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Chromium is an open source web browser that strives for a secure, fast and stable web browsing experience for its users. It is the open source project behind Google Chrome.
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Installation
As of 2021-01-03 16:59:07, Debian's Chromium package in the repositories for stretch remains vulnerable to numerous CVEs as outlined in the Chromium Security Tracker. Chromium in buster and sid, however, remain up-to-date. Consider using an alternative browser like Firefox if you are on stretch.
From the debian repo
How to install Chromium:
apt install chromium chromium-l10n
(chromium-l10n is only used for localization and is optional)
Using Flatpak
Chromium is available at FlatHub.
If you haven't already set up Flatpak :
sudo apt install flatpak flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Install it :
flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium
Run it :
flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium
Using snap
Canonical provides an official Snap package for Chromium:
If you haven't already installed snapd, run
sudo apt install snapd
Install it:
sudo snap install chromium
Run it:
snap run chromium
Extensions
Many popular, useful, and open-source browser extensions for Chromium are built as Debian packages that can be loaded locally and updated via Apt, reducing the need to use the Chrome Web Store and to trust the binary extension files that it serves. You can find these by searching for packages named webext-*.
Viewing PDF
Chromium can view PDFs without any additional extensions (internally using PDFium software library)
Debian-specific information
Alternative browsers
External Links
https://www.chromium.org/ - Chromium homepage.
https://www.google.com/chrome - Google Chrome homepage.
https://superuser.com/questions/523852 - how to install Chrome Web Store extensions on old Chrome versions such as 6.0.
See also
WebBrowsers under Debian.
CategorySoftware | CategoryNetworkApplication | CategoryWebBrowser