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Open Peppix-007 opened this issue 8 months ago • 4 comments

Dead project again? New Windows quirk halting new releases?

Peppix-007 avatar Apr 20 '25 15:04 Peppix-007

The project has not been abandoned, Alex is currently busy with full-time work and all releases will be delayed.

gz83 avatar Apr 20 '25 23:04 gz83

You should probably use another browser, at least at your daily driver. Thorium not being up to date with the latest version of Chromium after at most a few days is also the (very valid) reason, why most package registries are not listing it. It is a serious security issue, as most critical Chrome (ium) bugs are already getting exploited at the time they are fixed and there is no way to protect against that, as every legit site can be compromised as the past showed. So as much as I appreciate the efforts put in to the performance improvements, no one should really use it as a daily driver or outside of a strictly isolated environment if you care for security.

itpropro avatar May 30 '25 20:05 itpropro

i use this on a imac 2009 for its awesome performance on linuxmint.

Littlemac123 avatar Jun 05 '25 06:06 Littlemac123

It is a serious security issue, as most critical Chrome (ium) bugs are already getting exploited at the time they are fixed and there is no way to protect against that, as every legit site can be compromised as the past showed.

I don't give a shit about these security updates, neither am I the target for hackers nor can they even steal me a single cent $$$ from the bank.

I use THORIUM for W7 a secondary browser like the original CHROME 109 for a few things because I open too many tabs at a time and SUPERMIUM 119 is my primary browser because it never left me down

My biggest complaint so far is that the bookmarks drop menu from the side panel doesn't allow me to manually sort my saved links. there are some other minor bugs that I can live with and I don't bother to open a new issue because I know up front they will never get fixed....

dsolaray avatar Jun 08 '25 05:06 dsolaray

Hope Alex313031 will have time to ...

Release new version of ( Mercury Browser )( Thorium Browser ) ...

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ioc2e3 avatar Aug 07 '25 07:08 ioc2e3

@dsolaray @itpropro @ioc2e3 @Peppix-007 Today I will be pushing the first real source code commits to Thorium (other than TODO.md lol) since Feburary!

Restoring MV2 support and updating the main BUILD.gns will be first priority.

Please see new status tracker! : https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/1067

Closing this issue.

Alex313031 avatar Sep 17 '25 18:09 Alex313031