Thorium – The Fastest Browser on Earth

14 points by sandreas 2y ago ↗ HN

https://thorium.rocks/

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/

Seems to be an interesting Browser... has a lot of patches[1] and improvements. There is also a Video from Chris Titus[2] going into detail, why this is the browser he was waiting for and why he left Brave for it...

[1]: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/blob/main/infra/PATCHES.md

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDYUVFs1-8

2 comments

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austin-cheney 2y ago ↗

I looked at the patches.md write up and did not see anything about page content access. DOM access in Chrome is less than half as fast as it used to be 5 or more years ago. Chrome is sacrificing page access speed to improve querySelector parsing performance at great penalty to execution speed. As a point of comparison Firefox performance on this item has not changed over this timeframe and is now a couple of order of magnitudes faster.

rxmmah 2y ago ↗

is it faster than firefox or better?