

It’s also less prone to crashing or otherwise interfering with your system as it’s built for Ubuntu. The ungoogled_chromium version is simpler to set up. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. The two possibilities for installing Chromium via deb package on Ubuntu are (a) to use a Ubuntu-specific version from ungoogled_chromium, or (b) to use a version from Debian. After the third time this happened, I had had enough and decided to ditch the snap version. More importantly, it would periodically lose all of my settings: bookmarks, plugins, search engine choices, privacy settings, etc. Under snap, Chromium would take about 10 seconds to start. I’m not going to argue with their technical reasoning, but my experience as a user has been less than positive. In Ubuntu 19.10, the developers decided to switch Chromium away from the apt packaging system in favour of snapd. The post is based on the official Ungoogled Chromium instructions for Ubuntu and a blog post by Andrei Shevchuk The 2403 branch.In this post, I explain two ways to install Chromium on recent versions of Ubuntu using the apt package manager instead of snap. Typically that's OK, but if you needĪ true build of ".x" then you'll need to build Chromium from Sometimes you may have to decrement the commit number until you find one.įootnote: As this build was made at 44 branch point, it does not have any commits merged in while in beta.


I'll copy/paste the relevant steps from that page here:ĭownloading old builds of Chrome / Chromium I have received a very helpful answer there, which liked to

As at the time, the official downloads didn't offer this version any longer (and searching for a solution didn't give me one, I asked here). I ran into the issue of being required to run a specific version of Chrome on Linux to reproduce a bug that was reported to me.
