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Old PC with only 2 GB ram. And I need DRM (Widevine) installed. Well, first i went the easy way of just installing Vivaldi, and Widevine works out of the box in Vivaldi.

However, I noticed a big difference between native Chromium and Vivaldi in consuming ram. When having only a few tabs open, Vivaldi hangs the computer while Chromium doesn't and runs smoothly with a number additional tabs open.

So I the tried to install Widevine in Chromium by creating a symlink "WidevineCdm" in usr/lib/chromium to /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm (where Vivaldi installed it).

opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm
├── LICENSE
├── manifest.json
└── _platform_specific
└── linux_x64
└── libwidevinecdm.so

But Chromium failed when running test-widevine.html. (https://github.com/proprietary/chromium ... evine.html)

I also tried copying the /WidevineCdm tree from opt/google/chrome directly into /usr/lib/chromium

usr/lib/chromium/WidevineCdm
├── LICENSE
├── manifest.json
└── _platform_specific
└── linux_x64
└── libwidevinecdm.so

And also this failed when running test-widevine.html.
Later I also tried fiddling with permissions, forcing them to 755 / 644; still fail.

How should I do it right?

My set-up:
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EasyOS 5.5.5 (neither Chromium nor Vivaldi in containers).
Stock Vivaldi 6.4.3160.34 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
Stock Chromium 116.0.5845.179 (Official Build) stable (64-bit)
Protected content IDs: "Sites can play protected content" is ticked "yes"

Vivaldi "chrome://components" (17)
Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.2710.0

whereas in Chromium "chrome://components" (16)
no Widevine component is showing up...

We are discussing Chromium versus Firefox here:

viewtopic.php?t=9875

Yes, I have read that although widevine can be used with chromium, there may be problems.

Firefox has widevine support, I have tested it works fine.

I have configured widevine to be enabled by default in Firefox. Firefox will be the default browser in the next release of EasyOS.