The following errors occur when you start Chromium prior to this commit:
[2534:2534:0625/202928.673160:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(246)] Failed to
load .../libexec/chromium/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so:
../libexec/chromium/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
[2534:2534:0625/202928.674434:ERROR:gpu_child_thread.cc(174)] Exiting
GPU process due to errors during initialization
While in theory we do not strictly need libGLESv2.so, in practice this
means that the GPU process isn't starting up at all which in turn leads
to crawling rendering performance on some sites.
So let's install all shared libraries in swiftshader.
I've tested this with the chromium.stable NixOS VM test and also locally
on my machine and the errors as well as the performance issues are gone.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This should allow us to easily add system-wide Chromium extensions via a
NixOS configuration similar to this:
{ pkgs, ... }: {
environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/chromium/extensions" ];
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.my-shiny-extension ];
}
For more details about what Chromium expects within that directory, see:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/external_extensions
I've introduced this because of a personal desire to gain more control
about which extensions are installed and what they are able to do. All
of the extensions I use are free software, but despite that it's useful
to either easily patch them and also prevent unwanted automatic updates.
Tested this using the NixOS "chromium.stable" test on x86_64-linux.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @offlinehacker because of #21050
somehow, the build seems to have changed with chromium 58, to not auto
download the node binary. It is needed to generate webui files and we
can substitute our own.
CVE-2017-5055: Use after free in printing. Credit to Wadih Matar
CVE-2017-5054: Heap buffer overflow in V8. Credit to Nicolas Trippar of Zimperium zLabs
CVE-2017-5052: Bad cast in Blink. Credit to JeongHoon Shin
CVE-2017-5056: Use after free in Blink. Credit to anonymous
CVE-2017-5053: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Credit to Team Sniper (Keen Lab and PC Mgr) reported through ZDI (ZDI-CAN-4587)
requiredSystemFeatures is not a meta attribute but a derivation
attribute. So "big-parallel" was being ignored on e.g. chromium,
causing it to be built (and timing out) on slow machines.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/45819778#tabs-buildsteps
Versions before 56 already had experimental support for Gtk 3 and since
version 56, Gtk 3 _seemed_ to become the default. Although it's now
requiring *both* Gtk 2 and Gtk3, so let's supply the dependency for now
to get it to build.
In the future however we might want to add use_gtk3 to the GN flags and
get rid of Gtk 2 completely.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Before version 54, the WideVine CDM plugin was built unconditionally and
it seems since version 54 this now is dependent upon a GYP/GN flag on
whether to include the CDM shared library or not.
Also, we now use a patch from Gentoo which should hopefully get the CDM
plugin to work properly, at least according to their bugtracker:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547630
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Overview of updated versions:
stable: 54.0.2840.71 -> 54.0.2840.90
beta: 55.0.2883.21 -> 55.0.2883.35
dev: 56.0.2897.0 -> 56.0.2906.0
This is to get our Chromium versions in par with the latest upstream
ones before merging in the GN migration changes.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
So far we had the bundled Flash player plugin that came with Chrome, but
since version 54 the Chrome package doesn't include PPAPI Flash anymore.
Instead we're going to download the PPAPI Flash plugin directly from
Adobe and try to use them for all release channels of Chromium.
Of course it would be nice if we'd have an updater for it but for now
it's important that we don't break things for people who are currently
forced to use Flash.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Seems that these libraries aren't the ones Chromium is expecting to be,
so let's switch to use the bundled version of these libraries instead.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Previously I've added the extra file common-gn.nix in addition to
common.nix, so we can possibly have a smooth transition from current
stable to the new version 54.
Unfortunately, version 53 is already EOL and we have to move to version
54 as soon as possible so we can only use GN and thus it doesn't make
sense to provide expressions for GYP anymore.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
