Chromium

Install older OS X onto an external drive. The following method allows you to download Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. Start your Mac holding down Command + R. Prepare a clean external drive (at least 10 GB of storage). Within OS X Utilities, choose Reinstall OS X. Select external drive as a source. Enter your Apple ID. Installing Chromium on Mac OS X Note: The following steps are specific to Mac OS X 10.6.They should work with earlier versions of Mac OS. Since Chromium is an ongoing open source project, you will not find an official Chromium browser download page.

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Note: The following steps are specific to Mac OS X 10.6. They should work with earlier versions of Mac OS.

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Since Chromium is an ongoing open source project, you will not find an official Chromium browser download page. Instead, to install Chromium, visit the web page where developers post the latest hourly builds, or code updates, of Chromium for download.

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Downloading and installing Chromium

To download and install Chromium, do the following:

1. Go to http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Latest.
3. Note the number that appears onscreen. This is the number of the latest Chromium build. You should download and install this version.
4. Press the Back button in your web browser to return to the Chromium build index, and click on the latest build number.
5. Click on chrome-mac.zip.
6. Save the zip file at a location on your computer.

Opening Chromium for the first time

To open Chromium for the first time, do the following:

1. Double click on the file chrome-mac.zip file on your computer to unzip it.
2. Double click on the unzipped folder to open it.

   You should see the Chromium application icon.

3. Drag and drop the Chromium application icon to the desired folder on your computer.
4. Double click on the Chromium icon to open the program.
5. Your computer asks you if you'd like to open a program downloaded from the Internet. Click Open to continue.
6. In the next window, Chromium asks you to select a search engine for integrated use in the Chromium browser.

   After you make your selection, Chromium opens.

I placed the Release build in a DMG file to give it an easy installer. (Can Click Image to Download Installer as well).

So Chromium is the best browser, in my opinion. ¬¨‚ĆLet me just say I have been a major fan of Mozilla/Firefox for over a decade and it has only been really the last 12-15 months that I have fully come to appreciate how fast and far the Chormium project has evolved. ¬¨‚ĆMozilla/Firefox’s rapid release schedule has unfortunately turned out to be quite annoying and almost¬¨‚Ćdisastrous¬¨‚Ćwith new browsers being released every six weeks or so. ¬¨‚ĆUsually this pace of release is a good thing but in Mozilla’s case it has been frustrating as some versions work well, others have no really new features (Firefox 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10? ¬¨‚Ćall seemed the same, still buggy).

Chrome is google’s slightly modified release verision of the open source project Chromium (financed by Google). ¬¨‚ĆThe difference is minimal but for a school district there are a couple of slight advantages. ¬¨‚ĆChromium does not track as many user metrics, not does it seem to open quite the same number of UDP connections as Chrome. ¬¨‚Ć In a filtered setting its nice to have a customized browser, that doesn’t track (as many) user metrics as this information is really just wasted traffic. ¬¨‚ĆChrome also adds in a PDF plugin as well as built in flash plugin where as Chromium leaves these out, ¬¨‚Ćagain this is okay and actually preferred since we already have flash and a PDF view installed on all Macs. ¬¨‚ĆI will include this chromium build and future builds on our Lab images at the HS and MS, also changed the logo a bit to give it a Geneseo feel.

I compiled Chromium from source on an MacBook Air i5.  I compiled on 10.7 Lion but used set the build option to 10.6 for better compatibility.  To be able to compile on OS X Lion works but there are a few more steps then other Mac platforms.  I compiled the project in terminal with the following commands.

First get the source using SVN and then sync with gclient.  The source code is currently quite large and the download will be between 1.2 and 1.6 gigs.

Most of the directions of chromium’s site will work but I have added below the two that were necessary to get to build on OS X Lion. ¬¨‚ĆI would also make sure you have XCode installed prior to compiling.

Use the following command to set the build correctly for mac. I was only able to build setting Mac_sdk to 10.6.

GYP_GENERATORS=make GYP_DEFINES=mac_sdk=10.6 ./build/gyp_chromium

To finally initiate and build from the source I set the BUILDTYPE to release, and used the -j4 flag to use 3 cores (can use -j5 if you want to use all 4 cores of a i5 to speed up compiling time.)

make BUILDTYPE=Release chrome -j4

Compiling took well over one hour.

(Successful Build)