By ltGuillaume: Codeberg | GitHub | Buy me a beer 🍺
I have decided to stop support for Thorium WinUpdater. This is primarily because of the lack of regular updates to the Thorium project, which leaves users vulnerable to 0-days for many months at a time. As such, I feel uncomfortable to recommend using Thorium by offering this updater. Additionally, due to a lack of proper release and naming conventions of the Thorium project, I have found it to be impossible to guarantee a reliant update flow via WinUpdater. For more information, see ltguillaume#7 (comment). You are free to fork this repo to continue development. I would greatly appreciate it if you dropped a note here if you are going to continue the project.
An attempt to make updating Thorium for Windows much easier. This is a fork of LibreWolf WinUpdater.
- If you want to run the portable version of Thorium, download and extract
Thorium_???_xxx.x.xxxx.x.zip
. PutThorium-WinUpdater.exe
in the same folder.
Then, if you wish to perform an update, just runThorium-WinUpdater.exe
. - When you have installed Thorium using the Thorium_???_mini_installer.exe, just run
Thorium-WinUpdater.exe
from any location to check for updates. If one is available, the new mini installer will be downloaded immediately.
- Run Thorium WinUpdater and select the option to automatically check for updates. This will prompt for administrative permissions and a blue (PowerShell) window will open and notify you of the result. The scheduled task will run while the current user account is logged on (at start-up and every 24 hours).
- If your account has administrator privileges, the update will be fully automatic. If not, the update will be downloaded and you will be asked by WinUpdater to start the update.
- If Thorium is already running, the updater will notify you of the new version. The update will start as soon as you close the browser.
- The updater needs to be able to write to
Thorium-WinUpdater.ini
in its own folder (so make sure it has permission to do so), otherwise WinUpdater will copy itself to%LocalAppData%\Thorium\WinUpdater
and run from there. Thorium-WinUpdater.ini
contains a[Log]
section that shows the results of the last update check and update action.- Thorium WinUpdater also updates itself automatically, so you won't have to check for new releases here. If you prefer to update WinUpdater yourself, add the following to the .ini file:
[Settings] UpdateSelf=0
- Thorium should automatically detect which build you are currently using (e.g.
SSE3
,AVX
, orAVX2
) thanks to thethor_ver
file. It'll show the detected version next to the version number in the UI and in the[Log]
part ofThorium-WinUpdater.ini
. - NOTE: The
AVX
build is for systems lacking AVX2 instructions. The Win7 builds are for Windows 7/8/8.1 systems, because of Chromium deprecating support for these OSes as per here.
- Requires AutoHotKey 1.1
See BUILDING.md
- Thorium by Alex Frick
- The Chromium Project
- Original icon by Alex Frick
- Original logo by Alex Frick