Want to download Chromium, but only find Chrome

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Martin van Boven

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Nov 26, 2015, 9:53:41 PM11/26/15
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Hi,


Apologies if this is a silly question but I can not find answer Googling it.

I want to reinstall Chromium; my Windows 10 update broke it.  But https://www.chromium.org just sends me to different versions of Chrome, not Chromium:
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
and:
http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

I do not remember anymore how or where I got my current Chromium; it had a blue icon, missed the Google additions like pdf reader, updater, etc. (reason for my choice), and I found some Chromium-updater extension to nicely keep it up to date.

I hope some of you can point me in the right direction!


Cheers,
Martin

Jonathan Garbee

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Nov 26, 2015, 10:10:37 PM11/26/15
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The download chromium site on appspot is the only official place to download a binary of chromium. The executable is named chrome, but it is indeed chromium. However, it is a live tip of tree build. Which means bugs are expected since it is built automatically from unstable code.


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Martin van Boven

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Nov 26, 2015, 10:28:30 PM11/26/15
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Thanks Jonathan,


I stopped the installation of those (I tried all) when at the beginning of the process it said something along the lines of "first installing Google updater", which is what I do not want.

In the meantime -in a fit of anger- I blindly started clicking all links I could find, including the ones not suggesting they hid a Chromium download, and I finally found it here:
https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium
under "Not-as-easy-steps" I found a link:
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html
with a very easy installer which painlessly installed it.


Cheers!,
Martin

Yuta Kitamura

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Nov 27, 2015, 12:39:49 AM11/27/15
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Garbee <jonatha...@gmail.com> wrote:

The download chromium site on appspot is the only official place to download a binary of chromium. The executable is named chrome, but it is indeed chromium. However, it is a live tip of tree build. Which means bugs are expected since it is built automatically from unstable code.

Note that the download-chromium site is NOT an official site. The site is not supported nor maintained by Chromium project. Chromium project does not distribute an official binary of Chromium.

PhistucK

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Nov 27, 2015, 4:34:19 AM11/27/15
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The "first installing Google updater" could be a string bug, because Chromium (the Chromium-project-created snapshot or continuous build artifacts, at least) will never install Google Update. Also, I am not even sure Google Chrome says that, but I have not installed Chrome from scratch for a very long time.

Anyway, download-chromium.appspot.com does exactly that - it takes one of the latest (or the latest) binaries from the chromium-browser-snapshots Google Storage bucket (the second link you mentioned is the said Google Storage bucket, it shows all of the supported platforms and their artifacts - binaries). You can see that downloading from the Google Storage bucket and from the appspot link will download from roughly the same URL.

That dev-channel link is for Google Chrome, yes.


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PhistucK

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Nov 27, 2015, 4:36:35 AM11/27/15
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It is maintained by the Chromium project (by the Chromium team, like François Beaufort), it is authoritative in some way, albeit not official.


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