## Installation

As of the writing of this document, Chromium is in dports as www/chromium.

### Binary package

As root:

    # pkg install chromium

### Building from source

A Dports checkout/tarball is needed for this, usually you can get it easily by following the instructions in /usr/Makefile:

    # cd /usr
    # make help

To install:

    # cd /usr/dports/www/chromium
    # make BATCH=yes install clean

You can also use synth to install it:

    # cd ~
    # synth install www/chromium

## Configuration

Always check what the pkg-message of the package says. It will give some recommendations for the setup.

    # pkg info -D chromium

For Chromium specifically bear in mind that IPC in FreeBSD works differently as it works in DragonFly BSD.

## Security

Besides the usual recommendations for web browsing security, we've created also a way of setting up Chromium to minimize the risks of exposure to certain vulnerabilities (Spectre, Meltdown) among other things. Please see: [[RunSecureBrowser|docs/handbook/RunSecureBrowser]]

## Known problems

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>BugURL</th>
    <th>Description</th>
    <th>Status</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>None</td>
    <td>SSL certificate problem when trying to use Google Synchronization</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
</table>