That will leave the Safe Browsing functional, but it removes the Chrome Sync and other features. I noticed that Chromium still works as before, even now after the 15 March deadline has passed, but future builds of my package will only contain my API key. The update takes care of that.Īlso, this was the last package which i compiled for Chromium that contains my Google API Key as well as the OAuth client/secret credentials. ![]() That is not needed for chromium-ungoogled itself, but I was alerted to the fact that Spotify specifically looks for ‘libwidevinecdm.so’ in the toplevel Chromium library directory. The change to the package is small: it adds a compatibility symlink. The ‘real’ Chromium does not need or use it, since Chromium downloads this CDM library automatically for you. The Widevine plugin package for which I provided an update, is meant for chromium-ungoogled only. I assume that the patch will end up in the Chromium source code after it passes the internal review process. And the fix took a while to actually get implemented, but in the end it all worked out. Google is no longer offering 32-bit binaries which means, issues like these are not likely to be caught in their own tests, but they are listening to the packagers who do build 32-bit binaries. In that same chromium-distro-packagers group that is the home of the discussion about Google’s decision to cripple 3rd-party Chromium browsers, I had asked the Chromium team to address the crash Slackware users are experiencing. Since I had to build packages anyway, I took the opportunity to apply a patch that fixes the crashes on 32-bit systems with glibc-2.33 installed (i.e. I made chromium-ungoogled also available for Slackware 14.2, I hope that makes some people happy. You are urged to update your installation of Chromium (-ungoogled) ASAP. 90 release addresses several critical vulnerabilities (it’s the third release in the 89 series in rapid succession actually, to fix critical bugs) but in particular it plugs a zero-day exploit that exists in the wild: CVE-2021-21193. I have updated the ‘ chromium‘, ‘ chromium-ungoogled‘ and ‘ chromium-widevine-plugin‘ packages in my repository.įor Chromium (-ungoogled) these are security updates.
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