Win7/8/8.1 Maintenance Release

M109 Windows 7/8/8.1 Maintenance Release

IMPORTANT: PLEASE USE THE NEW WINDOWS 7/8 REPO HERE FOR FUTURE RELEASES > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-win7

As promised, here is a maintenance release of Thorium M109 for Windows 7/8/8.1!
Backported some stuff, and bumped minor rev number 109.0.5414.120 > 109.0.5414.139 which includes security fixes from upstream Chromium.

– Compiled with Polly enabled
– Pre-compiling of inline scripts enabled
– Added "Ctrl+Shift+Q" keyboard shortcut to close all windows.

• Backported more optimization flags for V8, Chromium's Javascript engine, from the M111 release.

• Backported five new new chrome://flags flags from the M110 & M111 release:
  – chrome://flags/#force-gpu-mem-available-mb - Set available VRAM to be used by Thorium. Options are 128, 256, 512, and 1024 Mb. Useful for systems with very low or very high video memory. The default (if unset) is 512 Mb.
  – chrome://flags/#enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers - Enable native CPU-mappable GPU memory buffer support on Linux. (Linux only) You can see the effect of this on chrome://gpu in the "GpuMemoryBuffers Status" section.
  – chrome://flags/#double-click-close-tab - A flag that @gz83 came up with and we both implemented. Allows you to close a tab by simply double-clicking on it, similar to an option in Vivaldi.
  – chrome://flags/#show-fps-counter - Show a F.P.S. counter on each display, which also shows used/available GPU memory. Useful for Web development.
  – chrome://flags/#media-router to enable/disable the media router, i.e. for Cast.

• Logo has had padding removed, and a new logo was created for the windows installer .exe.

• Thorium mascot image added to chrome://version page, under the copyright (for fun)

25th Release - M109.0.5414.120

IMPORTANT: PLEASE USE THE NEW WINDOWS 7/8 REPO HERE FOR FUTURE RELEASES > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-win7

• Special Windows 7/8/8.1 release! (Not only for these platforms, but see below.)
• M109 Maintenance release.
• HEVC patch updated.
• Icon updated for Linux and Windows, which removes the padding on the outside of the thorium logo to match
  upstream change, the only effect is that the logo is slightly bigger.
• More LLVM optimization flags
• Removed the "unsupported OS" infobar banner for Win7/8/8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, and Arch<2018.12

NOTE: Going forward, Thorium will be built to more stable versions. This one is based on M109 stable (see below), future versions will be based on the equivalent of "beta" or "dev" channel, rather than tip-o-tree, i.e. "canary" channel.

IMPORTANT M109 is the last version of Chromium for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 😢 as per Here. I still use and enjoy Windows 7, and so have made a site for it here > https://thorium.rocks/win7 This is why this release is based on stable M109. I will be updating the links on my win7 page to link to these. Another deviation from standard Thorium releases, is that the windows 7 release will have a special 32 bit SSE2 build for old computers, on top of the SSE3, AVX, and AVX2 builds. There is also a small easter egg on the chrome://version page, to show love for one of Micro$oft's greatest OSes, back when that $ sign was a little smaller, lol.

M109 will also be getting maintenance releases for the Win7/8/8.1 version, tracking the official chrome stable versions as per https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Windows and I will be attempting to backport patches from M110 into M109, as time and knowledge permits.

@gz83 @midzer

24th Release - M109.0.5362.0

• M109
• HEVC Software Decoding should now work, enabling you to play H.265 videos no matter what.
• Hide Side Panel button chrome://flags flag has been fixed.
• Minor bugs fixed

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• See also new AVX2 Release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-AVX2/releases/tag/M109.0.5362.0

23rd Release - M108.0.5314.0

• M108

To learn about important stuffz regarding Windows 7, I have made a page about this (which also regards M108) here > https://thorium.rocks/win7

22nd Release - M107.0.5271.0

• M107
• Thorium Shell now has an icon on the taskbar.
• chrome://flags page now has the old radiation hazard icon that I always liked, which also fits thorium since it is named after a radioactive element.
• chrome://dino now shows "Thorium Dino" and fullscreen play mode now works correctly.
• Cookies icon color has been reverted back to blue and the original icon, and the reload button icon has been reverted back to blue. I will be working on adding a flag that will remove the top bar icon's colour, since some people seem to dislike it.
• Bookmarks bar now shows "Apps" like it used to, you can still disable it.
• RSS feed feature from upstream Chromium. (must enable in chrome://flags)

Built with new optimization: Polly
You can see a write up of the optimizations Thorium uses (including the new Polly) Here, and a page with speed comparisons with screenshots Here. I compare Thorium against Chromium, Chrome, Brave, and Vivaldi.

Also, try my new extensions: Thorium Scroll Tweaker (for increasing scroll speed on linux), and Resources Saver (allows you to save a full website, keeping directory structure and downloading resources that would otherwise be missed by just right clicking and using "Save As".

21st Release - M106.0.5237.0

• Thorium Shell now has an icon on the taskbar.
• chrome://flags page now has the old radiation hazard icon that I always liked, which also fits thorium since it is named after a radioactive element.
• chrome://dino now shows "Thorium Dino" and fullscreen play mode now works correctly.
• Cookies icon color has been reverted back to grey, I will be working on adding a flag that will remove the top bar icon's colour, since some people seem to dislike it.

Built with new optimization: Polly
You can see a write up of the optimizations Thorium uses (including the new Polly) Here, and a page with speed comparisons with screenshots Here. I compare Thorium against Chromium, Chrome, Brave, and Vivaldi.

• Also includes Thorium UI Debug Shell v3.

Also, try my extensions: Thorium Scroll Tweaker (for increasing scroll speed on linux), and Resources Saver (allows you to save a full website, keeping directory structure and downloading resources that would otherwise be missed by just right clicking and using "Save As".

20th Release - M106.0.5219.0

• M106

• NTP "Customize Thorium" and Search Settings crash bugs have finally been fixed! Finally, we have a fully bug free Windows release!

• All the patches and chrome://flags flags from the latest release notice on this page > https://thorium.rocks/misc/history.html

Thanks muchly to @gz83 for helping me debug this!

See also : My write up explaining the optimizations of Thorium > https://thorium.rocks/optimizations
and a new in-progress site > https://thorium.rocks/new

19th Release - M105.0.5166.0

• New installer patches which close installer or thorium.exe if it is running before installing.
• New chrome://flags flag to allow setting a custom NTP. You can also do it with cmdline flag --custom-ntp=http://www.example.com/
• New chrome://flags flag to allow removing the Side Panel button. You can also do it with cmdline flag --hide-sidepanel-button

Attention Users: I have created a 10 question survey to view user satisfaction and how people are installing Thorium. It was created with surverymonkey, and I checked the boxes to anonymize your answers and to allow multiple responses. I would appreciate it if you guys would complete it (should only take ~2 minutes) It is here > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TJHX7R7

18th Release - M105.0.5145.0

• M105 Refresh
• Thorium Dino game! Try it at chrome://dino It has colours fixed from last release, and fullscreen is now working again.
• Extension icon reverted to normal one, although the blue colour is being kept.

17th Release - M105.0.5114.0

• M105
• Extensions and main menu icon changed.
• NEW Thorium Dino game! Try it at chrome://dino/ (You have to type that in, links won't work)
• Rebased Intel HD & VAAPI patches (VAAPI is Linux only)