Just got an old build of Chromium off of my my mom’s computer and I hope to create an archive somewhere for everyone to see.
Very cool!

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

Here’s some details if you want:

Chromium: 45.0.2442.0 (Developer Build) (32-bit)
Revision: Sef49b8f224833077cfd2ef68bfaa6cb83a2d388-refs/heads/master@{#336095}
OS: Windows
Blink: 537.36 (@197792)
JavaScript: V8 4.5.76
Flash: (Disabled)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2442.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line: “C:\Users\LTV2008\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe”
–flag-switches-begin -flag-switches-end
Executable Path: C:\Users\LTV2008\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path: C:\Users\LTV2008\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data\Default

I think this build is from around 2014-2015, if you have anymore details about this build, please let me know!
Thank You!

Is this a NPAPI build?

leogames2016 wrote:

Is this a NPAPI build?

I think it is. Google Chrome uses NPAPI plugins, so it may be a NPAPI build. (ActiveX is Windows-only, Cross-platform plugins usually use NPAPI.)

UPDATE: An exact build date was found of Friday, June 26th, 2015.
( src.git - 45.0.2442.0 )

LTV2008 wrote:

leogames2016 wrote:

Is this a NPAPI build?

I think it is. Google Chrome uses NPAPI plugins, so it may be a NPAPI build. (ActiveX is Windows-only, Cross-platform plugins usually use NPAPI.)

PPAPI is NPAPI but more secure,but it is deprecated since 2022.


This is what powers Flash Player when used in a sandbox,which was discontinued in 2020,and that unlike most old plugins,flash is dead and not working anymore.

leogames2016 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

leogames2016 wrote:

Is this a NPAPI build?

I think it is. Google Chrome uses NPAPI plugins, so it may be a NPAPI build. (ActiveX is Windows-only, Cross-platform plugins usually use NPAPI.)

PPAPI is NPAPI but more secure,but it is deprecated since 2022.


This is what powers Flash Player when used in a sandbox,which was discontinued in 2020,and that unlike most old plugins,flash is dead and not working anymore.

PPAPI might be supported. Haven’t tested it yet.

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

WindowsAdmin wrote:

There's probably some more here

There isn’t anything interesting here but you can check:
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win/452445/

DifferentDance8 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

bro's turning tone tags into a markup language

BreadcatGames wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

bro's turning tone tags into a markup language

That's what I usually do when I have 2 or more different moods in one sentence and want to clarify that different parts have different moods. Even though I did technically stuff up (i used /ref when I was supposed to use /lyr)

DifferentDance8 wrote:

BreadcatGames wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

bro's turning tone tags into a markup language

That's what I usually do when I have 2 or more different moods in one sentence and want to clarify that different parts have different moods. Even though I did technically stuff up (i used /ref when I was supposed to use /lyr)

Tone tags are usually counter-productive since nobody knows what they mean. What do /ref and /lyr mean? Who knows, but it might be important and now i have to go look it up. Some of them are ambiguous (when i see /pos i think of something that is the opposite of positive). Even if people know what all the indicators mean, messing one up is worse than not having it at all because people assume the indicator is correct.
Also with /ref specifically it doesn't help ever. Either I know the reference and don't need the tone tag, or I don't know the reference and the tone tag doesn't help me understand it.

TLDR i don't like tone tags

:D

DifferentDance8 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

My browser / operating system: MacOS Macintosh X 10.12, Firefox 31.0, Flash 32.0 (release 0)

davidtheplatform wrote:

(when i see /pos i think of something that is the opposite of positive).

That’s what I thought it meant until I looked it up LOL

WindowsAdmin wrote:

There's probably some more here

Thank you for this :D

medians wrote:

:D

DifferentDance8 wrote:

LTV2008 wrote:

(DISCLAIMER: using old browsers is bad because of security issues or something idk)

More specifically, for all you know old browsers could have some kind of exploit /srs that could translate your documents into Swahili and make your TV record Gigli /ref and is only fixed in the latest version. /srs

My browser / operating system: MacOS Macintosh X 10.12, Firefox 31.0, Flash 32.0 (release 0)

davidtheplatform wrote:

(when i see /pos i think of something that is the opposite of positive).

That’s what I thought it meant until I looked it up LOL

WindowsAdmin wrote:

There's probably some more here

Thank you for this :D

Kind of random question but how much storage do you own

The archive will be out sometime today or tomorrow. Please look on my GitHub!!!

[removed by myself - minion dominion delete that bad opinion]

DifferentDance8 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Sorry - we're not going to host a topic on Scratch where the point is to display information that was never intended to be public.

I think this counts as “displaying information” (a build of Chromium) that “was never intended to be public” (I think dev builds are intended for developers only).

Dev builds are always released to the public in snapshots. Anyways, Chromium is open-source, so you can always pull a version from a tag and build it yourself
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

ajskateboarder wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Sorry - we're not going to host a topic on Scratch where the point is to display information that was never intended to be public.

I think this counts as “displaying information” (a build of Chromium) that “was never intended to be public” (I think dev builds are intended for developers only).

Dev builds are always released to the public
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

Oh.
Yeah, pretty sure you're not meant to access them through normal methods though so….

DifferentDance8 wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Sorry - we're not going to host a topic on Scratch where the point is to display information that was never intended to be public.

I think this counts as “displaying information” (a build of Chromium) that “was never intended to be public” (I think dev builds are intended for developers only).

Dev builds are always released to the public
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

Oh.
Yeah, pretty sure you're not meant to access them through normal methods though so….

Please don't be that guy who finds reasons to close normal topics lol