FAQ

What is Canary? What is Stable?

• Canary/Latest (a.k.a. nightly or daily build)
  • relatively unstable, but most up-to-date build with experimental features
• Stable
  • relatively old, but with fixed, non-experimental features

Which build to use?

For a daily driver, use a stable build.
If you don't mind participating in the test, please use the latest build.

How to update?

Manually.
Currently, the automatic updater is not included 😔

Crashing! Glitches!

Please open an issue.
Do not report any issue of Chromium-legacy to the Chromium development team.

How to use the DRM-ed streaming service? (Only 10.9+)

Need to install some files. See DRM for details.

Google Maps doesn't load images

Google Maps seemingly bans specific OS version (currently 10.7.5).
Please change OS of user-agent (i.e. 10.7) from Developer Tools -> Network conditions.
For a permanent solution, use an extension to spoof UA on a specific site.

how to build from source?

Steps, prerequisites, please refer to Building.

Why 'legacy'?

Chromium (for) legacy (macOS)...
I had no thought about naming repository 🤯