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This package has been revised to use the variant corresponding to architecture set in some config files. This may cause problems with other packages, so users choosing to do this are (mostly) on their own.

• makepkg.conf — CARCH="x86_64_v3" (or v2)
• pacman.conf — Architecture = auto x86_64 x86_64_v2 x86_64_v3
• /usr/share/devtools/setarch-aliases.d/x86_64_v3 — Contents: x86_64

The default variant is SSE3. This version is the closest available to baseline x86_64, which is currently the only architecture supported by Arch Linux. Other variants have shown no significant performance benefit, while crashing on some users' computers. The default will not be changed unless upstream offerings change or there is no other way to prevent a significant bug. Please refrain from arguing to change default for any other reason.

Alternate PKGBUILDs are available (i386, sse3, sse4, avx, avx2). They may be used by running makepkg -Cp <file>. This is the recommended way to build alternate versions to avoid interfering with other packages.

• This package no longer attempts to autoupdate.

  • Skipping the beta builds for now.
  • Check for new releases at Alex313031/thorium.

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Penryn lacks AVX and AES support. It won't launch on CPUs below Sandy bridge.

Not working for me.

$ thorium-browser
cat: /etc/debian_version: No such file or directory
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

My CPU info if relevant:

$ inxi -Ca
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core2 Duo E7400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn
    level: v1 built: 2008 process: Intel 45nm family: 6 model-id: 0x17 (23)
    stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xA0B
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2200 high: 2800 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 2800 2: 1600
    bogomips: 11205
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected

I have chromium installed, to install Thorium generated error of file conflict.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
thorium-browser-bin: /usr/bin/chromedriver exists in filesystem (owned by chromium)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
-> exit status 1

i think it would be better to get the source from github instead of the authors website, the authors website is pretty slow.

i have modified the portion on sources as such please consider merging it to your PKGBUILD.

source=("https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/releases/download/M${pkgver}/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    "$_pkgname.sh")