Questions tagged [chromium]
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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Why did the “cefprocess.exe” stop working while trying to play the standalone version of War Thunder?
I play the standalone version of War Thunder on PC (3090 FE with the newest drivers, i7-13700K, Windows 11 Pro, 64GB 6000MT/s RAM with XMP on). I've had no issues with it, except that recently, a few ...
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Chromium ignores AutoSelectCertificateForUrls policy
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OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Chromium: 143.0.7499.146 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)
I'm trying to set the AutoSelectCertificateForUrls policy, but Chromium keeps ignoring my policy file. I put the ...
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How to backup passwords in Chromium without a Google account?
I am trying to get Chromium to save my passwords. I’m on Lubuntu 25, which installs Chromium Version 141.0.7390.54 (Official Build) snap (64-bit). When I go to chrome://password-manager/passwords, it’...
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Why is my Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS install randomly freezing?
My computer screen freezes (randomly). By freezing, I mean my computer won't do anything and doesn't react to keyboard or mouse input. This happens on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, but also occurred on previous ...
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How to find the embedded Chromium URL in a third-party application on Windows
I am using Windows 11, and I have an application that opens a Chromium URL as an embedded page (found through WinSpy).
According to WinSpy, I think the main application is created with Qt.
I tried ...
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Chromium stuck in infinite loading loop
I have successfully downloaded the source code and built Chromium on an Ubuntu 24.04 VM. I am using TigerVNC to view the GUI on my local machine, which also works. When I run Chromium, I land on the ...
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Why does overlayfs break chromium's ability to deal with cookies, and is there a workaround?
I have a Raspberry pi that runs a Chromium instance (via fullpageos). It loads a web page that requires a session variable to be stored.
This works fine until I enable overlayfs, which I want to do to ...
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How do I get touchpad pinch-to-zoom to work in browsers on X11?
I've been checking out some (live) Linux desktops. One thing I'm not satisfied with is that I can't pinch on my touchpad to zoom in browsers with X11 on various DEs and distros, including KDE, ...
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How do I create a Chrome profile via the command line that also shows up in the profile switcher?
I help to manage IT for several companies. We often jump into their various systems via a web browser...typically a Chromium-based browser, like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Chromium, etc.
We'll ...
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Chrome hangs for several seconds on first launch, refuses to load first tab
Every time I relaunch chrome, the browser hangs for half a minute before loading any pages. Sample screencast:
I've tried disabling all extensions, disabling secure dns, without success.
How can I ...
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Query Brave / Chrome / Vivaldi / Chromium history from the command-line?
I want to search by history in Brave from the command line. Any approach will probably be the same for all chromium-based browsers. Is there a way of doing this?
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I found that Brave has an ...
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What's the path to the counterpart of /etc/chromium/chromium.conf of Chromium for Chrome?
Chromium, at least on Fedora, comes with a configuration file /etc/chromium/chromium.conf, which is a script that contains detailed configuration of Chromium, including selecting which GPU driver to ...
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ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR on Chromium based browsers version 133+
Some time ago, when Chromium 133 was released and my Google Chrome updated to this version, I started receiving ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR on many websites like I can visit this website, Google (although ...
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How can I show the omnibox (for URLs or searching) on the Chrome new tab page in fullscreen mode?
I use Chrome in fullscreen mode. This is great, except when I hit Ctrl + T to open a new tab, I have no way to type in the omnibox - that is, type a website or URL. I have to hit F11, switch out of ...
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Brave opens/closes across multiple workspaces instead of just one—how to stop this?
When I open Brave, a chromium-based browser, on workspace 1 + k, it opens on all workspaces {1, ... , k}, same with closing.
This happens consistently and only with Brave (in contrast to e.g., Firefox)...
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