11th Release - M105.0.5145.0

• M105 Refresh
• Thorium Dino game! Try it at chrome://dino It has colours fixed from last release, and fullscreen is now working again.
• Extension icon reverted to normal one, although the blue colour is being kept.

10th Release - M105.0.5114.0

• M105
• Extensions and main menu icon changed.
• NEW Thorium Dino game! Try it at chrome://dino/ (You have to type that in, links won't work)
• Rebased Intel HD & VAAPI patches (VAAPI is Linux only)

9th Release - M104.0.5084.0

IMPORTANT The main executable is now named thorium.exe instead of chrome.exe, and the main thorium shell executable is now named thorium_shell.exe instead of content_shell.exe. The Readmes and portable scripts and building instructions have been updated. You MUST uninstall Thorium before installing this new release, I.E. do NOT just install the new .exe in place over the old one. You can uninstall it in control panel, and choose whether or not to keep your user profile data.

ALSO We are making a new website for Thorium! Check it out at > https://thorium.rocks/

Thorium UI Debug Shell A program for tinkerers, lets you explore inside the Thorium UI. Try it by running the views_examples_with_content.exe in the .zip.

• M104 Refresh
• Executable names changed to reflect Thorium name
• Compatibility mode bug is FIXED.
• New Security Patch : RSA uses 2048 bit length instead of 1024
• Show all extensions by default patch
• Better tab outline when running with dark theme/in dark mode
• Parallel Downloading enabled by default
• Tab Hover Cards enabled by default
• Drag and Drop tabs between windows on Wayland patch (Linux only)
• Updated logo on chrome://components page
• Chrome Labs shown by default with a new logo I made.
• Support for FLAC audio
• New setup .exe icon. The Chromium one is the same one since 2008, a 256 color 24px Windows XP installer icon. The new one is a 64px 32 bit icon that combines the Thorium logo with the Win 7+ installer icon.
• CONTENT_SHELL.BAT has been renamed to THORIUM_SHELL.BAT

Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars It's great in dark mode!

8th Release - M104.0.5078.0

• M104
• Compatibility mode bug is FIXED. (Hopefully for good this time.)
• New Security Patch : RSA uses 2048 bit length instead of 1024
• Show all extensions by default patch
• Better tab outline when running with dark theme/in dark mode
• Parallel Downloading enabled by default
• Tab Hover Cards enabled by default
• Drag and Drop tabs between Windows on Wayland patch (Linux only)
• Updated logo on chrome://components page
• Chrome Labs shown by default with a new logo I made.
• Support for FLAC audio
• New setup .exe icon. The Chromium one is the same one since 2008, a 256 color 24px Windows XP installer icon. The new one is a 64px 32 bit icon that combines the Thorium logo with the Win 7+ installer icon.
• CONTENT_SHELL.BAT has been renamed to THORIUM_SHELL.BAT

Also, try my scrollbar theme for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-ScrollBars It's great in dark mode!

Built by @gz83

7th Release - M103.0.5045.0

• My Haswell board went the way of the DoDo bird and died, so I wasn't able to continue AVX2 releases, but luckily, we have @gz83 to the rescue. He is the newest builder/contributer to Thorium and I welcome him to the two (now three) person team.

• Compatibility mode bug is STILL present on win10/win11 systems. If you are just upgrading, not doing a fresh install, you shouldn't have to do anything.

• Also, try out my simple scrollbar theme for Thorium, Thorium Scrollbars. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium_ScrollBars If you are not familiar with how to manually install a chrome extension see https://stackoverflow.com/a/11879334/19023992

The thorium_compat_mode.bat is a little batch file I made to automate the setting of compatibility mode on windows 10/11 to mitigate the bug where it will say "Error code: RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA". You will have to right click and select "run as administrator" because it sets compatibility mode for all users, which means it writes to the HKLM registry hive which is restricted to admins.

- IMPORTANT: The User profile dir is now changed and set from
C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data >> C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Thorium\User Data
To migrate, make sure the Thorium user data dir is empty, and then just copy the entire contents of the Chromium one into it.
I.E. If you havent run Thorium yet, just copy the whole User Data folder. If you've run it and then freak out because all your user profile data is gone, then delete the contents of the Thorium folder and copy the contents of the Chromium one into the Thorium one.

This was done to be in line with the Thorium branding, as well as to allow side by side installations of Chromium and Thorium (including differing versions). This was already done on the Linux version for some time now, but I just now figured out where in source code you can change the install location/user data location on windows. Sorry if this disturbs your workflow.
Mac releases will also have this change soon.

6th Release - M103.0.5022.0

• M103

- NOTE: The bugs have switched up on us! While I fixed the icon issue from previous M103 release, the compatibility mode bug is back on Win10/Win11. The same notes below about the user profile will be posted for a couple more releases, to allow people to see it if they don't update Thorium all the time.

- IMPORTANT: The User profile dir is now changed and set from
C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data >> C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Thorium\User Data
To migrate, make sure the Thorium user data dir is empty, and then just copy the entire contents of the Chromium one into it.
I.E. If you havent run Thorium yet, just copy the whole User Data folder. If you've run it and then freak out because all your user profile data is gone, then delete the contents of the thorium folder and copy the contents of the Chromium one into the Thorium one.

This was done to be in line with the Thorium branding, as well as to allow side by side installations of Chromium and Thorium (including differing versions). This was already done on the Linux version for some time now, but I just now figured out where in source code you can change the install location/user data location on windows. Sorry if this disturbs your workflow.
Mac releases will also have this change soon.

5th Release - M103.0.5014.0

• M103
• This is an interim release, and the dreaded bug where the icon is wrong has returned!!! Arggg.
• At least the issue on Win 10/11 where you had to set compatibility mode is resolved.
  - IMPORTANT: The User profile dir is now changed and set from
  C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data >> C:\Users$USERNAME\AppData\Local\Thorium\User Data
  To migrate, make sure the Thorium user data dir is empty, and then just copy the entire contents of the Chromium one into it.
  I.E. If you havent run Thorium yet, just copy the whole User Data folder. If you've run it and then freak out because all your user profile data is gone, then delete the contents of the thorium folder and copy the contents of the Chromium one into the Thorium one.

This was done to be in line with the Thorium branding, as well as to allow side by side installations of Chromium and Thorium (including differing versions). This was already done on the Linux version for some time now, but I just now figured out where in source code you can change the install location/user data location on windows. Sorry if this disturbs your workflow.
Mac releases will also have this change soon.

4th Release - M102.0.4973.0

• Refresh of M102

-- Same information from previous release below↓

NOTE: There is an upstream bug in Chromium. It only appears on Windows 10/11. Windows 7/8/8.1 are fine.
Problem: You may get a condition when launching where extensions will not start and open tabs will say "RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA" or "STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN".
To fix this: Right click the Thorium shortcut, or the actual executable at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\chrome.exe , go to properties, and set the compatibility mode to windows 7 or 8.

ALSO: INFORMATION REGARDING SYNC. To enable sync on these releases, please add your google account to https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/chromium.org/g/google-browser-signin-testaccounts as per the official documentation at https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys/#signing-in-to-chromium-is-restricted

3rd Release - M102.0.4952.0

• Based on M102.
• Has new side panel "side search" feature.
• .exes and .zips will now have avx2 in the file name to denote them in case someone wanted to, for instance, download both the regular (avx) and avx2 builds.

NOTE: There is an upstream bug in Chromium. It only appears on Windows 10/11. Windows 7/8/8.1 are fine.
Problem: You may get a condition when launching where extensions will not start and open tabs will say "RESULT_CODE_MISSING_DATA" or "STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN".
To fix this: Right click the Thorium shortcut, or the actual executable at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\chrome.exe , go to properties, and set the compatibility mode to windows 7 or 8.

ALSO: INFORMATION REGARDING SYNC. To enable sync on these releases, please add your google account to https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/chromium.org/g/google-browser-signin-testaccounts as per the official documentation at https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys/#signing-in-to-chromium-is-restricted

2nd Release - M101.0.4921.0 - AVX2

First Major AVX2 release, second release overall.
Finally fixed the icon issue that has been plaguing all my windows releases since M100, described here > Alex313031/Thorium-Win#5

ALSO, there is an upstream bug in Chromium. It only appears on Windows 10/11. Windows 7/8/8.1 are fine.
Right click the Thorium shortcut, or the actual executable at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\chrome.exe , go to properties, and set the compatibility mode to windows 7 or 8.
Issue was already known by me, but has been reported in these issues, and thought I'd post a notice on this release.
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