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== Installation ==
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=== NixOS ===
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Add {{nixos:package|chromium}} to {{NixOS Manual|name=systemPackages|anchor=#sec-package-management}}.
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== Updating browser policies ==
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In Chromium, policy settings are accessible via {{Ic|chrome://policy}}. They allow the user to change enterprise policies affecting things like
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* Creating webapps when the browser is installed
* Finding and downloading browser extensions automatically
* Enabling or disabling the dinosaur game when the device is offline
* Disable screenshots to be taken with browser extensions
* Block all downloads from the browser (if you want to do that for some reason)
* and more!
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A full list of policies can be found at [https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/ Chrome Enterprise Policy List & Management].
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=== Natively Supported Policies ===
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By default NixOS provides a few policies that can be enabled directly, a simple example is given below to understand how these are implemented
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<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos" line="1">  programs.chromium = {
    enable = true;
    homepageLocation = "https://www.startpage.com/";
    extensions = [
      "eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" # dark reader
      "aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" # google translate
    ];
    extraOpts = {
      "WebAppInstallForceList" = [
        {
          "custom_name" = "Youtube";
          "create_desktop_shortcut" = false;
          "default_launch_container" = "window";
          "url" = "https://youtube.com";
        }
      ];
    };
  };</syntaxhighlight>

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* {{Ic|homepageLocation}} option allows you to set the site that the homepage will open on
* {{Ic|extensions}} allows for the download of extensions directly in the browser through a simple list of the extension ID's that can be obtained from the [https://chromewebstore.google.com/ Chrome Web Store] by opening an extension page and copying the last part of the URL
** In the example however there is another component, the download source from which the extensions will be downloaded
** The URL provided in the list is the link that is used by google for managing, checking and updating extensions
** So the method of just placing the extension ID can work like this: {{Ic|"fnpbehpgglbfnpimkachnpnecjncndgm"}}
** But just in case that method does not automatically function the second method is shown above, where you place {{Ic|;}} and then the URL {{Ic|https //clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx}} to explicitly tell NixOS where to install the extension from
* There are many more options that are natively supported and you can learn about them through {{Ic|man configuration.nix}}
* But as shown above there is also an {{Ic|extraOpts}} option and that is used for policies that are not supported for direct setup, such as the policy to install web-apps
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=== Non-natively Supported Policies ===
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There are hundreds of policies in Chromium based browsers, and not all have direct methods to set them. The {{Ic|extraOpts}} option allows for the declaration of all the other policies.
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There is no single place to find all Chromium policies, but these are some places to look;
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* Commonly used policies are present and documented within {{Ic|man configuration.nix}} under {{Ic|programs.chromium}}.
* You can navigate to {{Ic|chrome://policy}} and enable "Show policies with no value set" to see all available keys. Clicking a policy name opens its specific definition and usage details.
* The most up to date policies for Chromium are available in the [https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/common/pref_names.h source code.]
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== Accelerated video playback ==
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Make sure [[Special:MyLanguage/Accelerated Video Playback|Accelerated Video Playback]] is setup on the system properly. Check {{ic|chrome://gpu}} to see if Chromium has enabled hardware acceleration.
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If accelerated video playback is not working, check relevant flags at {{ic|chrome://flags}}, or enable them using the CLI:
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{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (chromium.override {
      commandLineArgs = [
        "--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoEncoder"
        "--ignore-gpu-blocklist"
        "--enable-zero-copy"
      ];
    })
  ];
}
</nowiki>}}

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In some cases, {{ic|chrome://gpu}} will show Video Decode as enabled, but Video Acceleration Information as blank, with {{ic|chrome://media-internals}} using the FFmpeg Video Decoder (software decoding). If this happens, try to enable the following features:
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{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (chromium.override {
      commandLineArgs = [
        "--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoEncoder,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE"
        "--enable-features=VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiVideoDecoder,PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport"
        "--enable-features=UseMultiPlaneFormatForHardwareVideo"
        "--ignore-gpu-blocklist"
        "--enable-zero-copy"
      ];
    })
  ];
}
</nowiki>}}

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== Enabling native Wayland support ==
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You can enable native Wayland support in all Chromium based and most Electron apps by setting the `NIXOS_OZONE_WL` environment variable to `1`.
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== Enabling DRM (Widevine support) ==
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By default, {{nixos:package|chromium}} does not support playing DRM protected media. However, there is a build time flag to include the proprietary Widevine blob from Nixpkgs:
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{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (chromium.override { enableWideVine = true; })
  ];
}
</nowiki>}}

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== KeePassXC support in Flatpak ==
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To enable browser integration between KeePassXC and Chromium-based browsers when running in Flatpak, configure the following filesystem access:
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<syntaxhighlight lang="toml"># NativeMessagingHost directory (browser-specific)
# Brave Browser
xdg-config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts:ro
# Chromium
xdg-config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts:ro
# Google Chrome
xdg-config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts:ro

# KeePassXC server socket and Nix store
xdg-run/app/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.BrowserServer
/nix/store:ro
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== Using libc memory allocator ==
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Chromium may not work when an alternative system-wide memory allocator like scudo is used. To use libc on Chromium, the following firejail wrap is required:
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<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
programs.firejail = {
  enable = true;
  wrappedBinaries = {
    chromium = {
      executable = "${pkgs.chromium}/bin/chromium-browser";
      profile = "${pkgs.firejail}/etc/firejail/chromium-browser.profile";
      extraArgs = [
        "--blacklist=/etc/ld-nix.so.preload"
      ];
    };
  };
};
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== Add support for Brave Browser in Profile Sync daemon ==
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Adding Brave Browser support to Profile Sync daemon can be automated with an overlay.
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# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{
  nixpkgs = {
    overlays = [
      (final: prev: {
        profile-sync-daemon = prev.profile-sync-daemon.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
          installPhase =
            oldAttrs.installPhase
            + ''
              cp $out/share/psd/{contrib,browsers}/brave
            '';
        });
      })
    ];
  };

# Enable the Profile Sync daemon service.
  services.psd.enable = true;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

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