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"Why create this chromium repository?"

Simple, Slackware doesn't have an official package of chrome/chromium. Yes, we do have a google-chrome slackbuild at SBo (http://www.slackbuilds.org), but that does a repack of a Debian package. I don't think it is wrong to do that, but I (and many users) spotted at least one problem with that package:

• when the original package was created on Debian/Ubuntu, it was compiled against a certain version of libjpeg (libjpeg.so.62). On Slackware we have another version (libjpeg.so.8)
• that causes a nasty crash on the browser (it dies completely) when you try to upload a JPG/JPEG file to any website. When you click on the file to be uploaded, the browser tries to show a preview of the image, then the browser dies.

The only solution presented by chrome/chromium team so far is to compile the browser from source. That's why this project was born.

Observation: The browser behaves like that not only on Slackware. Many other distro users/maintainers complained about that.

Please if you have any problems or sugestions, post it in the Issues session