Thorium Browser is a [[BSD-3]] licensed fork of [[Chromium]]. - [Website](https://thorium.rocks/) - [Source](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium) > 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, so it won't launch on CPU's below 2nd gen Core or AMD FX, but benefits from Advanced Vector EXtensions. If your CPU lacks AVX, you can use builds from the Thorium SSE3 repo. \- official repo # Notability Worth keeping an eye on. # Philosophy ## Development Unfortunately Thorium has not been updated regularly and can go 9 months without new releases. Help out if you can, but this makes it hard to recommend despite it's support of manifest v2. ## Manifest v2 - https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/79 (Manifest v2 discussion) - https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/968 (suggestion to support Firefox extensions) > Manifest V2 support force enabled (Starting in M128 they are experimenting with disabling MV2). It will be completely removed in M136 (10 months from now), and when they finally do remove the actual code for loading MV2 extensions, it will be restored, because F**k Google! Even if it takes a crapload of work, I am determined to restore it, because without UBlock Origin working properly in Thorium, I wouldn't even want to use my own browser! If you want to use other Chromium based browsers, you will eventually be out of luck, and will either need to use Firefox, or find another Chromium fork that has MV2 support when the time comes. ## Ethos The main goal of this fork is optimization for speed. ## Ungoogling > ungoogled is not what Thorium wants \- `gz83`, maintainer, upon closing an issue about removing Google features from Thorium # Platform Support # Features # Tips ## Integration with KeePass ``` ~/.config/thorium/NativeMessagingHosts/ ``` # References