Please, update Chromium version

Using AppImages
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Last AppImage currently available for Chromium seems to be version 55.0.2843.0 created two years ago.

Could you, please, update to newest version?

NOTE: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ seems to update regularly (It last version was updated just 17 minutes ago)

Thanks!

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These are just some experimental AppImages I made a while back as a proof-of-concept. Please ask the Chromium project to provide officially supported AppImages. Thanks.

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There’s also the Chromium snap if you’re OK with snaps :wink: It’s also becoming required for up-to-date Chromium in Ubuntu 14.04 and recommended for later versions too.

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There’s also rpm, deb, Flatpak, source, git,… but that’s besides the point. If you like an AppImage, then please ask the authors of the application to provide one.

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Hi @probono , I’m a new user of AppImage apps, and I just ran the oldest AppImage version you built for Chromium in my Kubuntu 20.04 installation, amazing how fast is to setup and run any app (actually no setup at all :smiley: ), thanks for the builds you made!

Currently I need to run Chromium 33, the reason why this version is special is because it is the latest version shipped with Android 4.4 (the WebView), and it is the latest version of Android that does not allow to update the WebView component for HTML5 apps, and because I’m working in a project where we need to support this version, I wanted to be able to run Chromium 33 without the need to run and debug inside an Android virtual env or virtualizing an old desktop version of Linux, at least for the day to day development.

I found the official build for Chrome 33 is https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Linux_x64/241106/ , and of course trying to execute it with a modern Desktop Linux version doesn’t work.

Could you provide the script you used to build the Chrome AppImage bundles ? If you can make the build for Chrome 33 and publish it would be great, for sure other developers would appreciate it, but if you can’t, I can try, but having your build script would make easier the task, I read a bit how to build an AppImage but never did before.

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Hello @mrsarm,

please see the https://github.com/AppImage/pkg2appimage project.

Especially, you may want to check out those recipes for pkg2appimage:

Here is the documentation: https://github.com/AppImage/pkg2appimage/blob/master/YML.md

Generally speaking, please ask the Chromium project to provide officially supported AppImages. Thanks.

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