ungoogled-chromium

Google Chromium patches for removing Google integration, enhancing privacy, and adding features

Features

In addition to features provided by Iridium Browser and Inox patchset, the following is also included:

• Remove additional detection of and disable specific functionality for Google hosts
• Disabled searching in Omnibox
• Disabled automatic formatting of URL in Omnibox
• Disabled JavaScript dialog boxes from showing when a page closes (onbeforeunload dialog boxes)
• Added menu item under "More tools" to clear the HTTP authentication cache on-demand
• Disabled persistent per-site settings in Preferences file
• Make all popups go to tabs
• Replaced many domains in the source code with non-existant alternatives (see generate_domain_substitution_list.sh)
• Stripped binaries from the source code (see generate_cleaning_list.sh)
• Disabled intranet redirect detector
• Debian build scripts
  • (Debian build scripts change) Move the chrome-sandbox into a separate package
• (Iridium Browser feature change) Prevent URLs with the trk: scheme from connecting to the Internet
• (Iridium and Inox feature change) Prevent pinging of IPv6 address when detecting the availability of IPv6

DISCLAIMER: Although I try my best to eliminate bugs and privacy-invading code, there will be those that slip by due to the enormity and continuing evolution of the Chromium project.

Getting ungoogled-chromium

Users are encouraged to use one of the available tag versions. Binaries are available on the releases page for the corresponding tag.

Tags are formatted in the following manner: {chromium_version}-{release_revision} where

• chromium_version is the version of Chromium used in x.x.x.x format, and
• release_revision is an integer indicating the version of ungoogled-chromium for the corresponding Chromium version.

The master branch is for development, so it is not guarenteed to be in a working state.

How ungoogled-chromium is designed

All features are implemented through patches. Patches are contained within the patches directory, with the exception of platform-specific patches in the building/templates directory

A summary of the files in the patches directory:

• ungoogled-chromium/
  • This directory contains new patches for ungoogled-chromium. They implement the features described above.
• iridium-browser
  • This directory contains a subset of patches from Iridium Browser. * Patches are not touched unless they do not apply cleanly onto the version of Chromium being built
  • Patches are from the patchview branch of its Git repository. Web view of the patchview branch
• inox-patchset/
  • This directory contains a modified subset of patches from Inox patchset.
  • Patches are from inox-patchset's GitHub
  • Inox patchset's license
• debian/
  • This directory contains patches from Debian's Chromium.
  • These patches are not Debian-specific. For those, see the build-templates/debian/ directory
• patch_order
  • Determines which patches are used and what order they should be applied

Building

See BUILDING.md

Contributing

Contributers are welcome!

Use the Issue Tracker for problems, suggestions, and questions.

You may also contribute by submitting pull requests.

Credits

Iridium Browser

Inox patchset

Debian for build scripts

Google for Chromium

License

GPLv3. See LICENSE