Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging

Google engineer Tom Anderson has landed experimental Flatpak packaging support for testing in the Chrome/Chromium codebase. The merge adds a new chrome/installer/linux/flatpak/ directory with packaging scripts, an enable_flatpak GN build flag (default false), App ID mappings for Chromium and Google Chrome, and disables the setuid sandbox and zlib compression for non-official builds. Google explicitly states this is experimental and not a commitment to officially ship Flatpak packages, but the work targets restricted sandboxing configurations and extended XDG portal support, and could eventually offer a cleaner distribution path outside RPM and Debian-based packaging.

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