Chromium Updater

If you’re interested in running the latest nightly build of Chromium, Google’s Mac version of popular browser Chrome, then give this a try.

I was surprised that something like this isn’t already available so I whipped it together with some AppleScript. Just download and run this app and you will be prompted with the latest build number, and Safari will download the latest build to your regular Safari Downloads location.

If you have any questions, reach me on Twitter @domster


Update: Now available at Softpedia and GearDownload

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Revison History
v1.0
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- Added Graphical Interface to provide user feedback.

v0.4
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- Changed download and extract locations to users Home folder (~/) 
to avoid permissions issues experienced by some users.
v0.3
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- Fixed issues with overwriting files when copying application if
Chromium was already installed
v0.2
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- Updated to use curl rather than Safari
- Added feature to unzip, copy to /Applications and also cleanup
v0.1
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- First Release
- Downloads latest build via Safari to default download location

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