Chromium is the open-source version of Google Chrome.
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Raspberry Pi Chromium can't find webpage on boot
We have a raspberry pi in our office which boots directly into the browser using a line in the .profile file as follows
xinit /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk --incognito internalsite.internal.com
And a ...
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Does using DuckDuckGo on Chrome or Chromium browsers eliminate the privacy advantage? [closed]
The search engine DuckDuckGo purports to be much more private than other search engines such as Google. However, I use the Google Chromium browser which, I believe is collecting data on my web usage. ...
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How to change the spell checking language in Chromium?
When write I need spell checking in Danish or English (one at a time, not both at the same time), but changing from one language to the other is not working well for me.
Example: Writing an email in ...
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Chrome: Ctrl-K for Google Search, and Ctrl-L for I'm Feeling Lucky
Is there any way to make the Ctrl-K shortcut in Chrome actually do a regular Google search (with the results shown), while still letting the Ctrl-L shortcut do an I'm Feeling Lucky search?
I can't ...
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Changing the close tab keycombo for Chrome
Right now, the close tab button is Ctrl + F4
Does anyone know of any way to change this? And does anyone know of a possible consequence of changing it?
FYI: I want to change it because the Ctrl key ...
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How do I arrange/sort the bookmarks in chrome
I am facing a wierd issue where I cannot arrange the bookmarks on my bookmarks bar.
I have three items Old (Folder), Samles (Link), Firefox (Folder).
I want to have folders first and then links, as ...
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MozBackup for Google Chrome
A silly question really, but is there something like MozBackup(1) for Google Chrome/Chromium?
(1) - it is a little tool which picks up your Firefox settings (settings, passwords, bookmarks, browsing ...
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Set Chromium to always automatically translate all languages
Is there any way to set Chromium to always automatically translate websites in all languages so I don't have to do "Always translate websites in LANGUAGE" every time I come across a website in a new ...
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Refresh Chrome Tab
Is there a way to refresh an opened tab of chrome (or chromium) from terminal?
(using ubuntu 10.04).
I need this to gedit shortcut to refresh chrome each time I save the file I am editing.
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Stop Chrome from downloading and keeping multiple copies of the same file
For example, everytime I click on the same attachment in Gmail it downloads a new copy and renames it to something like file(x).bar where x is the current number of copies.
Is there any way to get it ...
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How can I fix chromium-browser's “Aw, Snap!” bug without loosing ALL of my user profile?
I'm getting the "Aw, Snap!" bug quite often these days when trying to watch videos with chromium-browser on ubuntu 11.10. The help page says that my user profile is broken, and while create a new one ...
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Customize Chromium for a smaller tab/address bar?
I've got a 1024x600 display on my laptop that, while large enough for most of my activities (I'm running a pretty heavily customized XMonad setup) is cramped for web browsing. I've done a lot to make ...
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Chromium to Chrome on Linux
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and I'd like to move from Chromium to Google Chrome. Is there a way in which I could import my profile, plugins, history, etc. from Chromium to Chrome, so as to be able to ...
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Using pandoc, dzslides and mathjax only works with Firefox
I'm trying to create dzslides with pandoc (v. 1.9.4.2) that contain equations which I want to be rendered by mathjax. Consider the following example:
% $\TeX$ test
% John Doe
% March 22, 2013
## ...
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How do I modify Chromium's default data directory?
I believe I somehow messed up my user profile directories with my Chromium installation. Every time I launch Chromium, it tells me:
Chromium cannot read and write to its data directory:
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“Google Profile.ico” not created
I created a new profile in Google Chrome Version 24.0.1312.40 beta-m. Unlike other profiles, it did not get a custom desktop icon with its profile icon over the Chrome icon ("Google Profile.ico"). I ...
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Ubuntu Chromium bookmark icons blank
Ever so often I load Chromium and it refuses to load my profile. Now that doesn't happen any more but since then it refuses to load the icons for my bookmarks which, if you look at the attached pic, ...
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How do I run Chromium on Ubuntu Server
I am running ubuntu server (no gui).
I am trying to run Chromium and somehow view the gui using another tool (vnc?)
When I try to run chromium-browser I get this error:
(chromium-browser:3869): ...
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detect the start of Flash videos
I like to turn my music off when I start watching Flash videos. It used to be that Flash videos were cached in /tmp, so I could watch for them with inotify:
sorghum:~% incrontab -l
/tmp IN_CREATE ...
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How to selectively load images in Chromium?
How to control loading of images individually like in Opera or in Firefox+ImgLikeOpera?
When I set "Don't load images" in options I don't see clear stubs to Ctrl+RightClick at them and allow this ...
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Do Firefox and Chromium cache media served from the localhost?
I am developing a web application and I've set up my JavaScript and CSS files to have far future expires. I send back to the client that each file was last modified a year ago and that each file ...
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Any free download manager for Linux compatible with Chromium [closed]
Right now I have no other choice but to open the desired link in Firefox and then download it with DownThemAll!
It would be great to find an alternative to DownThemAll! for Chrome.
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Bookmark panel in Chrome/Chromium like in Firefox
I really would like to use Chrome/Chromium, but what I am missing hardly is a bookmark panel, which is shown all the time, like in Firefox and in most other browsers. By "bookmark panel" I mean the ...
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Prevent white screen before loading page in chromium?
When a page doesn't load immediately, Chromium and every other browser I tried display a white screen before they get a response from it:
Even though chrome://settings/personal says it's using the ...
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How to recover Chromium bookmarks after reinstall?
I've had Windows with Chromium installed. Say it was on disk (A). My hardware crashed so I bought a brand new PC with a new disk (B). I've installed Chromium and I'd like to know if there's a way to ...
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How to stop annoying zooming sound in Google Chrome?
As soon as I launch Google Chrome or another Chromium based browser, I can hear a constant annoying zooming/buzzing sound. I don't have this problem with IE, Firefox, Safari or Opera.
I tried several ...
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Does anyone know a Chrome extension for search/replace using regular expressions? [closed]
I want a Chrome extension that can do text replacements using regular expressions. Does anyone know one?
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Chromium - open with home pages “pinned”
I'm using the latest PPA Chromium under Ubuntu and I really like the "Pinned" tabs idea. Anyone know of a way to have my home pages open as pinned tabs automatically?
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Automatically download PDFs with Chromium?
Every time I try to download a PDF document with Chromium, it asks me the following question:
This type of file can harm your computer. Do you want to keep
'file.pdf' anyway? [Discard] [Keep]
...
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Can't install extensions in Chromium browser now
I'm running Arch Linux, latest Chromium doesn't seem to accept extension installations:
How should I work it out ?
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How can I prevent a portable Chromium from saving settings to the hard disk?
I have a USB flash drive with a nightly version of Chromium on it. It's meant to run on somebody's computer without the need of installing Chromium on it.
The problem is that it's still saving the ...
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Delete Auto-Complete Entries in Chromium
I have tried the solution to remove auto-complete entries mentioned here, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using Chromium 7.0 on Ubuntu 10.10.
I've tried delete, shift+delete, ctrl+delete and ...
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Is it possible to automatically install Flash with Chromium?
I'm making an application that will run on a browser. Our employees use Google Chrome as their default browser. To make the application independent of the Google Chrome browser, I would like to use ...
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Is it possible to print a webpage (ipython notebook) to a PDF with a single infinitely long page?
I have an ipython notebook with a great deal of graphs and comments in markdown cells. I'd like to export this notebook to a pdf file, and so far I've managed to do so by selecting print to file from ...
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How to configure Gmail to open mailto-links in on-site compose window?
I'm trying to make Gmail open a small compose window on the actual site containing the mailto-link, instead of opening a new tab. I don't even know if this is possible. My setup makes searching for ...
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Chrome/Chromium Extensions Error
When I start Chrome, I sometimes get a little ! (exclamation mark) on the tools popup menu. When I open the menu, there is a new entry "Extensions Error". When I select it, it goes to ...
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Equivalent chromium version
I want to know the equivalent version of chromium for the 20.0.1132.47 m chrome version
Are there any way to know from wich chromium version is a given chrome version compiled?
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Chromium never stops loading iGoogle
I almost always keep a tab open on google.com/ig. Recently I've noticed that the "loading" animation for that tab never stops spinning, even though the page appears to be fully loaded. Even though ...
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Is there a Chrome extension like DownloadHelper for Firefox?
I search something like DownloadHelper, a tool to download Flash videos. It should work on Chromium (Linux). Any link?
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Chromium ignores user data relocation command line switch?
I'm trying to make Chromium portable, and according to this page I have to add --user-data-dir=<dir> as a command line-switch to chromium in order to use a custom directory to save personal ...
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Is there a repository for Debian stable (“Squeeze”) with the latest version of the Chromium browser?
Is there a repository for Debian stable (squeeze) with latest Chromium browser (Debian has an outdated version 6.x in official stable repository)? So far I have not found any. It is pity that Ubuntu ...
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customizing chromium keyboard shortcuts
Is there any way to customize keyboard shortcuts for current chromium browser? Because I use dvorak keyboard, I often bump ctrl+w when i meant ctrl+v , with disastrous results.
In firefox browser i ...
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Changing the contents of the New Tab page
How can I disable some sections of "New tab" contents in Chromium (not Chrome)?
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Exporting search bookmarks in Chromium
Is it possible to export my Chromium search bookmarks to Opensearch format?
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What kind of filesystem is Chrome OS going to have?
I've read that it has no local storage. Does this mean no local files whatsoever, or does it just mean that there will be a limited amount of local storage that will be synced to the web somewhere? In ...
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Chrome/Chromium extension for advanced configuration
There is no about:config in Chrome/Chromium, but is there an extension that opens up more ways to configure the browser?
Searching for configuration, preferences, etc, in the extension page gives too ...
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Chromium developer tools — javascript debugger and editing
I noticed that the Chrome Javascript debugger, in Chromium 6.0.467.0 (52418) Ubuntu 10.04, has the ability to /edit/ the Javascript, by double clicking the line in the Javascript viewing pane. How do ...
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chromium does not open PDFs
i use chromium 5.0.375.70 (on ubuntu 10.04) and it cannot open the PDFs in browser window, it always makes me save them. is there a solution to this?
(i do not want to use google docs to view, just my ...
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Linux Mplayer Instead of flash any distro/browser
The thing is that flash sucks for linux on 64-bit, performance vice. Due to this I actually download every clip to a temp folder and play the file while it's being downloaded with mplayer. This works ...
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Chrome - disable Flash Player popup
Is there a way how to get rid of the annoying Flash Player popup in Chrome? I don't have flash installed and do not want to have.
Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
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