Older versions of Chromium or Ungoogled-Chromium for Slackware

Humming Owl · 05-13-2022, 10:28 AM

Hello! I am new to Slackware, I have been only a Debian-based distro user but I want to use something different just to see how it goes, but I have this question, in the page I found for Chromium or Ungoogled-Chromium builds for Slackware I have only found the version 101 of the browser. Is there a way to install older versions of it? preferably the Ungoogled version. I don't like to use newer versions of the browser because it is quite heavy for my computer.

This is the page I mention --> https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sl...gled/pkg/15.0/

Cheers.

LuckyCyborg · 05-13-2022, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Humming Owl

Hello! I am new to Slackware, I have been only a Debian-based distro user but I want to use something different just to see how it goes, but I have this question, in the page I found for Chromium or Ungoogled-Chromium builds for Slackware I have only found the version 101 of the browser. Is there a way to install older versions of it? preferably the Ungoogled version. I don't like to use newer versions of the browser because it is quite heavy for my computer.

This is the page I mention --> https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sl...gled/pkg/15.0/

Cheers.

Honestly, considering that Chromium is full of CVEs and security issues are discovered every day, I believe that's a quite bad idea to use an older release.

I do NOT recommend you to do this, specially because Slackware is not Debian, which patches the software like hell. In Slackware, an older Chromium release would be "as is" and quite insecure.

Also, there is no way to have the older Chromium releases published by Mr. Hameleers - from what I know, nobody keeps the older Chromium packages, almost certainly because of the reasons I said previously.

Humming Owl · 05-13-2022, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

Honestly, considering that Chromium is full of CVEs and security issues are discovered every day, I believe that's a quite bad idea to use an older release.

I do NOT recommend you to do this, specially because Slackware is not Debian, which patches the software like hell. In Slackware, an older Chromium release would be "as is" and quite insecure.

Also, there is no way to have the older Chromium releases published by Mr. Hameleers - from what I know, nobody keeps the older Chromium packages, almost certainly because of the reasons I said previously.

Thanks for the reply.

dchmelik · 05-19-2022, 10:36 PM

There's also SlimJet & Edge (& etc.?) which are technically Chromium ungoogled, though Edge is Microsoft...

ctrlaltca · 05-20-2022, 07:22 AM

You can always get the build directory from here https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sl...googled/build/ , it contains the slackbuild and the other files needed to create a package.
It will take a long time to compile it, anyway.
Semi-official prebuilt binaries can be found here: https://commondatastorage.googleapis...fix=Linux_x64/ YMMV

prejudices_mars · 05-20-2022, 09:13 AM

Been using falkon for a while handles all chrome-only websites well, it also not that heavy on the system. I have dual core Pentium 4 Skylake with just 2 GB RAM. If you don't have any chromium browser specific things to do like web developement. Give it a try, also has adblock in it.

zeebra · 05-21-2022, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Humming Owl

in the page I found for Chromium or Ungoogled-Chromium

QT WebEngine is essentially an ungoogled Chromium engine. It might be worth looking into it.

Not that Konqueror is the right solution, but if you want to give QT WebEngine a quick test/spin, you can do that with Konqueror. From my own tests, it seems to me that performance and the engine is pretty much on par with whatever Chrome is using, and that it's probably a good engine if you want "Chrome(ium) compatibility" or want to move from Chrome(ium) to another similar option.