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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google chrome deprecated key on ubuntu
I was installing google chrome browser on my Ubuntu 22.04 through Google's repository. When I add the GPG key, it throws a warning stating, "warning: apt-key is deprecated"
the command I ...
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Can't upload files from google chrome
I am trying to upload files from google chrome on Ubuntu 22.04, the upload button is not clickable when trying to upload anything.
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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox hang when trying to upload or download a file. I suspect an NSS problem
In both Mozilla firefox and Google Chrome, when I attempt to upload or download a file (including a photo), the browser hangs. I can clear the hang with kill -2 PID but I'd rather not do that.
When I ...
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Video playback issues after the latest Chrome 108.0.5359.94 update
After the latest Chrome 108.0.5359.94 update, some videos look like the image below during playback whereas some other videos play fine. In Chrome 107 all videos were playing fine.
I am using Xubuntu ...
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Weird Youtube Rendering on Google Chrome
I am getting this weird rendering on YouTube videos in google chrome when running at 1080p (Image Here). The problem goes away if I switch to 720p and returns when I switch back to 1080p. This only ...
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Google Chrome and Firefox not loading any pages graphics card issue
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox stopped working after a sudo apt upgrade. They won't even open the settings page. My internet connect is good and I'm able to ...
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Ubuntu guest (running in VMware player) freezes on Windows Host
I am trying to run Osboxes Ubuntu 20.4 guest image on Windows 10 Home 22H2 (both 64 bit) host using VMware Workstation 17 Player. My host configuration is Core i7 1065G7, 16GB RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD.
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Microsoft Teams PWA - get notice when meeting starts
So Microsoft Teams is discontinuing support of the native Linux app.
Currently we are using the PWA in Chrome browser. This works pretty well, but I don't get a popup notification when someone starts ...
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Two finger swipe for back/forward navigation in web browser
I'm trying to get 2 finger horizontal swipe on my touchpad to navigate back/forward in a web browser (Ubuntu). This features is standard in Windows and Mac, yet seems to be impossible on Linux.
Is it ...
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Vulkan shows disabled on google chrome on Ubuntu but showed as enabled on fedora(same laptop)
Here is the screenshot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Vulkan shows as disabled.
Now, the screenshot of Fedora where vulkan shows as enabled:
So, how do I enable vulkan on Ubuntu?
Edit 1:
Output of sudo lspci:
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Session logs out automatically in Ubuntu 22.04 while using chrome
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 from last some months.
And I'm constantly facing this issue.
Issue :- While working on Chrome Browser for sometimes my browser automatically closes and sometime my current ...
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Sound coming from Chrome not working
I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10, but now I discover that the sound coming from Google Chrome is not working, whilst it is working when coming from other applications, such as ...
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How to open an external application or launcher from within the browser? [duplicate]
In mobile applications, I guess this is called "deep linking". I want similar on the desktop via Chrome browser. For example, when I click a Zoom meeting link, the browser asks me to open it ...
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Google chrome is extremely slow to start (vs firefox, chromuim etc)
I've installed a fresh copy of ubuntu over windows on my XPS 17 9720
I intend to run google chrome as my main browser and everything has worked fine till I've tinkered with the auto-login/fingerprint ...
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How can I customize Google Chrome shortcut keys?
I want Google Chrome to close the current tab when I press F8.
On Windows, this can easily be achieved using the Chrome extension 'AutoControl'.
I'm fairly sure AutoHotkey could handle it well too.
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Why does "Save" not have keyboard control? (Google Chrome on Ubuntu 22.04.1) [duplicate]
I'm using Google Chrome on Ubuntu 22.04.1. When I save a page (or use ctrl-s), the resulting save dialogue is full page. I am unable to use keyboard navigation. E.g., I cannot use esc or enter to ...
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Sound doesn't work after using microsoft teams
After using Microsoft Teams today, my sound stopped working.
It was working fine before the meeting, and it worked fine during the meeting. It just stopped working after the meeting stopped.
I ...
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Chrome and Firefox behave odd, switching to first tab, zooming on Google Maps
I suddenly got odd problem with my browsers. After opening a link (nothing bogus, blog about energy prices, found on major Reddit sub, nobody else reported issues) my Chrome browser started to always ...
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How to schedule close/start a specific program in Ubuntu
I have a smart mirror that has Linux Ubuntu (Lubuntu) as the operating system
I'm wondering how I can implement the following jobs:
Every evening at 22.00 //
1- Close Google chrome.
2- put the ...
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Google Chrome is only showing white website, is not responding and uses all CPU
For the last couple of days I have the following problem with google chrome:
When I start chrome, it opens the normal window but the web page is only a white page. I can not use the menu to open the ...
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Ubuntu - Gnome: Chrome 107 breaks the position of the close button in classic theme appearance
Chrome 107 on Linux breaks the position of the close button in classic theme appearance. The window close button is forced to the right. It was working in Chrome 106.
Is there a way to force the ...
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Chrome freezes when I upload any files with Chrome
I recently updated my laptop to 22.04 and when I try to upload any files the browser completely freezes. Is there a workaround for this? I usually have multiple tabs open for work and this completely ...
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Ubuntu web browsers doesn't show call back that came with error 500
I'm a software developer. I have the problem that my web browsers (chrome, firefox, firefox developers...) stopped show me error 500 call backs. Doesn't appear on my developer tools xhr network calls.
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Problem downloading and installing Google Chrome on Xubuntu
I'm on Xubuntu 22.04 at the moment trying to download Chrome, but when I run
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./google-chrome-...
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Ubuntu Software report google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb is unsafe in Ubuntu 22.04
My Chrome says it can't be updated and I need to reinstall it.
Problem Environment: Chrome Version 101.0.4951.64 (Official Build) (64-bit) on my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS - jammy
Then I downloaded the '...
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How to fix Google Chrome profile selection screen being corrupted since upgrading to Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS?
Since updating to Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS Chrome doesn't display properly anymore, and I get this instead of the profile selection screen which appeared upon launching:
Although it's happening in ...
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Google Chrome failing to fetch pages from one specific site on one specific Ubuntu user account
I use the latest version of Chrome:
Version 106.0.5249.119 (Official Build) (64-bit))
on an up-to-date Ubuntu 20.4:
Linux ray-desktop 5.15.0-46-generic #49~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 4 19:15:44 UTC ...
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Google chrome won't open after upgrading Ubuntu to 22.04
Rebooted multiple times.
Removed all ~/.cache/ ~/.config /opt/google/chrome folders.
Installed latest stable version from Google website.
It launches with with a new tab that's loading forever, I can'...
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Some website doesnt open in chrome
I'm using ubuntu 22.04. Since last week my chrome doesn't open particular websites Like Spatial chat and Duolingo(I have the same problem with the opera browser) But I can open these websites in ...
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Ubuntu 22.04. The problem with additional applications after installation
Hello everybody! I installed Ubuntu 22.04, I worked on Ubuntu 16.04. I had one problem with those applications that are not in the official Ubuntu repository and which need to be installed extra, ...
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Google chrome only runs in debug mode
Today I updated my Ubuntu distribution to the latest available, from 20.04 to 22.04. During this update, everything went great, but at the time that I opened chrome browser, I noticed that this is a ...
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Google-Chrome dropdown and context menu not showing
I've figured out that google-chrome has a strange behaviour with dropdowns on Ubuntu's Google-Chrome.
It not depends on the dropdown, so I bring you a public example. Now click multiple times on the ...
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Crash when sharing enitre screen in Chrome with Wayland on Dell Laptop with NVIDIA, 22.04.1 LTS
I cant get screen sharing to work in chrome (Version 105.0.5195.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) on wayland. webrtc pipewire flag is activated.
chrome://gpu tells me that it uses wayland, but chrome isnt ...
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Close chrome gracefully on shutdown
I've noticed that my chrome doesn't close gracefully on a shutdown. I've tried several things to solve it, but it's still an issue.
I found this command that works when running it manually: killall -2 ...
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How to install Chrome Browser on Ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,I couldn't find Google Chrome in the Snap store, so how can I install it?
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Chrome not working after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04
I upgraded to the new LTS Ubuntu 22.04. Since then Google Chrome, when opened, doesn't load any pages and eventually gives the warning about the page becoming unresponsive (even when loading the blank ...
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How is ChromeOS run in a VM on Ubuntu?
How is ChromeOS run in a VM on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy? Preferably, would still boot into Ubuntu and then launch something to get the ChromeOS to run specific software. However, dual-boot would be fine. ...
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Five9 Softphone does not support your browser Chrome (linux x86_64) error
How can the Five9 Softphone extension be made to work with Linux?
I've tried both Chromium and the official Chrome from Google itself with the same error.
Notably, this plugin is advertised as ...
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Switch chrome time inputs to 24h format, still using English language
I would like to have the 24h time input (instead of 12h AM/PM format) format for <input type="time"> HTML elements, without switching the full system language to German.
My settings ...
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Ubuntu Chrome "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly"
This is on Ubuntu 22.04. Printing had worked fine until now. Suddenly this come up in the Google Chrome Browser selection of any of my printers (except PDF). Printing continues to work fine on firefox,...
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Chrome/brave use the wrong keyboard layout
I have a Spanish laptop with an English UK USB keyboard attached.
I've configured PC UK keyboard in Ubuntu settings and everything work perfectly...
... except Chrome/Brave which have the " and @ ...
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My Chrome installation is old, but I can't upgrade or purge it. Why?
Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 both my Firefox and my Chromium installations are snap packages. This means that installing Gnome extensions is not possible through either of those browsers anymore. ...
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Execute a command before hibernation ubuntu on lid close
I am wondering if there is a way to execute a script (for example I want the script to close all brave and node process), but I have already configured Ubuntu to hibernate on lid close, is there a way ...
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chrome Video Acceleration is not working on wayland
I am trying to enable video acceleration in chrome
My chrome://gpu output says that hardware acceleration is enabled but when I play video on youtube, the hardware acceleration is disabled
CPU:
Info:...
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Google meet share window switch workspace
When I share a window in the Google Meet on workspace1, and I switch to workspace2 the shared window becomes a black screen. How can I change this behavior?
I got a related post Ubuntu screen sharing ...
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Get the "user agent" string from a new Google Chrome browser session from bash
I want to get the User Agent HTTP request header string from a new Google Chrome browser session (just opened) from bash and put it in a variable.
Here is the pseudo-code:
USER_AGENT="$(google-...
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Sluggish input reaction in Chrome on Ubuntu 22.04
I have an issue with the current Google Chrome version 104.0.5112.101 under Ubuntu 22.04: after there is no input (mouse movement, scroll wheel, keyboard etc.) for a few seconds, processing of new ...
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HTTP2 Framing Errors on BBC servers when a cookies are present
This is a really strange issue which sounds insane... hear me out:
When I'm logged to the BBC on Chrome OR Firefox nothing loads. No News, iPlayer etc. Firefox reports NS_ERROR_NET_TIMEOUT. Chrome ...
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Chrome menus disappears immediately in 30% cases
In Google Chrome on ubuntu I have a problem: right-click and hamburger menus works fine ~5 times and after that in a ~50% cases they are disappeared immeiately after showing.
Also some dropdowns on ...
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Cannot get hardware acceleration to work in Chrome on Intel Alder Lake
I have been trying for several days to get hardware acceleration to work in a fresh HTPC build.
I have an i5-12400 (Alder Lake) CPU running Kubuntu 22. No matter what I try, chrome does not seem to be ...