Thorium-Special VS thorium-libjxl

The current release and this git repo is Win AVX-only: https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win/releases but there are regular SSE binaries as well as other OS: https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases

You can find it here : https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0

Looks like your CPU doesnt support AVX. Although it is a skylake cpu, sometimes the celeron and pentium series for a given generation will forgoe some instruction set extensions to shrink die space and make it cheaper. So for you, you can use my SSE3 only release here > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M105.0.5172.0 The sse3 releases for linux and windows get updated less frequently, but otherwise are made to the same standard as other releases, and still contain optimizations that make it faster vs other chromium browsers for a given platform. If you’re curious, i did a l write up here on the site about the optimizations > https://thorium.rocks/optimizations

It’s hard for me to define « fast » for a browser. Does it mean it loads internet pages and content fast? If so, I’d say all browsers I tried are the same, it depends more on your broadband speed and the other apps using it. What I can say is that Safari isn’t the lightest browser. I’m using Thorium Special, a fork of Chromium that’s been compiled and optimized for Apple silicon chips. Even with extensions, it uses around 30% less memory according to the task monitor. It’s just my personal experience.

https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/ MacOS and other architecture builds like ARM32 for raspberry pi.

It's supported in a Chromium fork called Thorium as well. The patches to undo Google's removal of JXL have been published separately, too: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl

As I mentioned in the article, Thorium is a Chromium-based browser that fully supports JPEG-XL. Here's the libjxl patch that can be ported to other Chromium-based browsers: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl

There is a new repo for the source code for this, used as a submodule in this repo: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl ... let's hope it gets updated with the full jxl feature set.