Wowfunhappy / chromium-legacy

Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary) for Mac OS X 10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10

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Chromium-legacy

Chromium-legacy is the latest Chromium (almost equivalent to Chrome Canary without Google branding) patched & built for legacy Mac OS X series, not supported officially:

• Mac OS X 10.7 / Lion
• OS X 10.8 / Mountain Lion
• OS X 10.9 / Mavericks
• OS X 10.10 / Yosemite

NB: Not for officially supported environments (10.11+).

This project is automatically built and uploaded twice a day (00:00 and 12:00 JST) if no issues occurred. And note, uploaded without any tests, thus there is no guarantee for launching or proper operation. It's recommended to find and use a stable build for daily use. (The same is true for the original Chrome Canary/Chromium)

features

Basically equivalent to the same version of original Chromium except for limitations by old OSes (see below).

limitations

• UI
  • unified window title & tab bar
    • not available on 10.7/10.8/10.9, replaced by classical title bar instead (thanks to @Wowfunhappy)
  • menus/sheets
    • have no shadow, indistinguishable from background
  • scrollbars
    • won't disappear despite "Show scrollbars when scrolling" option is enabled when GPU compositing is disabled
• GPU assists
  • on 10.7, due to old OpenGL version, disabled entirely by embedded policy
  • on 10.8/10.9, GPU compositing is disabled by hardcoded --disable-gpu-compositing option due to rendering glitches.
• DRM
  • on 10.7/10.8, cannot use DRM protected media at all
  • on 10.9+, need to install Widevine library to use DRM
• U2F/WebAuthn/FIDO2
  • on 10.7, you need patched IOHIDFamily.kext to use USB keys

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Chromium

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

The project's web site is https://www.chromium.org.

To check out the source code locally, don't use git clone! Instead, follow the instructions on how to get the code.

Documentation in the source is rooted in docs/README.md.

Learn how to Get Around the Chromium Source Code Directory Structure .

For historical reasons, there are some small top level directories. Now the guidance is that new top level directories are for product (e.g. Chrome, Android WebView, Ash). Even if these products have multiple executables, the code should be in subdirectories of the product.

If you found a bug, please file it at https://crbug.com/new.