Relaxed blog about the Chromium Projects, including my forks Thorium and ThoriumOS, changes in the these and the web platform, and other related stuff including my exploits with Linux and FOSS.
Hello, everyone! If you already know what is going on, then this post is for you, if you don't this is also for you. Here's what happened. This is: 1. An explanation about why I was gone for over a month with no online activity at all. 2. An explanation about the recent drama regarding the easter egg in Thorium and contents of the Thorium Website. 3. A layout of what I am guilty of, not guilty of,…
New AVX2 repo for Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2 Also added more patches to Thorium > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium New ChromiumOS builds with multiple fixes and additions > https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS Also it was Chromium's 100th birthday! We are now on M101 though.
Chromium is an amazing project, and I simply wanted to add to the amazingness by adding things I think fit well for people already using Chromium. I have created a fork of Chromium, called Thorium, named after radioactive element No. 90. I make builds for linux > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium Windows > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win and MacOS/Android/different CPU architectures…
I am now a contributer to the Wayne OS project. Will be adding work from my own ChromiumOS builds to there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wayneosgroup https://gitlab.com/wayne-inc/wayneos https://wayne-os.com/
New Thorium builds out today with FMA optimization and a new audio sandbox patch added. Will be working on new ChromiumOS release too with added packages. I have started a new subreddit because /r/Chromium seems dead. New reddit community is at https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromiumBrowser/
New release has codecs working! https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS/releases/tag/R97.0.4682.0 Thorium is now built with lld cflags and thinlto set to 3, not 2, for even more speed. DoH patch is getting an enhancement next release. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
Here are my own chromium and chromiumOS builds. Chromium builds have thinlto, PGO, codecs, widevine, and experimental features and modified logo and branding. Chromiumos has x264 and full linux firmware support. linux-chromeos runs the whole chromiumos system UI in an X11 window. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS…
---Crostini issues on ChromiumOS and Neverware's Cloudready.--- Cloudready is a ChromiumOS distribution designed to be installed on general hardware to give a ChromeOS experience, albeit lacking the Google Play Store and Google Assistant. On my own ChromiumOS builds, Crostini (the virtualized debian linux environment one can enable in settings) crostini would fail unless chrome://flags/#c…
-Chromium has been updated to 97.4666.0. Google FLOC now integrated. Side panel fully functional. New Tab Page modules mostly functional. Made new chromium fork (just overlays to copy over the source code) for linux.