Thorium Browser
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Thorium Browser, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Thorium Browser's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Thorium Browser | Free | Chromium browser builds for supported platforms; Linux package repository supports distributions using .deb packaging |
The facts
Each one read from Thorium Browser's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Build optimization
- Builds use compiler optimizations including LTO, PGO, LLVM loop optimizations, and SIMD-specific variants.checked 12 Oct 2026
- CPU builds
- Linux releases offer SSE3, SSE4, AVX, and AVX2 variants for different CPUs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Image format
- JPEG XL support is restored and enabled by default.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Maintainer location
- The maintainer says he lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Media support
- The project lists Widevine, all codecs, and HEVC/H.265 support on Linux and Windows.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The GitHub repository identifies Thorium as public source code under the BSD-3-Clause license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Performance
- The project site reports an 8–38% performance improvement over vanilla Chromium depending on benchmark and operating system.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy features
- Thorium enables Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control by default and disables FLoC and Privacy Sandbox.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Thorium is a Chromium fork intended to behave like Google Chrome, with its own patches and enhancements.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search integrations
- The project lists DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Ecosia, Ask.com, and Yandex among its included search engines.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- The security policy directs Chromium vulnerabilities upstream and asks users to report Thorium vulnerabilities through GitHub issues, with major or zero-day issues emailed to the maintainer.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The project links to a subreddit for Thorium and Chromium discussion and provides a GitHub repository for issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Download platforms
- The official site links to builds for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, Raspberry Pi, and Windows on ARM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Linux updates
- The site provides a .deb package repository and installation instructions using apt.checked 12 Oct 2026
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