Questions tagged [google-chrome]
Google Chrome is a non-free proprietary web browser based on Chromium with extra features added such as a built-in Adobe Flash reader and PDF viewer along with support for DRM. Use this tag for questions about installing and using the Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu systems.
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Run bash script with prompts on startup, then start browser
I am creating a standard linux image for my customers, which I want to distribute to them as a backup.
I have written a bash script - verifysetup.sh which checks whether the machine has already been ...
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fatal error in (chrome) png image file: Write error
[i got png file error and ran this command to resolve it- sudo apt-get install --reinstall libpng*-dev]
output of command
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Google Chrome stopped working on Ubuntu 16.04 - it only shows orange box
We have Ubuntu 16.04 with LTSP at work. Google Chrome worked until last week, but now it only shows orange box. I can blind type an URL and it is loaded but I can't see anything.
When I start google-...
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Google Maps hang my ubuntu
System hang after sometimes scrolling the map and zoom in-out. I tried different browser, chrome and firefox and the result was the same. I need to hardly shutdown my system and restart ubuntu to fix ...
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Firefox can't download images
I cannot download images in Firefox. I right click them, select save image as, select the location, and then it won't even start downloading; it will stay at 0% for hours and never really start, but ...
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Chrome and Firefox not scaling correctly on Kubuntu
I know this question has been asked many times but I've tried everything suggested but still the pages that load on chrome look horribly small on kubuntu Can anyone please suggest me a solution? Here'...
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I installed KDE desktop on Xubuntu and installed some stuff but some applications including Firefox and Chrome show a weird font
I installed KDE-desktop and the thing that replaces light dm and also some other things a friend suggested me like dolphin for viewing files etc.
however i get the following problem with the browsers....
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chrome not opeing
When I click Chrome icon it doesn't open. When I run google-chrome on terminal I got this error.
I've tried the solutions below, but nothing seems to work for me.
Illegal instruction (core dumped) / ...
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TOR Ubuntu network PROXY setting for chrome
I have seen this post and want to use tor Proxy setting in my chrome browser, so for find local Ip and checking the IP the network proxy used this site:
https://suip.biz/?act=myip
And by the above ...
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Ubuntu specific RAM issues - chrome crashing and memtest86 freezing
Edit 2: Problem solved by disabling OOM killer and overcommit.
G'day,
I'm running 4x8GB sticks of corsair vengeance LPX RAM, a 5700xt and an r5 3600x.
I just installed ubuntu 20.04 a week ago to ...
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Protocol handler setting to automatically open protocol with xdg-open
On Ubuntu 18.04 when I clicked a Zoom link it automatically opened Zoom for me without prompt. I think that the version of Chrome that I was using on Ubuntu 18.04 had had an option in the xdg-open ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Launching Chrome shows under the VSCode icon instead
Whenever I click the Chrome icon, Ubuntu 18.04 adds the VSCode icon to the dock or adds another dot to the VSCode icon instead of the Chrome icon. The Chrome icon doesn't display any dots, it only ...
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Unbinding USB Interface to use Chrome Web USB API
How can I unbind an USB interface?
Found multiple pages like this one: Manual driver binding and unbinding or this one: How to unbind/bind a usb device as normal user?
Which suggest to use the ...
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How can I configure Google Remote Desktop so that it doesn't create a new session when I connect to it?
When I remote connect to Ubuntu using TeamViewer, I view the same session as the session in which TeamViewer is running.
However, when I connect using Google Remote Desktop it creates a new session ...
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Chrome button black border
I am getting a weird issue where Chrome is showing the current focus with a black border, which it has not done before. I am not sure if this is a settings issue or because of the latest update.
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How do I edit/access Chrome app properties on GNOME?
In KDE or Windows, I can add -disable-prompt-on-repost when right-clicking the Chrome app & going to properties > command.
Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME does not show the target field/command. I only ...
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Chrome Custom Title Bar Option for Linux
Does anyone know the command line option to disable Chrome's custom title bar, like the Windows' equivalent of "--disable-features=Windows10CustomTitlebar", but for Linux?
I know that you can use the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes when some apps are opened
After upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, Ubuntu freezes when chrome is opened. So I had to restart my laptop every time this happens. And the problem is solved when on restart and Chrome works fine ...
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Errors after installing Chrome Dev along with Stable [duplicate]
I recently installed chrome dev version, even when I had chrome (stable) already installed.
After checking for updates with sudo apt update I get the following errors (maybe they are warnings).
How ...
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Chrome windows on launcher panel: expand into several
When I have several Chrome windows open, it looks like this:
However I'd like each Chrome window to occupy its own space, like this:
How would I do that?
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Chrome apt repo returns 404
I've noticed my apt-get update command for Google Chrome has been failing for quite some time now and I'm not sure if it's an issue with my machine or if others have the same issue.
My /etc/apt/...
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Mouse scroll is jumpy in Ubuntu 16.04
I am having a problem with my USB mouse in Ubuntu 16.04. The scrolling is very jumpy in any window that I working in (be it a native application, or in the chrome webbrowser). I know that some issues ...
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Browsers don't identify dual monitors on Ubuntu 18.04
When I share my screen on Hangouts, the other person sees both of my screen combined as one, Ideally the browser should ask which monitor to share.
I tried using Chrome and Firefox to share my screen ...
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how to log with chrome remote desktop into ubuntu
my teenager daughter is pc addicted and i want to control her time and activities on using pc. I have installed Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 but got looped on login. Anyone can help?
Before i ...
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Alt-tab switching workspaces if Chrome is in focus
MATE 18.10
I have workspaces set up so that alt-tab cycles through windows in the current workspace. However if I am in a chrome window, alt-tab sends me to another chrome window on a different ...
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Is there a way to install Chrome/Chromium in a sandboxed environment from Firefox?
I'm convinced that when Firefox and Chrome/Chromium are installed together on the same Ubuntu system, that Chrome/Chromium does something to make Firefox slower and less reliable.
Whenever I install ...
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Kubuntu 19.10: A ton of packages are set to autoremove (On a new fresh install)
I just installed Kubuntu 19.10 and I went to go download Chrome. After it was done downloading, Kubuntu said I had updates, (which I intended to do when I first booted into Kubuntu) so I opened up a ...
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Blue rendered as purple in Chrome
Sometimes in Google Chrome blue links and buttons are rendered as purple.
Most of the time this happens when both my laptop display and an external monitor are connected at the same time. Sometimes ...
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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 permanently fix color emoji (Use Noto Color Emoji in Chrome, Brave Browser, etc) (Ubuntu 20.04)
How to permanently fix color emoji (Use Noto Color Emoji in Chrome, Brave Browser, etc) (Ubuntu 20.04)
Sometimes color emoji display correctly, and sometimes they display as black and white line art. ...
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Google Chrome won't open .URL extension files Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double-clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine.
The file is saved with a ".url" ...
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How to force Chrome to open as new application from .desktop file
Google Chrome has an option to launch a web page as a windowed 'Chrome app', which, when used with Gnome Desktop, will create a special .desktop file which can be used to run Chrome in a stand-alone ...
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How to get v4l2 loopback device to be recognized? [duplicate]
I am trying to set up a greenscreen effect for a video conference in Google Meet, which runs in a web browser, in this case Google Chrome. As an initial test I have set up a V4L2 loopback device and ...
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Fuzzy, blown out sound on speakers only in Chrome
I'm getting a fuzzy sound when playing audio on Google Chrome, almost like the speakers are about to blow out. This only happens when playing from the built-in speakers; headphone input is fine. ...
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How to dispatch clicked URLs to specific browser based on domain (as OSX Choosy does)
I am trying to replicate the functionality of Choosy (https://www.choosyosx.com/) under Ubuntu 16.04.
In particular, I want to have it set up so that when I click in a non-browser application on a ...
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Cache handling in ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
Is folder
/.cache/google-chrome
safe to delete ?
would it affect the surfing experience on chrome?
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Huge font size in Google Chrome's UI
As you can see, it's way bigger than Firefox's. I tried google-chrome –high-dpi-support=1 –force-device-scale-factor=1 to no avail. Has anyone encountered this problem?
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I did a fresh install ...
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Google chrome taking too much time to open
For quite a few days, Google chrome is taking a long time to open in my OS.I use Ubuntu 18.04. Can anybody suggest a solution to this?
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Can't stay logged in on Google Chrome
I'm using Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63 on Ubuntu 13.04 (raring). It was all working fine but since last day whenever I restart my computer, I'm automatically logged off all the sites (such as Stack ...
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YouTube videos does not work in full screen in Ubuntu 20.04
Fresh install Ubuntu 20.04 on Matebook X Pro with Intel UHD620. I have display scale set to 175%.
When clicking f or full screen button I get a quarter of the screen as black and see the desktop and ...
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When I try to start chrome I get a message that says "Failed to load extension from: .Manifest file is missing or unreadable"
All of a sudden when I try top open chrome on ubuntu, I get this message:
Then when I click OK it opens without my profiles. I have now deleted all profiles, and uninstalled, purged, and reinstalled ...
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Youtube DRM Movie videos are quality limited in Chrome on Ubuntu 20.04
I have intalled recently Ubuntu 20.04 on my HP pavilion with AMD Ryzen 3.
I already installed the restricted extras and Google Chrome... now already i can watch all YouTube videos. The problem is when ...
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Chrome/Chromium login problem
I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and I love it
But there's a little problem with browsers,I both tried chrome and chromium browsers but I cant login my google account for sync bookmarks etc.
I already ...
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Why sound settings in GNOME Control Center is recognising Google Chrome as Chromium? [closed]
I have installed Google Chrome in Ubuntu 20.04. Whenever I play sound in Chrome, sound settings show the volume control settings for Chromium even when I don't have Chromium installed.
Why is GNOME ...
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How can I download Chromium for Windows Linux Subsystem?
When I try to download Chromium normally with snap install chromium or apt-get install chromium-browser I end up getting the following.
Interacting with snapd is not yet supported on Windows ...
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Chrome on Ubuntu desktop over RDP causes keyboard to become disabled
This one is interesting.
I have Ubuntu 19.04 installed on Hyper-V, and accessible via RDP. This works, except that when I start Chrome, the keyboard is disabled - no applications can receive ...
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How do I enable apturl in Firefox or Chrome
If I click on an apt:// link in Firefox I just get 'The address wasn't understood'.
apturl is installed and I've tried adding the apt protocol (network.protocol-handler.expose.apt) in Firefox and ...
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Where are Amazon Kindle ebooks on my Linux PC after I download them for offline reading w/"Kindle Cloud Reader" Chrome app, & how to convert to PDF?
Where are Amazon Kindle ebooks located on my Linux PC after I download them for offline reading with the "Kindle Cloud Reader" Chrome app, & how do I convert them to PDF format?
For Windows this ...
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whenever i try to install chrome this gives dependency problem? [duplicate]
dpkg -i /root/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable:amd64.
(Reading database ... 66306 files and directories currently installed....
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How to import certificate so that Chrome can see the cert for HTTPS on localhost
I am having a similar problem as this
For some reason it won't let me click "import" - the button is grayed out.
I also tried doing this:
gnome-keyring import certs/rootCA.pem
but I got:
gnome-...
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