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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How to open URLs in incognito mode from shell on Chrome OS?
Yes, if this were normal Linux we could just do e.g., $ chrome-browser --incognito https://example.net Alas, unless we want to install another browser, all we can do in Chrome OS Linux terminals is: $...
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How to go to a Chrome new tab from the Linux command line on Chrome-os?
Sure, I can do $ garcon-url-handler https://example.net and that starts the browser, but also, alas, visits a page. All I want to do is start the browser so I am simply looking at a new tab (chrome://...
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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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Chromium browser tries to read sensitive files: ~/.ssh ~/.gnupg ~/.dbus /boot
I am experiencing very weird and suspicious issue on debian 12. For context, I am using grsecurity + RBAC, which gives me the possibility to see what files each program wants to access. My issue is ...
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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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google chrome window size is increasing in each relaunch
The window size of google-chrome is increasing in each relaunch. I have checked: No site has a specified zoom-level Tried with all extensions diabled; still with no help. I have added the following ...
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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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Chrome not use NVIDIA rendering
Environment: QEMU + KVM virtual machine with QXL virtual graphics card, directly connected to NVIDIA. NVIDIA drivers installed in the virtual machine. Environment variables set: export ...
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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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Is it possible to play hevc/h265 content in chromium?
I seem to be able to play it just fine on firefox, however if I try to play hevc in chromium I just get this: It plays the audio but not the video. I read somewhere that to enable hevc hardware ...
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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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Chromium kiosk mode across dual monitors - portrait mode (1080×1920), and stacked vertically
I have two monitors, both originally 1920×1080 (landscape). I want to rotate both to portrait mode so that their effective resolution becomes 1080×1920, and then stack them vertically using xrandr. ...
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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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Touchscreen sometimes stops registering inputs during kiosk mode
I am working on a project using a yocto build for a compulab module for the imx8 processor. It contains a ft5x06 touchscreen, connected to using a custom out-of-tree usb-i2c bridge module. This all ...
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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 ...
