Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer

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  • chromium-legacy

    Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+

  • See also: the equivalent for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

  • GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7_CRACK

    Discontinued Google Chrome for Windows 7 CRACK [GET https://api.github.com/repos/Blaukovitch/GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7_CRACK: 403 - Repository access blocked]

  • Windows 7 is still stuck on Chrome 109

    There are 3rd party patches to install 120+ but needs safety audit (and unfortunate name)

    https://github.com/Blaukovitch/GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7_CRACK

    Considering there are critical vulnerabilities in 109 you'd think Google might consider the non-evil thing to release an ESR

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  • Windows-95

    GTK theme based on the classic appearance of Windows 95 and Windows Server 2003

  • If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, with some non-critical graphical quirks.

  • Chicago95

    A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

  • If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, with some non-critical graphical quirks.

  • thorium

    Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

  • chromium

    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

  • Hmm. It looks like files with the .lnk or .pif file extension can only be downloaded on a user gesture: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/39841e54180...

    So it can't be done silently. Although, I do wish the type was marked "DANGEROUS" a la dll files.

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