

So as per the start of this section, your best choice is to:Īs Chromium gets updated quite a lot you may want to upgrade it. I find the mini_installer.exe to be second rate – it doesn’t install it in the Program Files directory. I’m not sure why they can’t create a proper nullsoft installer for it. You want the chrome-win32.zip file from the download page, which contains the following files: Īlternatively (but the page is slow to load) you can find the same folder by scrolling to the bottom of this page ( ) and click on the bottom folder. Then use this release number to get to the latest download page. The first thing you need is the current release number. Note: I am using the Continuous builds which have gone through more tests than the snapshot builds as used in the post – at least that’s the impression the Chromium Snapshot Monitor extension gives once you install it (Further note: that extension is broken – I’ve made an attempt at fixing it in a separate post). To make sure you have the latest release read on… the link should be updated based on the current release number. run C:\Program Files\chrome-win32\chrome.exe.move it to your Program Files directory.Here’s what I’ve done to install it for Windows. This post from does a good job of explaining the basics. The folks at Chromium make it unnecessarily hard to install the Chromium browser. Update: finally over 2 years after I wrote this, there is a better way of doing this.
