diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/update.sh
index 2d95d466b2a8..cc38125c1933 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/update.sh
@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ get_channel_exprs()
     do
         channel="${chline%%,*}";
         version="${chline##*,}";
-        url="${bucket_url%/}/chromium-$version.tar.bz2";
+
+        # XXX: Remove case after version 26 is stable:
+        case "${version%%.*}" in
+            26) url="${bucket_url%/}/chromium-$version-lite.tar.xz";;
+            *)  url="${bucket_url%/}/chromium-$version.tar.bz2";;
+        esac;
 
         echo -n "Checking if sha256 of version $version is cached..." >&2;
         if sha256="$(sha_lookup "$version")";