Thorium Browser
Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90.
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Thorium has a history of being bundled with Yiff (furry porn) withing the program structure folders, while some other users report their antivirus detect a Troyan file bundled with it.
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Developed by
Alexander David FrickLicensing
Open Source (BSD-3-Clause) and Free product.Written in
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- 4,745 Stars
- 146 Forks
- 174 Open Issues
- Updated Oct 5, 2024
What is Thorium Browser?
Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90.
- Always built with the latest stable version of Chromium.
- Intended to behave like and have the featureset of Google Chrome, with differences/patches/enhancements listed below.
- Includes Widevine, All Codecs, Chrome Plugins, as well as thinLTO, CFlag, LDFlag, LLVM Loop, and PGO compiler optimizations. It is built with SSE4, AVX, and AES, so it won't launch on CPU's below 2nd gen Core or AMD FX, but benefits from Advanced Vector EXtensions. If your CPU lacks AVX, you can use builds from Thorium Special.
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chromium based ungoogled fast browser, which is also win7 compatible. bless this dev.
It seems the chromium browser with a functional google cloud sync included.
Developer included an "easter egg" - furry porn inside the browser.
https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/463
Hmmm ... " This issue has been deleted."
Any source for the furry porn claim? I only ask because their about details includes a link to personal projects against child abuse. Only knew that because I installed their browser on an earlier win10 and went wow, this -is- fast. Looked them up because when I find an app that's unusually good, or bad, I always like to see who is behind the scenes. Was impressed by a young person apparently not struggling but successfully fighting demons.
All good!
Then attempted to reinstall but on a brand spanking new win10 and the install exe flashed up and disappeared. Download hashtag etc checked via Virustotal desktop app. Yes, tried installing in safe mode too. Latest win10, manual updates, hitmanpro, malwarebytes, all the usual wazoos but no Thorium install.
tldr - unless there's a source for this claim then this could be anyone saying anything and should be deleted.
Reply written Dec 18, 2023
Since it's a git you can just browse an older tree from before the image was removed - https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/blob/61432953f13f40b55ce8e0b90dd30b7bd321de55/src/chrome/app/theme/default_100_percent/chromium/yiff.png
They also had other repositories with furry porn in it: https://github.com/Alex313031/atom-ng/tree/ffe82d5895443f76894acf887a55fefe0b17ee27/packages/yiff/assets
"This issue has been deleted" - Fortunately, it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231214153202/https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/463 Also this one https://web.archive.org/web/20231215003443/https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/468
https://twitter.com/BrodieOnLinux/status/1735160269918351843 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Avfsh5hBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-02fW-n4qg https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18izmt4/clarifying_thorium_browser_controversy/ https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/if-you-use-thorium-browser/6384 https://www.paget96projects.com/blog/the-risk-that-comes-with-open-source-projects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647363
Reply written Dec 19, 2023
Developer's side about the controversy: https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugly.html
Reply written Aug 22, 2024
It's fast, but while looking at the passwords I found an easyminer.
Trojan:Win32/Znyonm (downloaded 'via' majorgeeks, but they usually good, one would think, right? glhf) Affected items: clsid: HKCU@S-1-5-21-4215594890-417352412-1681236807-1001\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{635EFA6F-08D6-4EC9-BD14-8A0FDE975159} file: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Thorium\Application\123.0.6312.133\notification_helper.exe regkey: HKCU@S-1-5-21-4215594890-417352412-1681236807-1001\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{635EFA6F-08D6-4EC9-BD14-8A0FDE975159}
the AV is windows defender
False positives do happen... Not only in Windows Defender. Warning about detecting a "Tro_y_an" because some users had false positives is an exaggeration.
https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/645 Examples of similar cases: https://github.com/ddf8196/BetterRenderDragon/issues/58 https://support.formpipe.com/news/posts/lasernet-monitor-exe-file-detected-as-malware-by-microsoft-defender https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/3621
Reply written Aug 22, 2024
It's based on Chromium, so to the trash it goes.