Mercury (Alex313031)

Firefox fork compiled with optimizations (AVX, AVX2) and patches from LibreWolf, Waterfox and Betterfox, by the author of Thorium.

Facts

Developer

Alex313031

Website

thorium.rocks

Engine

Gecko

Derived from

Mozilla Firefox

Platforms

WindowsmacOSLinux

Popularity

36/100 — 1,541 GitHub stars (estimate: ≈7 users per star)

Lineage

Not to be confused with

⚠ Mercury Browser

Key versions

1. Jan. 10, 2023
   v.110.0a1First release published on GitHub.[1]
2. Mar. 31, 2023
   v.111.0.2New major version.[2]
3. Apr. 26, 2023
   v.112.0.3New major version.[3]
4. July 2, 2023
   v.115.0.0New major version.[4]
5. Jan. 5, 2024
   v.121.0.1New major version.[5]
6. Feb. 8, 2024
   v.122.0.2New major version.[6]
7. Mar. 6, 2024
   v.123.0.1New major version.[7]
8. Sept. 17, 2024
   v.129.0.2New major version. Also the latest one.[8]

Version sources: [1] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [2] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [3] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [4] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [5] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [6] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [7] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub), [8] Alex313031/Mercury (GitHub) · 15 releases published · Full history → · Milestones taken automatically from the releases published on GitHub.

Sources

1. https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury
2. https://thorium.rocks/mercury