How to checkout and BUILD specific chromium tag/branch without download the FULL source code of all history?

This is probably the fastest way to fetch Chromium’s source code. Suppose 59.0.3071.115 is the version of Chromium, you wish to build. You run this command: git fetch https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git +refs/tags/59.0.3071.115:chromium_59.0.3071.115 If you don’t want the history to be fetched (faster fetching of Chromium source code): git fetch https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git +refs/tags/59.0.3071.115:chromium_59.0.3071.115 –depth 1 Now from your Chromium … Read more

Security Considerations – ChromeDriver – Webdriver for Chrome

How Google Chrome Browser Works In the article Chrome Browser Security @STEPHANIE CRAWFORD mentioned, Google has leveraged its power as a search engine by creating its Safe Browsing technology which will automatically warn you if Chrome detects that a site you’re visiting contains malware or phishing. Chrome deploys this security measure through a unique security … Read more

How to create or convert text to audio at chromium browser?

There are several possible workarounds that have found which provide the ability to create audio from text; two of which require requesting an external resource, the other uses meSpeak.js by @masswerk. Using approach described at Download the Audio Pronunciation of Words from Google, which suffers from not being able to pre-determine which words actually exist … Read more

Selenium use chrome on Colab got unexpectedly exited

These log messages… Get:1 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [1,159 kB] Get:2 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [83.6 MB] Get:3 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser-l10n all 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,230 kB] Get:4 bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-chromedriver amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,594 kB] … … Setting up chromium-chromedriver (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) … Setting up chromium-browser-l10n (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) … Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) … Processing triggers … Read more