I downloaded Chromium from here http://chromium.woolyss.com/
Where did you guys get your Chromium?
Does your Chromium auto update?
That's where I get my Windows builds. I get my linux builds from the official repos, and I don't own, use, or want anything Apple. One of the benefits of Chromium, though from a practical stand point it isn;t, is that Chromium IS NOT bundled with Google's auto-updater. I don't think there is any sort of auto-updating. However, with Linux, all my software gets updated through system updates if I have the appropriate repo - Chromium included, and that's in the official repos.
I dont use anything Apple either. I'm getting mad lately with Firefox and Firefox is my go to for web browsers. Flash is so unstable that I cannot watch a youtube video anymore.
you can find everything here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git
That's the source. I wouldn't trust anything else for Windows to be honest. Linux users have the benefit of having everything in their official repos, Windows users that want chromium have to build it.
Use HTML 5
Hello everybody!
I am the admin of the Woolyss site. Thank you for your interest.
@Zoltan, yes, it is very important to get Chromium from the source. About Windows OS, you do not need to build your own Chromium version. You can get the build from the source. There are 2 official repos for this: Snapshots and Continuous. I explain all on my http://chromium.woolyss.com/#notes
That's why I give all links on my site. About Windows and Mac OS X, it uses the official repository: Continuous. The builds are official. Nothing is modified or stored on my server. You download the chromium builds directly from the official source.
I created this site for simple users (like me!^^) because Google prefer to promote their Chrome browser and discourage people from using Chromium.
That's very cool!
I didn't know your site as I don't use chromium on Windows, in fact, I barely use Windows except for occasional experimentation and fun, which is why I didn't look into it. So you'll excuse me for not knowing that a build was made available at the project git. Thanks for clearing that up!
I think it's great that you supply everything directly from the project git. The importance of getting open source software from source is something that so little people are aware of because of the "download whatever" culture that came with Windows, that did away with the official repository that IBM used for OS/4 when it was taken over by Microsoft, and Microsoft never brought any kind of official repo back, leaving users to do endless KB searches and downloads of all kinds.
Even in Ubuntu for instance, there is no direct control by either canonical or the community of the chromium packages in the official Ubuntu repos, because the chromium and chrome packages in the Ubuntu repos are directly maintained by Google staff. This is a very dangerous situation, and leads to all kinds of very bad things, like for instance, Ubuntu users can install the Google remote desktop client directly from chromium (through a direct download of a .deb file from Google servers, not from the chromium project), even though that endangers their system, doesn't work through the official repo, and isn't even open source.
So it's good to know that you provide users with a safe reference base. Chromium is a great browser with a lot of potential. I think it's a great first step for users that are not tech savvy to start using chromium in Windows, so that they can cover most of their computing needs when they switch to linux later.
Thank you Zoltan. I totally agree with you.
Note that on Linux the developers build Chromium from the stable version (= same version as Google Chrome and Opera). But on Windows, Google has an other strategy. The builds are available directly from the buildbot. Each build is submitted to automated tests. https://chromium-build.appspot.com/p/chromium/console The secret is here ! x_x
About my site, I try to maintain a simple and useful resource (mainly oriented to Windows users). I like the "all-in-one" spirit! ;)
Regards,
Oh wow awesome. So does Chromium provide a way to update like Firefox and Google Chrome or I have to use the links you provided to update Chromium?
Thanks a lot! Sorry, no. There is no way to update it like Firefox and Google Chrome. It depends of OS too.
- On many Linux distros, Chromium is updated with the OS update. Sometimes, there are PPA (Personal Package Archives).
- On Mac, it is integrated like in the FreeSMUG build (if you choose this build, obviously!)
- On Windows, the simplest way is to re-install Chromium like I explain that on my site. For me, it is the most secure and simple way.
If you want, there are updaters... but nothing is official.
http://chromium.woolyss.com/#updater
Thanks for the help and thanks for providing the website and knowledge it carries. I'm going to force myself to use Chromium since Firefox does not play well with Flash. It's kinda sad since I adore Firefox since version 3.
Personally, I have no issue with Flash on Firefox, on WinXP 32-bit & Win7 64-bit. Note that Chromium is not as stable as Firefox. My main browser on all OS is Firefox/Iceweasel because I like its powerful settings and extensions seems to work better. On all OS, Chromium is my second browser. I like very much its sandboxed processes. For both: the speed and development are very good, the developer's tools are powerful, they are both free and open-source. It is enough for me! ;)
That is so strange. Firefox does have a lot of extensions and poweruser settings which I was glad to have even though I never jumped into it. I have to end task Flash basically every two hours when I go on a Youtube watching spree.
This might be abit offtopic but i'll just slip it in anyway; The flash plugin causes a lot of freezes in FF, and youtube in HTML5 mode maxes at 720p for FF (this wasnt the case a while back), while you can watch 1080p vids with Chromium... Anyewhere else on the web HTML5 1080p works flawlessly in FF. My alarms are going off abit...
Nah its cool going off topic. Firefox HTML5 does work flawlessly.
It does, but previously you could watch 1080p vids in YouTube HTML5 with FF, now you can only watch in 720p, whereas you can still watch in 1080p if you're using chromium.
The flash plugin causes a lot of freezes in FF
Baz, sorry, I disagree with you. I know there are issues with the Flash plugin because I follow the Chromium and Firefox development, and because everybody knows that. ;) Moreover, that's the main reason of sandboxed processes on Chromium. But, if you have lot of freezes in FF, I tell you it is not normal. You have problems with your computer. Is it old? Have you got enough RAM? Hardware acceleration? Your bandwidth is correct?
It is very rare when the Flash plugin freezes my Firefox: 1 or 2 times per year
Friendly,
Nah I think it's just that adobe is not being supportive when it comes to linux.
Sometimes it also depends on certain settings for flash, like for instance if you've capped the local storage, or if you're using other plug-ins for security, etc...
Adobe has stopped releasing new versions for flash for linux since version 9, they only do "security updates" from there on, but normally it should work pretty well. I've never had problems with flash in FF on Linux, even with local storage disabled entirely, but I typically always use FF ESR (which is now at version 31) instead of the current release or beta ones, because I think it is a smoother experience with plugins in general. On my regular systems, I don't use flash however, because it's not open source. I've been very happy with the performance of html5 to be honest.
Chromium-pepper is an additional package that you can install to get flash in chromium, but the usual caveats apply, and there is no guarantee that it will work well.
If you want to watch flash video content, youtube-dl is a great tool, and if you have no flash on your system because it's not open source, you have a very good reason to watch content that way.