Small and very fast portable launcher and updater for Chromium.
chrlauncher has feature to use portable Chromium as default browser and it will be open links from another programs through chrlauncher.
- start "SetDefaultBrowser.bat" (as admin).
- start "Control panel" -> "Default programs" -> "Set your default programs" -> "chrlauncher" and set all checkboxes on.
There is list of arguments overrides .ini options
-autodownload - auto download update and install it!
-bringtofront - bring chrlauncher window to front when download started
-forcecheck - force update checking
-wait - start browser only when check/download/install update complete
-update - use chrlauncher as updater, but does not start Chromium
-ini .\chrlauncher.ini - start chrlauncher with custom configuration
- as launcher - Chromium based (like Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex Browser, Vivaldi, etc.) and Firefox based (Mozilla Firefox, Basilisk, Pale Moon, Waterfox, etc.)
- as updater - Chromium only
[chrlauncher]
# Custom Chromium update URL (string):
#ChromiumUpdateUrl=https://chromium.woolyss.com/api/v3/?os=windows&bit=%d&type=%s&out=string
# Command line for Chromium (string):
# See here: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
ChromiumCommandLine=--user-data-dir=..\profile --no-default-browser-check
# Chromium executable file name (string):
ChromiumBinary=chrome.exe
# Chromium binaries directory (string):
# Relative (to chrlauncher directory) or full path (env. variables supported).
ChromiumDirectory=.\bin
# Set Chromium binaries architecture (integer):
#
# 0 -> autodetect (default)
# 64 -> 64-bit
# 32 -> 32-bit
ChromiumArchitecture=0
# Auto download updates if found (boolean)
#
# false -> show tray tip if update found, downloading manually (default)
# true -> auto download update and install it!
ChromiumAutoDownload=false
# Bring chrlauncher window when download started (boolean)
#
# false -> don't bring main window to front automatically
# true -> bring chrlauncher window to front when download started (default)
ChromiumBringToFront=true
# Set download in foreground mode (boolean):
#
# false -> start browser and check/download/install update in background
# true -> start browser only when check/download/install update complete (default)
ChromiumWaitForDownloadEnd=true
# Use chrlauncher as updater, but does not start Chromium (boolean):
#
# false -> update & start Chromium (default)
# true -> download & install Chromium update without start
ChromiumUpdateOnly=false
# Type of Chromium builds:
#
# dev-official
# Official development builds from snapshots repository
# "storage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html" (32/64 bit)
#
# stable-codecs-sync
# Unofficial stable builds with codecs
# "github.com/Hibbiki/chromium-win64/releases" (64 bit)
# "github.com/Hibbiki/chromium-win32/releases" (32 bit)
#
# dev-nosync
# Unofficial development builds without Google services
# "github.com/RobRich999/Chromium_Clang/releases" (32/64 bit)
#
# dev-codecs-sync
# Unofficial development builds with codecs and without Google services
# "github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases" (64 bit)
#
# dev-codecs-nosync
# Unofficial development builds with codecs and without Google services
# "github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases" (64 bit)
#
# ungoogled-chromium
# Unofficial builds without Google integration and enhanced privacy (based on Eloston project)
# "github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases/" (32/64 bit)
# "github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium"
#
# stable-codecs-nosync
# Unofficial stable builds with codecs and without google services
# !!! DISCONTINUED since June 2018 !!!
ChromiumType=dev-official
# Check for new Chromium version once in X days (integer):
#
# 2 -> check updates once in a X days (default)
# 0 -> disable update checking
# -1 -> force update checking
ChromiumCheckPeriod=2
# Last cached update checking timestamp (integer):
ChromiumLastCheck=0
# Internal settings (Project SDK)
# https://github.com/henrypp/routine
# Enable classic theme UI (boolean):
#ClassicUI=true
# Set custom useragent (string):
#UserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36
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- How to host the Chromium package zip on custom network?
- Can't sign-in to Chromium
- Set proxy configuration for a chrlauncher
- Pass on chrlauncher arguments into Chromium
- Disable annoying chrlauncher window popup
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- Fix for duplicated taskbar icons creation
Website: www.henrypp.org
Support: support@henrypp.org
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