diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
index 3e63389be02d..45c125985120 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 , bison, gperf
 , glib, gtk3, dbus-glib
 , glibc
-, libXScrnSaver, libXcursor, libXtst, libGLU_combined
+, libXScrnSaver, libXcursor, libXtst, libGLU_combined, libGL
 , protobuf, speechd, libXdamage, cups
 , ffmpeg, libxslt, libxml2, at-spi2-core
 , jdk
@@ -309,6 +309,13 @@ let
       targets = extraAttrs.buildTargets or [];
       commands = map buildCommand targets;
     in concatStringsSep "\n" commands;
+
+    postFixup = ''
+      # Make sure that libGLESv2 is found by dlopen (if using EGL).
+      chromiumBinary="$libExecPath/$packageName"
+      origRpath="$(patchelf --print-rpath "$chromiumBinary")"
+      patchelf --set-rpath "${libGL}/lib:$origRpath" "$chromiumBinary"
+    '';
   };
 
 # Remove some extraAttrs we supplied to the base attributes already.