Thorium the best browser? [Solved]

[danielson]

After watching Chris Titus so enthused about his newfound "toy" replacement for Brave browser...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDYUVFs1-8

Just had to take this (hitherto unknown browser to me) out for a spin!

Must admit, it is much lighter on resources than Firefox.

Thorium download available here:
https://thorium.rocks/

[j2mcgreg]

as @Adrian said previously:

Chris Titus is easily impressed :)

and next week he'll be touting some other piece of tech that he has "just discovered".

[oops]

Yes it is a nice web browser and a .deb & a .appImage is available, I use it sometimes. (here, I use Palemoon by default)

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/releases

[Adrian]

I'm more concerned that the developers is still using Windows 7...

[BV206]

Thorium is no good if you need the KeePassXC-browser extension.

[danielson]

@BV206 - probably one big issue as it did take me a while to find a "dark" (Dark Mode Reader) extension that would work.

Appreciated learning about "Extensity" from Chris' post.

[danielson]

@j2mcgreg - think Chris had been using Brave for quite some time now.

[davidy]

Every bit of thorium is google. In fact if you try to make it actually secure it won't even open, 'cause google. The one thing it has taught me is that from now on, any browser that is chromium based, ie google based, is a non-starter. And here I thought it was THE chrome antidote. It's just another version. Wgaf how fast it is? Not me. I'll never touch chrome again unless I'm payed to.
In fact it collects so much metadata you'd think that was the goal. It creates multiple folders just for this reason and makes falkon's folder structure look simple in comparison. Thorium is pure garbage, imo. Of course if you are tied at the hip with google it may be what you desire. I wouldn't run it again unless it was in it's own vm.

[jeffreyC]

When I looked at it and was about to install it I saw that it would use about 900MB of drive space, by comparison Firefox-ESR uses less than 250MB.
I noped out on installing it as I could not think of a good reason for it being so big and all that left in my mind was bad reasons.

[swarfendor437]

I also stumbled upon Chris Titus Tech video, and on another GNU/Linux Forum it was pointed out to me that there is still a lot of Google stuff you can't get rid of, such as Google hangouts so got rid. Firefox ESR is much better and if security is your thing then Icecat wth no Java!