Chromium and Google Account login

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I've download Chromium 53.0.2745.0 for Mac and I've no success in login with my Google account. I type my email, my password and the login box just closes.

I tried different Google accounts, turned off two step auth and nothing.

Then I've installed 51.0.2683.0 via Brew and I finally got access. However, when I open the new one (53) I see "Account sign-in details are out of date."

What is wrong here?

Best Answer

According to the documentation, you need a Google API in order to use the most recent Chromium.

After you get the API key and the other information, run in the terminal: 

launchctl setenv GOOGLE_API_KEY yourkey
launchctl setenv GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID yourclientid
launchctl setenv GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET yourclientsecret

The reason for this is: your pre-built Chromium needs to know what is your API. Without this, you are unable to use the Google Sync service

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