Alex313031 / thorium-winupdater

A fork of https://github.com/ltguillaume/librewolf-winupdater to make (automatic) updating of https://thorium.rocks for Windows much easier. Can be used for installed and portable instances.

Thorium WinUpdater

By ltGuillaume: Codeberg | GitHub | Buy me a beer 🍺

An attempt to make updating Thorium for Windows much easier. This is a fork of LibreWolf WinUpdater.

Usage

• If you want to run the portable version of Thorium, download and extract Thorium_AVX2_xxx.x.xxxx.x.zip. Put Thorium-WinUpdater.exe in the same folder.
  Then, if you wish to perform an update, just run Thorium-WinUpdater.exe.
• When you have installed Thorium using the Thorium_AVX2_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.

Scheduled Updates

• 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.

Remarks

• 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 by default downloads the AVX2 build. You can change the build to Win or Win7 by adding the following to the .ini file:

  [Settings]
  Build=Win7

  Obviously, don't add the line [Settings] twice.
• NOTE: The Win 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.

Building

• Requires AutoHotKey 1.1
  See BUILDING.md

Credits

• Thorium by Alex Frick
• The Chromium Project
• Original icon by Alex Frick
• Original logo by Alex Frick