diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
index 6d24f18ec94c..3825849aac3a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
@@ -294,6 +294,12 @@ let
       # We need the fix for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1254408:
       base64 --decode ${clangFormatPython3} > buildtools/linux64/clang-format
 
+      # Add final newlines to scripts that do not end with one.
+      # This is a temporary workaround until https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/255463 (or similar) has been merged,
+      # as patchShebangs hard-crashes when it encounters files that contain only a shebang and do not end with a final
+      # newline.
+      find . -type f -perm -0100 -exec sed -i -e '$a\' {} +
+
       patchShebangs .
       # Link to our own Node.js and Java (required during the build):
       mkdir -p third_party/node/linux/node-linux-x64/bin