Un-Googled Chromium 'portable' - now at v112.0.5615.169 (includes manual updater from Fred...)

[Grey]

Doesn't work in Marmaduke's build either. I press 'Play'.....the button disappears, and nothing happens.

Yeah, thanks. On the weekend I'll try to dig into what's going on there.

[MochiMoppel]

Yeah, thanks. On the weekend I'll try to dig into what's going on there.

Maybe a security measure? For example in LibreWolf by default "EnableWebGL" is off and "Enable ResistFingerprinting" is on. Reversing the setting to 'on' and 'off' makes the "Play" button functional.

[MochiMoppel]

I ran into similar issues running a startup script as root, that is, having to change owners of profiles created by root.

where chown is not available, could the script be run by spot and still be "portable" enough?
at least portable for use by spot with any distro that supports the user spot?

I'm not sure what you are after.
As long as your application folder is placed on a non-Linux FS you'll encounter problems, more when you try to run as spot but also when you run as root. Chromium simply won't be able to write to your portabilified profile folder because Chromium tries to create 3 symlinks, fails as expected and refuses to start.
You can get around this by changing the LAUNCH script and essentially the 'portability' logic behind it, but that's a different story. In any case it would require to run Chromium as root, and this is something you obviously don't want.

[Grey]

Maybe a security measure? For example in LibreWolf by default "EnableWebGL" is off and "Enable ResistFingerprinting" is on. Reversing the setting to 'on' and 'off' makes the "Play" button functional.

I have these settings right now in Chromium. Maybe something is affecting. In the future, I may have to change the settings for different sites. But it's easier to keep Chromium and Firefox together
The Raw Draw function, for example, spoils some blogs and forums (the appearance is distorted), and speeds up some.

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[fredx181]

Here's a script to update Ungoogled-Chromium portable (works similar as the UpdateBrave script from here: viewtopic.php?p=87277#p87277).

UpdateUChromium.gz

Remove fake .gz and make ececutable

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Place it in the Ungoogled_Chromium-portable64 directory from Mike's setup and run from there in terminal ./UpdateUChromium
And it should update to latest version (currently 112.0.5615.169)

@mikewalsh
Your archive of Ungoogled_Chromium-portable64 contains a (for me broken) symlink PROFILE, which is not right because it prevents creating that directory by the LAUNCH script.
edit: I see just now, that's already mentioned earlier by @MochiMoppel , removing the symlink makes it work OK for me (but should be on a Linux filesystem, not FAT32).
Also in the LAUNCH script, I think that only the PROFILE folder needs to be made owned by 'spot', not the other ones.

[mikewalsh]

@fredx181 :-

Many thanks for that, Fred. Works beautifully, mate. Cheers!

I've added this to the current version of the portable, along with the "ReadMe" for it. The sym-link is history - sorry about that; I've lost track of the number of times I've done this. I build the new version and link to my existing profile for testing purposes, but so often forget to remove it! I do too much stuff when I'm over-tired & past my bedtime; it's NOT a good habit!

Re-uploaded, and now available at the usual link in post #1.

Mike.

[fredx181]

Thanks Mike, just one thing, I see you mentioned the version as v112.0.5615.127 but for me latest version downloaded by the script is v112.0.5615.169 .
How come ? (it's not late at night for you so that can't be an excuse this time )
edit: the script downloads it from here: https://github.com/macchrome/linchrome/releases/latest
edit2: checked now your latest upload and it has latest v112.0.5615.169, so that's fine anyway.

[williwaw]

@mikewalsh

do your portables always use the same ungoogled builds?
how many ungoogled builds are you aware of?
Marmaduke
Alien Bobs
are there more to consider?

[mikewalsh]

@mikewalsh

do your portables always use the same ungoogled builds?
how many ungoogled builds are you aware of?
Marmaduke
Alien Bobs
are there more to consider?

@williwaw :-

Hoo. I really wouldn't like to say. I've always used Marmaduke's builds, because he includes all the extra code that will take advantage of your system, and permit full hardware decoding of videos IF you have a decent GPU installed.

As for AlienBob, hm; I know he's moved to Ungoogled Chromium for the 32-bit builds. Has he done the same for 64-bit, too? I ask, because I made it clear when I published the portable build of 'regular' Chromium that updates would be 'semi-regular', at best.....and I haven't checked his builds out for a few weeks. I don't use it that often, y'see; Opera is MY regular browser, but I like having plenty of alternatives available.....and since I build most of the portable browsers, I have a lot more on my system at any given time than most other folks do.

Mike.

[williwaw]

https://github.com/ungoogled-software seems to be the source for patches to build ungoogled-chromium, but downloaders of binaries should read https://github.com/ungoogled-software/u ... y-binaries

this site has a fair number of resources
https://chromium.woolyss.com/

searching for marmuduke
https://github.com/mtslzr/homebrew-marmaduke-chromium
But does homebrew infer the build is for mac?

https://slackware.nl/people/alien/slack ... led/pkg64/
seems to be AlienBobs repo.
I am still reading at his blog to see if he uses the same patches.
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/about/

[mikewalsh]

@williwaw :-

I get 'Marmaduke's' builds from here:- https://github.com/macchrome/linchrome/releases

.....referenced from the Woolyss.com site (it's the first one at the top of the list). 'Marmaduke' - it's the same guy, apparently - does do the MacOS builds using Homebrew, but it's a different project, and under a different name.

I wouldn't even countenance building the thing from source, mate. For one thing, my compiling skills are atrocious anyway.....and for another, despite that this HP desktop rig is powerful by Puppy standards, it's got nowhere near enough 'grunt' to try compiling a mainstream browser. I wouldn't even attempt it, because the CPU is "missing" certain critical instruction sets (thank you, Intel!).....without which, the process is doomed to failure before you even start.

So I make use of pre-compiled "binaries" from other people. (They're NOT actually binaries, they're enormous 'shared libraries'.....like the libxul.so one you find in 'zilla-based browsers. That IS the bulk of the browser code, right there.) And then I add the 'portable' infrastructure around 'em.

Mike.

[williwaw]

@williwaw :-

I get 'Marmaduke's' builds from here:- https://github.com/macchrome/linchrome/releases

Mike. ;)

v 133 just posted to the link a few hours ago

(I did see macchrome earlier and did not look close enough as I thought it was well, for mac)