nix-community / browser-previews

Up-to-date versions of google-chrome-dev and google-chrome-beta for Nix users.

browser-previews flake for NixOS users

This flake provides the latest Chrome stable, beta and dev releases. The flake is updated regularly to ensure fast and up to date releases, which would otherwise not be possible in nixpkgs.

Why?

google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-dev were not getting maintained in nixpkgs, and were dropped in NixOS/nixpkgs#261870.

Available packages

Run nix flake show github:nix-community/browser-previews for the up-to-date list.

How?

To directly run latest google-chrome from this flake

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix run github:nix-community/browser-previews#google-chrome --impure

Likewise for google-chrome-beta or google-chrome-dev:

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix run github:nix-community/browser-previews#google-chrome-beta --impure

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix run github:nix-community/browser-previews#google-chrome-dev --impure

To install a package from this flake

• First you must add it as a input to your flake.nix:

inputs.browser-previews = { url = "github:nix-community/browser-previews";
                            inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; };

• Pass inputs to your modules using specialArgs.

• Then in configuration.nix, use it like this:

{ config, lib, pkgs, inputs, ... }:
{
  environment.systemPackages = with inputs.browser-previews.packages.${pkgs.system}; [
    google-chrome # Stable Release
    google-chrome-beta # Beta Release
    google-chrome-dev # Dev Release
  ];
}

(Must have flakes enabled.)

Why not include chromium?

The chromium build takes more resources than I'm willing to spend.