Maybe "ungoogled-chromium" should be an AUR group effort, instead of single people making (and breaking) each their own packages. No idea how to implement this on AUR, though. At 100+ votes for this AUR alone that sounds not too unreasonable?
For what it's worth I am one of the https://github.com/jstkdng/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux users, because:
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Kept up-to-date nicely to fight security holes. A conditio sine qua non for a web browser these days.
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Consistently compiles for me, vs. this or upstream -archlinux AUR variant. Though I haven't checked the latters in a while (months).
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Implements VAAPI for Intel GPU users to use video decoding hardware acceleration. On laptops playing Youtube this makes a huge difference in battery life. Needs package libva-intel-driver and #ignore-cpu-blacklist enabled in chrome://flags/ and you're good to go. On top I use compton with minimal config for anti-tearing on X11. Works great.
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JstKddng commented on 2022-05-06 14:37 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-27 13:48 (UTC) by JstKddng)
A new va-api patch for wayland has been added. Required flags for it to work are the following, thanks to @acidunit
JstKddng commented on 2020-07-19 06:34 (UTC)
You can get prebuilt binaries here:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux#binary-downloads
seppia commented on 2018-12-12 21:34 (UTC)
Please do NOT flag this package as out of date in relation to official chromium releases.
This is NOT Google Chromium and new releases come after additional work of the ungoogled-chromium contributors, so they may not be ready, nor available for days or even weeks after a new version of official chromium is released.
Please refer to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tags for ungoogled-chromium releases. Use those and please flag this package as out of date only if a newer release is present there. I will update the PKGBUILD as soon as I can every time a new release comes out.
Thanks