Questions tagged [chromium]
Chromium is the open source (BSD-licenced) web browser that Google Chrome is based on. Use this tag for questions about installing, configuring or using the free software Chromium browser, not the proprietary Chrome browser published by Google.
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How to adapt Chromium web application launcher for Snaps?
I updated to 19.10 from 19.04, and a custom web application launcher that uses Chromium no longer works properly. Just a guess, but this may be because Chromium is now a Snap package (and no longer a ...
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Running Ubuntu 19.04 on Hyper-V - keyboard drops when running Chromium
I installed Ubuntu 19.04 on Hyper-V with the Hyper-V Quick Install option. All has been good. I installed Chromium and when I run it, all keyboard input is lost (regardless of window). If I shut ...
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Google Chrome doesn't load website's correct Google Fonts and 'fonts.google.com' itself doesn't show any fonts. How to fix this?
Software Information:
Google Chrome Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit)
installed using official .deb from Google.
Ubuntu 19.04 With Gnome
3.32
What I tested:
Removed all extensions,...
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Abnormal Cpu usage
My computer have Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz with four real cores.
Sometimes my computer goes really slow but I don't know why. It's not some application run on my desktop, but my chromium ...
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youtube in firefox not showing part of the video and full screen and theater mode icons
i had this problem for 2 months maybe now i use to ignore it but i said to myself why not find a solution so my problem is with firefox when ever i play a youtube video it cuts part of the video image ...
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Strange starting behavior of firefox, thunderbird, chromium, Ubuntu 18.04
I am working with Ubuntu 18.04 and notice a strange behavior of
programs like firefox, thunderbird or chromium:
If I open firefox, it typically takes maybe two minutes until it starts.
Same with ...
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How to hide desktop until application starts fullscreen
Using Lubuntu 18.04.1. I am running an application on startup from ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart. This application uses node.js to start a Chromium browser full screen in kiosk mode, and ...
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Ctrl+Shift+T doesn't restore closed tab [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 18.04 with Ubuntu-Wayland.
I configured Ctrl+Shift for switching keyboard layout.
And now in chrome Ctrl+Shift+T doesn't restore closed tab but only opens empty tab as Ctrl+T.
How to fix it....
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Unviewable videos on Ubuntu 18.04 and Chromium
After a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 I have serious problems with Chromium web browser an video streaming. Every few seconds of video playback whole system freezes for a couple of seconds, eating CPU ...
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Broken/corrupt image thumbnails in Chromium, 16.04
Xubuntu 16.04, kernel 4.13, nvidia 390.3
Images often get broken/corrupted in chromium after the browser is rebooted or tabs switched. Have tried clearing/deleting cache, reinstalling chromium. ...
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Wakeup script is not launching Chromium-Browser (Ubuntu 16.04)
I need to open browser on a certain page each time the laptop wakes up from hibernate / sleep and on boot.
I've created a script wakeUp.sh in folder /lib/systemd/system-sleep/
made chmod 777 /lib/...
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Why doesn't Chromecast work?
So, I've switched to Ubuntu this week, it's all fine and good except for Chromecasting.
I installed Chrome but when I try to cast it says "No cast destinations found" even though it works from my ...
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Chromium works fine, but it crashes my 16.04 system
Whenever I use Chromium my computer crashes after some time. Like, if I just open it once, and then close, then my computer crashes later on and I have to restart my computer.
There are lot of ...
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Chromium not starting on VNC remote desktop on 16.04
I read about the documented bug with Chromium on multiple displays, but I am not sure this is my problem. I have Ubuntu Server 16.04 as file server for a small Windows10 home network. I am running ...
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Chromium won't load up with my profile
I have an issue with chromium not loading. It starts loading, but nothing opens up. I saw another topic with similar issue, which presented a seemingly good solution, except after logging into my ...
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Chromium will not start in Guest Session on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
In Guest Session ,when i try to launch chromium-browser via GUI,the icon pops up on the left and disappears.so i tried
starting chromium-browser from terminal, I got:
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/...
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Choppy online playback and browsing
I wanna say that I'm new to Linux systems so there might be obvious things that I missed. I had Linux mint 17 on my Dell Latitude D531, was working fine with some problems regarding booting until ...
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YouTube not rendering correctly
I am attempting to run YouTube on Chromium. For some reason, the thumbnails don't load, and the videos don't play. My internet connection is good, and Windows loads the page correctly.
Why is ...
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torrent download problem (xdg-open)
I've been a happy Ubuntu 16.04 user for some time now.
Recently I experienced a problem when downloading torrent.
Before everything went smooth (download torrent - open with transmission - and start ...
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How to fix Chrome/Chromium glitch in Ubuntu 16.04
I am experiencing glithces in Chrome and Chromium browsers under Ubuntu 16.04 (64 bit), as shown in the picture.
My browser versions are
Chromium 53.0.2785.143 Built on Ubuntu
Chrome 54.0.2840....
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No application remembers its user data | Ubuntu 16.04
All applications in my Ubuntu 16.04 seem to lost track of their user data.
When I launch firefox, none of my bookmarks/browsing history are present. Launching chromium-browser from the terminal ...
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Tweaking Chrome style with Ubuntu theme
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with ARC theme. In the GTK2 file I found:
# Chrome/Chromium
widget_class "*Chrom*Button*" style "button"
widget_class "*<GtkCustomMenu&...
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Chromium error: Service is unavailable
Everytime I try to log in using the sign in icon (above the search bar in the right corner) it tells me the service is unavailable after entering my information. Any ideas? I have tried re-installing ...
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Chromium crashes when clicking on a link in Thunderbird
I have a small problem, every time when i click on a link in Thunderbird or any other application (like Discord), Chromium opens then a new window and says that Chromium didn't shut down correctly and ...
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Problem installing adobe flash player plugin on chromium
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I have tried multiple explanations on here but none of them seem to work. I tried out one and figured out it was for Opera and not Chromium and the one on Chromium was ...
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Move Chromium button layout from right to left
For a while now, I was able to use the instructions from one of the comments in this answer to align Chromium's Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons to the left of the browser window.
However, in ...
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Youtube videos stopped being displayed in Chromium
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit with The HTML5 player is currently used when possible being enabled. Suddenly, youtube videos stopped showing but I still can hear videos' sounds.
I don't have such ...
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Chromium Incognito urls visit see in ubuntu
I visited few urls in incognito mode in chromium (ubuntu 14.04). now I have closed the incognito window so I can't see visited urls in chromium's history section. but I was wondering if chromium ...
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Chromium saved passwords are not loaded until save a password
I don't have a password for keyring. When I start my laptop, chromium saved passwords are not loaded until I save a password by chromium, then the passwords are accessible until next reboot.
Why ...
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Password manager does not trigger with Chromium when it should
I'm running into inconvenience because the global password manager (gnome keyring?) that should fill in auth dialogs in Chromium doesn't trigger. For example, I'm accessing some webpage that asks for ...
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fps lag in latest version of chromium
i lately experience fps issues in an online game i play (tagpro.gg - fps dropped from 60 to ~40), but also in youtube videos (feel very chopped). this is since i updated ubuntu (14.04 lts) yesterday ...
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xdg-open: chrome/chromium/opera
I have written an application that makes use of the pocket API. Currently the login is done inside a custom webframe of the application itself. But I want to use the default browser for this.
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How To Prevent Zoom in Chromium
Condition: Artifact zoom CTRL-+/- by keyboard and touchpad
Support: prevention discussed first time in 2009 here about How to turn off Zoom on Chrome
Proposal: Prevent Zoom by touchpad/keyboard in the ...
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Three backslashes in front of email address when using mailto.
In opening an email address with mailto in Chromium three backslashes appear in front of it in the recipient field that I have to manually remove before sending. I use Xubuntu 15.04, and Chromium ...
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Ubuntu open a chromium in kiosk mode and disable graphical environment
I want to use chromium in kiosk mode. I know I can do this in .xinitrc file. How can I disable all graphic environment like unity, lxde et.c. to decrease loading and increase performance of my system?
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Chromium graphics messed up after installing ATI fglrx drivers
I have been troubleshooting display problems - my computer was using default Ubuntu drivers and I finally managed to get the proprietary fglrx-update to work instead. Finally the display seems to use ...
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Glitches while trying to scroll pages in Chromium [closed]
When I try to scroll pages in Chromium Browser, pages don't render properly. There are these stuck block of glitches all over the pages. These glitches disappear when I switch tab and return back to ...
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Chrome Redraw Issue
When I am using Chrome the window will not redraw until I change focus to something else and then click back onto Chrome
I am using 2 monitors but it does not matter which monitor Chrome is on I am ...
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Chromium browser text too big on HiDPI Display
I am running the Chromium browser on my Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine. It seems that the text in the tabs and titles is over compensating for the HiDPI support and it looks too big.
Screenshot:
Is ...
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Editing sudo permissions with strange instructions
Hello I am using Ubuntu and trying to install Chromium OS. They recommend using Ubuntu, but when working through their Quick Start guide I ran these commands from the "Prerequisites" step 3:
cd /tmp
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unity chrome windows "unresponsive" greyed out and can't move
Periodically (a few times a week, sometimes a few times a day) my entire set of chrome windows gets greyed out. (Not just multiple tabs, but all separate windows on all workspaces including chrome ...
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chromium 37.0 cannot detect flash player in Ubuntu 14.10
I follow this question Chromium 34 and later cannot detect flash plugin
and also install pepper flash plugin by using this command sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree but it didn't work.
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Chromium build fails due to `out of memory` allocation
I am trying to build chromium content_shell. But it fails at the last linking stage because of out of memory.
Error Log:
[1/1] LINK content_shell
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/usr/bin/ld: out of memory allocating ...
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I uninstalled Chromium. Why still extra ffmpeg codecs for the chromium browser in ubuntu update?
Chromium kept crashing on the gmail webpage (aw snap) and I have uninstalled it and installed goggle chrome.
In software updater, I see "extra ffmpeg codecs for the chromium browser" is this for ...
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How to change bgcolor of active tab in chrome/chromium?
This question complements the question How to change web browser's tab bar background color or image?
It seems changing the whole tab bar bgcolor is not difficult, but how about changing the bgcolor ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Cannot connect to Starbucks Free attn Wifi, DNS issue
first off, I'm a bit of a newbie and networking stuff is not my forte. So I've been pulling my hair out for the last hour trying to get my 12.04 Ubuntu partition to connect to an AT&T hotspot in ...
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A browser which allows to manually change margins while printing
What I want
I have filled a online form for admission. I need to take print of it to a file, but there are certain conditions.
There should be no Header or footer
Page should be A4 sized.
All 4 ...
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Problem with Chromium
I have a problem with Ubuntu 14.04 and Google Chromium, (details: Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972) ).
Chromium was working fine up to a recent install of updates from Ubuntu and now it ...
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youtube buttons don't work in chromium [closed]
I've been using Youtube through chromium on Raring for over a year now. Suddenly, yesterday, some buttons on Youtube stopped working.
When viewing a particular video, the buttons for "show more", "...
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Chromium not remembering all tabs and running slow
I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and Chromium 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972). I've noticed a few problems...
1) Despite having the setting "Continue where you left off" checked, only ...