The Fedora version of chromium installs u2f-hidraw-policy, while chromium-freeworld does not. I'm not sure if that's simply a matter of the require being missing from the RPM, or if the feature also needs to be enabled when building chromium. Either way, it'd be great if chromium-freeworld could support U2F tokens as well as chrome and chromium do.

On the chromium-freeworld.desktop file, we have:

StartupWMClass=Chromium

The correct WMClass for Chromium should be Chromium-browser. You can verify with the xprop utility on a chromium window.

We have the same problem reported in Debian....

What do you think about enabling vaapi support ?
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/chromium-vaapi-r12.patch?h=chromium-vaapi

I have been suffering with chromium-freeworld on Fedora 29 since upgrading to Fedora 29. I don't know what it is about that build that makes it so slow. Extensions are slow to draw, connection lag, and cpu usage is way up. I run a profiles for work and personal. I use Slack and WhatsApp through chromium. All that makes it crawl. Moving Slack and WhatsApp to Chrome helped, but it was still bad. I downgraded to the fc28 build, and it seems to be better. Also chrome of the same version seems fine.

chromium-freeworld-69.0.3497.100-8.fc29.x86_64

Hello there,

I try your build and RPMFusion build but none of them support the h265 video . The only version of chromium that support this is this: https://github.com/macchrome/linchrome

I also try https://github.com/UnitedRPMs/chromium-freeworld-libs-media but no success. It not possible to somehow build it the codec, like macchrome repo do this?

Upgraded chromium-freeworld to 65.0.3325.181-2 on Fedora 27. Running chromium-freeworld from terminal with ssh connection draws the window frame but is unable to render anything within it. After a minute, a "Page Unresponsive" window launches with the same problem.

$ chromium-freeworld 
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
[2889:2979:0411/185549.592246:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(626)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.Notifications.GetCapabilities: object_path= /org/freedesktop/Notifications: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
[2942:2942:0411/185549.708731:ERROR:gl_context_glx.cc(227)] Couldn't make context current with X drawable.
[2942:2942:0411/185549.708820:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(62)] gl::GLContext::MakeCurrent() failed

When killed, an additional error is reported.

[2889:2920:0411/185626.025552:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(120)] Failed to launch GPU process.

Rendering had previously worked fine including OpenGL support. X server is running on Ubuntu 16.04 with no changes between working and updated non-working chromium-freeworld.

Update details:

2018-04-11T22:39:37Z INFO Upgraded: chromium-freeworld-libs-65.0.3325.181-2.fc27.x86_64
2018-04-11T22:39:45Z INFO Upgraded: chromium-freeworld-65.0.3325.181-2.fc27.x86_64
2018-04-11T22:39:53Z INFO Upgraded: chromium-freeworld-libs-media-65.0.3325.181-2.fc27.x86_64

Since no previous version is available in the repo, there is no downgrade option.

$ sudo dnf downgrade chromium-freeworld
Last metadata expiration check: 0:47:51 ago on Wed 11 Apr 2018 06:20:03 PM EDT.
Package chromium-freeworld of lowest version already installed, cannot downgrade it.
Error: No packages marked for downgrade.

No problem launching on a local display or with --disable-gpu.

Upgraded Fedora 27 to 28. Opening chromium-freeworld gave "Aw, Snap!" for all pages opened.
Moved the profile (.config/chromium) and launched with the same result. Literally all pages - even the blank page and chrome:// pages give the same result.

chromium-freeworld-66.0.3359.170-7.fc28.x86_64
chromium-freeworld-libs-66.0.3359.170-7.fc28.x86_64
chromium-freeworld-libs-media-66.0.3359.170-7.fc28.x86_64
chromium-widevine-1.4.9.1076-1.fc28.x86_64
chromium-pepper-flash-29.0.0.171-1.fc28.x86_64

Google Chrome works fine. I've not tried chromium.

Hi

How to build chromium only on fedora or is ok on other Distro ?
And on ARM64 is work ?

Best Regards