chromium-legacy
Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+ (by blueboxd)
osx-patcher
A reupload of Julian Fairfax/RMC Team's OSX patcher, for patching old macs/macbooks from Mountain Lion to El Capitan (10.8-10.11), since he deleted his account and website. (by Minater247)
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| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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chromium-legacy
Posts with mentions or reviews of chromium-legacy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.
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Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
See also: the equivalent for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
- I'm having issues trying to update from lion osx to high Sierra
- Macbook air 2015 OS X browser problems
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Advice sought: Mid-2009 Macbook (not Pro) and Mojave / Monterey / Ventura
A niche suggestion if you have all of the time: if you don’t rely on icloud services, you can actually try very old os x like mountain lion + this for browser
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What's the best browser for Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
If you can do it, I'd go to Lion. It added so many features such as the launchpad, the option to reopen windows when you restarted your computer, etc. It's new enough that Chromium Legacy will work, and it's what I use for my unsupported Mac OS X installs. Unlike Arctic Fox which is essentially pale moon 27 under the hood, Chromium Legacy is fully up to date as of when I'm posting this.
- Need help updating 2012 MBP with Mountain Lion
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What is the oldest Mac OS that is compatible with a version of Waterfox that still receives security updates as of now?
Chromium Legacy goes back to OS X Lion 10.7 and is being actively worked on. It has its limitations compared to the original Chromium (see Readme): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
- Chrome is dropping support for MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 this summer, that is too soon! A lot of Macs were high end machines when they were released, they are still capable today as mid-range machines. Eventually people will have to switch to Firefox OR Chromium-Legacy in order to use a recent browser
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Chrome is dropping support for MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 this summer! That is too soon! I guess people will have to switch to Firefox or chromium-legacy in order to use a recent browser
I don't use GitHub much so I don't know, so how can you tell how many people are working on a project, like for Chromium Legacy: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
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Latest browser versions for 10.11.6 El Capitan
I haven't tried it myself, but a couple of minutes ago I found out about Chromium-legacy. The description says it's equivalent to current upstream versions of Chromium except for some limitations caused by older OS versions. Viewing DRM-protected content (e.g. Netflix) requires separately installing the Widevine library.
osx-patcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of osx-patcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-01.
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15 years old and still going strong!
If you want to upgrade it, there’s a patcher that can upgrade 4,1 (with C2D) and 5,1 (all) iMacs up to El Capitan (saw it was a 2006), and although I’ve only used it on a MacBook, I’ve heard it works very well on iMacs as well. If you’d like, you may be able to run even more on it!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chromium-legacy and osx-patcher you can also consider the following projects:
chromium-web-store - Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. Also adds semi-automatic extension updating.
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
winchrome - Chromium for 64-bit Windows - All Codecs: MS Visual Studio 2017
eslint-plugin-compat - Check the browser compatibility of your code
Vivaldi-browser - Source code for the Vivali browser, taken from
ua-client-hints - Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints?
uBlock-for-firefox-legacy - uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy-based browsers.
stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features - Disallow features that aren't supported by your target browser audience.
mySIMBL - :package: Plugin manager for macOS
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
chromium-legacy vs chromium-web-store
chromium-legacy vs ravynos
chromium-legacy vs Telegram
chromium-legacy vs winchrome
chromium-legacy vs eslint-plugin-compat
chromium-legacy vs Vivaldi-browser
chromium-legacy vs ua-client-hints
chromium-legacy vs uBlock-for-firefox-legacy
chromium-legacy vs stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features
chromium-legacy vs mySIMBL
chromium-legacy vs litestream