Chromium is the open source web browser that Google Chrome is based on.
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How to set chromium to open word documents with libreoffice?
When I click on a word attachment in an email I have received in gmail from chromium, it always opens the file using abiword. How can I persuade it to use libreoffice instead? I am using lubuntu ...
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Online accounts in 12.10 Facebook not working [closed]
I've added my Google, Twitter, and Windows Live accounts without any issues.
However, when I try to add a Facebook account, instead of opening in the system dialogue for online accounts, it opens up ...
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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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How do I install Chromium and Skype?
Having just switched to Ubuntu from Mint I tried to install the Chromium browser and Skype. They gave the following errors:
Chromium
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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Lubuntu window geometry - force window to always open in the same location?
I'd like my Chromium window to open with the same size and in the same place every time. I thought I'd be able to make this happen by editing lubuntu-rc.xml like this:
chromium-browser ...
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I am being logged out when I start chromium browser?
When I start chromium browser I get logged out and I get the startup screen. How can I check what causes this? I have tried re-installing chromium but that did not work.
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Why is Chromium shutting down while downloads are in progress?
Chromium used to confirm exit if there are any downloads active, is it something I can turn on/off or is it an Ubuntu bug?
ii chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubun Chromium browser
No LSB modules ...
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How do I install Chromium from the command line?
I have already tried using the Ubuntu Software Center, but it won't install the Chromium browser. How can I install it using the terminal?
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Problem enabling Native Client (NaCl) in Chromium
In chrome://flags I've enabled Native Client and started Chromium with
chromium-browser --enable-nacl
I've installed one of the demo apps, but when I run it it says "No plug-in available to display ...
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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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Facebook not working on Ubuntu 12.04
Since last night Facebook is not working on Ubuntu 12.04.
Every other web site is working. Also I booted Windows XP and Facebook worked there. I tried every browser I have on my PC (Chrome, Chromium, ...
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How do I update only one specific application
I have chromium installed. I want to update it and only it. Is there any way to do that?
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I can't change Chromium 23 settings
I use Ubuntu 12.10 with Chromium from original repositories. Chromium was updated to 23 a few days ago. And now I can't change any settings. For example, I ticked Enable phishing and malware ...
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What does the count on the Chromium Launcher Icon tell?
On my Chromium Launcher Icon a count of 4 is displayed. I have two Chromium windows with several tabs open.
A count with progress bar was always displayed when downloading. Therefore I checked this ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 hanging often
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 in my secondary hard drive with 500GB through Bootable CD. Post the successful installation there are 2 issues i face.
Since the Windows XP runs in my primary Hard ...
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Ctrl + Shift + Del key combination not working in Chromium's New Tab page [closed]
The default key combination for clearing browsing data in Chromium (Ctrl+⇧Shift+Del) isn't working when the New Tab page is open and in focus: I press the keys and nothing happens.
If I click the ...
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How to install specific versions of Google Chrome / Chromium?
I'm looking for standalone packages for Google Chrome / Chromium which can be extracted and used as binaries for my Selenium test suite.
How do I go about such a thing?
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How to create Chrome/Chromium web application desktop shortcut?
I'm not able to create desktop/Unity short cut for web applications using Chromium/Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.
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Facebook webapp doesn't work
All my unity-webapps work with chromium, except for Facebook. It popped up the bar to ask me to install, I did, and the unity-webapps-facebookmessenger package was installed. However, it does not ...
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All Browsers Crashing on Ubuntu 12.04
This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, all browsers crash, especially when using Google Mail or Google Drive / Docs. I am using Google Chrome Version 23.0.1271.97 and Chromium Version 23.0.1271.64 ...
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Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04. Youtube says “This video is currently unavailable” [closed]
Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04. Youtube says "This video is currently unavailable". I don't know why but this is the case for SOME videos, but not all. Well, most videos. And I don't know what's wrong. ...
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How to remove hijacked website in chromium
I think my chromium browser has been hijacked. From now and then, when i surf to a website it automatically changes to hXXp://lp.zpdownload.info/mv/ with some advertisement for movies and to download ...
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How to force installation of incompatible extensions in Chromium/Chrome?
I was trying to install one of my favorite Chrome/Chromium extensions, Awesome New Tab Page (which I have successfully installed and ran on Chromuim for Ubuntu before,) but it says that the extension ...
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How to install Chrome or Chromium 32 bit on Ubuntu 64 bit
I am unable to find any advice how to install either Chrome or Chromium 32 bit on Ubuntu 64 bit 12.10. I installed ia32-libs, downloaded Chrome install package google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb ...
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“No such file” when running a 32-bit program on a 64-bit system
I downloaded a Chromium snapshot and unzipped it, like this:
michael@ubuntu:/opt/chrome-linux$ ls
chrome libffmpegsumo.so nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe
chrome.1 ...
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gnome - web browser as screensaver have problem with lock screen
How to run a web browser as a screensaver
From that link, I can now set chromium-browser in ubuntu - gnome in kiosk mode (fullscreen mode) to display a web page (acting as screensaver). Everything is ...
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How do I hide the tab bar in Chromium for a smoother web app experience?
After playing around (as in forgot to install chromium-addon for integration and losing half a day to find that out) with unity-webapps I finally got them to work.
Problem is, if I access a web app ...
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How to remove Chromium browser without removing Lubuntu Desktop
I am trying to remove the Chromium browser through Synaptic, but it tries to remove Lubuntu desktop. How can I remove it keeping Lubuntu desktop?
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very poor images quality in Chromium
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and the images rendering in Chromium browser are very very poor.
Here is a screenshot :
I've tried also in Firefox and it seems to be better than Chromium but still weak.
I ...
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how to read wmv videos in chromium browser?
I download a wmv video with firefox and I can read it with gnome mplayer without any problem. But if I try to read it with chromium it says to me that I have a missing plugins. How can I fix this ?
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Minimising glitch with chromium on Ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
While using Chromium, if I minimize the browser to the unity bar, it will glitch the minimize animation (make it very slow/stop) and the current window arrow will start flashing rapidly and ...
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I need help with chromium
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a eee pc 1001px and it feels pretty sluggish compared to the win7 that I had previously installed even though it is the only OS on the machine right now. I installed ...
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How do I get the latest (beta and development) version of Chromium?
Confronted with this issue I found that I need to run a version of Chromium that is newer then the one in the repositories in order to use an extension that I want.
Can I get a such new, even latest ...
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my chromium browser keeps force quits instantly
it says chromium didn't shut correctly. to reopen the pages you had open,click restore but when i try to click restore it won't let me then the screen dims all of a sudden i can't use the browser ...
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X-notifier doesn't work in Chromium Browser
It just keeps checking in vain.
Also cannot import or export data, but get this error
I use the latest versions of both in Lubuntu 12.04.
In Google Chrome it works.
What could it be the ...
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Web short-cuts on dash-11.10
I'm using 11.10, and my web browser is Chrome. Not Chromium, just Chrome. I want to access web-links with just a click. And I want to get to these using dash. Can I do this?
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How to change chromiums windows buttons to gnome defaults?
Chromium's custom Minimise/Maximise/Close buttons do not fit in with my Gnome 3 theme. I have managed to move them back to the right hand side, but I cannot find a way to change the button icons to ...
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VLC plugin does not work in Chromium
VLC plugin works in Firefox, but not in Chromium for me.
VLC player appears inside the browser, but during the loading will freeze.
Any help will be appreciated!
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PDF viewer in chromium? [duplicate]
Google Chrome has plugin to view pdf files inside the browser.
Is there any plugin for chromium which can do this?
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Are these Apparmor profiles unnecessary?
I'm running Lubuntu 12.10. I've installed apparmor-profiles. I uninstalled the Chromium browser have the latest Chrome stable in its place.
Now I'm trying to learn a little about Apparmor profiles. ...
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how to make Chromium-browser start on vnc display?
I have started TightVNC Server on Lubuntu 12.04 via the command:
tightvncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 :2
The VNC server successfully started and I got this message:
New 'X' desktop is ...
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chromium-browser usus 99,99% IO disk
My favorite browser: chromium is testing my patience. For some reason it sometimes uses 99,99% of I/O. (reading 2-3MB/s) Other processes (updatedb.mlocate, [kswapd0], clementine, compiz) show the same ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Chromium feels sluggish
I am running chromium at ubuntu 12.10 64bit at my desktop with 6GB RAM, i7 - 950 @ 3.00 GHz and nvidia gtx280.
With about 15 tabs opened chromium is sluggish and scrolling is slow.
What is wrong?
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Chromium PDF viewer crashing
Has anybody succeeded in using Google's PDF viewer for Chromium as follows?
Chromium: Version 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04 (144678) (32-bit OS)
libpdf.so: extracted from either stable (6258608 bytes ...
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where should I extract chromium update package too?
I'm not sure that package is the right term here but.
I used Chromium Updater to download a .zip file of the latest version of chromium.
The zip contents are a folder called chrome-linux ...
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Is there a version of the Chromium browser that will run on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Looking for a version of the Chromium-browser that will run on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy).
There must be one since I'm using Google Chrome 12.0.742.60 beta on that machine now but I've been unable to locate ...
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Chromium shuts down when I open a new tab
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my old machine and since I'm a big fan of Chrome/Chromium I tried to install it. It worked ok the first time, but now when I open it it says "Chromium didn't shut ...
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Is it possible to tell Chromium to always “keep” PDFs?
I download a lot of PDFs in Chromium and always get a warning telling me that "files of this type can harm [my] computer", which forces me to manually confirm every download. I've enabled the "always ...
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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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Where can I get the official Chromium .deb package?
Before I had installed Chromium 20 from wolf\crack PPA, but later I had uninstalled it when I know it is not an official PPA.
I found it at the Ubuntu package repository for download, I think its ...
