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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Websites aren't loading in chrome (ERR_TIMED_OUT) but do in firefox
I have got a problem since Ubuntu 16.04 (still here in Ubuntu 18.04):
Some websites like https://github.com/ or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ aren't available in Chrome. I get an ERR_TIMED_OUT after ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 is going hang after One/ half an hour cause of chrome and mozilla
I have installed the 18.04.2 on two systems and both are having an issue with browsers like Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.
Systems are getting hanged or sometimes very slow after approx one hour.
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How to solve flash player problem in Ubuntu 19.04?
Last week I updated from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 to 19.04 in two steps. After completing, I found that Adobe Flash Player does no longer work. Neither in Firefox nor Chrome.
I tried to solve it by re-...
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Help, white-screen with youtube on chrome
I'm using 64-bit ubuntu 12.04LTS on my laptop a sony vaio e-series dual-booting it alongside windows 8.1... i use google chrome but my problem is that sometimes when i watch youtube videos when i go ...
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Open/Upload file Dialogue - make file preview larger
I work in Chrome a lot and do a lot of meme type image uploads from Chrome for a Page that I admin. Frequently, I can't read the text on the image previews I'm looking at in the upload dialogue box.
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autofill passwords takes time to fill the field
under Chrome, if I want to log into any page, I have to wait 15 seconds until Chrome autofills the credential fields. This happens on all sites which have saved passwords, even new passwords saved ...
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Error while using google chrome on ubuntu 16.04
[28686:28721:0502/102750.745063:ERROR:appcache_update_url_loader_request.cc(139)] Not implemented reached in virtual void content::AppCacheUpdateJob::UpdateURLLoaderRequest::OnTransferSizeUpdated(...
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Why does having Google Chrome installed make Firefox run slower?
I have noticed that on Ubuntu 16.04, when I have Google Chrome installed, Firefox is much slower, crashes more often, and takes longer to boot up.
These symptoms (slowness, crashing, longer to boot ...
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Wolfram Cloud not working in any browser
I am using Ubuntu 18.04, and Firefox and Chrome with extensions UBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger. Whenever I want to open code on Wolfram Alpha or just create a notebook on Wolfram ...
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How can I fix Chrome to minimize into the Unity launcher?
Chrome, for the life of me won't minimize into the launcher. Every time I minimize it it goes away never to be seen again. This is a pain to have to deal with.
How can I fix it?
I was using the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 freezing for a second or two randomly
I've installed ubuntu 18.04 in my (new) laptop. Its running very smoothly, but I have a very minor(?) problem.
When I'm browsing with chrome, (with lots of tabs; memory usage around 8 ~ 10 GB) my ...
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Chrome videos are zoomed in
I have a problem with Chrome. Everything is fine, but videos seem to be zoomed in and cropped by their bounding boxes. It happens on multiple sites (youtube, 9gag etc.).
On Firefox it works just ...
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Browsers not displaying websites correctly
I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop. Everything seems to work pretty well except for the browsers, which do not display websites correctly. Here is a screenshot to explain what I mean:
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Can't use flashplayer since upgrading to 19.04? [duplicate]
I get this message:
And it never actually runs on right click + clicking the menu item.
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Any file download in Chrome keeps popping up Open xdg-open?
Recently I have installed Ubuntu 19.04 and all common required applications. However, in Chrome when I try to download a file (of any file extension), Chrome keeps popping up a message with text Open ...
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I can't entering in ICLOUD on GOOGLE CHROME
I'm new user in Linux and I can't use icloud in my navigator, look as in the images:
Anyone help me?
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Hindi Font Problem in Chrome
I am using Google Chrome. I am facing problem in using Hindi News. which shows bullets instead of proper hindi text. but this same thing is not happening with Firefox it shows Hindi font .
when i ...
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Selected Text missing when press ctrl or alt [closed]
I am a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS user. I encounter a problem when I type in any text box of browser.
When I select any text in the text box of a browser (Chrome or FireFox)
, once I press ctrl or alt. The ...
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Chrome tabs too small to view their respective icons
I have more than 50 tabs opened on Chrome and their width is soo small I cannot even view their respective icons.
EDIT : I tried :
checked the chrome://flags for HiDPI but there is none.
disabled ...
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launch chrome browser on server and view locally on mac
I'm working with selenium in python 3.6 using chromdedriver. I'm running the code on my ubuntu server. It's in jupyter notebooks. I'm able to connect remotely from my mac to the jupyter notebook ...
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Google Chrome not using Ubuntu's Titlebar and Window Buttons
Here's Chrome:
And here's Chromium:
The settings:
Any way to fix this in Chrome?
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Why is the text font in the Microsoft sign in website weird?
I'm using Chrome in this screenshot. When I try to log into Outlook on the web, the login screen uses a weird font. Why is this the case? Can I change it?
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Google Chrome doesn't work
I have installed Google Chrome on my Ubuntu 18.04 and I can't reach any web site. It keeps loading without reaching the websites.
I have installed Firefox, and it does work.
Is it a known issue with ...
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EmojiOne Color font doesn't replace black and white emoji font in Firefox or Chrome
Just yesterday, I installed the EmojiOne Color SVGinOT Font (fonts-emojione-svginot) for Ubuntu via the Launchpad PPA method. On the emoji demo page, all the emoji display in color on my laptop.
But ...
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Removing remaining packages after having unistalled google-chrome
Hereby posting my first question to this brilliant forum!
I had an old, and, due to 32-bit xubuntu system, not longer supported, installation of chrome. The remove command did not, according to ...
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How can I make Ubuntu 18.04 stop asking me to unlock the login keyring? [duplicate]
There are 2 solutions floating on the web for this problem:
Disable the passwords keyring in Ubuntu or put in a blank password. I don't think I understand the full implications of this hack and I ...
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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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19.04 | Nvidia X Server vs Intel Graphics
Today I updated to 19.04 from Manjaro
The issues:
Since I booted up my machine and whenever I tried to play any video file either via Videos, VLC and even on Amazon Prime and Netflix on google ...
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Missing characters from Hebrew font in Google Chrome?
Using Google Chrome on Ubuntu 18.04, I sometimes see pages that appear like this:
Downloading the source and viewing it in "vim" shows:
(The characters in the source need to be read right-to-left.)
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Google Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop Can't Running, Error initializing NSS with a persistent database
Previously, I performed sudo apt-get dist-upgrade OS from terminal, after which google-chrome-stable could not run.
I've reinstalled google-chrome-stable on My local, but it's still an error when ...
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How do I install an older version of Google Chrome?
I'm not to familiar with Ubuntu, but I need to install the previous version because the current one has some bugs.
I went to here and found the version that I wanted: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/...
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GitHub site not loading on Chrome and Chromium on Ubuntu 18.10
When I want open the GitHub site I get this error:
This site can’t be reached github.com took too long to respond.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_TIMED_OUT
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Cannot set Google Chrome as default browser
I few months ago I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 on my laptop. I had backed up my previous home folder and restored it on top of my installation. I installed Google Chrome and set it as my ...
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Why does Chrome not stay as the default browser in Xubuntu 13.04?
If I go to Settings Manager > Preferred Applications and make Chrome (or chromium-browser; there are entries for both!) the default browser, then logout or reboot and come back, the default browser is ...
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The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 1397BC53640DB551
This is Issue 952287: [User Feedback - Stable] Reports of Chrome for Linux failing to install/update due to expired GPG signing key
Today, running apt in all my machines gives this error with the ...
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Gnome/metacity and Chrome bug leading a to a falal error
since today I have a very annoying bug, opening a new tab in Chrome can make my system crash and I have to reboot. When I right click with you mouse in Chrome I see a black box instead of the standard ...
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Chrome download messages not visible
On my Ubuntu 18.10 laptop, whenever I download a file in Chrome I cannot read the warnings or button at the bottom of the screen. Like this:
Anyone know what is wrong here?
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How to display Chrome window only on active screen [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.2. I want to be able to do like I could back when I used Windows where you have a dock on each screen but all screens only show the programs / active windows that are on their ...
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How can I configure CGroups and limit Chrome memory usage on Ubuntu 18.04
I am going through https://gist.github.com/juanje/9861623. I am trying to limit my Chromes memory usage on my Ubuntu 18.04. It appears my system don't have any of the mentioned commands/files here. ...
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Running Ubuntu 16.04 and my computer slows down drastically after using my browser for a while
This occurrence happens more frequently now than it did in the past. I mainly find that my computer slows down drastically when I watch YouTube, or, videos on Facebook.
I would have to say that it ...
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Sudden use of memory report change to 100%
I'm pasting the commands I've learned on SuperUser/Unix & Linux Stack help. Is this a common report? I do find that the memory is responsive and available, tho the conky report was reading about ...
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Unlock login keyring on starting Ubuntu
Since past few days, I have observed a strange behaviour on my Ubuntu machine, that whenever I open Chrome; a prompt window of unlock login keyring to enter my password opens up.
However, I have not ...
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Chrome Three Dot Menu Disappeared
I no longer see the chrome three dot menu. I'm including a screen shot (Hopefully I don't just need new glasses :) ):
Thoughts?
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Manage Certificates in Google Chrome
When managing certificates in Google Chrome settings->certificate manager->my certificates tab says:
You have certificates from these organizations it also wants me to import a certificate. It opens ...
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What's the command same as copy as curl in chrome browser
I created a script to routinely download page from my carrier website this will gather my remaining internet quota.
I use copy as curl feature from chrome browser, paste them to my script, it works.
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Remove APT repositories disabled after upgrade to 18.04 [duplicate]
After upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 there are different APT repositories disabled.
I see this via app "Stacer".
I can't delete this, and I can't find this when I check in folder:
ls /etc/apt/sources....
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Slow switch to other applications' windows from Chrome
When I have Google Chrome open and I switch to other applications by either using alt+tab or just mouse, it takes about a second or so to change focus. Same goes another way around - when I try to ...
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Chrome indicator icon multiplies randomly
Everyone is complaining how icons are missing and here I am with 10 of them.
It's happening over a span of few hours, so I can't catch the exact moment over what's triggering it. But this is my tray ...
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Getting Error When Uninstalling Google Chrome
I can't update or uninstall Google Chrome. I am getting this error:
Setting up google-chrome-stable (36.0.1985.125-1) ...
xdg-icon-resource: size argument must be numeric
Try 'xdg-icon-resource --...
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18.10 Chrome browser Kindle Cloud Reader won't load books
With my chrome browser in Windows 10 I can view my Kindle books in the Kindle Cloud Reader.
In Ubuntu 18.10 with the same browser, settings synced, books are not displayed in either of the tabs ('...
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