Thorium Browser

[ghost]

Project description Chromium fork with performance & privacy benefits.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://thorium.rocks/
• source URL: https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
• license: GPL-3.0
• platforms: Linux, Darwin

[ProminentRetail]

I wanted to try Thorium out of curiosity and built this:

package.nix

```nix { lib , stdenv , fetchurl , autoPatchelfHook , dpkg , wrapGAppsHook , alsa-lib , at-spi2-atk , at-spi2-core , cairo , cups , curl , dbus , expat , ffmpeg , fontconfig , freetype , glib , glibc , gtk3 , gtk4 , libcanberra , liberation_ttf , libexif , libglvnd , libkrb5 , libnotify , libpulseaudio , libu2f-host , libva , libxkbcommon , mesa , nspr , nss , pango , pciutils , pipewire , qt6 , speechd , udev , unrar , vaapiVdpau , vulkan-loader , wayland , wget , xdg-utils , xfce , xorg }: stdenv.mkDerivation rec { pname = "thorium-browser"; version = "117.0.5938.157"; src = fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/releases/download/M${version}/thorium-browser_${version}_amd64.deb"; hash = "sha256-muNBYP6832PmP0et9ESaRpd/BIwYZmwdkHhsMNBLQE4="; }; nativeBuildInputs = [ autoPatchelfHook dpkg wrapGAppsHook qt6.wrapQtAppsHook ]; buildInputs = [ stdenv.cc.cc.lib alsa-lib at-spi2-atk at-spi2-core cairo cups curl dbus expat ffmpeg fontconfig freetype glib glibc gtk3 gtk4 libcanberra liberation_ttf libexif libglvnd libkrb5 libnotify libpulseaudio libu2f-host libva libxkbcommon mesa nspr nss qt6.qtbase pango pciutils pipewire speechd udev unrar vaapiVdpau vulkan-loader wayland wget xdg-utils xfce.exo xorg.libxcb xorg.libX11 xorg.libXcursor xorg.libXcomposite xorg.libXdamage xorg.libXext xorg.libXfixes xorg.libXi xorg.libXrandr xorg.libXrender xorg.libXtst xorg.libXxf86vm ]; autoPatchelfIgnoreMissingDeps = [ "libQt5Widgets.so.5" "libQt5Gui.so.5" "libQt5Core.so.5" ]; installPhase = '' runHook preInstall mkdir -p $out cp -r usr/* $out cp -r etc $out cp -r opt $out ln -sf $out/opt/chromium.org/thorium/thorium-browser $out/bin/thorium-browser rm $out/share/applications/thorium-shell.desktop substituteInPlace $out/share/applications/thorium-browser.desktop \ --replace /usr/bin $out/bin \ --replace StartupWMClass=thorium StartupWMClass=thorium-browser \ --replace Icon=thorium-browser Icon=$out/opt/chromium.org/thorium/product_logo_256.png addAutoPatchelfSearchPath $out/chromium.org/thorium addAutoPatchelfSearchPath $out/chromium.org/thorium/lib substituteInPlace $out/opt/chromium.org/thorium/thorium-browser \ --replace 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH' "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${ lib.makeLibraryPath buildInputs }:$out/chromium.org/thorium:$out/chromium.org/thorium/lib" \ --replace /usr $out runHook postInstall ''; meta = with lib; { description = "Compiler-optimized private Chromium fork"; homepage = "https://thorium.rocks/index.html"; sourceProvenance = with sourceTypes; [ binaryNativeCode ]; license = licenses.unfree; platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ]; mainProgram = "thorium-browser"; }; } ```

But I decided I wasn't going to use it, so I'll leave this here in case it's helpful to anyone. It seems to work just fine, but I haven't tested it very much.

[ShalokShalom]

What is with this?

https://github.com/almahdi/nix-thorium

[blurskye]

that is not it, we need thorium in nixos, i suppose this is browser of choice for many users specially, it is not filled with unnecessary bullshitery like brave and has chome store support and widevine cdm (unlike ungoogled chromium)

[aeronth]

Would definitely also like to give the thorium browser a whirl, as there is currently no easy way to use Google Chrome Sync for ARM based Linux.

[rgri]

PR #284085

[rastarr]

any update on this PR? popular browser. seems to have stalled

[bornav]

@rastarr I have been using @christoph00 definition for a few months without any issue https://github.com/christoph00/nixcfg/blob/53a04867e4e080b98a0f6788cc2c73dd58f4a0a5/packages/thorium/default.nix but since he has archived it and the version is out of date here is the same but latest