I have successfully created patches to make Chromium work again on Windows 7 since October 2023 (though I didn’t release them immediately). Now, two years later, I have continued to apply these patches to newer versions of Chromium by making minor adjustments on these patches. However, several growing challenges have forced me to reevaluate the viability of these outdated patches. These challenges include: (1) the presence of minor but difficult-to-fix bugs in the patches, and (2) the increasing difficulty of adapting the patches to newer Chromium versions due to major ongoing changes in Chromium UI code.
Given these challenges, I have decided to spend the next few months reworking the patches in an attempt to create new ones that address the challenges mentioned above. If the rework successfully resolves these challenges, Chromium for windows 7 will be built using the new patches. Otherwise, Chromium for windows 7 will no longer update. During this rework period, Chromium for windows 7 will continue update but at a slower pace.
This release is based on Chromium 143.0.7446.1 which is a work-in-progress version. It may be unstable or contain errors.
You may need to provide Google API keys at runtime if you want to talk to some Google services. For example, in Command Prompt:
setx GOOGLE_API_KEY AIzaSyCkfPOPZXDKNn8hhgu3JrA62wIgC93d44k
setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID 811574891467.apps.googleusercontent.com
setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET kdloedMFGdGla2P1zacGjAQh