Google Chrome is a Webkit-based browser. It is the non-open-source version of Chromium and differs in having several proprietary add-ons, such as custom flash and PDF plugins and crash and user metric reporting (not enabled by default).
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Performance of Chrome Hangouts extension
I just installed the Chrome extension for Google Hangouts. Since then, I experience a lot more CPU usage of the chrome process(es). Up to 100% at times!
Does anyone else experience similar issues? ...
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Problem with IDM integartion
I have installed the IDM in Ubuntu through Wine. When I integrate IDM with chrome I had select the "use advanced browser integration" in option. When I select that, a new window opens that have a ...
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about:blank opens in Chromium when I type into the dash
Here's a rather odd problem I'm having. Whenever I open the dash and type into it, Chromium opens up and opens an "about:blank" tab for just about every letter I write into the dash. Why is it doing ...
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Mouse stops working in windows but not unity
I've recently upgraded to 13.04 on my work computer. Things work ok for around 15-20 minutes, but then the mouse ceases to work.
I can move the pointer around, top corner functionality still produces ...
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App Install Problems to 13.04
Has Ubuntu 13.04 a new set of installation procedures from 12.04, and what are they please? An install of 13.04 has problems with certain installs of software, all that install correctly to a load ...
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What is this strange spontaneous Facebook/Google Chrome popup?
Recently my Ubuntu 12.10 system has started the following strange behavior: A Google Chrome window will pop up, trying to load this URL:
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Ubuntu 13.04: can't connect to many sites (including github) in Firefox and Chrome
[I have posted the same issue on Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2145713 . I am repeating it here to see if I can find an answer here.]
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 recently, and ...
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Chrome-page automatically opens with Ubuntu facebook access
not sure it's a right place to ask, but all of you is my last hope.
Chrome permanently (once per 5-15 minutes) opens a page with an attempt to access FB-account.
The only content on the page is
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Ubuntu Chrome browser is having any instance bug issue? Is it browser bug or Ubuntu desktop theme related bug?
When i run Chrome in Ubuntu as Kiosk mode, it open the same site twice, how can i make it one instance only? (my web application does not work if it open twice).
For example to open one site it runs ...
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Ubuntu Chromium browser - how to define zoom percentage via command line launch?
I have Chromium browser running as Ubuntu Desktop, when i launch my system i need to set the Chromium browser zoom percentage to 79%, so that it always remain default.
Using command line, how do i ...
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Chrome plays media at half speed
For some reason, on my box, using chrome 27.0.1453.81, all media playback (youtube, soundcloud, ...) is done at half speed.
Firefox is ok.
I am facing the issue since about a month ago.
All flags ...
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Installed google chrome but I cannot launch it. It does not appear on dash? [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu 13.04 64bit and tried to install Google Chrome on my machine following these command lines.
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo ...
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Unable to handle kernel paging (chrome segfault)
My computer has Ubuntu 12.04 installed,everything up-to-date. Kernel version 3.5.0-28-generic.
Since I've update the kernel sing the update-manager a week or two ago, I got 3 kernel crashes, two ...
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Ub1304 has install problems with Libre Office and others that install well to 1204 [closed]
Ubuntu 13.04 downloaded and installed and updated this day has problems with certain installs of software, all that install correctly to 12.04.
Google Chrome installed from the Google site dot deb ...
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dynamic switch between audio (applications) source
Formuling a question was quite hard :)
I would like to know if there is a way to force the soundoutput to play the last audio stream started, reduce the volume of the actual audio source and when the ...
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Google Chrome 64bit window drags on resize
It's easy to tell what the problem is in the picture, but in Chrome when I re-size the window everything kind of .... drags. Only Chrome does this.
I've tried the 64 bit version of Chrome, the 32 bit ...
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Chrome text boxes retain sample text
Using Chrome Version 26.0.1410.63 on 13.04.
When I go to a page that has text boxes with sample text' like 'Enter your email here', and focus to that box, the sample text is appended to with ...
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How to launch google-chrome with custom parameters by default?
I want to launch chrome and chromium from the unity launcher with the --purge-memory-button option.
For chromium I was able to add the above parameter to /etc/chromium-browser/default but that's not ...
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google chrome slows down the system
When using google chrome and go to some webpage that is huge like 9gag.com the system freezes and the hard disk led -- I'm using a laptop with 5400 rpm disk -- lights up. Somehow I succeeded to go to ...
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Google Keep Web App Shortcut Does Not Work
I tried this tip Add The New Google Keep App to Unity to create a Google Keep web app shortcut but it doesn't work. I'm using 13.04 and the unstable version of Chrome (Version 28.0.1500.3 dev). I ...
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Rendering issues on Chrome Developer Console on Ubuntu 13.04 with nvidia-313-updates and nvidia-304-updates
I updated to 13.04 recently and I've been seeing rendering issues on chrome. I mainly see it in the developer console, when I try to inspect elements. It ends up looking like this:
This only ...
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DPKG installation error due to LZMA error
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I had recently upgraded the LMZA library to 4.43 which is the latest version. Ever since it gives error while installing few softwares and upgrades.
It shows the ...
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Chrome won't work and won't let me uninstall it
At one point I was using Chrome and then one day it just stopped working. All of a sudden it would open but the "Oh Snap" warning would come up. It doesn't matter what I do, it only shows the "Oh ...
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Can't see wordpress's “recommend” on Facebook template in Chrome
A friend is helping us update our political group website. The thing is I asked him to add a recommend on Facebook and "Tweet" options so people can share the posts if they liked them.
The problem ...
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How to install Opera?
I am new to Ubuntu and don't know much about computers.
I switched from Windows yesterday so when I use sudo in the terminal I am just copying and pasting from google search results - so I really ...
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Error when trying to install Google Chrome [duplicate]
I have problems when trying to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu Software Center and Terminal.
On Ubuntu Software Center
On Terminal
How do I install Google Chrome?
UPDATE
I have tried sudo ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on Samsung Chromebook 550
Is it possible to install Ubuntu 13.04 and later releases on a Chromebook 550 like you would on a Windows laptop etc? I'm thinking of getting one of these Chromebooks to do this and run it alongside ...
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In 13.04, Google Chrome won't install [duplicate]
I have installed 13.04 on my laptop but whenever I try to install Google Chrome from the .deb file, it says: "Dependency is not satisfiable: libudev0 (>= 147)".
I have searched the repositories and ...
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How can I open these .docx files from Chrome more quickly?
This is a very specific question. I'm a lawyer from Chile, the thing is we use a webpage to check on the state of our judiciary cases.
The problem when I started using Ubuntu (and Chromium) is that ...
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How come I can't resize Google Chrome's window less than 595px?
For some reason I can not resize Chrome's window to less than 595 px on Ubuntu 12.10. I can resize Firefox's window to 0 px. Also I can resize the Chrome window to a very small size on Windows. This ...
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Terminal command to open URL's in default and non-default browser
I found this Ask Ubuntu question about how to open a URL in your default browser using the Terminal. Basically, you use the command
xdg-open http://google.com
My default browser is Firefox. But ...
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Magnet links don't work in Google Chrome
Just some days ago magnet links stopped working in Google Chrome, but it works fine in Firefox. Tested to disable all extensions, but it still don't work. Any suggestions?
Running Ubuntu 12.04.2.
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Can't load some domain
I can't load some domain on my ubuntu 13.04:
youtube.com
translate.google.com
drive.google.com
vk.com
When I ping them they are responding:
PING youtube.com (217.119.79.59) 56(84) bytes of data.
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Google Chrome crashing when start download
I got a strange problem with ubuntu 13.04 and google-chrome
Google chrome keeps crashing when i download something. And i can't see detailed chrome log because chrome://crashes/ is disabled and it ...
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Firefox/Chrome links slow unless I type URL directly in address bar
My web browser has become slow. Google works fine, but clicking on any link takes forever with "waiting for xxxx.xx". Strange bit is, if I click in the address bar and highlight the URL, then press ...
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How do I move the window buttons of Google Chrome to left? [duplicate]
I updated Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 using Gnome Shell 3.6. After the update, the window buttons from e.g. Google Chrome are displayed on the right side (close, minimize, maximize).
In 12.10, I believe I ...
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No pictures in Facebook, problem in Pinterest [closed]
I am unable to view photos in facebook, but I can view videos. I am also experiencing problems with Pinterest loading the page, and when it does, I have issues with pinning things. Can anyone help me, ...
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Is there a work around to get protected Hulu or Amazon Prime instant videos working?
When I went to watch some only episodes of star trek on Amazon Prime, the player would get stuck on updating. I followed the instructions here and doing so actually worked for 3 seconds. It was the ...
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How to install Google Chrome on ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
I am trying to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 13.04, but it does not install.
Output:
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 173123 files and directories ...
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Dependency Error while installing Google Chrome on 13.04 [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 but it will not let me install Google Chrome. Apparently it does not meet one of the dependencies. I have downloaded it from the official website, installing it by double ...
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Dependency error while installing google chrome on Ubuntu 13.04
I Installed Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit Unity Desktop environment and did the routine OS update.
Downloaded the 64 bit .deb file from google chrome website and tried installing it ,which resulted to the ...
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Google Chrome does not open
When I click on the Google Chrome icon from the launcher it does not open. I tried searching in the dash and clicking on its icon but it does not open at all.
I tried the terminal as well, like this:
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Weird issue with bootstrap icons on html pages
Ok, I'm on top of Ubuntu 13.04, and when firefox (and/or chrome) renders a bootstrap icon, the result is the one I show on the screenshot.
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7854/workspace1006.png
I ...
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Google Chrome black screen tearing
When I open OMGUbuntu site(or some other page), I get screen tearing http://ubuntuone.com/53v8xOJexIu1eDqS87RvZ8
Also sometimes videos doesn't work. Sometimes I can watch just fullscreen, sometimes ...
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Installed Ubuntu on chromebook, Ubuntu asks for password that wasn't ever set
I installed ubuntu 12.04 on my chromebook.
It didn't asked me for a password at first, but when I attempted to install a software from the store it's asking me for a password which I never set.
As ...
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Youtube video useless after the last update
After some updates recently, Youtube videos now run extremely jerkily. Almost like they are swimming in superglue. It also slows my computer down to a speed akin to a snail on diazepam. Running Ubuntu ...
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Pictures don't show up in Facebook if I use Ubuntu
A few days ago my browser(Firefox) has stopped loading images when using Facebook.com . I tried Google-chrome and it turned out that photos don't load up there too.
However, The pictures show up ...
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installed latest jre, but websites tell that it's old version (chrome)!
I've installed JRE (from .tar.gz with my console) When i check zsh it's installed:
➜ plugins update-java-alternatives -l
java-7-oracle 1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
➜ plugins ...
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How to get online Movie Rental Service to Work
I turned to Ubuntu 12.10 (and then Mint...and then back) as a means for giving one last leg to an old PC. I'm thrifty, and thought Ubuntu's UI was very attractive. As it stands, I love how Ubuntu ...
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How can I get Amazon Instant Video to work?
I have flash, which seems to have dead ended at 11.2. I have the latest chrome 23.xxx.x..x, but neither of those allow me to watch Amazon Instant video. I can disable pepper, but then the 11.2 on my ...
