New Update Thorium Browser - Fastest Browser on Earth

[HarborFront]

Anybody using it?

A lot of things on its website below to read

Thorium Browser

Chromium fork for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi named after radioactive element No. 90.

thorium.rocks

 

[enaph]

Looks like MacOS version is 2 months old and Windows version 1 month old. Doesn't look like a really well maintained project.

 

[pxxb1]

Anybody using it?

A lot of things on its website below to read

Thorium Browser

Chromium fork for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi named after radioactive element No. 90.

thorium.rocks

Where to download?

 

[brambedkar59]

"Fastest Browser on Earth"
Now that's a big claim. And still on v117.0.5938.157

Spoiler: Ouch

Slower than brave after making a fair enough comparison · Issue #106 · Alex313031/Thorium-Win

I wanted to test if Thorium is really that fast and better than Brave, so I downloaded and imported all my extensions and history into this browser and there are a couple of issues. First before im...

github.com

 

[HarborFront]

Where to download?

In the link provided in the starting post

 

[cofer123]

 

[brambedkar59]

 

[nicolaasjan]

@cofer123,
Are you referring to this issue (on closing 463, which has now mysteriously disappeared...)?
Archived here.

By the way, your link is an iframe and is not displayed in Firefox here by default (white rectangle).
Had to use the inspector to find out what was hiding in it.

 

[Moonhorse]

this is why i use mainstream browsers, there is company behind the browser where you cant afford on dumb things like this

i feel bad for the people using thorium though

 

[monkeylove]

More points here:

Don't Use Thorium Browser – If Installed, Remove It | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

 

[Jonny Quest]

I agree with @Moonhorse ..is Floorp next, not in the same way, but I'm just not a fan of all these fork browsers. Let alone I can't get past the name. It's like BetterBird and now, Scamio.

 

[SeriousHoax]

This video is well-made. It's extremely stupid for the dev to put those things into his project. But so far, it doesn't seem as bad as some Reddit post made it sound like. I mean, no child p***n was involved at least.

 

[Moonhorse]

I mean, no child p***n was involved at least.

Imagine installing safe browser and then let your childs to use the computer and this furry thing pops-up

i wouldnt even touch this browser

 

[Oxygen]

I'm back to using it as my default browser after the Developer made a whole blog post about it as well as putting out more frequent updates.

Blog Post:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Aside from that, the browser is still the fastest browser I have used and it just works for me without features that I don't need or want in a browser.