Stable Chromium Version

[Vamp898]

The current Chromium Version that gets installed via ffupdater is an unstable, developer build. Every few updates, Chromium fails to start, crashes and other stuff, as you expect from an developer build.

As stable builds of chromium exist, I would love to have an option to get an stable build instead of the developer build

[Tobi823]

This is quite difficult (because no really intended by the dev team) but it seems possible (because https://chromium.woolyss.com/ does it)

I have to skip it now and implement it later

[Vamp898]

Hi there,

I checked how distributions do this and they just track the Google Chrome Version number and use the exact same for Chromium.

So there seems to be no proper ""solution"" but this workaround seems to be in place for all major Linux distributions

[Tobi823]

Good to know. I wasted a bit of time to find the connection between the git tags on GitHub (https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tags) and the build ids on https://storage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Android/ and found nothing. Maybe this is the reason why 😄

[ghost]

This is quite difficult (because no really intended by the dev team) but it seems possible (because https://chromium.woolyss.com/ does it)

I have to skip it now and implement it later

If you think the Chromium APK can be downloaded from this woolyss site: The Chromium build there isn't a "vanilla" build. It's obviously based on Cromite, but the source code isn't available. The developer ignores all requests, even from the former Bromite developer who asked for the code or patches to be made available. In the worst case, the build there is malware.

[Tobi823]

Good to know, thanks for the information.

My quick and dirty first thought was to use the website to query which version is the latest one. And then search for this version in the Chromium build archiv.

[Vamp898]

At least Archlinux and Gentoo do the same, i think that is not as "dirty" as it sounds. i mean it is, but Google has no interest that people use Chromium instead of Chrome. I doubt they'll provide a "clean" solution.

[ghost]

The whole thing is quite complex, but if I understand correctly, what you are thinking is roughly what I am currently using myself, but unfortunately it is not that simple.

I do it like this:

1. Open https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Android
2. On the latest stable version, click on the "i"
3. Copy the number at "Branch Base Position". As soon the Chromium version reaches the beta stage, this number is the same for all .x versions.
4. Go to https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html and select your Platform
5. Paste the Number in the search Box Normally, no results are found. And here I work manually. I go up a few numbers until a build is found, download it, and check if it really still has the major Chromium version like the one that is currently stable. If not, then an older one, so that I end up with the latest Build that is still on the Major Chromium Version i Want. Actually, the number in "Branche Base Position" is the number that the last build had when the Chromium major version entered beta, but for some reason a few, albeit fewer, builds are created with the major Chromium versions after that and this should be taken into account so that you really get the best Chromium version. Once I find the right build, I can install it. Keep in mind, though, that this build corresponds to the phase just before Chrome entered beta. So, it's not exactly the stable version, but it's definitely stable enough to use normally. So you see, it's complicated, and on top of that, the Chromium builds are available as ZIP files, along with WebView, Content Shell, and WebView Shell (for arm32 builds), rather than directly as APK files, which is probably difficult for FFUpdater. If you don't understand anything, just ask.