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You don't consider chromium open source?

approxim8ion 6y ago
My understanding is that chromium can't be run on Windows or Mac. Chrome Canary or some testing variant can but not Chromium. It's hard to consider it a mainstream option in that case for me. EDIT: this is untrue, chromium builds are available for all platforms from chromium.org. Please ignore
- jchw 6y ago
  FWIW, I don't think that is true. https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    Oh, that's good to see. I stand corrected.
  - Yaggo 6y ago
    Confirm, just click and run a pre-built package. I recently downloaded Chromium 79 for Mac in order to debug an issue in Tesla's browser which is based on that. Neat.
    - approxim8ion 6y ago
      I didn't realize they were using a user-agent to determine which platform to serve executables for. Was just getting Linux which confused me.
- worble 6y ago
  >can't be run on windows I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. chromium.org doesn't offer chroimium builds on their website but there are a number of places you can get someone elses build, for example https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/ or https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/tree/master https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/tree/master or presumably just build it yourself if you wanted to.
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    My comment was poorly worded, of course they can be built and run. I just feel like the extra hoops one would have to go through, finding a build or building from source (which is a very power-user use case) would be disqualifying it from being considered a mainstream choice available to the masses. But yes, that is fair.
  - ciceryadam 6y ago
    or even easier: choco install chromium choco install ungoogled-chromium https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium
    - fretn 6y ago
      and if you want extensions the easy way in ungoogled-chromium : https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
  - chromie123 6y ago
    The Chromium project does maintain an official alternative to those: download-chromium.appspot.com. I think it's discoverable via documentation on chromium.org albeit perhaps (I don't remember) not from the main download page. (Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome.)
elwell 6y ago
I think OP does because Brave uses Chromium.

My understanding is that chromium can't be run on Windows or Mac. Chrome Canary or some testing variant can but not Chromium. It's hard to consider it a mainstream option in that case for me. EDIT: this is untrue, chromium builds are available for all platforms from chromium.org. Please ignore

jchw 6y ago
FWIW, I don't think that is true. https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  Oh, that's good to see. I stand corrected.
- Yaggo 6y ago
  Confirm, just click and run a pre-built package. I recently downloaded Chromium 79 for Mac in order to debug an issue in Tesla's browser which is based on that. Neat.
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    I didn't realize they were using a user-agent to determine which platform to serve executables for. Was just getting Linux which confused me.
worble 6y ago
>can't be run on windows I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. chromium.org doesn't offer chroimium builds on their website but there are a number of places you can get someone elses build, for example https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/ or https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/tree/master https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/tree/master or presumably just build it yourself if you wanted to.
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  My comment was poorly worded, of course they can be built and run. I just feel like the extra hoops one would have to go through, finding a build or building from source (which is a very power-user use case) would be disqualifying it from being considered a mainstream choice available to the masses. But yes, that is fair.
- ciceryadam 6y ago
  or even easier: choco install chromium choco install ungoogled-chromium https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium
  - fretn 6y ago
    and if you want extensions the easy way in ungoogled-chromium : https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
- chromie123 6y ago
  The Chromium project does maintain an official alternative to those: download-chromium.appspot.com. I think it's discoverable via documentation on chromium.org albeit perhaps (I don't remember) not from the main download page. (Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome.)

elwell 6y ago

I think OP does because Brave uses Chromium.