Package: chromium Version: 128.0.6613.113-1~deb13u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ole.laur...@gmail.com
Hi! We're using Chromium for outputting PDFs through its --headless mode - we feed it HTML through some JS trickery, and then out comes a PDF. This is niche previously filled by PhantomJS and other now dead projects, probably powering most of the dynamically generated PDFs on the web. Now, it turns out that the 128 release switched --headless from defaulting to what they call the "old" mode to the "new" mode. This new mode didn't work for us due to isolation bugs, see for instance: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/361615573 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/362301064 But in any case, apparently the old headless mode is not dead but instead supposed to be built as a separate shell and be faster with fewer dependencies: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-headless-shell Would you consider shipping this new shell in Debian? For the time being, --headless=old still works with the existing chromium package, but per the above page and other info I could gather, it looks like upstream is planning on removing it. Ole
