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This package now uses the SSE3 version because benchmarks on my computers show no performance benefit from using the AVX/AVX2 versions.

I made alternate PKGBUILDs: SSE3, AVX, AVX2. (makepkg -p PKGBUILD.avx2)

However, there is no point making dedicated packages for each because there is no performance benefit from using different versions.

The "normal" version ("AVX") does reference avx2 in the config, but the exact compiler flags are unspecified. All 64-bit versions contain AVX and AVX2 instructions. So too do the Chromium binaries from the official Arch repos. Chromium-based browsers probably detect processor capabilities at runtime, so attempting to target specific instruction sets would not be expected to significantly improve performance.

Here are my results from browserbench.org speedometer 2.1, using fresh profiles:

• SSE3: 83.8±1.0
• AVX: 83.8±1.0 (not a mistake, SSE3 and AVX had identical results)
• AVX2: 83.6±1.9

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When a popup screen shows up, the whole system crashes. My system is Manjaro Plasma. Does anybody else have the same problem?

There's an issue with profiles that causes segfaults in 121.0.6167.204. All SSE3/AVX versions are affected. If you didn't save a copy of the previous version, it can be rebuilt by running:

_pkgver=120.0.6099.235 makepkg

Since not all users are equally affected, I am not downgrading the package for now. (But will reconsider if more problems are found.)

@xiota I also tried the binary directly from thoriums repo. The same error happens, no matter what version. (sse3/avx or even AppImage) There are already two issue reports regarding this issue. I added the last parg of gdb output to my issue report on github.

@yaakoss I'm unable to replicate the segfault. Maybe try using gdb to find out more about the cause.

Version 120.0.6099.235-2 worked without any issues, but when i upgrade to 121.0.6167.204-1 thorium does not work any more.

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.072: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:7852:22: Expected '(' after 'url'

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.072: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:7852:147: Invalid character in string. Must be escaped.

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:11635:3: '/*' in comment block

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:11741:2: '/*' in comment block

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:11786:26: 'text-shadow' is not a valid color name

(thorium-browser:279126): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:32:57.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:12048:14: 'ffffff' is not a valid color name
[279126:279126:0222/173257.130980:ERROR:atom_cache.cc(224)] Add _ICC_PROFILE_1 to kAtomsToCache
[279126:279126:0222/173257.131183:ERROR:atom_cache.cc(224)] Add _ICC_PROFILE_2 to kAtomsToCache
[279126:279151:0222/173257.133458:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Keine derartige Schnittstelle »org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser«
[279126:279151:0222/173257.133474:ERROR:select_file_dialog_linux_portal.cc(285)] Failed to read portal version property
[279126:279126:0222/173257.139964:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(156)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(161) Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. Please use the `--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management` command line flag to enable it if you are not using the official Google Chrome build.
[0222/173257.232776:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If i manually install the former package from my cache it works without any errors I use Qtile on X11

@strange Are you sure it froze? thorium-browser takes a long time to compress because it's very large, about 650MB. Look in makepkg.conf to change compression settings.

while compressing the package, the install just freezes. any ways to fix?

@kersh Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the avx2 variant.

Hello here is the newest AVX2 vesion. It seems from now on the author is going to use this repository instead of. Can you please modify PKGBUILD.avx2 to match this one? I've done this myself right now, however it is obviously more comfortable to just use git pull without need to edit PKGBUILD. Thank you.

This package now uses the SSE3 version because benchmarks on my computers show no performance benefit from using the AVX/AVX2 versions.