Chromium 128.0.6613.119 compiled in OE

EasyOS 6.3 has Chromium version 127.0.6533.99. Have just now finished compiling 128.0.6613.119 in OpenEmbedded/Yocto, which will be in the next release of Easy.

Just now looked at the "meta-chromium" site, and see that Max has just built Chromium 128.0.6613.137:

https://github.com/MaxIhlenfeldt/meta-browser/tree/128.0.6613.137

Yeah, well, I'm not going to recompile Chromium; the build took 25 hours, and pretty much ties up my workhorse desktop PC for the duration.

It is pretty disgusting; the Chromium source .tar.xz tarball is 6.4GB -- Chromium 123.0.6312.122 tarball is 3.3GB, that I compiled in May this year -- how on earth can the source tarball grow by 3.1GB???? 3.3GB is already monstrous, and now it has doubled. I'm gobsmacked.

Max's "meta-chromium" is a fork of this:

https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser

And Max syncs with it periodically.

There is another fork that focuses on building Firefox; by Gyorgy:

https://github.com/OldManYellsAtCloud/meta-browser   

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