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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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chromium cannot run with www-data user

I'm using chromium on this php package https://github.com/symfony/panther Install: apt-get install chromium-chromedriver Function has been called: $this->client = Client::createChromeClient('/usr/...
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How to install Chromium from the Linux Mint repositories in Ubuntu?

I want to install Chromium from the Linux Mint repositories in Ubuntu 20.04, to avoid snap. This answer describes how to install Chromium from the Debian repository. However, the Linux Mint repository ...
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Upload Files in Chromium which are stored in a Cloud-Storage

I use Chromium. When I want to upload a file, then Chromium only let me choose local files which I have on my laptop. I would like to upload images from a cloud-storage (gdrive, dropbox, onedrive, ...)...
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How should I enable hardware graphics acceleration in Chromium web-browser running on Ubuntu MATE 21.10 on RPi 4 (armhf)?

I have just installed Ubuntu MATE 21.10 (32-bit, armhf) on my Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 Gb of RAM. Note: I need 32-bit version to have Modelica compiler available. All settings are default. Information ...
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open whatsapp links with web.whatsapp.com

There is still no way to install a native Linux application for whatsapp, so I always use whatsapp's webapp with my daily browser (chromium based brave-browser). Everything works [mostly] fine, except ...
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Chrome/Chromium keeps showing "Your connection was interrupted"

About once a minute (sometimes more, sometimes less), both Chrome and Chromium show "Your connection was interrupted". Sometimes it just doesn't load and shows a blank screen. On JS heavy ...
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Keyboard doesn't work in Chromium

I opened chrome and realized that the keyboard does nothing. I can't type any URLs or do Ctrl+T to open new tabs. It's like the keyboard isn't there. The keyboard works fine in all other applications. ...
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no hardware decoding on chromium-based browser

I have an intel uhd 630 graphic card working under Ubuntu 20.04. After a configuration of Firefox, it can use the hardware graphic decoding for H264 or VP9. But with chromium-based browser I can't ...
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Why is Firefox the default? [duplicate]

I know that at first glance this may seem like an opinion-based question, but there has to be a definitive answer to why the developers chose Firefox rather than a browser like Chromium, even though ...
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Chromium - right click menus and system bar button do not render

I had been using Ubuntu 21.04 (GNOME) till now but a few days back when I upgraded to 21.10 I started getting these wierd error messages from chromium when launched from the terminal. I tried to ...
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Share Screen with Chromium: Black Screen

If I want to share the screen in Chromium, I see only black screens. I can share the screen, but the other participants only see a black screen. Sharing a window or chromium tab works fine. I use ...
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Chromium crashes when opening multiple YouTube tabs?

I'm using Chromium Browser (93.0.4577.82 -- Flatpak) on Ubuntu 20.04, and recently I've noticed that the browser constantly crashes under this specific scenario: Open Chromium and open a new ...
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How to move chromium config from one PC to next?

I have a new laptop. The old was running Ubuntu 20.04 and the new Ubuntu 21.10. I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 21.10 (not an upgrade). I want to transfer my Chromium config from the old to the new ...
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How to launch PWAs from the terminal (Microsoft Edge Apps / Chromium Apps)

I have websites such as Notion, Outlook, and Onedrive installed as Apps through the edge browser. I wanted to know if they can be launched using a command in the terminal. I've used the following ...
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Right click menu chrome bug, how to fix this?

Updated to Impish Indri and I'm seeing this right click menu on chrome. Not always, like in half the pages. This page included. I'm running in on Ryzen 3 3200g, and I've updated/upgraded to newest ...
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How to fix Chromium 95 memory leak?

Using Version 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) snap (64-bit) causes memory leak while watching youtube, which leads to disk swap and eventually halts my desktop. $ uname -a Linux pc5 5.4.0-89-generic #...
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Chromium print dialog shows boxes instead of fonts

When I attempt to save an email as a pdf in Chromium, using the print dialog, I get a screen full of boxes instead of font characters when the system "save as" dialog appears. The dialog ...
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In Ubuntu 21.10, Firefox and Chromium cannot open file in hidden directory

In Ubuntu 21.10, Firefox 93.0 can't open a file in a hidden directory like /home/alba/.toto/0000000d.html. (Whatever the name and content of the HTML file, you can use an empty file.) Nor does ...
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How can you make the system print dialogue default in chromium?

When using the native print dialog in chromium (installed via snap) in Ubuntu 21.04, I get problems: it takes a long time to render, makes me unable to choose a page range (until the rendering is ...
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How to delete all website data from the system? (https://twitch.tv -site not working anymore)

Twitch.tv website has always been kinda janky when I switched to Linux; usually it takes multiple tries before it loads everything instead of just showing that "error loading module"-ghost. ...
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Bootable RAMdisk kiosk

Introduction I am looking into Ubuntu for the creation of a single-purpose RAMdisk kiosk USB. I want to create a volatile, bootable USB, that loads a very minimal version of Ubuntu into RAM with 1 ...
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Screenshot open select element crashes mouse interaction with ubuntu's UI

How to replicate: Open a select element on a website Try to take a screenshot using Ctrl + Shift + PrtSc Try to use your mouse to do anything else except for the browser window You cannot switch ...
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Is there a portable version of ungoogled-chromium for ubuntu?

I'd really like to use the "ungoogled-chromium"-browser alongside firefox- but as a portable version. This mean: All the necessary files are stored in one folder and/or subfolders, so that I ...
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Disable ALL touchscreen gestures (not just multitouch) in Ubuntu or enable click-on-touch mode

We use Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome 3.36.8 with x11 window system. We wish to use a webapplication/website in Chromium with EETI touchscreen. Usually we can use the touchscreen driver to set the touch ...
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Cannot create user data directory: cannot create "/var/www/snap/chromium/1732": mkdir /var/www/snap: permission denied

I'm trying to launch the chromium-browser for my scraping project and I'm getting this error on my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.8.0-1038-aws x86_64) Chrome process stopped before startup completed....
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Browsers, other windows crashing 20.04.3 LTS

I use a Dell Precision M4800 with Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS And I am having an issue where any browser I use (Chromium, Firefox) constantly crashes. Typically it just goes to the screen on Chromium, Aw Snap!...
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Browsers, other windows crashing Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

I use a Dell Precision M4800 with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. And I am having an issue where any browser I use (Chromium, Firefox) constantly crashes. Typically it just goes to the screen on Chromium, Aw ...
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Chromium Installation Problem

I run sudo apt-get install chromium-browser on terminal to install chromium. I got this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following ...
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PWA .desktop file opening new browser window instead of the app

I've created a web app with Brave's Create shortcut tool and it appeared on my desktop as .desktop file. I've "allowed launching" but it keeps opening a new empty Brave window instead of the ...
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Unable to start camunda modeler 4.9 on Ubuntu 18.04

Downloaded Camunda Modeler linux 64-bit from https://camunda.com/download/modeler/ version 4.9 and extracted on Ubuntu 18.04 Unable to start camunda modeler on Ubuntu 18.04 A JavaScript error ...
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Chromium background suddenly black - fonts low contrast and unreadable

Turned off my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS box with Chromium Version 92.0.4515.107 and went on vacation. When I return, the Chromium background is very dark grey, and many fonts are difficult to read as they ...
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How to start a gui app within an openbox window outside of its autorun file

TL;DR Running ubuntu server 20.04 with xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xinit openbox installed. I can place a command within openbox's autorun file and its runs well. Now I wish start openbox, then ...
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chromium+xdg-open Wireshark from an URL scheme handler: Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied

I need to start the local Wireshark from the web user interface of a web service to immediately start a capture session, using some external capture plugin to connect to the web service. When using ...
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Cannot start multiple chrome windows from terminal in Ubuntu 21.04

I have the following script: google-chrome "https://www.google.com" google-chrome --app=https://listen.tidal.com google-chrome --app=https://www.notion.so google-chrome --app=https://outlook....
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Chromium error: Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Im using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with latest Chromium (92.0.4515.107) When I run chromium from Terminal, I see the following warinings: (chrome:25558): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:30:31.111: Theme parsing error: ...
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electron apps exit after a few minutes with message Killed

I need help figuring out why electron apps get killed after a few minutes of starting them. That is they do not log ERRORs (neither dmesg, /var/log/syslog nor when starting from console with --verbose)...
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Chromium snap bookmarks lost

I had a bunch of issues with Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04, which was installed using Software Center (particularly in relation to fonts). So I removed Chromium from Software Center and now I can't find ...
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Play h265 videos in Firefox and/or Chromium in Ubuntu 20.04

Is there any way I can play h265 videos (with the HTML5 video player) in Firefox and/or Chromium in Ubuntu 20.04? I know the browsers themselves do not support this codec, but, if I understand it well,...
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Chrome Flickering bug + Dragging tabs buggy

Summary Recently made the switch to ubuntu, mostly because I loved using WSL on windows for development work. (I'm a software engineer and freelance on the side)Honestly I LOVE ubuntu.Ok the meat of ...
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Allowing Chrome DevTools access to /opt

I am trying to debug a node program using the Chrome inspector. When I try to add the folder the program is in ( which is in /opt/lampp/htdocs/nodestuff ) to the workspace, I receive a "...
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open link from mail in browser, without switching to the browser

In Thunderbird, I used to click on links, which resulted in an new tab, opened in the browser, without switching/activating the browser, so I could open 4, 5 mail notifications in a row, having 4, 5 ...
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Why 600MB of "BrowserMetrics"?

In ./chromium/common/chromium/BrowserMetrics, I find over 100 files named like BrowserMetrics-60B60603-3D7326.pma, collectively over 600MB, all dating to the past ~5 days. [That's in addition to ./...
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Changed characters in Chromium

In the screenshot you can see side by side comparison between Chromium and Chrome. The settings are identical and I've already tried Reset settings.
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After system update snap apps not working

I'm using Ubuntu desktop 20.04.2 GNOME 3.36.8 x11. Recently (one month back) I updated my system and since then snap apps are not starting. Following are some logs in /var/log/syslog: --- ubuntu20 ...
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My screen have a problem on Chrome and Chromium

I deleted Windows 10 and downloaded Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. When I use Google Chrome or Chromium, after about 10 minutes my screen starts little pixel bugs. Then it get bigger like the video I ...
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chromium core dumped - libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

Until yesterday, I was using chromium just fine in my Ubuntu 20.10. I don't remember whether it started after I made an upgrade on apt-get, or after a snap refresh, but I clicked Chromium icon again ...
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IMWheel high CPU usage / freezing with Chromium based browsers on Amazon.com

IMWheel works great except lately on any Chromium based browsers on Amazon. If I open a product page and scroll with the mouse wheel, the CPU's spike to 100% and the tab crashes or very slowly loads ...
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ERROR: not connected to the gnome-3-28-1804 content interface

I'm using Ubuntu 20.4.2 LTS. $ sudo snap install chromium INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart... error: cannot perform the following tasks: - Buscar e verificar asserções ...
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Active Application not shown in Chrome only

I'm using 20.04.2 LTS ubuntu dektop. When I use a program, say, Firefox, there is a dot by the launcher icon showing there is an active application for that program. I can click on the active icon ...
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Installing previous version of program: chromium-browser

I have an old computer that doesn't support the newest versions of Chromium, since the CPU lacks the support of SSE3 instructions (I saw that in a forum). Recently, I have updated Chromium and version ...
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