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Chromium 56, LibreOffice 5.2.5
I had rebuilt the libreoffice-5.2.4 packages for Slackware -current last week, because library updates in Slackware had broken the spreadsheet application ‘localc‘. And voila… not long afterwards the...
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Last week’s package harvest and more
Last week I made my build server at home churn through a lot of packages, let me summarize what became available recently in my slackbuilds repository: I added ‘NetworkManager-openvpn‘ which is a...
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Chromium 59 – a security update
Google released chrome/chromium 59.0.3071.86 earlier this week. This was accompanied by a rather big list of security updates. Taken from the Red Hat Security Advisory: “Multiple flaws were found in...
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Chromium 68 with updated Widevine plugin
Last week, Chromium 68 was introduced to the “Stable Channel” with lots of bugs fixed, many of those being security fixes (42 in total). And a few days ago an update was released, so I decided to build...
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No Disney+ on Linux
With the new version 4.10.1582.1 of the Widevine DRM plugin package for Chromium that I uploaded today (chromium-widevine-plugin) I really hoped that this would fix the playback error on Linux of the...
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Disney+ finally works on Linux!
A little more than three weeks after the new Disney+ movie streaming service went officially live, the Disney company has added Linux support to their Widevine DRM protection. No more “Error 83”. No...
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Chromium 83 – packages for Slackware, news about Widevine plugin
The COVID-19 crisis caused Google to change its release calendar for the Chromium browser sources, and they decided to skip the 82 release altogether, in order to focus on keeping the 81.x versions as...
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Chromium 84 packages available for Slackware
It took a bit longer than usual to come up with packages for the recently released Chromium 84. Google’s “Stable Channel” blog for Chrome announced the version 84.0.4147.89 just over a week ago, but as...
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How to ‘un-google’ your Chromium browser experience
… Aka the future of Chromium based (embedded) browsers On March 15th 2021, Google is going to block non-Google chromium-based browsers from accessing certain “private Google Chrome web services” by...
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Chromium security updates (and fix for 32-bit crash)
I have updated the ‘chromium‘, ‘chromium-ungoogled‘ and ‘chromium-widevine-plugin‘ packages in my repository. For Chromium (-ungoogled) these are security updates. The new 89.0.4389.90 release...
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