At least as of chromium-123.0.6312.58-1.fc39.x86_64 , Chromium downloads a 250 MB binary in ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so . I can't find an option or user flag to disable this behaviour either. $ md5sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so 319f4c39192205b6b24e554b546bcb34 ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so $ sha512sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so 62a1d058aad4c5b8f769817d201b0f71dd4223ca3a50bbe631cde66c95a950eeece08a90442846c13951cef86fcdf007f4ec214593006528019e602077a063c0 ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so $ sha1sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so 3266a292e7dd51cb4a9cbbfe03390cc8041e48d9 ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so $ strings ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so | gzip > libchromescreenai.so.strings.txt.gz Reproducible: Always Debian has a patch to prevent this behaviour: https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/commit/ee2d7017ed0b99a27f5b763ee782fdd8a0999660
Created attachment 2023214 [details] strings output strings finds about 800k unique lines which may give an idea of the content, some of which seems to be a derivative of MPL code
FEDORA-2024-f92215b177 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f92215b177
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc38) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc39) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2024-f92215b177 has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-f92215b177` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f92215b177 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc39) has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc38) has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2024-85531c965e (chromium-123.0.6312.86-1.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.