Questions tagged [chrome]
Google Chrome is a proprietary web browser developed and released by Google. Most of its source code is shared with their Chromium project from which the free software (BSD-licensed) Chromium browser is built. Use this tag for questions about installing, configuring or using the Chrome or Chromium web browsers on Unix-like systems.
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Browser polkitd pkla-check-authorization spam
I have a U2F yubikey device that works as expected, i.e. I can use it in Firefox and Chromium for U2F style authentication, and it even works on the command line with key-located/bound gpg and ssh sk ...
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Enable DRI3 extension on Ubuntu VM with TigerVNC
I have downloaded the source code and built Chromium on an Ubuntu 24.04 VM (from https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git by following the instructions on https://chromium....
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Chrome switching keyboard layouts on debian / xfce4, how to stop it?
My system runs Debian 13 and Xfce4.
Some key I hit switches the keyboard layout or input method of Google Chrome, such that the delete key is no longer the delete key.
According to my system settings, ...
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I need to get my microphone, camera, and speaker working on a remote machine over X11
I have a strange situation that needs a strange solution. I have a Windows 7 machine that will not run a particular application. The application is web based so I would like to try using it on my ...
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Visual glitches on Chrome - but only in some places. What could be the problem?
The computer in question is one that I've set up for my mother-in-law, but I can remotely access it anytime via TeamViewer. She is only using it for browsing web via Chrome, and so far it's worked ...
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Extract Chromium passwords stored via Kwallet
So I have Chromium (137), and Kwallet, and they work ok, Chromium saves and offers passwords on sites, and they are correct.
But I want to backup my passwords to external drive (and there are another ...
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Google Chrome 136 under Linux no longer honors Freetype font antialiasing overrides
For years I've used this to run Chrome/Chromium:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 chrome
This no longer works in Chrome 136.0.7103.59 (Official Build) (64-bit).
Does anyone know ...
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Chromium: how to share other windows, or the entire screen, on Google Meet?
I noticed that Google Meet won't let me share the entire screen, nor another Window, on Chromium "Version 133.0.6943.141 (Official version) Fedora Project 64 bits".
But I can do it on Google ...
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How to troubleshoot duckDNS from MacOS / Safari [closed]
A NCP (nextcloudpi) server is stationed at downwind.duckdns.org
Safari returns:
Chrome returns:
A private Safari browser returns the expected NCP webpage.
I seek a troubleshooting procedure to ...
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Prevent dialog windows from opening on a different X server
Frequently this scenario happens when I'm logged in in more than one X session on the same machine, for example locally (:0.0) and remotely through RDP.
If a desktop application (like the Chrome ...
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Mx linux is slow at screen startup
Boot time is 8 sec but I am concerned about screen startup. It takes time to load up desktop or to open applications first time. Like chrome take 1-2 mins to open up and to run normal. I am using duel ...
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Brave/Chrome: Selectively turn on accelerations
chrome://gpu shows what kind of accelerations the browser uses.
I can disable them all by disabling Use graphics acceleration when available in Settings.
Can I turn them off individually?
Background ...
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Cannot update chrome in Ubuntu
I am on Kubuntu 24.04 and I see when I open my Chrome browser the indication that New Chrome available and Chrome is out of date
I don't see chrome reported in my software updates so I run the ...
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All chromium based programs are running only at 60 fps
Arch Linux
wayland/sway
nvidia proprietary driver 565.57.01
60 hz | 144 hz | 60 hz monitor setup
All is smooth except chromium (chrome, vscode). Notably, when I unplug my two lesser monitors and ...
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Firefox - How can I change window/site minimum width or disable it to make it flexible?
I'm currently trying to switch browser from Chrome to Firefox. But currently, there is a problem with Firefox where the window/site width size is not as flexible as Chrome window/site width size. On ...
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'Authorization required' trying to use Chromium
I just installed Chromium on Debian 12 (always used FF till now). When I try to run it as root it seems this is required:
chromium --no-sandbox
... but then it complains that '--no-sandbox' is not ...
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Automate Linux installation
For cloud environments, there is Cloudinit.
I would like to know if there is something similar for desktop systems.
Context: I want to create a kiosk with Chromium pre-installed and running through ...
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E: Unable to locate package google-chrome-stable
I am running
$ cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=...
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How to solve Missing X server or $DISPLAY when trying to change the loaded website in chromium
I am a newbie with using raspberry and
I am using chilipie-kiosk to develop a kiosk on a raspberry pi. The idea is when the Raspberry Pi starts, the Chromium browser is launched with a page that we ...
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No "File Open" / "Save As" dialogue in Chrome/Brave
I have a strange behaviour in my Chrome-based browsers.
I cannot open/upload/save/download files. It does not show me the "file open" dialogue when I press an upload button on any website. ...
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Ubuntu/Orange Pi5 retrieve open tabs on Chromium (kiosk mode) via terminal - Powershell
I have a problem as of late where I am developing some PowerShell script to manage and update some digital displays. Please see below for my work in progress (By no means done).
I am struggling to be ...
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access to user settings of Chromium/Firefox SNAP packages
Do I have any chance to manage the settings of Chromium or Firefox when they are run via SNAP?
I have a multiuser environment where I'd like to
install ublock extension by default
force it to use a ...
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Where does this feature request/fix of filtering when uploading files belong?
Using a R-shiny app in Ubuntu, with a field to upload an .Rmd file,
that has a filter for file extension:
# R-shiny code
fileInput("id",
"label",
accept = c(
".Rmd&...
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Chromium cannot read camera: Dequeued v4l2 buffer contains invalid length #561
I installed the v4l2loopback kernel module on my machine and enabled it with sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1.
I created a camera on /dev/video0 with the rust bindings and started piping a ...
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How can you install specific version of Chromium or Chrome on Linux Ubuntu?
I cannot find anything for - how to install specific version of Chromium/Chrome on Linux Ubuntu.
I searched in apt-get PM and from SNAP. For example we have only this one:
apt-get install google-...
