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Thorium maeby more interesting!

I'm dissuaded from using Thorium after the news of the developer including... questionable material in their builds[0], and checked into CVS no less.

[0]: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/147

Just to clarify I am not recommending Thorium!

What's their patch interval usually like?

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!

BTW,

The LATEST Thorium release dropped just last week on 20th Feb which just so happened to be its 56th Release / 30th version birthday!

& IF anyone is interested heresa Firefox Fork:-

github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/releases ⏎

However itsa out-of-date release (v.122.0.2) versus tha LATEST (v.123) Firefox.

What's with the "⏎"?

To distract from the nonspecific answer :D

Also for some reason Mercury Alpha v124.0a1 is available for mac in .dmg

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