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1. For this site

• info Latest site updated: forty six minutes ago (max: one hour)
• fresh Dear #mac users: Marmaduke shares his builds compiled with all codecs!
• eliminated ungoogled-chromium (64-bit), on Windows: 53.0.2785.143 (403382). It is buggy and outdated.
• fresh Secure connection: https://chromium.woolyss.com
• switched Now, we use the “Snapshots” repository about “The Chromium Authors” (official) builds.
• eliminated Chromium Portable and Chromium Updater (crupdater) of Zychopat are discontinued.
• switched The Chromium Team has eliminated non-clusterfuzz and non-telemetry LKGR builders. So I rewrote a fresh internal engine for this site.
• eliminated Chromium Portable of LiberKey and ThumbApps have not been updated for a long time.
• switched Update of Chromium logo and site colors.
• switched The site structure has switched. Your OS (Windows or Mac) and architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) is dynamically highlighted if detected.
• switched The time is based on the local time of Mountain View (USA) where the Chromium Buildbot server is located.
• motionless Cron was temporarily cracked because my server was under maintenance. Now, the total site is automatically updated each hour.
• eliminated In the Buildbot results, “bug=none” does not mean “build without bug”. So, I cleaned my #rss feeds and #api about that. Example of a good build: 285741
• switched Major update. The total site is now based on the Git revision’s commit hash. See my #api to quickly understand.
• immovable About Chromium builds stored at SourceForge: If your browser does not send a referer header, you can directly download them.
• switched Modified content of each #rss feed in order to provide a better visibility into RSS readers.
• switched Shortened URLs about Google Storage: commondatastorage.googleapis.com → storage.googleapis.com
• fresh Now you can post anonymous #comments. Love!

Two. From the official Chromium blog

Trio. Found on the Web

Four. On media

• Hacker News (via hn-search)
• Reddit
• Slashdot
• Twitter
• Google News (RSS and ATOM fields)
• gHacks

Five. On security trackers

Credits

Donation

Developer of Chromium stable/dev versions, on #windows.

Developer of Chromium dev versions, on #windows.

Developer of Chromium dev versions, on #mac.

Developer of chrlauncher (updater/launcher for Chromium), on #windows.

Admin of this site. Send me good reviews. It is enough! 😉

Version

Works only if your web browser is based on Chromium like Google Chrome, Chromium browser, Opera, Vivaldi.

Windows Ten, 8, 7

1. Chromium for 64-bit Windows only

Nik wpo cfg all-codecs stable 64-bit

Sync • WebRTC • Widevine • 61.0.3163.79 (488528) • Wednesday, six Sep two thousand seventeen

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 61.0.3163.79 (488528) • Wednesday, six Sep two thousand seventeen

Nik wpo cfg all-codecs lkcr 64-bit

Sync • WebRTC • Widevine • 62.0.3202.0 (498762) • Thursday, thirty one Aug two thousand seventeen

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 62.0.3202.0 (498762) • Thursday, thirty one Aug two thousand seventeen

RobRich wpo ThinLTO clang lld lkcr 64-bit

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 63.0.3207.0 (499551) • Tuesday, five Sep two thousand seventeen

RobRich pgo vs2017 cfg lkcr 64-bit

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 62.0.3198.0 (497669) • Sunday, twenty seven Aug two thousand seventeen

The Chromium Authors dev 64-bit

63.0.3208.0 (499928, f7f2f63) • Wednesday, six Sep 2017

All of your settings, bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies will be saved. Do not worry!

Update with Archive:

The name of this archive is “chrome-win32.zip” but it is truly the 64-bit version!

1. Download chrome-win32.zip
2. Close Chromium browser if opened
3. Unzip chrome-win32.zip
4. Delete all the files from your installation directory
5. Budge the files from the unzipped chrome-win32 directory to your installation directory
6. Open Chromium browser. It is updated!

Update with Portable:

1. Download and unzip chrlauncher-win64-dev-official.zip
2. Execute chrlauncher.exe
3. Close Chromium browser if a notification displays a fresh version
4. Open Chromium browser. It is updated!

AluisioASG old lkcr 64-bit

61.0.3153.0 • Sunday, sixteen Jul 2017

Nothing is written to the Windows registry. This version uses a specific subfolder (named “Data”) directly in the main folder, for all user data. So, take care when you update it!

ThumbApps old lkcr 64-bit

61.0.3113.0 • Friday, twenty six May 2017

Chocolatey dev 64-bit

63.0.3207.0 • Tuesday, five Sep 2017

To update it: choco upgrade chromium

Two. Chromium for 64-bit and 32-bit Windows

Nik cfg all-codecs stable 32-bit

Sync • WebRTC • Widevine • 61.0.3163.79 (488528) • Wednesday, six Sep two thousand seventeen

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 61.0.3163.79 (488528) • Wednesday, six Sep two thousand seventeen

Nik cfg all-codecs lkcr 32-bit

Sync • WebRTC • Widevine • 62.0.3202.0 (498762) • Thursday, thirty one Aug two thousand seventeen

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 62.0.3202.0 (498762) • Thursday, thirty one Aug two thousand seventeen

The Chromium Authors dev 32-bit

63.0.3208.0 (499928, f7f2f63) • Wednesday, six Sep 2017

AluisioASG old lkcr 32-bit

61.0.3153.0 • Sunday, sixteen Jul 2017

winPenPack old lkcr 32-bit

61.0.3148.0 • Monday, three Jul 2017

Use the plain free and open-source cpf-update-win batch script to automatically update both Chromium and PepperFlash. The Chromium version will be 63.0.3208.0 because this update system (based on my #api) uses the #windows-32-bit-official ^^

Chocolatey dev 32-bit

63.0.3207.0 • Tuesday, five Sep 2017

To install it on a 64-bit Windows: choco install chromium –x86 More info about options and switches

macOS

1. Chromium for 64-bit macOS only

FreeSMUG stable 64-bit

60.0.3112.113 • Saturday, twenty six Aug 2017

Marmaduke all-codecs lkcr 64-bit

Sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 63.0.3206.0 (499489) • Monday, four Sep two thousand seventeen

No sync • No WebRTC • No Widevine • 63.0.3206.0 (499489) • Monday, four Sep two thousand seventeen

The Chromium Authors dev 64-bit

63.0.3208.0 (499928, f7f2f63) • Wednesday, six Sep 2017

Use a free and open-source #updater instrument.

Two. Chromium for 64-bit and 32-bit macOS

Linux

Chromium OS

Chromium OS is the open-source operating system designed by Google that primarily runs web applications, using Gentoo as its foundation. It exists since 2009. Chromium is the default browser. Google Chrome OS (closed-source) is based on it.

Ubuntu

To install the stable Chromium version:

• use the Ubuntu Software Center and Update Manager
• or type these directions about this PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-chromium-builds/stage

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Debian

To install and auto-update Chromium, use these directions:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install chromium chromium-l10n

(chromium-l10n is only used for localization and is optional)

Linux Mint

There are different ways to install the stable Chromium version.

Mageia

Available in the official repository.

Fedora

Available in the official repository since Chromium v52

openSUSE

Available in the official repository: Installer

Arch Linux

Available in the official repository.

Gentoo

Available in the official repository.

PuppyLinux

Available in the official repository.

Slackware

Unavailable in the official repository. But you can install it! ^^

Check this article of Eric Hameleers to download and install the stable Chromium version.

FreeBSD

Available in the official repository.

OpenBSD

Available in the official repository.

Android

The Chromium Authors dev 32-bit

63.0.3208.0 (499929, c4d3dc1) • Wednesday, six Sep 2017

Notes

All downloads are from reliable sources only:

• Google Storage → official “Nightly” builds (Check the Chromium buildbot ^^)
• SourceForge and GitHub → most of other free and open-source builds

1. Project

Two. Stable Chromium version

Trio. Development

Snapshots (known as “Nightly” or “Dev” builds) builds are compiles of the Chromium code whenever there are submitted code switches. A snapshot build will be created as long as the code compiles successfully. Its binary files are stored in the Snapshots repository of Google Storage.

LKCR (Last known compilable revision) does at least provide some level of ensure that the particular revision actually should build, which is good for third-party builds for not wasting time on potentially uncompilable builds. As a result, LKCR usually trails the dev trunk by a few revisions (commits).

Each snapshot build is then run through the automated tests. If that snapshot build successfully passes the automated tests, it is considered as a good build: LKGR (Last Known Good Revision). and can become potentially a stable build.

A stable build is a LKCR build tested and improved by the Chromium team.

Four. Eventually

If you want, check the simplest multilingual page: → download/

Have a good time! 😉

Features

Some developers maintain forks of Chromium that suggest more features and enhancements. Thanks a lot for developers! 😉

Google API keys

Google API keys are missing. Some functionality of Chromium will be disabled. Learn More

Sometimes you need to use Google API keys to talk to some Google services (Sync, Speech, Hotword, Translate, Now, Hangout. ). And then you Google a bit and go after all the instructions. But the Chromium Project’s API keys page does a not-so-great of explaining how to do this, so I will.

1. Without your own Google API keys

setx GOOGLE_API_KEY “no”

setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID “no”

setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET “no”

Now launch Chromium. Love! 😉

Two. With your own Google API keys

1. Clicking on that yellow disclaimer message takes you to the confusing API keys docs page.
2. If you aren’t already, subscribe to the [email protected] mailing list. (You can just subscribe to the list and choose to not receive any mail. For Your Information: the Chromium project restricts the APIs to those subscribed to that group – that is, Chromium devs.)
3. Make sure you are logged in with the Google account associated with the email address that you used to subscribe to chromium-dev.
4. Log in to the Google Cloud Platform, and select an existing project or press the “Create Project” button.
5. From the project’s API Manager, select the Credentials tab in the sidebar.
6. Create a Browser API Key.
7. You’ll see a modal with an API key. Copy and paste that somewhere.
8. Now create an OAuth Client ID.
9. After you finish all the steps and the “content screen”, you’ll be introduced with a modal with your Google Client ID and Client Secret.
10. You’ll need to set three environment variables:

On #windows: Launch Directive Prompt (cmd.exe) and come in the following directives:

setx GOOGLE_API_KEY yourkey

setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID yourclientid

setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET yourclientsecret

On #mac. In the shell, type:

launchctl setenv GOOGLE_API_KEY yourkey

launchctl setenv GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID yourclientid

launchctl setenv GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET yourclientsecret

On #linux: Plop these in your

Now launch Chromium. Love! 😉

Flash

PepperFlash is secure because it works in a sandbox. In brief, it executes in its own process, separate from the browser’s rendering engine.

On Windows and macOS, Chomium find PepperFlash itself (= without #command-line-flags)

1. Install Chromium (WebRTC must be natively enabled in Chromium. Check Nik builds on #windows or Marmaduke builds on #mac)
2. Install PepperFlash (PPAPI) from Adobe.
3. Check chrome://flash
4. Disable “Ask very first” in the chrome://settings/content/flash page (screenshot)
5. Test if animation works on the Flash Player versions page.
6. Love!

Now, the total manual installation tutorial.

(If Google Chrome is already installed, go directly to the step Three: #add-command-line-flags)

1. Get PepperFlash (PPAPI)

1.1 From Adobe

After install, the plugin path will be:

– On a 64-bit #windows:

• C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer64_[version].dll(64-bit version)
• C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer32_[version].dll(32-bit version)

– On a 32-bit #windows:

• C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer32_[version].dll(32-bit version)

1.Two From Google Chrome

1.Three From an unofficial source

Optionally, get the Flash version number:

(If you want to see the correct version number on Chromium internal pages)

• On all platforms, open the manifest.json text file in the PepperFlash folder.
• On Windows, you can do a right-click → Properties → Details, on the .dll file

Two. Switch the plugin directory

Example on Windows: Put this .dll file in a path like C:\PepperFlash\ (Create the directory if needed)

Trio. Add command-line flags

On #windows, create a Chromium shortcut. Then go to its properties and edit the target field: –ppapi-flash-path=”C:\PepperFlash\pepflashplayer.dll” –ppapi-flash-version=”26.0.0.151″ –allow-outdated-plugins

On #mac, you will need to launch it from the command-line (in the Terminal): /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium –ppapi-flash-path=/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin –ppapi-flash-version=26.0.0.151& The “&” at the end is not a typo. It is there to make sure Chromium is launched in a separate thread. Without the “&”, Chromium would exit as soon as you abandon the Terminal. Moreover, to simplify the Chromium launch, check How to create elementary Mac apps from shell scripts (Archive: 1). Also see the #comment-566 and #comment-344.

Four. Restart the browser

Five. Check the installation

• Type chrome://flash in your address bar to check your Flash plugin used.
• Type chrome://settings/content/flash to manage it.
• For update, check the Flash Player version on the official page.
• For security information, see the security bulletins and advisories

6. Love!

NPAPI plugin support

HTML5 audio/movie

Before four June 2015, we used an alternative with the Google Chrome ffmpegsumo file and our Patch HTML5 Media extension. More info on site archives:

• chromium::wayback.machine(Monday, eight Jun 2015)
• chromium::archive.is(Friday, five Jun 2015)

1. Check HTML5 audio/movie support

If there is a movie issue, disable hardware acceleration (see #browser-crash).

Advanced

1. Internal pages

Obviously, this special URL works only in Chromium and Google Chrome.

Note: About configuration settings, there is nothing similar to Firefox ‘s about:config in Chromium.

Two. Keyboard shortcuts

Trio. User data directory

Four. Command-line flags

Example: How to embark Chromium directly in incognito (or private) mode on Windows?

Add flag at the end of the Chromium shortcut and restart the browser. (screenshot)

Five. Outward extension installation

If it does not work.

1. Unzip the .crx file
2. Go to chrome://extensions
3. Haul and drop the unzipped folder on the page. or click on Developer mode then Flow unpacked extension.

About updates:

• You have to update by hand
• You can update when you want! ^^
• If ever a fresh version deepthroats, just re-install the previous one

6. Source code

7. Older version

8. Browser crash

– To check for conflicting software: chrome://conflicts

Note that incognito mode disables all extensions by default.

Example to get the latest build with the out → revision parameter:

Links

Browsers

1. Open-source browsers

• Firefox
• Chromium
• Midori
• QupZilla
• Pallid Moon(Firefox based)
• Waterfox(Firefox based)
• Tor Browser(Firefox based using Tor , an anonymity network)
• NetSurf(Works on any OS)
• or all other open-source browser.

Two. Chromium forks

Why not recommended?

Because all of these browsers are closed-source, outdated, based on Chromium (like Google Chrome and Opera). and most of the features they eliminate don’t even exist in Chromium, in the very first place. Control your private info and #privacy yourself ^^

Privacy

1. Browser update

Two. Browser settings

Trio. Hosts file

Four. DNS services

Five. Search engines

6. Extensions

Note:

• If you use WOT (Web of Trust), do not share your data. (WOT settings → Real-time protection → Set to off)
• Browser VPN: Do not use Hola! or ZenMate. Hola! is a botnet. ZenMate needs a free user registration. (Choose to pay for a safe and secure VPN service. or use a free VPN service without registration)
• If you use Adblock Plus or AdBlock, disable “Acceptable Ads” option.
• µBlock Origin (wiki) is pattern-based filtering, while µMatrix (wiki) is matrix-based filtering which gives you more control over the filtering process.
• µBlock Origin and ScriptSafe can also protect against WebRTC IP leak.
• Add filters to your ad-blocker via FilterLists website. fresh

7. Instruments

• Firewall
• VPN(Virtual private network)
• Anonymous proxy
• Tor(Anonymity network)
• Freenet
• I2P(Invisible Internet Project)

8. Guides

• Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms(Chromium)
• Privacy devices(Encryption against global mass surveillance)
• PRISM break(Opt out of global data surveillance programs)
• The ultimate guide to online privacy(Privacy tips and over one hundred fifty free contraptions)
• The ultimate online privacy guide(BestVPN)
• Internet privacy(Wikipedia)
• Chromium privacy
• Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis(Archives: one and PDF)

9. Tests

Malware

Advice:

• Make sure you download Chromium from reliable sources.
• Choose an open-source #updater.

If you find an issue:

• Contact your anti-virus or anti-malware support
• Report it on the official Chromium supports. For links, see my #comment-1 below.

Chromium updater

Thanks a lot for developers!

I do not support these implements. Please, contact the developers for thank, issue, help.

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