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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+).
features
Basically equivalent to the same version of original Chromium except for limitations by old OSes (see limitations).
Some features (i.e. DRM) need extra operations to use.
system requirements
- Mac OS X 10.7 or later
- requires latest build
- 10.7.5 (11G63)
- 10.8.5 (12F2560)
- 10.9.5 (13F1911)
- 10.10.5 (14F2511)
- also requires all software updates to be applied (inclding security patches)
- requires latest build
builds
For getting/updating the latest builds, an updater is available (experimental).
canary (Chrome canary channel)
Canary builds are automatically built and uploaded once a day (00:00 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)
See Releases for recent builds.
Or, you can use a downloader by @Wowfunhappy.
stable (Chrome stable channel)
Stable builds are currently merged and built manually and passed a few basic tests (launching, HTML5/JS tests, media playing) on 10.7.
See releases/tag/stable for current stable channel release.
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
- unified window title & tab bar
- 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
- on 10.7, you need patched
building
To build from source, see Building.