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My understanding is that chromium can't be run on Windows or Mac. Chrome Canary or some testing variant can but not Chromium. It's hard to consider it a mainstream option in that case for me.

EDIT: this is untrue, chromium builds are available for all platforms from chromium.org. Please ignore

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>can't be run on windows

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. chromium.org doesn't offer chroimium builds on their website but there are a number of places you can get someone elses build, for example https://chromium.woolyss.com/ or https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/tree/master or presumably just build it yourself if you wanted to.

My comment was poorly worded, of course they can be built and run. I just feel like the extra hoops one would have to go through, finding a build or building from source (which is a very power-user use case) would be disqualifying it from being considered a mainstream choice available to the masses.

But yes, that is fair.

The Chromium project does maintain an official alternative to those: download-chromium.appspot.com. I think it's discoverable via documentation on chromium.org albeit perhaps (I don't remember) not from the main download page.

(Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome.)

or even easier:

choco install chromium

choco install ungoogled-chromium

https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium

and if you want extensions the easy way in ungoogled-chromium :

https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

FWIW, I don't think that is true.

https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium

Confirm, just click and run a pre-built package. I recently downloaded Chromium 79 for Mac in order to debug an issue in Tesla's browser which is based on that. Neat.

I didn't realize they were using a user-agent to determine which platform to serve executables for. Was just getting Linux which confused me.

Oh, that's good to see. I stand corrected.

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