For a glorious moment, enjoy the current Chromium on Buster

[stevepusser]

The OBS is working normally again, so uploaded the new source there. Should know in many hours if 40 GB space is enough for the new build or not. Usually Debian pushes a Buster version right away, too, especially with this many accumulated security fixes.

[stevepusser]

Hmmm--getting a lot of reports of this release being unstable on the standard kernel, but it doesn't crash for me on a Liquorix kernel. Meanwhile, Debian has since updated twice now to the current .116 release in Sid, so more backporting is in order.

[shep]

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ungoogled-chromium 83.0.4103.116-1.buster1

released this am.

[stevepusser]

Is it stable on the Debian kernel?

[shep]

On Buster 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 (2020-06-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux, no crashes so far. Hardware acceleration intact.

[stevepusser]

Debian has pushed their own backport of the Sid release into Buster as a security update, and MX users are reporting that it's also crashing all over the place. Seems the ungoogled version is the best bet, though the OBS seems to be quite busy at the moment.

[shep]

I'm getting occasional 83.0.4103.116-1.buster1 crashes (1 in ~ 80 page views) on AMDGPU graphics. Haven't tested intel graphics extensively.

[stevepusser]

I'm getting occasional 83.0.4103.116-1.buster1 crashes (1 in ~ 80 page views) on AMDGPU graphics. Haven't tested intel graphics extensively.

Even one crash is more than we used to get with it.

[stevepusser]

Now getting reports that the latest 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u2 in Buster Security seems to have stopped the crashes. I'll have to see what they did...I'm running a backported version of the latest Sid update to preserve the va-api acceleration, and it's not crashing either. I'll try uploading the sources to my OBS repo tomorrow.

[shep]

I'm reviving this thread after a Buster -> Bullseye upgrade. I was unable to find any unportable ungoogled-chromium packages for Debian 11. I found that the current version (90) Buster package has multiple CVE;s
https://wiki.debian.org/ungoogled-chromium

Although It looks like flathub is a possiblity, I believe that a native Bullseye *.deb will show up in the future. I found a forum where someone was setting up a Bullseye build environment but was waiting for the finishing touches on source for version 93.