shaohan0228 / dumb-browser

A custom chromium build inspired by ungoogled-chromium and Brave.

Dumb Browser

A custom Chromium build inspired by ungoogled-chromium and Brave.

Current version: 87.0.4270.0.

Some patches are experimental and build may fail.

Features

All patches are in patches folder.

Following components are removed/disabled:

1. Safe Browsing
2. Histogram logging ( chrome://histograms )
3. Crash Reporter & Crashpad
4. WebRTC Log Uploader
5. Network Time Tracker
6. RLZ
7. Rappor
8. (macOS only) Download Quarantine
9. (Windows only) Chrome Cleaner
10. WebGL renderer info
11. Field trails fetching
12. Promotions in New Tab Page
13. HTML <ping> attribute
14. Installer and Updater
15. Subresource filter (which is used by Chrome's integrated AdBlocking feature.)

Other changes / optimizations:

1. [UI] Change web controls' color to gray (Microsoft Edge style)
2. [UI] Reduce location bar corner radius
3. [UI] Disable Chromium's missing key warning
4. [UI] Restore mute button on tab
5. [Privacy] Automatically remove track query parameters from URL (referrer, utm_*, spm, and more)

Installation

1. [Recommended] Build from Sources

It's impossible to build Dumb Browser via GitHub Actions due to GitHub free account's resource limitations. Please build on your own or wait for official binaries.

Tested on following OS:

1. macOS 10.15.7
2. macOS 11.0 Beta 9
3. Windows 10 1909 18363.1082

Prerequisites

Android: Currently not supported.

Windows: Building Dumb Browser for Windows

macOS: Building Dumb Browser for macOS

Build Instruction

git clone https://github.com/bytanuky/dumb-browser
cd dumb-browser
# install dependencies
./scripts/prepare.py
# fetch chromium src and apply dumb browser's patches
# depend on your network connection, this may take 30-60 minutes.
./scripts/sync.py
# get a release build
# you may also use `./build/build.py debug` to get a debug build
# show available options: ./build/build.py -h
./scripts/build.py release
# wait patiently :)

Binaries will be found in src/out/{Release|Debug} .

2. Official Binaries

Coming soon

Note: Provided binaries do not contain any Google API keys thus you can't use Chrome Sync by default. To solve this, follow Chromium's Official How-Tos and add your own API keys to environment variables.

Known Issues

1. If you use existing profiles from ungoogled-chromium, you may encounter password sync failure. To solve this, create a new profile in dumb browser.

2. 1Password extension (desktop app required) is unavailable since it forces an allowlist-based browser signature check. Instead you can use 1Password X which requires a valid 1Password subscription.

Credits

ungoogled-chromium

Brave

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