diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
index ea0e01843404..3e63389be02d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ let
     in attrs: concatStringsSep " " (attrValues (mapAttrs toFlag attrs));
 
   gnSystemLibraries = [
-    "flac" "libwebp" "libxslt" "yasm" "opus" "snappy" "libpng" "zlib"
+    "flac" "libwebp" "libxslt" "yasm" "opus" "snappy" "libpng"
+    # "zlib" # version 77 reports unresolved dependency on //third_party/zlib:zlib_config
     # "libjpeg" # fails with multiple undefined references to chromium_jpeg_*
     # "re2" # fails with linker errors
     # "ffmpeg" # https://crbug.com/731766