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Thorium is the first browser with HEVC and AC3 support even in a mkv container (github.com/alex313031)
21 points by midzer on June 24, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



This is pretty good. I use it daily on my Windows 7 system mainly because of hevc, eac-3, jpeg-xl support and a slightly newer version than chrome for windows 7 https://thorium.rocks/win7


Windows 7? Isn't that so eol that you can't even pay Microsoft to provide security updates anymore?


Support for Windows 7 ended 3.5 years ago.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-suppor....


And even their paid extended service option is over:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...


When Skype and Firefox stopped working in Vista I moved to SeaMonkey and Skype in a seamless RDS session.

Only when I moved apartments (and wasn't in the mood to bring my desktop to life, substituting on T440) I finally gave up. Probably around 2017-2018?

This month I took thr Ghost image of it and shoved it on my long term storage. When (if) I would be in a mood I would try to run it again, on ESXi.

But hey, Win7 still mostly works. At least I don't remember it refusing to remember wifi passwords, as my Win10 started a week ago.

/rant-with-a-bit-of-nostalgia



The performance improvements are noticeable on my pretty old computer.


I use the AVX2 version of Thorium on my laptop and it feels quite fast compared to Edge. Not sure if I'm imagining it.




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