Chromium with pre-installed extensions

Question

How do I go about creating and distributing a custom Chromium web browser? It should be identical to the Google version except that some extensions are pre-installed. It should still get updates off the chrome stable channel.

Answer 1

If you are a system administrator and want to do some custom Chrome[ium] deployments for all employees you should read this document.

There is a guide for pre-installing extensions and web apps as well.

Answer 2

Chrome doesn't have provisions to do this.

Extensions are installed per-user in their User Data directory.

If you have the liberty to do so, you could create a fresh user directory, install the desired extensions, then package up and ship that user directory as the default one.