Thorium

[mockingbird]

Has anyone tried the new Thorium build for Windows XP?

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-legacy/releases

It's stable for me (unlike Supermium)...  Looks like it's time to ditch 360 Chrome, finally.

[Saxon]

I'd suggest to avoid this "browser" at all costs, simply to skip any potential problems with the police. Already discussed here, in the topics below.

And since it's a Supermium's knock-off, based solely on Supermium, strange you have troubles with Supermium itself.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/185045-supermium/?do=findComment&comment=1263138

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18ihls8/dont_use_thorium_browser_if_you_have_it_installed/

[ED_Sln]

2 hours ago, Saxon said:

I'd suggest to avoid this "browser" at all costs, simply to skip any potential problems with the police.

Stop writing this nonsense under every post mentioning Thorium. If you are so disgusted by him, just ignore those posts.

[Dixel]

6 hours ago, Saxon said:

potential problems with the police

Ethical reasons, also.

[Dixel]

3 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Stop writing this nonsense under every post mentioning Thorium. If you are so disgusted by him, just ignore those posts.

Stop threatening MSFN members. If you are so disgusted by the collective decision of the Reddit's highly respected community to officially label it as "child pornography distribution",

if you don't agree with the results of the investigation, just ignore those posts. And this matter is directly related to the compromised security of that browser and safety of MSFN members,

consequently - it's not off-topic.

 

[ED_Sln]

44 minutes ago, Dixel said:

If you are so disgusted by the collective decision of the Reddit's highly respected community

I hope that was sarcasm.

[Dave-H]

Personally I wouldn't use Thorium. As has been said, it's just a ripped-off clone of Superium re-badged as far as I can see.
And that's disregarding any moral reasons not to use it based on the accusations levelled at its 'creator'.
Please keep any discussions about it here purely on a technical level though, or this thread will be closed.
Thank you.

[mockingbird]

1 hour ago, Dave-H said:

Personally I wouldn't use Thorium. As has been said, it's just a ripped-off clone of Superium re-badged as far as I can see.
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Thorium isn't re-badged Supermium.  The Thorium-Legacy XP build uses  progwrp.dll from Supermium -- that doesn't make it a re-badge.

I use Thorium on ALL my computers...  The flexibility is excellent because they have specialized Windows 7 builds for particular instruction sets...  My Ivy bridge gets Thorium-AVX.  My Haswell gets Thorium-AVX2, etc...

This said, I left Thorium open all night on my XP machine - it is perfectly stable so far, with no memory leaks -- something Supermium could not do.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I would add that Thorium has existed longer than Supermium.

I have not used it but I cannot claim to have really used Supermium either - I launch Supermium to TRY to use it, it pegs the CPU at 100%, tends to make its way out of the 100%, only to resume 100% a minute or two later, I throw the computer out the living room window, I visit a local retailer to replace the computer, then a local window shop to replace the living room window.

[Dave-H]

LOL!

Interesting to hear that Thorium was actually around before Superium.
My judgement was made purely on appearances, where the menus of Thorium and Superium appear to be identical, apart from where they reference the name of the browser.
I did say earlier on in the Superium thread that there might well be differences under the bonnet though.
The one thing that would possibly make me try Thorium again would be if its memory usage is better controlled than Superium.

 

[Klemper]

14 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I would add that Thorium has existed longer than Supermium.

Yes, I can also confirm this. But Thorium had been stuck with a very old, obsolete Chromium version which was officially supported on Windows 8, my OS at that time. Thorium couldn't move forward without Supermium, even one step. Folks on guthub had their fingertips worn off with questions about new version of Thorium, when it finally arrives, yet there was none, all until Supermium 119 or 120 arrived.

[Klemper]

22 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

I hope that was sarcasm.

Why does respect to the gihub folks sound as sarcasm to you? What's wrong with respecting good developers?

[ED_Sln]

2 hours ago, Klemper said:

Why does respect to the gihub folks sound as sarcasm to you? What's wrong with respecting good developers?

I wasn't talking about developers, I was talking about Reddit users.

Edited April 18 by ED_Sln

[ED_Sln]

2 hours ago, Klemper said:

Folks on guthub had their fingertips worn off with questions about new version of Thorium, when it finally arrives, yet there was none, all until Supermium 119 or 120 arrived.

But you can't call it a clone either, for example Thorium has support for h265 and JpegXL. It may be useful for some people.

[D.Draker]

22 hours ago, mockingbird said:

Thorium isn't re-badged Supermium.

Yes it is.

That's what "Alex F." (Thorium) wrote at his official github page. 

Not long after "Alex F." edited his profile and changed location from Russia to US.

"I just tweak a few things, and do the necessary steps to remove Supermium branding..."

7 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

But you can't call it a clone either,

He didn't, the maker himself did. Familiarize yourself with his statement.

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/363#issuecomment-1998666719