Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)
Thorium <https://thorium.rocks/> is basic Chrome that is compile-time optimized for new CPUs. Still does Chrome sync and plugin store. Won't run on any system that doesn't have an AVX2-capable CPU. As a result, it claims a conventional Chrome experience but noticeably faster. Apparently the same dev has done the same to Firefox, called Mercury <https://thorium.rocks/mercury> - Evan On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:24:20 -0500 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
So ... nobody uses Thorium?
i am having a google free black friday... so, Thorium is a web browser?
which natively does not support .js? or supports it?
cool name, Thorium. sounds like something like kryptonite for Thor :)
I can google it 2morrow or you can just tell me today why it is cool?
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:21 AM Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Don Tai via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 15:46:
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Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-11-24 08:07:
Thorium <https://thorium.rocks/> is basic Chrome that is compile-time optimized for new CPUs. Still does Chrome sync and plugin store. Won't run on any system that doesn't have an AVX2-capable CPU. As a result, it claims a conventional Chrome experience but noticeably faster.
Apparently the same dev has done the same to Firefox, called Mercury <https://thorium.rocks/mercury>
Oh, now that does sound interesting! I don't think my old box has AVX2 support (nope, just AVX). I'm usually quite hesitant / skeptical around "boutique" browsers since it takes so much skill and talent (quantitatively and qualitatively) to implement properly. Usually someone's trying a browser because it's "not bloated" with things that... are web standards. I don't trust my browsing to their competence. This Thorium project (Mercury, actually) does sound very interesting. If you give it a try, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts. rb
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