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SSE3 Linux Release - M114.0.5735.134

latest releases: M121, M120.0.6099.235, M119.0.6045.214...
12 months ago

M114

Upstream Changes

  • Chromium 114 has even better support for WebGPU than 113. For more info about this, see the previous release notes.
  • Chromium and Thorium now support specifying and appending commandline flags via the CHROME_EXTRA_FLAGS environment variable. For example:
    export CHROME_EXTRA_FLAGS="--no-sandbox" and then running thorium-browser from the same shell, will append --no-sandbox. You could set this in your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile However, keep in mind that Thorium already also has a custom way to set default flags, by making/editing ~/.config/thorium-flags.conf
  • V8 (Chromium's JavaScript engine) has added some new optimizations to the Maglev compiler. A noticeable difference in JIT javascript compilation can be seen between Chromium 113 and 114. Interesting read here > https://blog.chromium.org/2023/06/how-chrome-achieved-high-scores-on.html Thanks @midzer for telling me about this.

Thorium Changes

  • libjxl updated to 0.8.2 (Adds better transparency/alpha support) Thanks @gz83 for helping me with this.
  • libhighway updated to 1.0.4 (Minor SIMD upgrade)
  • Fixes for Wayland (should hopefully fix Alex313031/thorium#162)
  • HEVC and AC3 support have been restored (as promised)
  • More Android ARM64 optimizations
  • New "media foundation" widevine path on Windows by using the enable_media_foundation_widevine_cdm = true args.gn flag (should hopefully fix Alex313031/Thorium-Win#48)
  • RPM support so that people on those distros don't have to use the .zip or .appimage anymore. (Fixes Alex313031/thorium#139)
    IMPORTANT You will have to use sudo rpm --install --nodeps file.rpm because it tries to install libffmpeg.so.
  • Debian 12 "Bookworm" Support

I am also working on a Flatpak, but I don't think I'm ever going to publicly release a snap of Thorium, because the performance is egregious, and I disagree with the walled garden practices that Canonical takes with snapcraft.
I would like help making the Flatpak, so if anyone out there knows about flatpak/flathub, don't hesitate to contact me, start a discussion, or submit a pull request.

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