[Mageia-dev] chromium {beta|stable} versions

Fri Jan 11 11:46:24 CET 2013

2013/1/8 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>
+>
+> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Adrien Guichard wrote:
+>
+>> I noticed that chromium-browser-unstable was version 25 (which is ok), but
+>> stable/beta was stick to version 21.
+>>
+>> According to
+>> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.fr/
+>> stable version should be 23, beta version 24. Many sandboxing enhancement
+>> comes with recent chrome releases and Native API vesion 23 and further are
+>> interesting to me, so it would be cool to have those (stable/beta up to
+>> date) in Mageia 3.
+>
+>
+> The -unstable 25.x was done by me. It crashes on some pages, e.g.
+> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and I disabled Native API support because it relied on bundled binaries. OTOH it does support h.264 video through system ffmpeg. A build of version 24 exhibited the same renderer process segfault so I did not upload any beta or stable packages.
+
+Do you remove ~/.cache/chromium before trying new versions?
+
+I read everywhere that chromium does not include h.264.. I will try to
+check that, but in no way you should disable Native API, Native apps
+are packaged in a way that it should be simple to not include the one
+you do not want, so it is better to not include nexe responsible for
+h.264 in rpm than disabling native Apps.
+