Thorium, Chromium & ThoriumOS, ChromiumOS

 New release has codecs working! https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS/releases/tag/R97.0.4682.0 Thorium is now built with lld cflags and thinlto set to 3, not 2, for even more speed. DoH patch is getting an enhancement next release. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium  

 Here are my own chromium and chromiumOS builds. Chromium builds have thinlto, PGO, codecs, widevine, and experimental features and modified logo and branding.  Chromiumos has x264 and full linux firmware support. linux-chromeos runs the whole chromiumos system UI in an X11 window. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromiumOS https://github.com/Alex313031/ChromeOS-Linux

 ---Crostini issues on ChromiumOS and Neverware's Cloudready.--- Cloudready is a ChromiumOS distribution designed to be installed on general hardware to give a ChromeOS experience, albeit lacking the Google Play Store and Google Assistant. On my own ChromiumOS builds, Crostini (the virtualized debian linux environment one can enable in settings) crostini would fail unless chrome://flags/#c rostini-use-dlc was set to disabled. This helps in some circumstances, including Cloudready, however, as of ChromiumOS 92, on top of this issue, the termina (not a misspelling) container fails to launch the virtual machine if there are unmitigated cpu vulnerabilities. Intel 9th gen and older and Ryzen 1st gen and older will be vulnerable without a microcode patch. ChromiumOS does not support microcode updating by default, and so without a BIOS update, one could manually modify the reported vulnerabilities on the command line. A useful read with instructions on page 3 can be found at https://never...

-Chromium has been updated to 97.4666.0. Google FLOC now integrated. Side panel fully functional. New Tab Page modules mostly functional. Made new chromium fork (just overlays to copy over the source code) for linux.