UsingChromium

Installation

As of the writing of this document, Chromium is in dports as www/chromium.

Binary package

As root:

# pkg install chromium

Building from source

A Dports checkout/tarball is needed for this, usually you can get it easily by following the instructions in /usr/Makefile:

# cd /usr
# make help

To install:

# cd /usr/dports/www/chromium
# make BATCH=yes install clean

You can also use synth to install it:

# cd ~
# synth install www/chromium

Configuration

Always check what the pkg-message of the package says. It will give some recommendations for the setup.

# pkg info -D chromium

For Chromium specifically bear in mind that IPC in FreeBSD works differently as it works in DragonFly BSD.

Security

Besides the usual recommendations for web browsing security, we've created also a way of setting up Chromium to minimize the risks of exposure to certain vulnerabilities (Spectre, Meltdown) among other things. Please see: RunSecureBrowser

Known issues

Please list down all the problems there might be with this browser below.

BugURL	Description	Workaround	Status
None	SSL certificate problem when trying to use Google Synchronization	None	Unresolved