First, to address the easter egg and website stuff, here is my explanation/apology post > https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugly.html (it also addresses why I was gone for a month).
M119 (M118 was too old, so skipped that version)
- Fixes multiple CVEs including GHSA-xm5p-7w7v-qqr5
- Better HLS support
- Better JavaScript compilation performance due to new Thorium compiler flags as well as upstream V8 re-workings.
- Updated Widevine versions
- The search engine choices that Thorium adds are now available in more locales. (Notably not in Russia or China because ya know, their governments not allowing certain URLs. Hong Kong and Ukraine are not affected).
- Live Caption should now finally work (English only, sorry. The .grdp files for other languages are closed source for now).
- ChromeCast can now use VP8 and VP9 codecs for less bandwidth consumption if you have slower internet. (Note that this is disabled by default in Chromium, I enabled it, but it is still experimental).
- Storage Access API was disabled because the security risk is more than the usability improvement. If you need this, use the new
chrome://flags/#storage-access-apiflag I added to enable it. - Keyboard shortcuts in ThoriumOS now align better with Linux.
- Rejoice! If you are like me and hate the new "Download bubble" and want the old "Download shelf" back, well I reverted a commit from upstream, and now there is a flag for it! >
chrome://flags#download-bubble - PGO is now more effective (thanks @RobRich999) > Alex313031/thorium@5fe3937
- New flag from Ungoogled-Chromium
chrome://flags#tab-hover-cardsAllows removing tab hover card images, and instead replace with a tooltip (the behavior before M106).
Google Sync does not work. This is an upstream thing, with Google being a dick once again and restricting it to browsers who pay a fee to get added to a whitelist. I still include the API Keys because location services does not work without them.
Lastly, people were confused about what to download. In general, you should download the "arm64" versions of things. The arm32 versions are only for very old devices with 32 bit CPUs. The main browser is "Thorium_Public", and the "Thorium_Shell" can be thought of as a "mini browser". The system web view should only be installed by people who are familiar with what that is and if their phone's OS will allow them to change the system webview from the default Google one to the Thorium compiler optimized one.
Thanks @gz83 for helping me build these releases while I work on Thorium M119 for Windows 7