Ungoogled Chromium. uBlock works in newer version

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EDIT:Finding as of test date 12.Dec 2021 uBlock Origin now fine on some, not all newer versions
Not all Versions run due CPU specific Compile flags.
Please read on, later posts provide more info…

uBlock installed but blocks everything, it seems that u block
depends on google services which have been removed from
the browser. No way to change settings and as soon as ublock
is activated all sites are blocked.

Reports in the net of everything working fine must be on a very
old browser version where the extension still works.

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[Member Wallon]

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Dear ModdIt,

Chromium has not been updated for a long time. You should not use this web browser anymore.

Best regards,
Wallon

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Hi Wallon,
The situation of antiX being stuck on an older version has been rectified for antiX21 Bullseye
anticapitalista recently uploaded the latest version of ungoogled chromium to the repos.

Since I started testing and using using the browser I have always been on latest OBS build.
Present version which I am using now is 95.0.4638.54 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium)
Debian GNU/Linux (64-Bit).

The developer site is https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium should you wish for more
information.

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Dear ModdIt,

My installed Chromium version is 90.0.4430.212.
It’s strange, I don’t get the update on antiX 19.4 Full.

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Wallon

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Hi Wallon,
I need to make my post clearer, the new version is for antiX Bullseye not 19.4.
The builds from the developer site are only for sid and bullseye.
The package might build for 19 but without knowing how to use OBS or having very powerful
hardware a marathon task.

Can you run antiX21 live ?, it runs on some of my 12 to 14 year old hardware .
You could have latest packages that way.
or
To have a new version on 19.4 I think you might be able to run the flatpack version available from
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium

I have never used flatpack, a basic installation guide is here
https://wiki.debian.org/ungoogled-chromium#From_the_OBS_Repo

Instructions are
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install it:
flatpak install flathub com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium

Run it:
flatpak run com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium

I think PPC or Xecure can explain how to setup a starter for the flat version.

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Dear ModdIt,

Thank you for the information. Your thread is important for people who want to use Chromium.
I think it is not normal. We should have Chromium updates on all antiX versions.
It was like Windows, you had to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 to get the Internet Explorer update. Very bad memory… when Windows 7 could not be installed on your PC.
I switched from Windows to Linux to avoid this kind of problem.
I’ll try it later because for the moment I’m doing translations for antiX. I’m running out of time.

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Wallon

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Wallon wrote:

Dear ModdIt,

… We should have Chromium updates on all antiX versions.

Wallon

Not going to happen. Too much work. (unless someone volunteers to do it).
User does have to take some responsibility.
As Moddlt says, you can download the flatpack version.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

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Thank you anticapitalista for the explanations.
I thought it was a simple copy / paste.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge of Linux.
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Wallon

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Hi Wallon,
New releases are often a lot different regarding the librarys software needs to work.

You can copy and paste an appimage or one of portable packages.
Firefox downloaded from Mozilla as one example, you can unpack it, open the directory,
click on the starter or binary, mozilla seems to change that at a whim. The browser will
open and work. It is somewhat like an appimage in that the download contains all the librarys
needed. An appimage is a compressed package that unpacks when you start it, the fox is already
decompressed so will start faster.

Other packages need to be built to fit the supporting packages and librarys in the distro version.

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SORRY FOLKS SEEMS NONE OF UPDATED VERSIONS WILL RUN ON 19.4

I had understood up until now that the point of flatpack or portable packages X64 is they will run
because bringing in needed librarys. How wrong I was. Please see PPC Post below.

The portable version is running very nicely on Bullseye, starts lightning fast in comparison to the appimage.

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Hi Moddit, on my antiX 19.X 64bits, I get a dependency error referring GLIBC_2.30…

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I also tried installing UG from flatpak: Failed to install com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium: app/com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium/x86_64/stable needs a later flatpak version (1.8.2)

So, there seems to be no way to install the latest UG version in antiX 19.X… an uptdate to antiX 21 seems to be needed.

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Thanks PPC I bow my head in shame.

Sad stuff.

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OT for the original question.

Now could test on fully updated 19.4. 64 Bit, as PPC pointed out UngoogledChromium stand alone package does not run.

What does is the latest version of LibreWolf, it accepts firefox extensions as well as many config hacks.
I do recommend to go through about:config i substituted a lot of the urls with https://qjz9zk
Hard to say yet if any telemetry is active, I turned off all I could find. Also gor rid of
the idiot bar, er hated by me and my users crazy drop down urlbar.

Site compatibility seems pretty good, for my usage anyway. I use the stand alone apps for youtube.

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Hello,

I am also a user of ungoogled-chromium. The last version available in antiX 21 repos is : 95. It works well, but has got a (enormous) caveat : when you enable ublock origin addon, it does not work. Not at all, no page can be displayed.

This is an issue due to chromium compilation and under investigation by the reduced u-g team : https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian/issues/247

The github page puts forward a useful solution here with an “unportable chromium” release : https://github.com/ungoogledhttps://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian/issues/255-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian/issues/255
And download page : https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases,

I downloaded and installed the packages (u-g-common, u-g-sandbox, u-g-driver…) with sudo dpkg -i. It works very well, and I have ublock running without issues.

Regards

Girafenaine
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Antix 19 - Fluxbox - Live USB stick and frugal / MX 19 - Fluxbox - Dell XPS 7590

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I am unable to get the binarys from https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases to run.

Either I am doing something wrong, or more likely I am affected by the compilation with specific cpu flag.
Download page states: the binarys are built with -march=skylake C/C++ flag.

Manual says: -march=cpu-type allows GCC to generate code that may not run at all on processors other than the
one indicated.

My CPU is I5 Broadwell Quad core.

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