Launch M119.0.6045.214 – third Launch · Alex313031/Thorium-MacOS · GitHub

2024-01-06 14:08:28

First, to deal with the easter egg and web site stuff, right here is my rationalization/apology publish > https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugly.html (it additionally addresses why I used to be gone for a month).

M119 (Y’all can lastly replace from M116)

Fixes a number of CVEs together with GHSA-xm5p-7w7v-qqr5
Higher HLS assist
Higher JavaScript compilation efficiency resulting from new Thorium compiler flags in addition to upstream V8 re-workings.
Up to date Widevine variations
The search engine selections that Thorium provides at the moment are accessible in additional locales. (Notably not in Russia or China as a result of ya know, their governments being oppressive and stuff and never permitting sure URLs. Hong Kong and Ukraine should not affected).
Reside Caption ought to now lastly work (English solely, sorry. The .grdp recordsdata for different languages are closed supply for now).
ChromeCast can now use VP8 and VP9 codecs for much less bandwidth consumption when you’ve got slower web. (Observe that that is disabled by default in Chromium, I enabled it, however it’s nonetheless experimental).
New chrome://flags flag chrome://flags#disable-aero This disables transparency results and GPU accelerated window body compositing (whereas nonetheless leaving GPU acceleration for the precise internet contents intact). It’s helpful for those who dislike transparency, or are getting glitches on Home windows 11 with the window body.
Storage Entry API was disabled as a result of the safety danger is greater than the usability enchancment. When you want this, use the brand new chrome://flags/#storage-access-api flag I added to allow it.
Keyboard shortcuts in ThoriumOS now align higher with Linux.
Moveable model now additionally units the cache dir to ./.config/cache, to forestall any disk writes exterior of the dir.
Rejoice! In case you are like me and hate the brand new “Obtain bubble” and wish the previous “Obtain shelf” again, effectively I reverted a commit from upstream, and now there’s a flag for it! > chrome://flags#download-bubble
Home windows builds at the moment are extra hardened towards reminiscence overflows by enabling the arg “win_enable_cfg_guards = true”
PGO is now more practical (thanks @RobRich999) > Alex313031/thorium@5fe3937
New flag from Ungoogled-Chromium chrome://flags#tab-hover-cards Permits eradicating tab hover card photos, and as a substitute exchange with a tooltip (the habits earlier than M106).
NOTE: On MacOS, we needed to disable the ‘disable_fieldtrial_testing_config = true’ arg, so sadly this construct will nonetheless fetch subject trials (AKA “variations”, Google’s approach of testing experiments on a small subset of customers earlier than releasing extra broadly. Thorium usually has this disabled in order that the whole lot is reproducible and other people do not report bugs which can be attributable to Google’s finish as a substitute of mine). It was disabled following testing by @midzer displaying a efficiency regression.

That is Thorium 119 ARM64 on a Macbook Professional with M3 CPU. So far as we all know, that is the primary time a browser has scored greater than 600 factors on Speedometer 2.1!