How to build and get the 'Google Chrome' browser not 'Chromium'.

[Farooq Rahman]

I want to build the official 'Google Chrome' browser from the source code. I followed the instructions as mentioned at build chromium. I successfully followed the steps and I build the chromium browser. Below is the version output of that chromium.

root@87fef2c18650:/chromium/src/out/chromebrowser125# ./chrome --version
Chromium 125.0.6422.112

But my requirement is, I want to build the official 'Google Chrome' browser not the Chromium browser. Below is the version output from the official release.

root@87fef2c18650:google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 125.0.6422.112

Please help.

Thanks.

Farooq.

[Dave Tapuska]

You want to read https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/HEAD/docs/google_chrome_branded_builds.md

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[Nico Weber]

Hi,

it's not possible to build Google Chrome instead of Chromium using publicly-available code. (Setting `is_chrome_branded = true` enables doing it, but it requires image and string resources that aren't public.)

If you set `is_official_build = true`, you'll get a build that uses all the same optimizations, though.

Nico

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