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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 mainstr

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.)

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.)