Chromium 53 no longer supported in Google Gmail

What is the output of:

apt-cache policy chromium-browser

Thanks

Not the original author, but experiencing the same issue-

chromium-browser:
  Installed: 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145
  Candidate: 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145
  Version table:
 *** 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

And I believe this is the reason-

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/gmail-no-longer-supporting-chrome-v53.html

" Starting February 8, 2017, we will show a banner at the top of the Gmail interface for users who are still on Google Chrome Browser v53 and below to encourage upgrading to the latest version of Chrome, currently on version 55. ... What happens if users continue to use Chrome Browser v53 and below? Gmail will continue to function on Chrome Browser v53 and below through the end of the 2017. If you continue to use older versions of Chrome Browser now that support has ended, Gmail will be more vulnerable to security risks and users will not have access to new features and bugfixes. Users who remain on Chrome v53 and below could be redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as Dec 2017. "

There are PPAs for later versions of Chromium-browser. I'm not sure they support 32bit as the computer community as a whole are pretty much trying to get rid of it in favor of 64bit.

If you run the below, you will get the latest version

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-chromium-builds/stage
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

That's 3 commands, the first on may wrap as it's quite long.

Source:
https://chromium.woolyss.com/#linux

My system: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS SW RELEASE: Linux sam 4.4.0-62-generic #83~14.04.1-Ubuntu
Chromium: Version 53.0.2785.143

Tried ACTIONPARSNIP's sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-chromium-builds/stage
and got -
 Testing site just before upload to Ubuntu main. Things here are either broken and not ready to use, or landing in the distro anyway very soon. You shouldn't use this. More info: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage

Do you still recommend this "latest version" ?

@actionparsnip
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145
  Candidate: 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145
  Version table:
 *** 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1145 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

I got the same outcome as mickEDK upon attempting to add that PPA.

If you look at https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/+packages and https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev/+packages you might see that currently there are errors when building the current versions.

I assume that the developers are already working to resolve the problems.

I was able to build chromium-browser 56 for Ubuntu Trusty. I don't know why Ubuntu maintainers can not do this:

    docker run -ti -v ${PWD}/tmp:/mnt ubuntu:trusty
    apt-get update
    apt-get build-dep -y chromium-browser
    apt-get install -y wget fakeroot libgtk-3-dev libxkbcommon-dev libx11-xcb-dev
    cd
    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268.dsc http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_56.0.2924.76.orig.tar.xz http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.04.1268.debian.tar.xz
    dpkg-source -x chromium-browser*.dsc
    cd chromium-browser*
    mv /usr/bin/ld.bfd /usr/bin/ld.bfd_
    ln -s ld.gold /usr/bin/ld.bfd
    dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc -j4
    mkdir -p /mnt/chromium-56
    cp ../*.deb /mnt/chromium-56

BTW, if you compile and install binutils 2.26 instead of 2.24 (which are used in Xenial), you can compile chromium with ld.bfd