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Stop chrome from prompting when running external URL handler?
I've configured an external handler for telnet:// links following these instructions. It works great, but every time I click on a click chrome asks me:
Open xdg-open? http://<site i am browsing&...
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Ubuntu 18.04 "Web Content" & "WebExtension" high CPU usage
I'm here to talk about a strange phenomenon.
I'm on a Ubuntu 18.04 Xfce.
Firefox 68.0.1 (64-bit)
Chrome 76.0.3809.87 (64-bit)
VSCode 1.36.1 (64-bit)
To resume, I have some very high CPU usage with ...
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How to install extensions on Chromium without the web store?
I tried to install the Reddit Enhancement Suit, when Chromium complained that I can only install extensions easily from Web Store. It downloaded the .crx file. How can I apply it? The linked help page ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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How can I change the color of active tab? (Linux)
I use Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome. Is there any possibility to change the color of active tab in chrome without changing the theme?
I use GTK+ theme and I want to keep the consistency. Now active and inactive ...
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Reverse horizontal scroll in chrome
I have an issue regarding my Logitech MX Master mouse which have a dedicated horizontal scroll wheel. I've created a file in /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d called 52-mouse-map.conf which have the ...
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Ubuntu Trickle Will Not Open Chrome
I'm trying to open Chrome with trickle to throttle the upload speed so I can test a sites image uploading progress display, but the build in dev tools for chrome only allow throttling for downloads. ...
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Close a specific Chrome tab in Ubuntu/Linux using terminal command
Is there a way to close a specific Chrome tab with a terminal command? I tried below commands:
kill -9 <pid of Chrome tab>: Instead of closing a tab, it kills the tab ("He's dead Jim" message ...
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Chrome blocking all downloads from my web server to users
I'm running an apache web server that hosts some files. Say there's one file called Installer.jar and I have a button to download that file. Around yesterday chrome started blocking this file for ...
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Is it possible to set up Chrome Remote Desktop from the command line?
Chrome Remote Desktop is a lot better on linux than any kind of VNC type set up.
I'd like to run a linux desktop in the cloud, and use Chrome Remote Desktop to access it.
Can I set this up, without ...
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Chromium: No microphone devices
I am using chromium on ArchLinux, and I have tested that with ffmpeg the microphone works and I can record a wav file.
But when it comes to using online flash recorder, it shows that "Microphone ...
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google-chrome open url in current tab through ssh/remotely
Basically I need to issue an ssh command to open a url in the current tab
if i try to run chrome with say
google-chrome http://yahoo.com
it adds a new tab to the already existing window.
I looked ...
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Webcam is only recognized by some software
I have a webcam that works fine in software such as
camorama and
cheese. However, I cannot use it in
websites that allow you to use a webcam (it's not recognized).
I tested it with:
Chromium 34.0 ...
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How to make Home key ALWAYS go to beginning of line ONLY and NEVER go to beginning of textarea field in Chrome (EVEN when cursor is on blank line)?
Until quite recently (I think <1 year ago), the behavior of the Home and End keys while editing a textarea field in Chromium/Chrome was identical to the behavior I have come to expect from decades ...
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Running tests with Selenium and Chrome Driver
I'm trying to create a new session on chrome driver, however it appers:
Unable to create new session.
UnknownError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(unknown error: ...
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Chrome and Firefox lose ability to use keyboard on Fedora 38 while other applications can use keyboard
We have a number of Fedora 38 systems where sporadically Chrome and Firefox no longer receive keyboard input. Other applications, like terminal, do not experience this issue. Chrome is not locked as ...
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Chrome 114 segfault crash on Amazon Linux 2
I'm using AWS EC2 instances with Amazon Linux 2 (Karoo) to run test automation with Selenium WebDriver using headless Chrome.
When upgrading to Chrome 114 (stable), ChromeDriver reports that Chrome ...
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Chrome fails to download files to some locations
After updating to Ubuntu 22.04, I can't download files from Chrome to some of the locations in my OS / external drive. However, Firefox works as expected for the same downloads.
What happens? After ...
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Freezing issue when trying to run Linux on chromebook with crouton
I'm a total noob but I am trying to install and run Linux so I that I can learn it.
All I have is a chromebook, so I used the method of using crouton to run them at the same time.
I have very ...
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How can I add a local image file to a webpage in Chrome OR Firefox?
If I add a local image to non-local webpage, for instance by doing something like the following in my dev tools:
document.body.html('<img src="file://c:/some/file.png" />')
it should add my (...
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Fake/controllable webcam for Chrome inside Docker container
Background
I am trying to control the input to a WebRTC web application running on Chrome, controlled by Selenium, inside a Docker container.
This is part of an automated test of the WebRTC ...
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How can I save Chrome's opened pdf from ftp site?
I have opened a PDF file in Google chrome version 38 in Linux. But, when I wanted to save the PDF, Chrome wants to re-download again.
How do I save the pdf without re-downloading?
FYI, I could ...
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Chrome crawls on Linux whereas Firefox is light as a feather
In day to day browsing i find Chrome to consume x2 memory, has memory leaks with some sites (NYT, some ebay pages, with or without flash) whereas on Firefox is light as a feather. I'm a converted ...
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How can I get Magnet links to open in transmission when running Enlightenment as my Window Manager?
I have found a way to do it when running Gnome, but I don't know how in Enlightment, and I'd really prefer not to switch window managers. The OS is Mint 12.
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How to use a thermal printer on a Chromebook?
If I test it using an application called Test Bluetooth Printer which I downloaded from the Play Store, it works, but if I use the Google Chrome browser on my Chromebook, it doesn't detect my thermal ...
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How to force Chrome to sync bookmarks without re-starting?
I'm doing a small project where I need to programmatically edit Chrome bookmarks in Python preferably.
Default Chrome bookmarks are stored in a Bookmarks file. The regular app settings live under ~/....
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Unable to boot into Chromebook after blocking incognito mode
disable incognito mode in ChromeOS (ChromeBook)
So i followed this and it works but my Chromebook doesn't boot up after shutdown
I recovered the chromebook back to normal using traditional recovery
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Make specific Chrome profile the default profile
I use Google Chrome on Ubuntu. I have two profiles: a personal one, and a work profile. Only the personal one is sync'ed to a Google account; the work profile is not synchronized as my work email ...
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Google Chrome UI lags and freezes a lot when using NVIDIA
This issue only happens when I am on NVIDIA mode, using Optimus-manager. Almost the whole Google Chrome window lags and freezes, during tabs switching, scrolling through a page, or almost anything I ...
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how to debug the integration of ibus with chromium 67 (redhat 7.6)
I'm running on a RHEL 7 system. I'm trying to get Japanese input to work in chromium. When Japanese is selected from the ibus menu it works in the terminal and other applications but for chromium in ...
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How to force the installation of a local extension with a Chrome policy?
I use the Google Chrome policies on a couple of Linux workstations to force some settings. I need to force each browser to have a local extension (not from the Google Chrome store).
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How to start a web browser as a "shell"?
I would like to better run a media player on my Linux (Ubuntu 16.04), connected via HDMI to a TV.
Today I use Kodi:
it is started via a systemd service (ExecStart = /usr/bin/xinit /root/.xinitrc)
/...
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Multiple chrome instances with one user (remote VM)
I want multiple people to remotely log in on a VM with the same user and use 'individual' Chrome instances. (they don't have access to chrome on their devices)
So far I've tried multiple solutions:
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Unable to run chorme headless on Amazon Linux / centos 7 for (puppeteer)
I have install all required depnendencies after that running this command
$ ./chrome --headless --disable-gpu --no-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox --screenshot https://www.chromestatus.com/
It shows ...
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Adding tabulation characters to MediaWiki
If one wants to nest any HTML tag inside another HTML tag in MediaWiki, space-indentation isn't useful for that because it causes the nested tags to be wrapped in a <pre> tag in execution.
A ...
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Error uninstalling Google chromium
I downloaded Google chromium in /tmp directory in Linux. I want to uninstall it and by mistake I deleted /tmp directory. Chromium is not uninstalling now. What can I do now?
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Why the device "/dev/video1" not shows?
I'm trying to share my desktop via virtual webcam, but unfortunately the app cheese and google chrome and any app can't have access to this device "/dev/video1", the "/dev/video0" is the integrated ...
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Chrome doesn't use swap
I have written a single page application that gradually loads objects, and memory usage increases.
At a certain point, Google Chrome shows an error page, and from the log I see
[1:1:1210/224428....
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mint KDE 18.2 is write protected.
when I open some application (google chrome, libre office writter) in my linux mint KDE 18.2, my hard disk becomes write protected,I could not create,modify or download a file. It shows message like
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How to make Chrome user proxy server on ArchLinux
I would like to set HTTP proxy for Google Chrome on ArchLinux.
When I open the proxy settings section in Chrome GUI I get:
When running Google Chrome under a supported desktop environment, the
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FireFox not uninstalling on Linux
I am a Google Chrome user, and I notice that new Linux distributions always come pre-installed with FireFox.
Whenever I try to uninstall, I get this:
sudo apt remove --purge firefox firefoxdriver
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How to disable inactive tab bandwidth throttling in chromium?
I like to open a tab with TV or radio broadcast while I work.
But as soon as I switch to another tab or window, the video starts buffering, as if chromium limited bandwidth for background tabs...
Is ...
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Login to chrome without desktop environment
If I try to open Google Chrome without having my desktop environment running (I run it from a different user account with "su - < user >" or remotely via ssh -X), Chrome tells me my login ...
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Is there a way to install Google Chrome on Linux and have all the needed dependencies automatically installed?
I’m trying to install Google chrome on the following version of 64-bit Linux …
[davea@mydevbox mydir]$ uname -a
Linux mydevbox.mydomain.com 1.3.8-18.52.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 17:15:34 UTC ...
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What is the name of the google-chrome package for use with yum?
I’m using the following version of Linux
[davea@mydevbox mydir]$ uname -a
Linux mydevbox.mydomain.com 1.3.8-18.52.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 17:15:34 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I’m ...
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Blacklist fonts for a specific program
I am specifically interested in black-listing fonts for Google Chrome.
I don't like antialiased fonts for smaller sizes. When I'm using Firefox, I can prevent pages from rendering using the fonts ...
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Select pixelformat H264 for webcam in Chrome
I am using a webcam with Chrome Browser on Linux that supports full hd resolution. The camera supports H.264 encoding to provide acceptable frame rates on full hd over USB 2.0.
When selecting the ...
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Chrome not using configured proxy
I am fighting and losing trying to set a proxy in Chrome that is signed into a school account. When I sign out of the account the proxy works, when I sign back in the proxy seems to stop working. Now ...
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Replacing cookies file doesn't change anything in google chrome
I have linux as my main environment and windows 7 intalled on my virtual machine. What I'm trying to do is replace Cookies file with another file to change my cookies.
I logged in with account A on ...
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VBscript activeX Internet Explorer object alternative
I need a Linux alternative to browser manipulation. In Windows I would use a VBscript to do this via Internet Explorer object, but in Linux I don't have either of those.
Is there any other script ...
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