"The Best Web Browser" Isn't Thorium

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• Slight correction, there is an apt repo on the website not sure how I missed it. But this seems to just be setup for debian so no guarantees it'll work on any other debian based system. Some users are reporting issues getting the package installed however

• Even if you tried to be balanced, I find your criticisms a little too harsh, for example concerning ublock origin installed by default, the developer of ublock origin has developed new version ublock lite which works well because I test it and which uses the manifest v3 and which does not consume cpu, and then why judge Thorium on a possible future, perhaps google will no longer implement the v3 manifest?

  already ublock origIN is a bonus, a gift, and Thorium brings AVX2 and hardware acceleration support for close source codecs while other major famous browsers do not have adequate harware acceleration support for certain not open source codes, for update, I don't like the updaters in the backend and in the task scheduler which can consume resources and those who install Thorium have technical skills and can check new updates, and there is even an updater for Thorium browser. ….for the chromium version, new versions can bring bugs so it is better to stay on more stable versions and Thorium makes a new version every month, it is very difficult 6 hours of intensive use of the computer to make new version, we use Thorium for dark mode, hardware gpu support for cloe source codecs….this is why we like Thorium which has new exclusive new functions, I suggest you to make new version for balance to palpate new new features that Thorium Browser has compared to other browsers, and other famous browsers with ad blocking let certain ads through, it is proven but Throium blocks all ads and does not do deals for let ads pass

• Hi Iam a Linux user on my main machine. I do not use google services on a Android based laptop for the standard services i.e Mail,Youtube, Generic crap which is as apolitical and boring as possible. My Linux machine is for all my thing I want to keep private. I do not use that system for web surfing so a browser like thorium is of no use to me

• I dunno. I was rather excited to try it, but it ended up not being able to launch on two of my systems. Not sure why, but when I launch, the window pops up for a second and terminates. Anyone else got this issue by any chance?

• wow its really fast in athlon 2 x3 (rana) with 4gb ram archlinux system, 5400 rpm old hdd, nicee

• somebody needs to put firefox style tabs, probably alot of work tho.

• Why would one use a Chromium based browser?

• I agree on the security aspect but what make me stick with Thorium is simply just two things.

  1. ADS. I get it ADS are important revenues but if its at the point of getting super ridiculous (wait 15 seconds to wait for another 20 seconds and to choose a picture of a head again and then wait for another 20 seconds then click continue and of course the millions >exagerattion< pop ups you have to close) Thorium prevented all of that (yes all of the pop up gone not a single one you need to click cancel) and sometimes if the ads have countdown it even make it count faster. For example wait 15 seconds > cut down to 2 seconds. That is heaven.

  2. Smooth and just work. I have yet to have any issue with this browser with whatever I'm doing on the internet be it youtube, twitch, downloading or anything so far.

• I use Thorium… I like it and serves for what I need. And it updates in AUR. It is hardened and runs like a Ferrari.

• o i tried is quite fast and seems less loading time from chrome

• Good takes, but I am still genuinely surprised that the person talking about browser issues uses Brave. Does make it a little bit funny.

• what does my man have on the shelves?

• Adding Yandex by default – the worst they could do. This is a corporation known for its association with the terrorist regime of the Russian Federation, they use their resources for helping spread russian's propaganda and lies.

• The fact that it doesn't provide the latest version is not unsusal: Ubuntu 22.04 (lts, so current!), currently provides 114, Raspberry Pi OS provides 116, if I am not mistaken. These distributions maintain those older versions. As a matter of fact Thorium provides the most recent Chromium versions for relativ exotic platforms like arm64. That doesn't invalidate your other doubts however…

• Everyone has an opinion and likes to share it.

• I thought about trying it, but when I saw no flatpak or Fedora Repo, i was turned down.
  Sticking to Brave for now.

• This is the reason I have stopped watching CTT a long time ago for this exact reason. He shills random projects he finds every other day, without even considering the security issues there are with it. His channel is basically a hotspot for these things:
  1. self promotion of his windows shell script (which has no reason to exist, it's some random tweaks that people should probably do manually)
  2. shilling random projects

  I don't have a problem with people putting a spotlight on good projects, but just outright recommending a project that was made a few months ago, for using it as your main web browser to newbies (which are most CTT viewers) is outright absurd.

• The best part about having a daily driver is driving it daily. Energy follows attention, attention follows energy. In my use case, I require sync (without needing to bake in my API keys), and the AVX support is pretty sweet considering the other homebrew concoctions out there of chromium that generally offer compromises in terms of both. I’m of the mindset of choosing the least of all evils, and this one is fitting the bill so far. FF is still cool in its own way, too, though.

  [Edit: Reminds me of the GNOME vs. KDE wars that were fought (still fighting?) years ago].

• Been thinking of trying it out to see if there is any difference in loading speed.

  Not so positive about switching from a browser that can't sign in to google (sync features) to a browser that can sign in to google (sync features). If I am signed in to any google website (includes YT) then the browser would be automatically signed in to google (sync features).

  ungoogled chromium updates more rapidly but is a manual download every time. The update process is essentially going to a web page and checking if there is a slightly higher version number than the About Chromium page.

  on ungoogled chromium it's harder to install extensions from chrome web store, and no automatic updates for extensions. This might also mean no blacklisting of extensions.

  If manifest v2 gets removed, I wonder if these forks will try to keep it in.

• Say what you will about Do Not Track, mandating sites respect it would have been far superior to the goddamn EU cookie warning.

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