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One does not simply "build chrome".

• tgv 2y ago
  Chromium has ungoogled builds: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/
  • ranger_danger 2y ago
    yes but that's Chromium, not Chrome (which is proprietary). I think that's what OP was saying
    • mananaysiempre 2y ago
      Not necessarily. Building even Chromium can be... unpleasant[1]. [1] https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/ https://liberda.nl/weblog/heres-your-copium/
• lifesaverluke 2y ago
  The process is well documented :-)
  • dudus 2y ago
    FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it.
    • lifesaverluke 2y ago
      Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance.
    • sebazzz 2y ago
      Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself?
    • poincaredisk 2y ago
      I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is.
      • ramesh31 2y ago
        But also this. Compiling Chromium from source is a nontrivial task, even for a senior dev, and requires an extremely powerful system.
  • recursive 2y ago
    Just like the US tax code is well documented?