![]() With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. In fact, you might even assume it doesn’t apply to you. To the average Chromium user, this doesn’t sound like much of a problem. In response, any browser attempting to access features such as Chrome Sync with an unofficial API key would be prevented from doing so after March 15th. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.Ī post made earlier this month to the official Chromium Blog explained that an audit had determined “third-party Chromium based browsers” were using APIs that were intended only for Google’s internal use. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. ![]() Since the project’s inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that’s almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. Some PortableApps/PortableChromium sites offer binaries like this, due to security concerns, the Chrome team does not recommend running them.Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google’s the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. 2403.x” then you’ll need to build Chromium from the 2403 branch. Typically that‘s OK, but if you need a true build of “44.0. * As this build was made at 44 branch point, it does not have any commits merged in while in beta. Sometimes you may have to decrement the commit number until you find one.Paste “330231” into the filter field at the top and wait for all the results to XHR in.Click through on your platform (Linux/Mac/Win).This is the commit of where the 44 release was branched, back in May 2015.* In this case it returns a base position of “330231”. ![]()
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