## Chromium fork for linux named after [radioactive element No. 90](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium). Windows/MacOS/RasPi/Other builds see below.
- Includes [Widevine](https://www.widevine.com/), [All Codecs](https://tools.woolyss.com/html5-audio-video-tester/), Chrome Plugins, as well as thinLTO, CFlag, LDFlag, LLVM Loop, and PGO compiler optimizations. It is built with [SSE4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4), [AVX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions), and [AES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set), so it won't launch on CPU's below 2nd gen Core or AMD FX, but benefits from Advanced Vector EXtensions. You can disable this and build with regular SSE3 like Chromium and Chrome, or use builds from [Thorium Special](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special), some of which are SSE4 only. (See below.)
– AVX2 Builds for Windows and Linux > [Thorium AVX2](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2) (source files for AVX2 are here in the "other" directory, as well as files for SSE4 and Polly builds.) \
– MacOS (M1 and X64) and Raspberry Pi (arm64) Builds, as well as Special and Experimental builds, sometimes for other CPUs (read the Readme), are located at > [Thorium Special](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special) You can also find builds for Piledriver/Steamroller/Excavator CPUS, Haswell CPUs, as well as SSE4 Linux builds. (source files are here in the "arm" directory) \
### FEATURES & DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHROMIUM AND THORIUM <img src="https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/logos/NEW/bulb_light.svg#gh-dark-mode-only"> <img src="https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/logos/NEW/bulb_dark.svg#gh-light-mode-only">
> - Various compiler flags that improve performance and target [AVX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions) CPU's (read [PATCHES.md](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/infra/PATCHES.md))
> - Patches from Debian including font rendering patch, VAAPI Patch, Intel HD support patch, native notifications patch, title bar patch, and... the VDPAU Patch!! (Rejoice Nvidia users)
> - Adds [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/), [Brave Search](https://search.brave.com/), [Ecosia](https://www.ecosia.org/), [Ask.com](https://www.ask.com/), and [Yandex.com](https://yandex.com/) in US and other locales, along with the normal search engines.
> - [Prefetch](https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching/) settings updated to respect privacy.
> - Patches for [GN](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/tools/gn/+/48062805e19b4697c5fbd926dc649c78b6aaa138/README.md) and [chrome_sandbox](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/design/sandbox.md) when building.
> - Various new flags either developed from scratch, or added from Ungoogled Chromium. See [PATCHES.md](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/infra/PATCHES.md)
> - Inclusion of <img src="https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/logos/STAGING/pak.png" width="16"> [pak](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/tree/main/pak_src#readme) (Linux) and [pak_mingw](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/tree/main/pak_src/bin/pak-win) (Windows), a utility for packing and unpacking the [*.pak](https://textslashplain.com/2022/05/03/chromium-internals-pak-files/) files in Thorium or any other Chromium based browser.
> - .desktop file includes useful cmdline flags that enable experimental or useful features. (See [PATCHES.md](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/infra/PATCHES.md))
> - Includes installer patches and files to include [ChromeDriver](https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home) and *thorium_shell* [(content_shell)](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/testing/web_tests_in_content_shell.md), with a .desktop file being provided for thorium_shell (named thorium-shell.desktop and shows in desktop environments as Thorium Content Shell). These are also included in the Windows releases, but it doesn't make a shorcut, although a .png and .ico is in the install directory for you to make your own shortcut with an icon. You can also run content_shell with the command thorium-shell (custom wrapper for it, located in /usr/bin/). You can run ChromeDriver at /usr/bin/chromedriver or chromedriver.exe on Windows. Also, patches for abseil library and mini_installer when building with AVX on Windows.
> - Right clicking the launcher after install gives three additional desktop actions, one to open thorium-shell, another to open in Safe Mode which disables any flags one has set in chrome://flags until the next launch, and lastly to open in Dark Mode which appends the --force-dark-mode flag.
− https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromiumBrowser/ is a subreddit I made for Thorium and general Thorium/Chromium discussion, https://thorium.rocks/ is the website I made for it, and https://alex313031.blogspot.com/ is a blog I made relating to Thorium/ThoriumOS. \
− I also build ChromiumOS (now called ThoriumOS) with Thorium, Codecs, Widevine, linux-firmware/modules, and extra packages at > https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS/
− Thanks to https://github.com/robrich999/ for some info and fixes that went into this project.\
− Thanks to https://github.com/midzer/ for support and helping with builds. \
− Also thanks to https://github.com/bromite/bromite, https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-ubuntu-build, https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium, https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium, and https://github.com/iridium-browser/iridium-browser for patch code. \
__NOTE:__ [*libpepflashplayer.so*](https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/blob/main/infra/libpepflashplayer.so) is included for posterity and can be used to enable Adobe Flash on older Chromium releases. ʘ‿ʘ
