UngoogledChromium Compiled with Older Librarys

[Member Xunzi_23]

While following up on the post from Mr John Biles regarding legacy OS I stumbled on a Puppy forum post.
Un-Googled Chromium ‘portable’ – now at v108.0.5359.98 Post by mikewalsh
https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=1499&sid=2f34c88d5519d5fb8ab11327c2619b73

This build, in addition to including all the VAAPI, hardware acceleration stuff OOTB, also includes WideVine as standard.
The developer, “Marmaduke”, has built this along the same principles as most of the ‘clone’ devs…..against very much older
dependencies, unlike ‘vanilla’ Chromium (which is always built against the very newest of everything).

The build runs fine on my antiX box, interesting for some may be that it is built on older libs.
There have been past reports that some had troubles on older systems.
As usual need to rename sandbox
chmod it to 4755
chown it to :root
Launch using the chrome-wrapper script found in the chromium folder.

EDIT: you can launch chrome binary directly.
Useful flags for some:
–aggressive-cache-discard
–disable-cache
–disable-application-cache
–disable-offline-load-stale-cache
–disk-cache-size=0
using multiple prefixing to start the browser kills chrome caching completely.

Nice chrome flags cheat sheet
https://kapeli.com/cheat_sheets/Chromium_Command_Line_Switches.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/index

I have not messed with the menu add script for puppy, fear it might cause breakage on my installed setup

Download link taken from the Puppy forum page is below

https://mega.nz/folder/jXhVkYjB#Pz2plOQjETINrYv9coT7KQ

May give an opportunity to make UngoogledChromium install and maintenance easier,its easy for me, not for new users.
The single version displayed at the download location looks favorable for a scripted download using wget then
script to install to /opt. Part I have not figured out is extending a basic script with starter addition to
personal menu and toolbar. Will keep trying…

• This topic was modified 4 months ago by Xunzi_23.

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