chrlauncher Changelog

What's new in chrlauncher 2.6

Jan 15, 2022
  • Set win7sp1 as minimum required version
  • Prevent system sleep until download complete
  • Added brave browser launch support
  • Fixed command line with spaces bug (issue #186)
  • Fixed cleanup old chromium versions (issue #180)
  • Fixed opening windows twice (issue #172)
  • Removed flash player support
  • Cosmetics fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.5.7 (Nov 17, 2019)

  • Added updater only mode (issue #84 & #119)
  • Updated project sdk
  • Cosmetics fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.5.6 (Mar 9, 2019)

  • Added better search for browser executables
  • Fixed working with multiple chrlauncher copies
  • Fixed firefox based browsers support

New in chrlauncher 2.5.5 (Feb 10, 2019)

  • Added more file formats recognition
  • Fixed cache file can still available after unpacking (issue #123)
  • Fixed passing arguments to browser (issue #125)
  • Fixed window blinking on startup
  • Updated project sdk
  • Updated lzma sdk
  • Cosmetics fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.5.4 (Dec 20, 2018)

  • Added 7zip packages support (fix #120)
  • Activate browser window when browser is running
  • Fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.5.3 (Nov 27, 2018)

  • Fixed loading custom configuration (issue #114)
  • Fixed opening new Chromium window

New in chrlauncher 2.5.2 (Nov 22, 2018)

  • Fixed unpacking some zip packages (issue #113)
  • Updated locale

New in chrlauncher 2.5.1 (Nov 19, 2018)

  • Added custom configuration settings and removed mutex (issue #59)
  • Fixed destroying main window when error occurs
  • Fixed proxy credentials parsing (issue #110)
  • Fixed proxy support for win81+ (issue #110)
  • Updated chromium types description (issue #109)
  • Updated install script

New in chrlauncher 2.5 (Nov 5, 2018)

  • added localization support (please use example.txt, not chrlauncher.lng file)
  • added proxy support (issue #108)
  • fixed unpacking some zip packages (issue #107 & #100)
  • fixed wow64 related bugs
  • updated project sdk
  • updated windows sdk
  • cosmetics fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.4.3 (Mar 2, 2018)

  • Fixed tls 1.2 certificates recognition (issue #95)
  • Fixed downloading files
  • Updated project sdk

New in chrlauncher 2.4.2 (Mar 2, 2018)

  • fixed ssl certificates recognition (issue #95)
  • updated project sdk

New in chrlauncher 2.4.1 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Fixed always 32-bit downloading (issue #74)

New in chrlauncher 2.3 (Feb 14, 2017)

  • Added "ungoogled-chromium" support (issue #33)
  • Added forced update checking state into the "ChromiumCheckPeriod" param
  • Increased startup speed
  • Removed "--disable-component-update" from arguments (issue #35)
  • Updated documentation
  • Updated localization
  • Fixed opening incorrect URLs (issue #52 and #56)
  • Fixed bugs

New in chrlauncher 2.2 (Jan 23, 2017)

  • fixed OpenZip failure

New in chrlauncher 2.1 (Jan 19, 2017)

  • fixed PPAPI arguments

New in chrlauncher 2.0.0 (Jan 14, 2017)

  • now download and install update is working in background
  • added tray icon and show it when new version found
  • added download control option
  • added "ChromiumBinary" option to set custom Chromium binary file name
  • increased download buffer size
  • fixed run Chromium when directory contain spaces
  • fixed race conditions on download
  • fixed relative/environment path generation
  • fixed open links if chrlauncher set as default browser
  • removed PPAPI from package
  • updated readme
  • code cleanup

New in chrlauncher 1.9.4 (Sep 17, 2016)

  • fixed localization (issue #32)
  • output debug strings on silent mode

New in chrlauncher 1.9.3 (Sep 15, 2016)

  • command line arguments
  • output debug strings on error
  • updated PPAPI to 23.0.0.162
  • updated to the latest sdk
  • fixed localization

New in chrlauncher 1.9.2 (Jun 17, 2016)

  • removed update checking when Chromium is running (issue #16)
  • fixed working under proxy (issue #17)
  • changed default browser type to "dev-codecs-sync"
  • updated PPAPI to 21.0.0.242

New in chrlauncher 1.9.1 (Apr 23, 2016)

  • now you can pass environment variables via command line
  • update checking time don't saved sometimes

New in chrlauncher 1.9 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • now you can pass arguments to Chromium through launcher command line
  • fixed parsing arguments ("blank tab" bug)
  • fixed custom builds cleanup
  • updated "SetDefaultBrowser" script
  • updated PPAPI to 21.0.0.213
  • minor bug fixes

New in chrlauncher 1.8 (Mar 19, 2016)

  • now distributed under MIT license
  • support to download unofficial build with codecs (see chrlauncher.ini)
  • updated PPAPI to 21.0.0.182

New in chrlauncher 1.7 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • support to use portable version of PPAPI (see "FlashPlayerPath" config)
  • fixed "SetDefaultBrowser" script (now used internal win7 feature to set as default browser)
  • removed std::regex (saved about 100kb)
  • stability improvements

New in chrlauncher 1.6 (Jan 22, 2016)

  • added script to set chrlauncher as default browser
  • cleanup Chromium package on extract
  • removed Mozilla Firefox support (because his have native autoupdater)
  • minor bug fixes

New in chrlauncher 1.5 (Dec 18, 2015)

  • Small and very fast portable launcher and updater for Chromium and Mozilla Firefox.

New in chrlauncher 1.4 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • added "ChromiumDirectory" setting
  • fixed statusbar flickering

New in chrlauncher 1.3 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • fixed incorrect version checking

New in chrlauncher 1.2 (Nov 30, 2015)

  • added checking for installation package is really Chromium archive
  • added exit confirmation when downloading/installing
  • fixed architecture detection on various systems
  • changed settings description (see chrlauncher.ini)

New in chrlauncher 1.1 (Nov 30, 2015)

  • code rewritten on c++
  • added select for downloading architecture
  • added new settings (see chrlauncher.ini)
  • more information about update