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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Videos will not play in any browser from any source, Ubuntu 18.04
I have a fairly fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop,
And a few days ago videos stopped playing in any browser. I tried Chrome and Chromium and Firefox, I tried YouTube and Vimeo and Udemy videos.
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Unable to unlock screen or use chrome remote desktop on boot
I'm trying to set up chrome remote on my Linux machine running ubuntu server 18 and gnome/lightdm on top. I can't figure out how to get chrome remote to work on boot with a lock screen, but it works ...
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How to stream video on NBC Sports on Ubuntu 18.04?
I am having trouble streaming flash content at https://stream.nbcsports.com in any browser I try on 18.04. I tried using Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox with no luck. It just shows a black video screen ...
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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 completely disappeared from my machine - Ubuntu 16.04
I am on Ubuntu 16.04 and have had Google Chrome installed for some time now. It's the only browser I use and was in the sidebar on my desktop. Just minutes ago, I temporarily changed my IP using ...
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Chrome causes Firefox to crash on 18.04
I'm not sure how to describe this. On Chrome 68.x everything is fine, but when I updated a couple of weeks ago to 69.x (and today to 70.x) this weird bug started happening. It's easy to reproduce:
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google-chrome fails to display when launched under xfce on headless server
I am having a problem launching Google Chrome 68.0.3440.106 on Ubuntu 18.04, running on a headless server via a TightVNC remote connection and xfce.
The odd part is that everything ran great until I ...
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Chrome tabs suddenly become black
I am using
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Chrome: Version 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)
When I use chrome and after some time it becomes like this
The same issue was occurring with me in Ubuntu 16.04 ...
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YouTube videos stutter in Chrome, Firefox. Smooth playback in mpv
Running Ubuntu 18, playing YouTube videos in Chrome and Firefox stutter periodically like there's a frame rate/refresh rate mismatch.
I've tried setting the display refresh rate to 60Hz, 59.98Hz, and ...
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How to stop Chrome from making suspend inhibits?
Ubuntu 18.04
Version 67.0.3396.99 (Official Build) (64-bit)
By monitoring
systemd-inhibit --list
I have come to the surprising conclusion that a newspaper website I visit in Chrome is placing an ...
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How can I make different windows appear on specified workspaces on startup?
(Running 17.10 with Gnome)
So, I like having a few windows in set positions and workspaces at all times. But it's tedious to move them all manually every time. I've got some in the Startup ...
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Scroll the screen behind terminal
my terminal screen is translucent and suppose if i open chrome and then if i open terminal i can see what's written on chrome page while using the terminal window.
This really helps me if i want to ...
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Chrome font changed after installation of new fonts
So I just installed some new fonts on my Ubuntu 16.04 (By opening the respective font file and clicking on Install), and now some of the fonts on my Chrome web pages have changed. For example, the ...
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Playing Amazon Prime Videos in Chromium
I installed widevine plugin by copying its .so files ( libwidevinecdmadapter.so, libwidevinecdm.so ) to /usr/lib/chromium-browser in my Ubuntu 16.04. I see widevine in chrome://components/ as well. I ...
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Installed Google Chrome and it was installed with a wrong name
I just uninstalled chrome version 55 because I noticed it wasn't automatically updated with apt-get update/dist-update.
I tried installing the current version of chrome in two ways:
Downloading the ....
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Chromium Browser XFCE panel indicator
Google Chrome, when installed, presents an icon in the XFCE4 panel display under XUbuntu. Chromium does not. Is there anyway to install the panel indicator icon in XFCE for Chromium.
For Google ...
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Browsers hang on Moodle site
I work with moodle sites, and in one of them my browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) stop working whenever I activate edit mode on Moodle. They just stay loading the page when I try to edit anything on ...
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Chrome graphical distortion after hardware acceleration disabled
I am running Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 and Chrome was flickering (an issue I also had while using Elementary OS), so I read online that this has something to do with hardware acceleration, so I disabled it. ...
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Google Chrome for Linux keeps requesting me to login
Brand new to the world of Linux, slowly learning as I go.
I installed Chrome with the following code:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ...
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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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Chrome webgl issue
Guys I know it seems a duplicated issue but I read the previous answers and none of them worked for me so I opened this issue here.
I use ubuntu 16.04
nvdia drivers 361 (recommended)
and google ...
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Websites not loading in Ubuntu in both chrome and firefox
I am running ubuntu 14.04 and i am using a DSL Connection.From last few days i am having problem in loading some websites like ubuntuforums, hackerrank, mdn etc. I have tried alsmost all solutions ...
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Ubuntu often freezes when I make videos in Chrome fullscreen. How can I fix this?
With Ubuntu 15.10 running on 64 bit Intel i7 with Intel graphics hardware, I find that Unity freezes very often when I make videos played in Chrome fullscreen. The operating system does not freeze and ...
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Xfinity video not playing
When I try to watch Xfinity/Comcast videos, the actual video does not load.
I have installed Flash, then installed Pipelight and enabled Silverlight, Flash, Shockwave, and Unity3d.
Other Silverlight ...
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google chrome on chromium freeze while play video full screen on facebook
while i play a video on my Ubuntu 15.10 in chrome or chromium in full screen mode at moment i use ctrl+tab or volume up or exit from full screen will freeze and i can do any thing even logout or ...
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Video full screen on half of screen
Is it possible to have the video i'm playing in browser be played in full screen on just half of the screen?
So for example you have 1 chrome window tabbed on half of the screen with the things you ...
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Chromium causes high Xorg CPU usage
As said in the title, often Chromium causes a high load because of Xorg using between 50%-90% of CPU.
It happens without any evident pattern (maybe it's related to the pinned tabs, but I'm not too ...
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Disable animated glow effect of tabs with new activity
How can one disable the animated glowing of tabs with new activity in Google Chrome (version 50) for Ubuntu (running 15.04 16.04)?
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Running Chrome appears as Plex
When I run Google Chrome (even when typing 'google-chrome' in the command line) I get chrome to open but it appears on the launcher as a Plex window. This has just happened today, and I think it's ...
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intermittent error while browsing on chrome DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET
On ubuntu 15.10 while browsing with firefox or chrome i randomly get this error and then i have no internet unless i reconnect to the wifi (or reboot)
the error > DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET
Does ...
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Cairo Dock - Chrome Browser - Unity Launcher Icon and Application sync
My problem is as follows
I use cairo dock as a replacement for the Unity Launcher on Ubuntu
I used chrome desktop shortcuts to make some pseudo desktop apps of some webapps (like outlook exchange)
I ...
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Changing protocol handler in google chrome, opening a Telegram link
I installed Telegram Desktop for Linux 64-bit. To join a Telegram channel, when a channel URL is opened in google chrome (e.g. telegram.me/channel_name) the browser prompts and asks which application ...
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Chrome Notifications No Longer Display (14.04)
I recently reinstalled 14.04, and Chrome notifications worked great for about 2 days, after which there were no gmail notifications or Now cards and now there isn't even the bell icon.
The Chrome and ...
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Flickering in Chrome (but not Firefox)
In google chrome parts of webpages, images and videos are flickering. This does not happen in firefox. Sometimes when I change tabs, I see bits of other tabs overlayed on the current tab. I also get ...
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No sound in Chrome browser on Ubuntu 15.04
There are various suggestions for how to fix this but they mostly involve installing or restarting pavu or alsa.
The problem is sound works fine in Firefox and all my programmes except Google Chrome. ...
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Google chrome won't open -- there's not even an error (launched from terminal)
I've tried reinstalling Google Chrome several times and even downloading it directly from Google's website, but it never opens. When I go to the terminal and type "google-chrome" and "google-chrome-...
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Chrome "open-with" for local webcal:// .ics file
I've set up chrome to handle webcal files, but it still just downloads them if people haven't used "webcal://" in the url. This doesn't matter to me so much because I figure I can just click on the ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Google Hangouts video upside down
I am using Google Chrome 39.0.2171.71 (64-bit) on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.
My laptop is ASUS A52F.
The problem is that by default the webcam video is inverted everywhere (Skype, Hangouts).
When launching ...
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Fullscreen Video Tearing on Ubuntu 14.10 (Haswell Graphics)
Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that I've had video tearing issues in Google Chrome on YouTube (and such other sites) with the video tearing when I put it on fullscreen. It might be an issue ...
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How to install libappindicator1 without removing google chrome
I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and now I'm installing all the programs. I have an issue when i try to install Dropbox. Dropbox require an aditional installation called "libappindicator1" but if i ...
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Google Chrome no longer opens after 14.04 update
I just updated to 14.04 today, and when I restarted my computer I got a few "report a problem" messages. I didn't think too much of them until I tried to open Google Chrome from the launcher, and it ...
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Force Chrome/Chromium to use Adwaita Dark theme
Is there a way to force Chrome/Chromium to use Adwaita Dark theme? Using Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.
I've managed to force Qt and every other apps to use Dark theme (by changing gtk-css), but I can't figure ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 and google Chrome with touchscreen, no left click
I am using the Latest version of chrome with 64bit 14.04 running on my Sony Vaio Tab Duo 11. I am trying to use the touchscreen and everything looks great, scrolling is very nice, i can swipe to go ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop lost open app windows after waking up from the sleep mode
I am new to Ubuntu Desktop but have used Windows and Mac for a long time. I also have good experience with Linux. I need some help on how to recover the lost app windows.
I have been quite impressed ...
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Chrome not accepting US international with dead keys keyboard 14.04
Using 14.04 with keyboard selected as 'US international with dead keys' as my keyboard layout option, (so that I may use characters from other languages) and the system accepts text input as you would ...
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Deploying Ubuntu in a public school - image creation and updates
I am currently planning to replace Windows XP on 58 Intel machines that we have. I have been researching to do this, and before I set it in motion I would like to get some feedback on my plan.
In ...
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Saving Gmail attachments using drag and drop results in a link, not a file
When I open a message in Gmail and attempt to save an attachment using the drag and drop method, (click on the file icon and drag it to a folder or the desktop) the resulting file in the destination ...
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Github and many other website not loading
Recently I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my desktop. After that, most of the websites don't load in Firefox or Chrome either. I tried to ping those websites with Terminal but ping is fine with Terminal ...
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Slow loading of pages (browser performance)
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed. I notice for certain webpages, firefox and chrome both load them very slowly. In fact, while text content loads quickly, both of the browsers seem to be loading ...
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how to enable in chrome icedtea7 java plugin instead of icedtea6?
My chrome browser in ubuntu 12.04 uses iced6 plugin. Test http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp shows java6, but via update-alternatives I switched java/javac to using openjdk-java7
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