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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Let the wrapped binary know that it has been run through the wrapper.
+export CHROME_WRAPPER="`readlink -f "$0"`"
+
+HERE="`dirname "$CHROME_WRAPPER"`"
+
+# We include some xdg utilities next to the binary, and we want to prefer them
+# over the system versions when we know the system versions are very old. We
+# detect whether the system xdg utilities are sufficiently new to be likely to
+# work for us by looking for xdg-settings. If we find it, we leave $PATH alone,
+# so that the system xdg utilities (including any distro patches) will be used.
+if ! command -v xdg-settings &> /dev/null; then
+  # Old xdg utilities. Prepend $HERE to $PATH to use ours instead.
+  export PATH="$HERE:$PATH"
+else
+  # Use system xdg utilities. But first create mimeapps.list if it doesn't
+  # exist; some systems have bugs in xdg-mime that make it fail without it.
+  xdg_app_dir="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share/applications}"
+  mkdir -p "$xdg_app_dir"
+  [ -f "$xdg_app_dir/mimeapps.list" ] || touch "$xdg_app_dir/mimeapps.list"
+fi
+
+# Always use our versions of ffmpeg libs.
+# This also makes RPMs find the compatibly-named library symlinks.
+if [[ -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ]]; then
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE:$HERE/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+else
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HERE:$HERE/lib"
+fi
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+export CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA="@@CHANNEL@@"
+
+# We don't want bug-buddy intercepting our crashes. http://crbug.com/24120
+export GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=SET_BY_GOOGLE_CHROME
+
+# Sanitize std{in,out,err} because they'll be shared with untrusted child
+# processes (http://crbug.com/376567).
+exec < /dev/null
+exec > >(exec cat)
+exec 2> >(exec cat >&2)
+
+# Note: exec -a below is a bashism.
+exec -a "$0" "$HERE/@@PROGNAME@@" --user-data-dir=.config/thorium --no-default-browser-check --use-gl=desktop --enable-experimental-web-platform-features --new-canvas-2d-api --show-component-extension-options --autoplay-policy=user-gesture-required --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,PageInfoAboutThisSite,ParallelDownloading "$@"