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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.

Google Chrome is a proprietary web browser developed and released as freeware by Google. Most of its source code is shared with their Chromium open source project which is used to build the free software (BSD-licensed) Chromium browser.

Chrome/Chromium was first released in 2008 with the intention of creating a fast, stable and light-weight web browser. It used Webkit as its web browser engine but Google have since forked Webkit to create Blink which has been used in all Chromium-based browsers since Version 28.

Many GNU/Linux distributions include Chromium in their official package repositories and it has also been ported to FreeBSD. The free software Chromium supports only non-patent encumbered media file formats while the proprietary Chrome browser includes extra features such as a built-in Adobe Flash player, a PDF viewer and support for DRM.

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Chrome: DNS requests with random DNS names: malware?

Over the years (since 2005), I have seen logs of strange random DNS requests done, on the multiple DNS / BIND servers I have maintained. May 7 12:13:50 1.1.1.1 named[63742]: client 1.1.1.2#24123 (verxkgiicjmcnxg): view internal: query:…
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What does the Chromium option `--no-sandbox` mean?

I'm running Chromium like so : chromium --no-sandbox I'm doing this because I'm running Debian Squeeze on an OpenVZ VM Container and it's the only way I can get it to work. Though I keep reading this is terrible. But I want to know why exactly. Can…
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Gnome Shell Integration in Chrome not working

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which seems to also make a full reinstall of Chromium (as all my plugins were removed). Now, trying to access https://extensions.gnome.org/ to enable Gnome Shell extensions, but the message: We cannot detect a running…
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Get chrome's total memory usage

Since google chrome/chromium spawn multiple processes it's harder to see how much total memory these processes use in total. Is there an easy way to see how much total memory a series of connected processes is using?
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Install older versions of google-chrome-stable, on ubuntu 14.10

I am able to do, sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable This installs, chrome version 45 which does not support NPAPI plug-ins that is needed to run java inside browser. I am trying to move one or two versions older, so that i can use this…
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Why do some characters show as squares in Chrome?

For example in the dev tools I get something like: Some of these squares are at the end of lines, initially I thought they were carriage returns but it turns out they aren't. Also, squares appear after = or > in many places where there is no…
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Refresh/reload active browser tab from command line?

I'm trying to set up a custom toolchain where the browser (Firefox or, preferrably, Chrome) is often/frequently/constantly forced to refresh from the commandline. (The idea is to instantly see the visual changes in the html/webapp I'm editing in an…
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Exit Google Chrome from terminal

Is there a way to cause google-chrome to quit, from the terminal, besides using killall google-chrome? I would like to be able to close it from a script without killing it.
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Vim interface on web browser input fields?

I am looking for a browser plugin which inputs textin of input boxes with the same keyboard interface of the Vim text editor. I have adopted Vimium which makes general navigation much more effective, however I often find my self wish I had the Vim…
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How can I make chrome (stop asking to be) the default browser?

I am running Linux Mint Debian edition (essentially Debian testing) and the Cinnamon desktop environment. Every time I launch google-chrome it asks to become the default browser. I have told it to do so in all ways I can think of but I still get…
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chromium browser (pepperflashplugin) opening listening ports on 0.0.0.0:5353

I am using chromium browser (chrome) with pepperflashplugin in Debian. I have noticed, chromium/pepperflashplugin opens a listening port on my public interface 0.0.0.0:5353 as seen with netstat: netstat -lptun Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address …
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Installing Chrome on Linux without needing to be root

How can I install Chrome on Linux without needing to log in as root? Note that I want to use Chrome, not Chromium. If I go to the official download page, I get the choice between: Please select your download package: 32 bit .deb (For…
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Why does Chromium not cache DNS for more than a minute?

I use Chromium and have problems with the DNS not being cached for the time that I would expect. Take the example.com domain. According to the DNS settings, this domain should be cached for another 26151 seconds: $ dig example.com ;; ANSWER…
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Netflix works on chrome but not chromium?

On my debian installation I installed chromium 39 and the latest version of libnss3, netflix failed to play. I tried on my ubuntu installation and it too failed. I tried installing chrome from the website and it WORKED. I looked at the version of…
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Where does Chrome gets its list of certificate authorities from?

On Fedora, I'm talking about the list displayed when you go to settings > manage certificates > authorities tab. I've read that it should be in the NSS shared DB, but this command returns an empty list: [laurent@localhost nssdb]$ certutil -d…
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