diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
index 6d43c313cc0..c2434ed858f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
@@ -227,8 +227,9 @@ let
       use_gold = true;
       gold_path = "${stdenv.cc}/bin";
       is_debug = false;
-      # at least 2X compilation speedup
-      use_jumbo_build = true;
+      # Use jumbo for a 2x (at least) compilation speedup, except where it is currently broken:
+      # https://gist.github.com/ivan/6fe7014c1b1cc35dec133fa6de0549d9
+      use_jumbo_build = (version != "78.0.3904.17");
 
       proprietary_codecs = false;
       use_sysroot = false;