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).
- New chrome://flags flag
chrome://flags#disable-aeroThis disables transparency effects and GPU accelerated window frame compositing (while still leaving GPU acceleration for the actual web contents intact). It is useful if you dislike transparency, or are getting glitches on Windows 11 with the window frame. - Thorium on Linux with multiple monitors should now restore Thorium to the last monitor it was open on.
- 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.
- Portable version now also sets the cache dir to ./.config/cache, to prevent any disk writes outside of the dir.
- 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 - Windows builds are now more hardened against memory overflows by enabling the arg "win_enable_cfg_guards = true"
- PGO is now more effective (thanks @RobRich999) > 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). - Added SSE3 builds for people without AVX-capable CPUs > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-sse3