a new chromium fork and also a chrome os fork well maintained with some patches mainly ungoogled chrome os and chromium is the main offering here. ThoriumOS ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs, Widevine, Kernel 5.15, Linux Firmware/Modules support, Nouveau, Intel/AMD …

[image] Brave browser installing VPN services on Windows General I was looking at Thorium the other day, but if you look at their releases they’re consistently far behind. The current release is 117 from a week ago, despite 118 being released to stable 2 weeks ago and 117 …

[image] brivacy: Should this can be included in the browser recommendation. Why would it be? [image] brivacy: but can be mentioned Why? Are you the/a developer for the project? What is Thorium’s reason for being? What problems does it solve better than existing chromium based and no…

Thorium (and Mercury) browser came to my attention via a Youtube video on Chris Titus Tech: ( https://youtu.be/naDYUVFs1-8 ) I downloaded both and am using them today to see how they are. Certainly, they seem fast. But speed is usually the enemy of security and thus privacy. The default settings …

CVE-2023-4863 opened 05:06PM - 01 Oct 23 UTC (UTC) closed 12:14AM - 09 Oct 23 UTC (UTC) [image] stg-annon **System Details*…

@gnu that 117 they’re shipping still has 22 known security issues: Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

[image] gnu: Am I missing something? Yes, I wasn’t saying the WebP vulnerability was the current issue, it was a past example of Thorium patching that issue weeks late by issuing 117 weeks late. Who knows what they’re weeks late behind on this time around? (Well @anon63378630 knows, 22 known…

[image] jerm: Looks like the dev uploaded furry p*rn and cp to the browser. what! someone dig deep plz. This ain’t it. Need confirmation by atleast 10 people, and if the culprit is found guilty, we need to blacklist this forever.

I mean they’re still on 117.0.5938.157 which means users of it are exposed to 69 known security issues, one of which was a zero-day.

It was on the browser itself, but also it was on Alex’s website. https://github.com/Alex313031/Alex313031.github.io/pull/17 [image] Build software better, together GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 4…

The offending commit seems to be: commit 14fc2ca3d8af7c15387e71a450bbf0c1a486090c Author: Alexander David Frick <Alex313031@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jul 20 03:14:25 2022 -0700 Add files via upload And people wonder why we reject “insert 101 shitty little project that is by some untrustworthy pe…

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Looks like the dev uploaded furry p*rn and cp to the browser.

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/463

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/463#issuecomment-1853105618

He deleted the issue.

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