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Alex313031 / thorium

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.
https://thorium.rocks/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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task scheduler updater and version checker #200

Closed trimechee closed 3 months ago

trimechee commented 1 year ago

I would like to recommend the wonderful Thorium browser to my friends, my family, and my twitter followers in sha Allah, the problem that many don't know how to update Thorium and would find too complicated to check and go to github... .

and even I can forget to go to the relaeses page to check if there is a new version....so our wish please is to add a task to the task scheduler as librewolf web browser did recently, an optional task that can be disabled in the installer, and the task scheduler update task will check once a month if there is a new version and display a message with a link to the Thorium releases page inviting the user to download the new version, thank you very much!

Also if we refuse to add task update to task scheduler, it will be great to add a version checker when we click on the "about" button of the browser and so Thorium will send us a warning message the version is outdated and it shows us a message with a link to the relaeses page of github when a new update is available! Thank you so much !

Alex313031 commented 1 year ago

@trimechee Can you send a link to the librewolf task scheduler?

trimechee commented 1 year ago

The task scheduler of librewold was added recently, more or less a month ago, I use the 64bit windows version of librewolf, and in the installer there is a "librewolf updater" option which adds a task in the background to task scheduler which checks every 6 hours for new version , I seem to have read this info that every 6 hours there is version checking in their forum:

https://librewolf.net/installation/windows/

ltguillaume commented 1 year ago

Lol, I was looking for a way to update Thorium automatically, only to find this issue mentioning my project https://github.com/ltguillaume/librewolf-winupdater 😛

So yeah, I've just forked it to Thorium WinUpdater: https://codeberg.org/ltguillaume/thorium-winupdater

trimechee commented 1 year ago

@ltguillaume Sensational great amazing ! 🥇Thank you so much :)

Alex313031 commented 1 year ago

@ltguillaume Unfortunately, there is no way right now to deduct the build, because the only differences are in the instruction set it's compiled with. However, I could add a file to each build, a file that has info about the build type.

ltguillaume commented 1 year ago

That or just embedding it in the version info of thorium.exe would be great!

trimechee commented 1 year ago

There is another updater : https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher

ltguillaume commented 1 year ago

Can't be used for Thorium, right?

trimechee commented 1 year ago

I haven't tested but it says :

"Supported browser:

 as launcher - Chromium based (like Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex Browser, Vivaldi, etc.) and Firefox based (Mozilla Firefox, Basilisk, Pale Moon, Waterfox, etc.)
 as updater - Chromium only

"

ltguillaume commented 1 year ago

It can't. I've used chrlauncher in the past, it allows you to choose from a few update channels in the ini file, Thorium isn't among them.

trimechee commented 1 year ago

Instructive to know, thank you :) 👍

ltguillaume commented 1 year ago

@trimechee I just came across the following: https://github.com/uazo/cromite#auto-update-setup-for-windows

So apparently it is possible to have a custom version updated by chrlauncher if someone (the project author) maintains an update text file.

trimechee commented 1 year ago

Interesting ! Thank you so much @ltguillaume :) 💯 🥇

I think the most important and capital is to be able to do a manual update quickly and simply without complications when we click on the "update" button of the web browser, because many web browsers based on chromium refer to the official site of chromium when we click on "about version" while it should send us to the relaeses page of github of the web browser based on chromium....