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Alex313031
thorium
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Alex313031 / thorium

thorium

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Source code and Linux releases. Windows/MacOS/ARM builds served in different repos, links are towards the top of the README.md.

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What it is

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Source code and Linux releases. Windows/MacOS/ARM builds served in different repos, links are towards the top of the README.md.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-12-06 12:37:10 UTC to 2025-03-02 12:59:26 UTC.

02468102021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 5 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 2 submissions, 8 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC752
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1028
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Last year's releases (2023) were lagging behind.⏎ Only this yr's releases (2024) are in a timely fashion so far.⏎ However, being forewarned is being forearmed! ⏎ Both (Chromium/Thorium) browsers upstream releases are maintained by Google & both browsers contain various forms of spyware and/or telemetry! ⏎ MOAR:- thorium.rocks ⏎ github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/releases ⏎ On a personal basis I prefer Firefox & Pals over Chromium & FRIENDS!!! ⏎ The last time I was used by Chromium was 7 years ago!!! ⏎ Carpe Deim!
In DOOM rendered via console.log() in a web browser (2021)
Yeah, man. Honestly it's kind of a sexy picture that yiff png^0. I ain't into furry shit and I think it's weird, but that's a pretty sexy pose right there for people of a certain orientation. And hilariously it ain't no different to stock-standard fare you see everyday on tabloids, TV, or Instagram! Like WTAF people having a moral-panic-meltdown over this shit? hahaha. Secretly Google just melting because somebody actually made a good Chrome fork. Tho I'm scared by even thinking of saying this I'll have to kiss goodbye to my GMail account, and they'll probably cancel all my accounts but still keep charging my credit card with no way to purge, right? Amiright, ABC.XYZ? Sergey, I thought we were freeeeeeens? :) heh. 0: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/blob/3759529384a18ae7c... I mean, weird to include it in a GitHub repo, but not evil.
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The fact that some NPCs are falling over themselves to call this evil (while probably repressed-guilt-projectively retreating to their private stashus of furry-et-al pon when the sun rises) suggests there's "rotten" in the state of browser forking, methinks! hahahahaha :)
In Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork
Too much misinformation, christ. After checking another thread, it appears the browser contains a softcore furry image, and the alleged CP is the anti-circumcision propaganda images the guy hosts on his public github.io page. Furry easter egg removal commit is here: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/9947421f1480bd1... And these are the alleged edits on the github.io page: > the site for thorium at one point had a documentary about circumcision on it, alongside furry porn and other weird political stuff, when he was called out on it, it magically disappeared. > https://github.com/Alex313031/Alex313031.github.io/commit/e4... > https://github.com/Alex313031/Alex313031.github.io/commit/5c...
In Don't Use Thorium Browser – If Installed, Remove It

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