I know we already have a thread for Early Intel Mac web browsers, but frankly I think this one deserves its own thread. It's just so great.
I haven't used Google Chrome for years. I don't like Google's dominance over the web, and besides, there are two other excellent, mainstream browser engines. Back when I used modern versions of macOS, I used Safari, and when I decided to downgrade all of the computers in my life to OS X 10.9 a year ago, I switched to Firefox.
Unfortunately, the web is increasingly a Chromium-only domain. I am very much trying to make Mavericks work for
every computing task in my life, and that means answering work calls in Slack and Microsoft Teams. And for better or worse, this can only be done in Google Chrome and its derivatives.
Up until now, I've been using VMWare for Slack and Teams calls, but waiting for VMs to start up is annoying, and the whole thing is a tad too error-prone in a professional setting. Complicating matters, I strongly dislike keeping more than one web browser installed at a time, because I'll sometimes forget which browser I'm in, and it gets confusing.
Enter Chromium Legacy, by the fantastic Blueboxd. I have it working in Mavericks now via some code injection, and I've officially switched to it as the one browser installed on my computer. And I have to admit, Chromium really is just a damn good browser. Pages do seem to load more quickly than in Firefox, and Chromium does a (relatively) better job of playing with native Mac features, like Applescripts and custom keyboard shortcuts.
Official builds of Chromium Legacy can be downloaded from
here.
Alternately, because Chromium lacks an auto-update mechanism, I've created a Preference Pane which makes it easier to download new releases. It will also replace the icon with Chrome's classic 3D version, set a flag to not use any system proxies (for compatibility with
Squid), and change some default settings which I just find aggressively obnoxious, like hiding URLs in the address bar. Download from
https://jonathanalland.com/downloads/chromium-legacy-downloader.zip.