Ungoogled Chromium

[Member ModdIt]

After finding mozillas dirty tricks department had brought in yet more serious challenges to keeping firefox in check,
I decided to give ungoogled chromium a trial.

First Impression: Minimalist, customizable and very fast, both start and loading webpages.

Unfortunately no 32 Bit version is available for Linux.
I am using the 64 Bit standalone version, it offers several advantages for the future, largest of which is portability.
I set up following the instructions on avoidthehack website links below, including adding some extensions.
The cited addon method to install extensions failed repeatedly with errors.
I thus followed the no google login method, searching and initiating the download with Tor Browser.

The browser comes without search engine enabled, included are Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Searx. All are considered privacy respecting. Adding a default search engine metagerger was very easy.

Following advice from skidoo, to reduce remote attack vectors the binary was renamed with a generated version. I put a starter in the personal menu and on the toolbar. The included icon was copied from the bundle to /usr/share/icons so it could easily be selected in the menu tool from control center.

I am not qualified to make a meaningful assessment on the security of this browser, web rtc and java script are now set to off (personal setting). Up to date the browser has not crashed to relaunch headless. Something which is a menace in group experience with firefox and derivatives including tor. Reason for renaming the binary, not just for this browser!.

Moving the browser bundle to another machine: copy the bundle, carry over the config after first browser start. The config files are located in /home/username/.config/chromium.

https://avoidthehack.com/how-to-install-configure-ungoogled-chromium

https://avoidthehack.com/manually-install-extensions-ungoogled-chromium

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Hi moddit- I’ve been recommending badwolf and ungoogled chromium left and right- they are very light and fast browsers. I did manage to install an extension, on a older version, about a year ago, on ungoogled-chromium, following some tutorial…

It also has a 32 bits .deb version: https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=ungoogled-chromium&project=home:ungoogled_chromium

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Hi PPC,
Thanks you are right, I should have mentioned 32 Bit Versions for Buster and SID are available.

I did not include the download link or method to install extensions as that is well described on the
avoidthehack pages. The Chromium Web Store extension method failed. Once the .crx extensions are
downloaded installing is really easy.

WIKI is here https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-wiki/faq

If anyone needs help they only need to ask, between us all here we should hopefuly find an answer..

Agree on badwolf, I self compiled the first version, latest i failed, but luckily a more talented person
fixed it, for which I am very thankful.

Have been wondering if there is a hardblock to compiling Ungoogled Chromium for stretch. So many users still
have a need for a modern browser on older systems. I can try but my compilation skill level is minus minus
when I run in to a lot of errors.

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