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Why do YouTube videos fail to load on my Chromium but not on Firefox?
Just in case, YouTube videos successfully load on my Windows 8 partition, and for my Ubuntu partition, only embedded YouTube videos load properly. Also, both browsers on Ubuntu do not load NYT at all ...
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Installing Moonlight? Extracting .crx files?
I am trying to install moonlight on my 13.04 64-bit ubuntu system. I am using chromium as my main browser and firefox as backup.
I read that to install the moonlight downloaded .crx file in chromium, ...
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Is there any way to get proper Unity WebApps integration in Firefox?
In Chromium, if I open, say, Facebook as a webapp, the window that appears has no url, tabs, nor bookmarks bar -- making it a web app rather than just a browser window. However, if I do the same ...
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Unity webapp working on Firefox, but not on Chromium
I just created an webapp integration for Feedly (https://github.com/eudennis/unity-webapps-feedly), but I can't figure why it work in FIrefox, but won't work at Chromium.
Any idea?
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Flash Player Issues
Flash videos don't work online (namely YouTube, et al). I had tried reinstalling the flash player add-on and doing a system update but no improvement.
The problem started just after installing Ubuntu ...
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Webex crashing/lockup Firefox / Chromium Browsers - Ubuntu 12.10
When launching webex from firefox or chromium browser. Browser freezes and stops responding. Browser process must be killed to exit. Please help me troubleshoot this.
Here are my setup details and ...
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How can I get chromium-browser to run fullscreen (not kiosk) in 12.04?
I have created a restricted user which logs in automatically and Chromium runs the default home page with the screen starting maximized but I want it to run in fullscreen (F11) mode. I tried kiosk ...
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Programs to combine bookmarks?
I've recently been having some issues with xmarks and found that it hasn't been syncing my chromium and firefox bookmarks correctly.
Is there a way to combine the two bookmark HTML files? Preferably ...
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Facebook doesn't work in ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
since two days I can't connect to facebook any more. All other pages work. I tried it from Firefox as well as from Chromium (both on ubuntu 12.10). The strange thing is, that it is working on Windows.
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How to remove Unity web apps?
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 and all has been great, except for the web apps feature.
I've tried adding a few web apps, but it's very buggy and not a very good experience. I'm also tired of ...
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How to remove global menu from Chromium, Firefox?
sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmen or sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt.
I have used this command to remove the global menu in all installs of Unity. ...
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ctrl + a doesn't work in browsers
The combination for select all (ctrl+a) doesn't work in a browser (either if we speak about firefox or chromium). It doesn't work if I try to clik in to the adress bar nor if I try to use it to select ...
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Where do Chrome, Chromium and Firefox store offline data
As the question says, where do each of the browsers store their offline data, be it cache, offline storage from html5, images, flash videos or anything web related that gets stored locally.
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Ubuntu 12.04 webcam doesn't work in browser
I've got a problem using my webcam in browsers. It simply doesn't detect it (works in cheese and skype though used some workaround for skype. But for example omegle tells me that it requires a webcam ...
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Print to PDF from Firefox and Chromium text is image not selectable [closed]
I have recently upgraded from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS (fully up-to-date). Complete fresh format and install of the Linux partition.
I noticed that PDF files printed from Firefox 14.0.1 and Chromium ...
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I installed ubuntu, but firefox not recognizing flash chromium [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Adobe Flash player?
Translated from portuguese
I just installed Ubuntu through wubi, so he finished installing the updates and installed soon after I ...
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Flash for linux is discontiued. What does it mean for linux users? [closed]
I read here that Adobe does not support it's flash plugin from version 11.2 onwards. However, user can download chrome which will be updated using Pepper API. Does that mean chrome should be the ...
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Problems with Google maps and open images [closed]
I'm using ubuntu 12.04 with chromiun and firefox 13.01. I tried open sites like http://pop25konquest.blogspot.com.br/ or http://veleiroranchoalegre.blogspot.com.br/ and these sites do not show the ...
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some programs not resolving hostnames
Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel 3.0.0-20.34
Both Chromium and Firefox are stuck "waiting for www.whatever.com" to load until they time-out.
Both of these browsers can load these websites if I navigate to the ...
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Why is Helvetica hollow in both Chromium and Aurora? [closed]
Currently trying to teach myself Bootstrap, which calls the following fonts:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
...and the fonts display fine, but they're hollow. ...
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12.04 64-bit flash player problem [closed]
Hello I have a fresh default installation of Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. I am having problems accessing flash related content on some sites. For example, youtube works but www.ibnlive.in.com does not work. ...
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12.04/ Firefox and Chrome adobe pdf isnt working
When i try to open a pdf in new tab. the browser errors out with a white screen and if i want to open in Document Viewer, i need a password. on my windows machine, it opens just fine. never showing a ...
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Some windows not showing up in Alt + Tab
I installed Chromium from the Software Centre yesterday and realised it wasn't showing up in Alt + Tab switching so I decided to go back to Firefox. It turns out Firefox also doesn't show up, but only ...
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All pages work except facebook [closed]
I have tested firefox, chromium, arora and w3m and only last browser is able to load facebook. All other give connection reset (or server return no response error) after entering login password. If I ...
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Flash player not loading in Firefox or Chromium
I am brand new to Linux so can you (try) to keep answers as simple as possible. A few days ago I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 on an old computer (just under 500mb of RAM) and once I had ...
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Silverlight plugin does not work for an Internet-Tv site [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. My browsers are chromium and Firefox.
http://www.tivibu.com.tr is a internet based television broadcast service and they use silverlight. I'm a premium member and I wish to ...
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Big delay to open web pages on Ubuntu 11.10; also slow torrent client speed [closed]
The keywords for my issue are too common among other issues, so, I couldn't find anything that could answer me: why will it take around 30+ seconds for any of my browsers to open a page? happens even ...
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Facebook doesn't work [closed]
I just got Ubuntu 11.10 and did everything I read about getting applications and basic extras. Everything was perfect until I tried to enter Facebook. First it loaded normally and got stuck when I ...
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Chrome/Chromium bad text rendering [closed]
Recently I've noticed that certain websites have really messed up looking text when I visit them in chrome or chromium but look completely fine in firefox. I tried messing with a bunch of about:flags ...
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Can I sync bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium?
So, Firefox has turned so resource intensive that my netbook can't run it without making me want to pull my hair out. Thus, I have been trying Chromium with quite some success (I have managed to find ...
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How can I join a Skype Public chat via links?
In Windows, I can join a Skype Public chat by pasting a Skype chat link into a web browser's address bar (or clicking a link which contains that URI), but it doesn't work in my Ubuntu 10.04 using ...
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Wired Networking Issues [closed]
I am having some strange networking problems with Ubuntu 11.10.
This is a fresh install but this same machine worked fine with 11.10 before. I actually reinstalled with the very same CD and there ...
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Customize Chromium with user.css like in Firefox
in firefox I edit userChrome.css file for customize the bookmarks bar with this code:
File in /home/gabriel/.mozilla/firefox/t5w3u0oy.default/chrome/userChrome.css
Code:
/* kill icons for bookmark ...
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How can I cache specific web pages for offline viewing?
I occassionally need to work offline by accident or design. I'd like to maintain a flexible list of web pages that I can cache for easy offline access.
Notes:
I'd like to simulate online browsing ...
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Is there a way to stop Chrome/Firefox record history of a 'particular' website?
I want Chrome/Firefox NOT to record history of a 'particular' website. Is it possible to do so? I searched in preferences, but couldn't find a solution. Thanks in advance.
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Where do browsers save cookies and data?
what is the default location for Firefox or chromium web browser to store data.Also where does the temporary data and cookies along with user profiles are stored?
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Remove all cookies except for app/pinned tabs
Is there a way to remove all cookies, on shutdown, of any websites not pinned? Manually adding websites to the exception list isn't straightforward since some websites saves multiple cookies from ...
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Where do browsers keep temporary files?
How do I get in to my Temp Internet files?
In running Ubuntu 11.10 on an HP Laptop
I normally use Chromium but still have Fire Fox installed
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Recommendation for a download accelerator for Chromium
Firefox is very heavy, so I want to use Chromium but it doesn't have a download accelerator (multisegmented) like Firefox's DownThemAll! What can I do?
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Flash problem in firefox ubuntu
i have flash problem on youtube and other flash sites in firefox
but they work good in chromium
the screen shots
firefox
chromium
how i can i fix this problem ?
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How do I change the default browser?
Despite Chromium being set as my preferred web browser under "System Info", when I click a link in an IM window of Pidgin, it opens in Firefox. How do I make it so that links open in Chromium?
I am ...
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Is Firefox not rendering a web page correctly compared to the same version on Windows?
I recently discovered that Firefox on Ubuntu does not render well some web pages compared to how it renders them on Windows (where the rendering is correct) or even to Chromium on the same Ubuntu box ...
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Open irc:// links in XChat from Firefox and Chromium
I want to open channels in servers specified in irc:// links in XChat, but directly pointing to XChat binary (in Firefox) did not work - the window to choose servers appears as usual. I don't know how ...
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Firefox 5, Chromium and Seamonkey crash after update [closed]
After upgrading to 11.04, Firefox 5 worked great. But after updating today (July 14th) again, Firefox, Chromium and Seamonkey crash, just like the early version of Firefox 4. Does it have to do with ...
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Open mailto: links in Unity with non-default browser webapp?
I use Firefox as my default browser.
Email is a Chromium webapp pinned to the launcher, with a Google Apps account so it's basically GMail.
Most solutions involve the 'desktop-webmail' application ...
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Trouble accessing sites with Chromium
I'm having trouble accessing www.fafsa.ed.gov with Chromium, I get an "incompatible browser detected" message. I tried using the "User Agent Switcher" extension for Chrome but it did not work, however ...
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Very High CPU usage (100%) from just browsing the Web
I tested on Firefox and Chromioum. Im at 100% while loading pages which causes them to load slow and when I dont have a application running Im at 40% CPU (At least)
Everything is slow basically. Im ...
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HTML5 version of Angry Birds not rendering properly in any browser
See the attached screenshot. When I run Angry Birds in any of my browsers, pieces of the game are missing. This desktop is 32bit Xubuntu with the PAE kernel, if that affects anything. I've tried ...
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Can any browser switch to already open tab, if address you're opening is already open?
If "https://mail.google.com" is already open a tab, it it possible to have a browser switch to that tab if I try opening "https://mail.google.com" in a different tab?
What if I try opening the new ...
