How to install specific versions of Google Chrome / Chromium?

Question

I'm looking for standalone packages for Google Chrome / Chromium which can be extracted and used as binaries for my Selenium test suite.

How do I go about such a thing?

Solution 1

I ran into the issue of being required to run a specific version of Chrome on Linux to reproduce a bug that was reported to me. As at the time, the official downloads didn't offer this version any longer (and searching for a solution didn't give me one, I asked here). I have received a very helpful answer there, which liked to https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium

I'll copy/paste the relevant steps from that page here:

Downloading old builds of Chrome / Chromium

Let's say you want a build of Chrome 44 for debugging purposes. Google does not offer old builds as they do not have up-to-date security fixes.

However, you can get a build of Chromium 44.x which should mostly match the stable release. Here's how you find it:

• Look in https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/search/label/Stable%20updates for the last time "44." was mentioned.
• Loop up that version history ("44.0.2403.157") in the Position Lookup
• In this case it returns a base position of "330231". This is the commit of where the 44 release was branched, back in May 2015. (see footnote)
• Open the continuous builds archive
• Click through on your platform (Linux/Mac/Win)
• Paste "330231" into the filter field at the top and wait for all the results to XHR in.
• Eventually I get a perfect hit: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Mac/330231/ -- Sometimes you may have to decrement the commit number until you find one.
• Download and run!

footnote: As this build was made at 44 branch point, it does not have any commits merged in while in beta. Typically that's OK, but if you need a true build of "44.0.2403.x" then you'll need to build Chromium from the 2403 branch. Some PortableApps/PortableChromium sites offer binaries like this, due to security concerns, the Chrome team does not recommend running them.

Solution 2

"The open-source Chromium continuous builds are archived at http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/index.html .". source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-discuss/Z-UroWhOhX0

Comments

[gertvdijk]

Relevant Question: Download older versions of Google Chrome for Linux

[gertvdijk]

These are the standard packages which will be automatically updated (the package installs the Google repositories). I guess the OP wanted to install specific versions.

[njallam]

Is the last paragraph more suited to the question?

[congusbongus]

Link is dead now