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

22 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2021-02-05 · latest 2025-08-21

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  1. …on the repo), that will be the end of this project. But that could be many years from now! 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy 2: https://github.com/i3roly/firefox-dynasty
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2025-08-21 · in Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
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    Tell HN: Chromium forks for legacy platforms are disappearing from GitHub
    story by Wowfunhappy · 2024-06-03 · 34 comments
  3. …in order to be reasonably safe, but if you have a specific concern I'd like to hear about it! 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2024-03-03 · in Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer
  4. See also: a roughly equivalent project for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2024-03-03 · in Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer
  5. There are up-to-date builds of Chromium for 10.9.5. (Actually, they work as far back as 10.7, Lion) https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy I daily-drive this browser on a 10.9 Mavericks Hackintosh. It's great.
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2023-04-05 · in My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
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    Chromium Legacy – Latest Chromium for Mac OS X 10.7+
    story by mikae1 · 2023-04-05 · 0 comments
  7. A lack of web browsers for older versions of macOS shouldn't be a problem when there's https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by mikae1 · 2023-04-05 · in Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
  8. …newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr I'll guess you'll be happy to see this: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy :)
    comment by mikae1 · 2023-04-05 · in My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
  9. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy exists for macOS, so it would only be fair if there was something similar for old versions of Windows. :)
    comment by mikae1 · 2023-04-05 · in My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
  10. …the latest OS updates anymore, much like OP's XP machine. If a lack of web browsers is the problem: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by mikae1 · 2023-04-05 · in My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
  11. …Safari support) is the main reason why expensive desktop Macs eventually become paperweights. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by mikae1 · 2023-04-03 · in The day Windows died
  12. …retains support for legacy OS X—is maintained by a Japanese developer I don't know much about. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy . Other downloads, like the Dolphin emulator, are basically just source recompiles, which use…
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2022-04-29 · in Projects for Old Versions of OS X
  13. > and current web browser support. You don't have to give this up on Mavericks! :D https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy --- Mavericks also has something better than dark mode—a visual design that uses the full tonal range of lights…
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2022-04-26 · in Ask HN: Is retrocomputing the pragmatist power user's future of the desktop?
  14. …a little-known Chromium fork[0] and I haven't had any trouble logging into Google services. 0: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2022-01-24 · in Ask HN: Gmail account security
  15. > Why El Capitan? Because the most current Chrome requires El Capitan (Mavericks does not work). https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy Runs beautifully on Mavericks. Install it via my preference pane and you'll even get automatic…
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2022-01-03 · in Ask HN: What do you do with your older hardware?
  16. …the user agent, because of course it does, it's a web app and the underlying OS is irrelevant. 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-11-15 · in Why not to whitelist operating system user agents
  17. …app which opens untrusted content—it opens untrusted content which anyone can push to me! 0: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-04-02 · in Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail
  18. We've got one going back to Lion. :) https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-03-29 · in The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it
  19. About six months ago, I stumbled across a Github repository with zero stars, called Chromium Legacy ( https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy ). A seemingly-unknown Github account, with no profile and no other notable projects, had…
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-03-28 · in It Doesn't Work
  20. …It's unofficial, but completely up-to-date, and will work with every site. It's my daily driver. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-02-24 · in A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  21. …macOS. I recently had occasion to read a bit of Chromium's Cocoa UI code (to help the developer of https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy track down some bugs), and my very surface-level interpretation of what I saw could be summed up…
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-02-19 · in Browsers eating RAM
  22. …turning off as much of it as I could, in some places via semi-confusing defaults write commands. 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2021-02-05 · in The endless browser wars