only use 1.3GB for system I use Windows 11 now (as I bought a new laptop last month) and I can still cut down the OS RAM usage to 1.7GB with universal debloater

@aszher

6 ай бұрын

use tiny10 or tiny11, or a ltsc version. i loved w7 but the eol update and most programs closing support for it or even shutting down like steam makes it hard to use

On M1 Mac, Thorium gets 300 on speedometer vs 350 for chrome and 390 for Safari, so maybe it's not quite optimized for Apple silicon yet Also every time I start up it says I'm not signed in with Google and sync is paused. I sign in and on next launch sync is paused again But I'll be watching its progress. Kudos to the dev. Mad lad as they say across the pond

@Lenin286

3 ай бұрын

After 3 months of your comment , did they fix it or release updates for more stability on Mac ?

Windows7 was my greatest experience with Windows. I'm not using it anymore now due to it being obsolete. Great info on Thorium, thanks!

@beachdog67

6 ай бұрын

I still miss NT.

@TheWormzerjr

6 ай бұрын

@@beachdog67 i miss Cosmopolitan and Fingerhut magazines

I just switched. Speedometer runs 19% faster than on Edge! JetStream also runs just under 5% faster. Overall, everything feels very snappy. Great browser!

Switched to Throium 2 weeks back to try it, was surprised to see you too shifted on it.

I know this isn't meant to be ungoogled, but I would love for this to make the webstore swappable with the chromium one and adding flags for the google server ties. UG unfortunately doesn't keep up with the upstream (except for right now to fix libwebp). Alex also said he wanted to provide saner defaults, like turning off ad-tracking out of the box. If this makes it to the default Linux-repos, it could easily stand next to vanilla chromium and outshine it.

The performance advantage of Thorium depends on the instruction set of the CPU. Older CPUs (like my 2-core Pentium G4400) do not support the instruction set extensions that have come along in the last 8 years. For this reason, I installed the SSE3 build of Thorium. Using Thorium Speedmeter 2.1 to benchmark, my G4400 returned a score of 134 for Thorium v117. For comparison, Google Chrome v118 returned a score of 76.1. Google Chrome Canary v120, however, returned a score of 143. My PC has an NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 with 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM on a 128-bit bus, and I have hardware acceleration enabled. OS is Windows 10 Pro 22H2 v19045.3570.

@dwight2310

6 ай бұрын

dude time to upgrade XD

The number of browsers seems to increase every year, like the Linux distro.

@maxnew453

6 ай бұрын

Under the hood there are still only 3 browser existing

@FlameForgedSoul

6 ай бұрын

The number of -browsers- forks of Chrome(Chromium) seem to increase every year. FTFY.

@MehMeh-mj5hn

6 ай бұрын

​@@maxnew453under the hood there are still 3 OSs

@markh.6687

6 ай бұрын

@@MehMeh-mj5hn Not if you count BSD and Solaris. "One, two, five!"

@bleack8701

6 ай бұрын

And like Linux, they're all the same underneath

As a streamer who plays a lot of games and often has a browser going as well any performance optimized browser that cuts back on resources is handy thanks a bunch for sharing this video with us.

@Look_What_You_Did

6 ай бұрын

Get a real job.

@Moochi4

6 ай бұрын

Nice

Awesome video. Been coasting on Brave on Linux for a long time now but this looks great.

YT didnt show this in my notification section lol but tyvm for this video i usally use brave but good to know theres alts out here btw which ares is the DL file in git hub is it under releses?

I'm stuck on Win7 and too poor to upgrade my antique machine so this has special meaning for me. I was so disappointed when I lost the Vivaldi (et al.) updates.

@aleksandarprosic6206

6 ай бұрын

Windows 7 Supermium Browser ( chrome 118 - chromium - blink engine ) Windows 7 Catsxp Browser ( chrome 119 - chromium - blink engine ) Made in China Windows 7 Yandex Browser ( chrome 116 - chromium - blink engine ) Made in Russia Windows 7 Mullvad Browser ( Firefox 115 ESR version - gecko engine - Mozilla ) Made in Sweden /whatismybrowser//html5test//woolyss/ Windows 7 Pale Moon Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Basilisk Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Tor Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Firefox ESR 115 Version Browser ( work updates ) Windows 7 SeaMonkey Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 LibreWolf Browser - last version 116 ( no more updates )(Firefox 116) Windows 7 (last version 109 / no more updates ) Google Chrome, Brave Browser, Comodo Dragon, Opera Browser, Opera GX, Cốc Cốc Browser, Maxthon Browser, Chromium Browser, Microsoft Edge

Finally someone who's not afraid of calling out Brave as being bloated. Brave is highly overrated, and honestly, if I wanna care about privacy etc. then I def. still prefer Firefox and/or it's derivertives over Brave. Thanks - always quality content from you. Keep up the good work!

@evilmarc

6 ай бұрын

I feel like a good browser gets out of the way and Brave has been doing exactly the opposite more and more

@watynecc3309

6 ай бұрын

This guy made a Firefox version

@elEd0

6 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one xD. I dont know why brave is so popular among FOSS enthusiasts, it feels too bloated and "branded" (if that makes sense) and they've had their fair amount of shady moves in the past. Is not a project I would trust tbh.

@eijentwun5509

6 ай бұрын

You are in for a Surprise soon...Firefox is a "Woke" company.

@Klein-Morretti

6 ай бұрын

Lol. Keep thinking that until the other shoe drops.

This is one of the reasons I subscribe to this channel. Definitely going to check this out when I get home tonight.

Great tip! Ran Basemark on it and edge. Edge 850 no gpu usage. Thorium 1711 with gpu usage, sometime 100%. Awesome.

it sounds great and all, but there's a security concern: is it gonna be as fast as chrome/edge/brave in pushing out updates? probably not as those have entire teams dedicated to their maintenance.

Would be amazing to have this on Haiku OS too. When I saw the Thorium title I immediately thought of Molten Salt Reactors which are also amazing.

@thoriumdevel

6 ай бұрын

It is actually named after the element Thorium (just like Chromium is named after the element Chromium), and Thorium is a radioactive element used in so called "breeder" reactors.

Thanks Chris! Installed on all my devices. Love it.

Looks great! Thanks for sharing, Im gonna start to use it for my productivity. Hopefully it'll hold up

Thank you for the Thorium review Chris :) I want to know does the browser include ad blocker or manually install u block origin.

@LandyVlad_Rides

6 ай бұрын

Ublock origin appears to be installed by default - but can easily be uninstalled if you don't want it. (in the windows installer version anyway)

@zebo-the-fat

6 ай бұрын

I just downloaded it on windoze... Ublock seems to be installed by default :)

@savage_tribal_chief

6 ай бұрын

@@LandyVlad_Rides Thanks 😎I installed the browser and it is included and will use this browser rather than brave. Chris showed how fast it is and mine is doing the same thing😎

@savage_tribal_chief

6 ай бұрын

@@zebo-the-fat it comes included

Next, he'll find a perpetual energy browser.

@sihamhamda47

6 ай бұрын

Nuclear fusion browser

Me too! Man I have been looking for a non bloated, FAST browser that wouldn't eat up a ton of memory and resources....thank you for sharing, installing it now!

When you go to the website it starts some background music. Normally I *HATE* websites that does that, but this is an exception. It is very smooth.

I've always been a Chromium fan since all those alternatives didn't really make it for me. Glad to see there's in an even better Chromium out there!

wow this dude is dedicated. he made a version for android aswell as a replacement for the android webview. he even made an optimized firefox called mercury!

Thank you for telling us about this! I will definitely by downloading it soon

Please also cover Mercury Brower of the same developer which is Firefox equivalent. Huge fan. Keep up the great work. Cheers.

He has Android builds and not just that he has builds for System webview as well for both arm32 and 64. He's even making browser for Windows XP. This guy is a literal wizard

@eggrobo

6 ай бұрын

VISTA!!!!!!!!!!!

@Just_Areki

6 ай бұрын

Does it sync with PC version? I mean - does it have any synchronization?

@simsinger9489

6 ай бұрын

wow// link please

@nikunjkhangwal

6 ай бұрын

@@simsinger9489 Are you asking for XP or Android?

@basnijland

6 ай бұрын

Yeah but Android Google sync is broken, so the android app is kinda useless atm

I've installed and I like it apart from each new instance triggers Microsoft Defender Smartscreen. Is there an easy way to trust this permanently without turning off real time protection?

Oh man, it works so beautifully! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this!

That's a pretty resounding endorsement of I've ever heard one! Congratulations to Thorium.

I remember when browsers were all about form and function, in the beginning of Firefox, 2005 or so, fast, efficient, then it started to bog down years later. This makes sense, like the old days.

Gonna give it a try. Looks good on paper. Privacy does not seem as tight as Brave or (modified) Firefox, but from what I can gather it is good enough. The loading time really is impressive. Websites show really fast with my 1 GBit connection. If it will be my new browser I am happy to support the dev too.

I've been using Vivaldi for a while now and I've never looked back. It takes a while to setup to be your new home, but it's well worth it.

Geez im still in love with Vivaldi... by your recommendation years ago. Brave just didnt stick with me, honestly i dont NEED the fastest, but i do need the full sync, and vivaldi sync is so easy on win, lin, and android.

I was the same like you. From Vivaldi to Brave and eventually switched from it because of all the crypto to a smaller japanese browser i found called Floorp. Its a firefox fork with lots of patches and its kinda like Vivaldi. Really customizable and really fast. Would love to see your opinion on it.

@MrShoorf

6 ай бұрын

Vivaldi is also kinda like Vivaldi.

@xellpur

6 ай бұрын

what?@@MrShoorf

@unfunnynaqqash

6 ай бұрын

Brave is good specially when its come to blocking ads and trackers it does the job smoothly but for crypto stuff you need to turn off them from setting and then you can use it smoothly

@nassim99345

5 ай бұрын

​@@unfunnynaqqash people who use brave mainly for adblocking don't know what extensions are 😅

He also created mercury, it’s the same thing but with Firefox (although with less tweaks)

@madmehtab

6 ай бұрын

Ok, igoon to try tha

@denmaakujin9161

6 ай бұрын

the release is very old though

New Subbed i´m impressed about what can i learn here. Thank you showing me awesome Tech and Software

This sounds exciting, I thought Brave would be the browser I'd stick with but there is a bug where if you have "hardware acceleration" enabled blur would occur on the screen and when watching videos it would black out constantly and it looks like thorium has the same issue aswell.

@Brunnen_Gee

6 ай бұрын

I used to have that bug with Brave as well when I was using an Nvidia GPU. I upgraded to an AMD card and the problem went away.

@desardlika755

6 ай бұрын

i forgot to update, thanks for the suggestions i did some reasearch and found out it was the dx11 api causing it, opengl fixed it :)

I remember that the strength, beyond stability, of Chrome in its early editions was its lack of bloat in its early days. Thorium won’t run on my main desktop as it wants newer CPUs, using newer instructions to overcome performance issues. Tried the Raspberry Pi edition on Raspberry Pi 4B - that one reports that it is the wrong architecture (arm64 in the package while Raspbian system is armhf).

@menau_

6 ай бұрын

for me it wasn't working also on my windows laptop but I searched a bit on the thorium website and found the SSE3 Builds that worked just fine 4 me.

@menau_

6 ай бұрын

try using it too on your main desktop

@andythekitsune

6 ай бұрын

There's an SSE3 build under the windows 7 section that should run on older hardware. I'm in the same boat, not having a CPU that supports SSE4

@MarkLKahnt

6 ай бұрын

@@andythekitsune I run Linux more or less universally, so the Windows version won’t do anything for me.

Was curious so I installed it on an old Thinkpad T230x (3rd gen i5 twin-core 8gig ram) and installed it while watching this video on Brave. It installed (Debian12) without issue, ran it with some of the more obnoxious UK news sites which are notorious for crap all over their pages - it was remarkably quick, significantly so. Very much worth a look. Having a TOR browsing plugin would be quite nice if they can manage that.

@prod-NC-17

6 ай бұрын

if you’re using tor you should never be using any other browser than tor browser because by using tor browser you have the smallest fingerprinting surface and it makes you look similar to the other millions who are using tor on tor browser

@Gamer-ct6hb

6 ай бұрын

@@prod-NC-17 Most people just care about the VPN part.

@prod-NC-17

6 ай бұрын

@@Gamer-ct6hb so just use a vpn

@davocc2405

6 ай бұрын

​@@prod-NC-17 You're referring to being as generic as possible by using the standard packaged Firefox based browser? I see the logic in this, that said there must be an awful lot of Brave based users out there already - how significant is this variation do you think? I'm not always a fan of Firefox in the way it handles some sites generally.

@Gamer-ct6hb

6 ай бұрын

@@prod-NC-17 Most people just care about the FREE VPN part.

Neither Thorium nor Mercury have worked out of the box for me on Linux. I use Debian 12 with KDE. For Thorium, I tried installing from the deb file and adding the repo. Both browsers crash as soon as I try to spin them up. I'll have to look into it. I'll give them a shot on Windows. Thanks for sharing this.

@ByAnyMeansNecessary.

6 ай бұрын

I looked into it and basically these browsers do not support my CPU. Sad for me. :(

Installed the linux version on Linux Mint with no problem. Attempted to install the default windows version on Win 10 22H2 (latest build) via the mini-installer, the zip file, and even winget. Ultimately those gave application error 142. Based on comments under the github "issues" I tried the SSE3 version, which worked. I'm running a 2010 era Intel i3-370M on my laptop.

Second, Finally a Chromium fork that has Widevine enabled! I'm officially switching from chrome to thorium. Thanks a lot CTT

@omegadaverddavidhidalgo6662

6 ай бұрын

What is widevine?

@wolfVFXmc

6 ай бұрын

@@omegadaverddavidhidalgo6662to be able to stream DRM content like Netflix, Disney+

@IngrownMink4

6 ай бұрын

@@omegadaverddavidhidalgo6662 Google's DRM (used by Netflix, Spotify and others to reproduce copyright protected multimedia)

I use firefox but I always need a chromium browser, I always uninstalled Chrome after using it because I just don't like having it, I downloaded Thorium immediately after seeing the thumbnail, that's how much I trust you.

Nice video but earlier which browser you were using while showing the thorium website? it kinda looks like Safari. Well nice vid

Downloaded and installed Thorium while watching this in Chrome. Signed in to Google to sync my shebangs, and man, the performance difference is night and day. Thank you Chris for sharing this project.

I really liked using Thorium in the past but being a long time Firefox user, I personally prefer Mercury, which is a Firefox fork from the same dev which implements about the same patches and goodies as thorium. Kudos to Alex for bringing us these!

@mireafelder8194

6 ай бұрын

Can you sync your bookmarks on all of your different devices with Mercury?

@justincerro534

5 ай бұрын

@@mireafelder8194 yes, same as Firefox if I’m not mistaken.

Going to give Thorium a try on my MacBook Pro M1 Max, to see how the battery usage compares to Brave which is my go-to browser.

Installed! Looking forward to trying it out

"Much safer than Uranium"

What's the different between Thorium and Thorium-Win repos? Does the first one like include everything even AVX2?

@ChrisTitusTech

6 ай бұрын

Thorium = Linux Thorium-Win = Windows

Awesome find! Thanks, great video as always 🙂

Just installed and set Thorium up! Although, some sites seem to be slow or not load at all. Brave/other browsers work with no issues though. I'm on a relatively new Arch install so I don't know if I'm missing any component that would explain this behaviour. Using the .AppImage version, which seems ok. Any clue? Cheers!

Not enough of a difference between vanilla firefox and throrium based on Speedometer 2.1 results they are pretty close throrium: 415 runs/min vs firefox 348 runs/min (mac M1) and I still trust Mozilla a bit more :)

@KatieGeorgieva

6 ай бұрын

how did u installed it?

@TJ-hs1qm

6 ай бұрын

@@KatieGeorgieva I think I've downloaded the dmg file (Thorium_MacOS_ARM.dmg for silicon Mx) from their website

chromium is a no go for me but I'll give Mercury a shot. I've been fiddling a little with Pale Moon too

Thanks for this CT and thank you Alex. This is the last video I'm watching on Chromium. Switching to Thorium.

Never had a problem with Chrome on Mac, but then again, I know how to make the settings work for my use. I would be interested in checking this out though just because of the sheer amount of ram Chrome takes just to run.

Looks like he also has a Firefox Fork

i aint tryin to spend my life nerding out about browsers but might have to give this a try 👀

@harmez7

6 ай бұрын

👀

Crashed on opening on my OCLP MacOS Ventura 13.6 box. Had great expectations. Wil try on my Ubuntu box soon.

Thank you for the recommendation!

This browser is simply amazing, it also has versions for older operating systems like Windows 2000 and XP. I'll make it my main browser. Thanks for suggesting this browser to me. October 17, 2023 9:27PM

@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT

6 ай бұрын

How is it in terms of search censorship? That's the main problem for me, not the speed.

@clemente_01

6 ай бұрын

@@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT Isnt that managed by the search engine, and not the browser?

@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT

6 ай бұрын

@@clemente_01 Yep, I was hoping Thorium had its own search engine. Existing search engines are all compromised.

@simsinger9489

6 ай бұрын

usable? any experience with win2000 or win xp? cant find downloadlink (for xp)

_"Supports Windows 7"_ Me With Windows 7: I'll take that as a win

@wrawler

6 ай бұрын

.....dows

@THEpicND

6 ай бұрын

Take it as 7 wins

amazing! thanks for the overview and i hope this browser gets more love!

University of Missouri at Columbia MO ... worked on a Manhattan project exploring THORIUM for bomb use ... years later the building was found to has some residual radioactivity.

My main questions are: - How well does it work for web developers? Are there certain CSS / HTML things that do not work here, but do in chrome? - How easy is it for a chrome user to switch to this?

@LiLBitsDK

6 ай бұрын

can you type in url? can you click on a bookmark? yeah I think you can use it with no issues... it's not rocket science... it's a frigging browser...

@NilEoe

6 ай бұрын

It really feels/looks like chrome. Bookmarks and preferences also transfer automatically upon signin to Google with 0 issues. Can't answer the HTML query tho.

Maybe try a firefox fork "Floorp", it looks promising to be a firefox fork in the world dominated by chromium.

@arandomguy9474

6 ай бұрын

trying it out, looks good

@ClifffSVK

6 ай бұрын

the logo looks like among us :D

@ark6nz

6 ай бұрын

where do you guys find these forks😭

@LandyVlad_Rides

6 ай бұрын

@@ark6nz between the knives and spoons usually.

@markh.6687

6 ай бұрын

@@LandyVlad_Rides (mock anger) YOU! OUT!!

Thanks for the tip Chris. This browser looks nice. I have test it now and so far this one is FAAAST :) . Works well in Android also. Also thanks for all tip and information you share.

I installed it - seems very quick and doesn't need an adblocker - splendid.

2:18 aged like milk

@negimox

3 ай бұрын

🤣xd but he did own it up.

As a web dev and somebody concerned about security: this is definitely not something youd want. There needs to be more than one dev for sure and the team needs a good track record. The browser is, besides you as a human, one of the most vulnerable parts of your system.

@NakedTrashPanda

6 ай бұрын

Good thing it is all open source. Obviously, bad intentions can stay under the radar for quite some time, but it's up to the community to check the code.

@covrtdesign5279

6 ай бұрын

That was my thought as well. Sounds great, but I will not leave it up to one person.

@RavenMobile

6 ай бұрын

@@covrtdesign5279 Better than leaving it up to a team of incompetent, overpaid, disinterested employees like Firefox does.

@IsoMacintosh

6 ай бұрын

Open source does not add security if no one checks the code, and with obscure small projects it's unlikely there are people going through the code@@NakedTrashPanda

@Rijads

6 ай бұрын

@@NakedTrashPanda That is so misleading... So many npm packages go rouge and get unnoticed FOR YEARS, they have million installs, they are open source....

I followed your advice and installed it. Seemed okay for a bit. Then, I started having weird failures. YT videos would stop then need restarting as if the mouse was failing. Bottom line, it was Thorium. I went back to Brave and all the issues went away.

Have you tried his firefox variant Mercury, which implements some of ghostery & librefox security forks?

Chris what did you not like about Vivaldi? I can't find a browser with as many useful features as Vivaldi. I'm not sure why all browsers haven't copied their "speed dial" page. It's a game changer.

@xellaz

6 ай бұрын

For me the feature I like the most from Vivaldi is the multi-stacking tab support. No other browser can hold as much open tabs as Vivaldi browser. 💪 My main browser is LibreWolf though and it's been great so far. 👍

@SirVer51

6 ай бұрын

Features are nice, but it's noticably slower than Chrome and Firefox, and less stable too if you have large numbers of tabs and windows