Any way to install specific/older chrome browser version

Question

I have a script in my automation tests (built using protractor(5.4.0) and runs on Headless Chrome in Circle CI using Docker) which installs currently the latest chrome browser for me:

apt-get update && apt-get -y install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
curl -L -o google-chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
dpkg -i ./google-chrome*.deb
apt-get install -yf

This script downloads me the latest chrome browser version available.

Is there any way to get older version of chrome.deb and install via curl as there are few things I suspect aren't running since chrome updated and I would like to test with a older version once.

I found few older browser versions to install on websites like slimjet, ubunutu but would like to know if I can get it via https://dl.google.com or if there is any better way to do this.

Answer 1

For deb package at Ubuntu - Chrome:

CHROME_VERSION=77.0.3865.120-1
wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb
dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb || apt -y -f install
rm google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb;

For Chromium: For more info about old Chromium, please refer to: https://github.com/Bugazelle/chromium-all-old-stable-versions

CHROMIUM_VERSION=77.0.3865.120
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bugazelle/chromium-all-old-stable-versions/master/chromium.stable.json
download=$(jq -r ".linux64.\"${CHROMIUM_VERSION}\".download_url" chromium.stable.json)
position=$(jq -r ".linux64.\"${CHROMIUM_VERSION}\".download_position" chromium.stable.json)
echo "download url is: ${download}"
echo "position is: ${position}"
wget --no-check-certificate -O chromium.zip ${download}

Answer 2

ENV CHROME_VERSION "99.0.4844.84-1"

RUN set -ex && \
  apt-get update -qqy && \
  wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb && \
  apt-get install -qqyf ./google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb && \
  rm google-chrome-stable_${CHROME_VERSION}_amd64.deb