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Thorium is a fork of Chromium, optimised for speed.

“Outline of benefits of Thorium over vanilla Chromium.” https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2022/01/outline-of-benefits-... (2022)

I thought Chrome team were the leading experts on web performance. How is Thorium able to outperform them?

Changes to the compatibility of the browser, like AVX requirements.

Aren’t both Safari and Firefox faster than chrome?