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Chromium is an open source browser maintained by the Chromium Project which contains the majority of features of the Google Chrome browser. However there are differences including several modules related to Adobe Flash, Widevine DRM, and licensed media codecs supported by Chrome that are not part of Chromium. Use this tag for questions about Chromium specifically and use the google-chrome tag for questions concerning Chrome specifically.

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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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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): Gtk-...
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Set Unique proxy per tab in chromium

I am trying to customize chromium-browser such that each tab in the browser has a unique proxy, so connections from one tab do not appear to come from the same IP as another tab. I used chrome.proxy....
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Watch movie while downloading when using Chrome

I watch movies I download. I know that I can wait until the file is completely downloaded. But I usually don't do so. I usually open the partially downloaded file by VLC or other player. It shows me ...
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Why does Chromium run so slow in portable mode?

I am using Chromium on a flash drive through LiberKey and it does everything I want it to do as far as syncing my Chrome bookmarks from home, etc. But it's soooooo slow. If I open more than 1 tab, or ...
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How to save a webpage as MHT archive files in Google Chrome? [duplicate]

I've been searching for a Google Chrome way of -How to save a webpages as MHT archive files in Google Chrome? but still no luck !! As a Chromium project, it should have been easy to figure out, but ...
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How to downgrade from Chrome 35 to 34 without losing data?

After upgrading Chromium from 34 to 35, the usability of Chromium went downhill. So I decided to downgrade Chromium. Fortunately, the previous version of Chromium was still somewhere on my disk, so ...
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How to install the flash plugin for Chromium on Debian Stretch?

Starting from Debian Stretch, the package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is missing. After manually installation, however, visiting chrome://version shows flash is disabled. How can I install flash plugin ...
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Bookmark panel in Chrome/Chromium like in Firefox [closed]

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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Chromium and Google Account login

I've download Chromium 53.0.2745.0 for Mac and I've no success in login with my Google account. I type my email, my password and the login box just closes. I tried different Google accounts, turned ...
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Multiple instances of chromium browser

When I start chromium with proxy, the rest of these instances would use a proxy as well. Is there a way to run multiple instances together? Just that chromium doesn't act like firefox, that you could ...
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How can I fix the default search engine in Chromium on Linux Mint 11?

Lame. Linux Mint comes with some pretty nasty defaults as far as setting the default search engine go. How can I set it to Google proper? Can someone copy and paste the URL to use which is working for ...
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Where can I find a technical description of Chromium's "kiosk mode"?

I am trying to evaluate if Chromium's "kiosk mode", enabled via command-line argument, is suitable for my purposes. Where can I find an accurate technical description of the effect of the --kiosk ...
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Why Chromium does not open the Gmail? (reporting a certificate error)

The error I get: The server's security certificate is revoked! You attempted to reach www.google.com, but the certificate that the server presented has been revoked by its issuer. This means that ...
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chromium: "stop loading this page" button erases URL from URL bar

When I type URL into chromium URL bar, ie http://10.10.10.3:80 and the server is currently unreachable, when I wand chromium to stop trying to load, and I press the "stop loading this page" ...
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How to disable auto updates in the Brave browser

How to disable auto update in the brave browser? I use chocolatey to install software on my system. When I checked the version of my brave browser it was the latest version. I don't want this auto ...
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Can Microsoft Edge's Web Select feature be done on other Chromium-based browsers?

Microsoft Edge has this feature called Web Select (Ctrl+Shift+X) which allows you to highlight any part of a webpage, be it text and image, then lets you copy it. I really liked how they implemented ...
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With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP version of the site if HTTPS is also available?

Consider I want to open a website and force HTTP, even if an HTTPS version is available. For example, I want to browse http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/ (HTTP), because the HTTPS version presents ...
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How Can I Export/ Backup/ Migrate All Extensions from one Chromium based browser to another?

Im not using the official Google Chrome nor and not able to use its Sync feature. Chromium used to be good and flexible, you could just copy the "extensions" folder and it would work.. I dont know ...
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How to customise chromium keyboard shortcuts

Is there any way to customise keyboard shortcuts for current chromium browser? Because of my Dvorak layout, I often bump ctrl+w when ctrl+v was intended, with disastrous results. In firefox browser ...
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What is making Chrome's Utility Speech Recognition Service consuming too much memory?

I recently started to find Chrome (actually Chromium) consuming too much memory, so, I opened the browser's Task manager to observe which pages/processes are doing that the most, and I always found ...
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Change white background during load page in 2021

Look at gif. Enabled Dark Reader extension. When the page loading, blink white screen. Is there any possible to change it to dark? All solutions that I found didn't work today.
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Chromium 81 won't display dotfiles anymore

Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS brought with it a new version of Chromium and it also changed from a "traditional" package to a snap package (Snapplication?). The about page shows Version 81.0.4044.122 ...
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Jumpy scrolling behavior using Chromium with my touchpad hardware buttons

I am experiencing very jumpy scrolling in Chromium. When use my touchpad hardware buttons to click anywhere on a page, and then use two fingers to scroll, the scrolling gesture will cause Chromium to ...
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Enabling a browser to display content before loading assets

I moved recently and still have no internet connection, so I'm trying to live with 3G somehow for a few days. It's really frustrating to browse the internet loading things at 8kbps(that's how it works ...
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Chrome extension "Speed Dial 2" does not work in incognito mode -- why?

I installed the chrome extension Speed Dial 2. Although I ticked the checkbox "Allow in incognito" under chrome://chrome/extensions, but it does not work (works in normal mode). When a new tab is ...
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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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How to get a system tray icon for Teams when started as a Chromium app?

I am running i3 as a window manager together with Polybar. I need to run Teams for work, but have some issues with the Teams application when running Arch in a VM. Regardless, I would like to run ...
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Chromium on Ubuntu doesn't resolve .local address though other applications do

I've got avahi-daemon running on a server on my LAN with a website at :8080. From my development laptop, running Ubuntu 18.04, I can get brandon@arturo:~ $ ping myserver.local PING myserver.local (...
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Chrome: Submit form in new tab with keyboard

Google Chrome/Chromium allows you to submit a form in a new tab by middle-clicking the submit button. Is there a keyboard shortcut or extension that allows this by using the keyboard only? In Opera, ...
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Is there an application or some other method that would update Chromium in Windows?

I like to use Chromium beside Google Chrome in both Linux and Windows. In Windows it acts like a portable program, unlike in Linux, where it can be updated automatically if desired. I would like to ...
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Google chrome did not shutdown correctly

I get the "Google chrome did not shutdown correctly" message every time I reboot my computer. I'm using: Google chromium 8.0.552 KDE 4.5.4 I believe this has something to do with chrome not obeying ...
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Programmatically change settings

With Firefox, you can change browser settings with the Browser Console: Services.prefs.setInfPref('browser.startup.page', 3); Note that this does not work with the Web Console: > Services ...
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How to prevent Chromium from scaling a bitmapped font?

[NB: The description below refers exclusively to Chromium; I have not tested any of this with Chrome, since I have no access to it. I still included [google-chrome] among the post's tags, because an ...
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Force Chrome to open new tabs in specific window

I have a separate Chrome window for time tracking using toggl.com. When other applications open new Chrome tabs, I would like those new tabs to open in my main Chrome window, not in the separate ...
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Cannot start chromium on vncserver without --no-sandbox option

I've got server with Debian 7.0 and I installed vnc4server with fluxbox and chromium (same happens on google chrome, though) on it. When I try to open chromium, I get this error: PID namespaces ...
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Chromium always starts as floating in awesome.wm

I'm using awesome as window manager for a small surf&info terminal. Chromium is started directly after login on the first workspace and should be displayed fullscreen. I've set the layout of all ...
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Prevent a cookie from expiring when the browser is closed?

How do I prevent cookies from expiring when my browser is closed?
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How do text highlighting anchors in URLs work? (ex. #:~:text=highlight%20this)

Recently I've noticed that results in Google and Bing in Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, newer versions of Edge, Chrome on Android) will take you to the page with relevant information highlighted. It ...
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How to block insecure images on HTTPS pages in Chromium on Linux?

I'm trying to figure out a way to stop Chromium from loading insecure (i.e. non-HTTPS) images on pages served over HTTPS (i.e. basically the exact opposite of this question). Alas, all the ...
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Using secure proxies with Google Chrome

Whenever I use a secure proxy with Google Chrome I get ERR_PROXY_CERTIFICATE_INVALID, I tried a lot of different scenarios and versions. The certificate I'm using a self-signed certificate: openssl ...
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Who is Tessa, and why do they have a profile in my Chromium?

When I browse to chrome://signin-dice-web-intercept/?debug it says, Continue in a new Chromium profile? Tessa is already signed in to this Chromium profile. To keep your browsing separate, Chromium ...
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Dark mode in chrome-based browsers

I'd like to run chrome-based browser with a dark-mode on. I can do it by going to: chrome://flags finding #enable-force-dark flag setting it "Enabled" It works on my Linux system both ...
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fullscreen xinit raspberry pi

I can start chromium from a xinit command xinit /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk www.google.co.uk And it boots into the browser but it is not using the full width of my screen. The browser appears on the ...
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What is the new "Actions" button in Chrome for?

It looks like a plus (+) symbol and when I click it nothing happens. Here's a screenshot. Notice the "+" button inside the address bar: Open the screenshot in a new tab to see the full size. ...
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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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What the difference between chrome and chrome_proxy?

In Chromium (in Windows 10) I created a shortcut with Menu > More tools > Create Shortcut... So I got a shortcut launching chrome_proxy.exe with parameters. What is the difference between ...
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What causes certain lines of a webpages to get highlighted in my brower

My web browser shows up certain lines of text as highlighted in yellow, which is of no purpose. When I refresh the site this effect disappears. Happens with many sites other than wikipidea. More often ...
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Chrome method to allow Twitter videos to play in the background?

One thing I hate about Twitter is that when playing a video, I can't browse away from that video or page while still having it play. Is there any setting or other method in Chromium that would enable ...
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How to make Chrome/Chromium omnibox autocomplete from history titles?

I recently switched back from Firefox to Chromium, but one feature I'm already missing from Firefox is the completion of the address bar. In Firefox, I can type part of the title (not URL) of a page I ...
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