Chromium in 'portable' format.....based around AlienBob's Slackware 15 packages

[mikewalsh]

Afternoon, gang.

Following a PM from peebee, assuring me that he had no problems with me doing this build, here is a Chromium package in my usual 'portable' format.

These are based around AlienBob's current Slackware 15.0 builds.....which appear to have been compiled/put together in a pretty relaxed build environment. As Peter noted, yes; I DO try to make all these browser packages work across as many Pups/Dogs/whatever, as far back as is possible.......most of the credit for which has to go to battleshooter, for her sterling work in helping out with the contents of the included 'libs' directory some years back. Since she's currently in the middle of a fairly long graduate course as a mature student, she simply doesn't have time for Puppy these days.......but she's sorely missed.

PLEASE NOTE:- I will not be religiously updating this with every single point release, since AlienBob himself isn't doing so.....and that's my source for these, hence the acknowledgement at launch. I'll periodically upgrade this, as & when.....but it won't usually be that far behind.

Currently, we are @ v131.0.6778.139....."level-pegging" with Google Chrome.

Widevine is included, plus it looks as though libffmpeg is "built-in" ( a lá Chrome itself) so NetFlix/Spotify/Hulu/Amazon Prime, etc., should be usable OOTB.

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As always:-

• Download

• Unzip

• Move the extracted 'portable' directory anywhere you like.....preferably, outside the save is best

• Click to enter

• Click 'LAUNCH' to fire it up

The usual MenuAdd/Remove scripts are included, for those that require a Menu entry. Please make sure to read the 'MenuReadMe' first before moving the 'portable' to a different location.

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You'll always be able to find the most recent offering here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Hope these are useful for some of you! Enjoy.

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

New version available from the link in post #1, above. We're now at v132.0.6834.83. Forgot to mention in post #1 that WideVine is included, borrowed from Chrome, so NetFlix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Spotify et al, are immediately usable.

Usage instructions as above. Enjoy.

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

New version now out. Chromium-portable is now @ v134.0.6998.35.....still 'level-pegging' with Chrome. Thanks, as usual, to "AlienBob".

Available from the usual link in post #1. Enjoy!

Mike.

[pp4mnklinux]

New version now out. Chromium-portable is now @ v134.0.6998.35.....still 'level-pegging' with Chrome. Thanks, as usual, to "AlienBob".

Available from the usual link in post #1. Enjoy!

Mike.

@mikewalsh , first of all, thanks for sharing this browser version, it works really nice but there are 3 things "I don't like":

2 of them make me work slowly,
- The option to clear cache or not
- Your grateful thanks to 'AlienBob'.......and peebee!
- I have links created to open with my browser, but they didn't work with chromium
Vg: (Exec=/opt/Chromium-portable64/LAUNCH viewforum.php?f=63)

So I modded the code, I really hope you don't mind , but If you disagree , please, delete it.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
#
# Launcher for 'portable' Chromium browser modded by pp4mnk
# Grateful thanks to the original developers:  Mikewalsh , AlienBob and Peebee!

HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"

mkdir -p "$HERE/PROFILE" 2>/dev/null

chown -R spot:spot "$HERE/lib"
chown -R spot:spot "$HERE/PROFILE"
chown -R spot:spot "$HERE/chromium"

set_library_path() {
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE:$HERE/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
}

run_chromium() {
    run-as-spot "$HERE/chromium/chromium" --user-data-dir="$HERE/PROFILE" --disable-infobars --force-device-scale-factor=1.3 "$@"
}

if grep -q 'Quirky April64' /etc/DISTRO_SPECS ||
   grep -q 'puppy_tahr64' /etc/os-release ||
   grep -q 'puppy_xenialpup64' /etc/os-release; then
    set_library_path
fi

run_chromium "$@"

For my personal system (F96CE_XFCE_FUSILLI) it works better.

THANKS FOR SHARING.

Have a nice day u all.

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I have problems with sound, there must be some problem with config or something similar (I made changes to allow slimjet sound instead of chrome years ago, May 4th, 2023) I must review things, but any ideas are welcome. (What I did.... https://puppyxfcefusilli.wordpress.com ... slimjet39/ )

I have problems recognizing other disks (like happened to me with easy os , and I must test to solve it following similar procedures.-) viewtopic.php?t=13985

Enjoy this Wednesday.

[mikewalsh]

@pp4mnklinux :-

Nah, not a problem. Anything I make available is provided "as-is".

In line with the terms of the GPL (and I think @rockedge has something similar covering ALL general downloads directly available from the forum), you're perfectly free to modify anything about them in any way you want. It is, of course, appreciated if you can explain or demonstrate what you've done. It is NOT, however, a mandatory requirement.....not as far as I'm concerned. Others may disagree with this...

You've shown us what you've done or changed. I'm fairly certain that satisfies the GPL, so far as that goes.

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

Evening, gang.

Here's the current release.......v134.0.6998.88. Available from the usual link in post #1.

Enjoy.

Mike.