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Confronted with this issue I found that I need to run a version of Chromium that is newer then the one in the repositories in order to use an extension that I want.

Can I get a such new, even latest version?

(At the present moment Chromium is 20.01, and the X-notifier extension needs 21.x. So it works ok in Google Chrome which is v. 23.0.)

In Windows I can use beta Chromium portable that is newer than Google Chrome.

How to get that newest Chromium here in Ubuntu?

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Ok I've retitled this to align with what you want (I think). You mentioned that you needed at least version 21 and latest stable is supposed to be at 23 so that should be enough. – Jorge Castro Dec 6 '12 at 0:46
@Jorge Castro: I also said "In Windows I can use beta Chromium portable that is newer than Google Chrome. How to get that newest Chromium here in Ubuntu?" - I do not mind closing this but it has the real answer to the one this is duplicate of (but only in the title). thanks for edit its great. if this is closed i should move its answer to the other one i guess, although that has a 13vote definitive one that is unsuited there – cipricus Dec 6 '12 at 0:49
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I don't think this is a duplicate, I'll crosslink them so it's more obvious. – Jorge Castro Dec 6 '12 at 0:52
There's no way to remove a vote, but you need 5 to close so this will stay open. – Jorge Castro Dec 6 '12 at 0:56
@ maggotbrain: well, I was trying to approximate what all this issue was about, and i had a problem with the question being flagged as duplicate because of some ambiguity. now I got all I need (also, vasa1's answer) - and I will not touch it – cipricus Dec 6 '12 at 8:13
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The latest chromium builds((24.0something) at this time) can be obtained by running:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:a-v-shkop/chromium-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

I have only tested this on 12.04. Take a look at launchpad for more details on this PPA. See here for the stable release:

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is this version a beta/unstable version or a stable one? – cipricus Dec 6 '12 at 0:34
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Unstable. These are the latest dev builds. – maggotbrain Dec 6 '12 at 0:36
could you add a way of adding a ppa for the beta too as you did for the dev? – cipricus Dec 6 '12 at 8:19
@cipricus The beta PPA that I found seems out of date Should I add it to the answer? – maggotbrain Dec 6 '12 at 20:11
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Canonical seems to have decided to get involved in providing more recent Chromium builds, from what I can tell. Previously, keeping Chromium current was up to the Community. You can read about it here:
Fwd: Fwd: Chromium Updates and
New updates for Chromium.

Edit: my personal prejudice for a stable experience, as far as such is possible, is to stay with Chrome stable and not to experiment with Chromium builds.

Development and Beta versions can be downloaded as .deb. files here.

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I agree on stability. I was concerned with an issue with Google Chrome becoming the default browser no matter what, when I prefer Firefox as default, while latest stable Chromium would not support latest addons. And so I came to this. But after having learned how to set default browser in terminal (Lubuntu), I can use stable Google Chrome for that extensions - as for stable Chromium being somehow behind (latest extensions not working), the beta version might be a solution. So I also added some info to your answer – cipricus Dec 6 '12 at 8:17

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