Thorium WinUpdater

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Support has ended

I have decided to stop support for Thorium WinUpdater. This is primarily because of the lack of regular updates to the Thorium project, which leaves users vulnerable to 0-days for many months at a time. As such, I feel uncomfortable to recommend using Thorium by offering this updater. Additionally, due to a lack of proper release and naming conventions of the Thorium project, I have found it to be impossible to guarantee a reliant update flow via WinUpdater. For more information, see https://github.com/ltguillaume/thorium-winupdater/issues/7#issuecomment-2072405293. You are free to fork this repo to continue development. I would greatly appreciate it if you dropped a note here if you are going to continue the project.

An attempt to make updating Thorium for Windows much easier. This is a fork of LibreWolf WinUpdater.

Usage

• If you want to run the portable version of Thorium, download and extract Thorium_???_xxx.x.xxxx.x.zip. Put Thorium-WinUpdater.exe in the same folder.
  Then, if you wish to perform an update, just run Thorium-WinUpdater.exe.
• When you have installed Thorium using the Thorium_???_mini_installer.exe, just run Thorium-WinUpdater.exe from any location to check for updates. If one is available, the new mini installer will be downloaded immediately.

Scheduled Updates

• Run Thorium WinUpdater and select the option to automatically check for updates. This will prompt for administrative permissions and a blue (PowerShell) window will open and notify you of the result. The scheduled task will run while the current user account is logged on (at start-up and every 24 hours).
• If your account has administrator privileges, the update will be fully automatic. If not, the update will be downloaded and you will be asked by WinUpdater to start the update.
• If Thorium is already running, the updater will notify you of the new version. The update will start as soon as you close the browser.

Remarks

• The updater needs to be able to write to Thorium-WinUpdater.ini in its own folder (so make sure it has permission to do so), otherwise WinUpdater will copy itself to %LocalAppData%\Thorium\WinUpdater and run from there.
• Thorium-WinUpdater.ini contains a [Log] section that shows the results of the last update check and update action.
• Thorium WinUpdater also updates itself automatically, so you won't have to check for new releases here. If you prefer to update WinUpdater yourself, add the following to the .ini file:

  [Settings]
  UpdateSelf=0
  

• Thorium should automatically detect which build you are currently using (e.g. SSE3, AVX, or AVX2) thanks to the thor_ver file. It'll show the detected version next to the version number in the UI and in the [Log] part of Thorium-WinUpdater.ini.
• NOTE: The AVX build is for systems lacking AVX2 instructions. The Win7 builds are for Windows 7/8/8.1 systems, because of Chromium deprecating support for these OSes as per here.

Building

• Requires AutoHotKey 1.1
  See BUILDING.md

Credits

• Thorium by Alex Frick
• The Chromium Project
• Original icon by Alex Frick
• Original logo by Alex Frick