Chromium. What is the appeal?

j_v · 02-18-2014, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

You could try adding commandline parameters that disable the GPU rendering functions. Perhaps that makes Chromium behave better in VirtualBox. For instance, in the file "/etc/default/chromium" add these to the CHROMIUM_FLAGS variable:

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--blacklist-accelerated-compositing --blacklist-webgl

The "--blacklist-accelerated-compositing" blacklists the GPU for accelerated compositing, and "--blacklist-webgl" blacklists the GPU for WebGL.

Eric

Thank you for these tips. Prompted me to search for a list. Very helpful.

Thank you very much for the chromium package. I find it a very stable build. I am grateful for the choice.

John

dugan · 02-19-2014, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

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--blacklist-accelerated-compositing --blacklist-webgl

It was a good idea, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Chromium still locks up in VirtualBox.

neymac · 02-20-2014, 06:57 PM

After update Google-chrome to the latest stable version 33.0.1750.117, the New Tab of this new version changed and it shows now a big google logo and a search option unnecessary and I don't know how get rid of it, as all the "recipes" I found didn't work for linux. Does anybody know how revert to the old New Tab layout?

jtsn · 02-21-2014, 02:26 AM

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jtsn · 02-21-2014, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by neymac

After update Google-chrome to the latest stable version 33.0.1750.117, the New Tab of this new version changed and it shows now a big google logo

Go to chrome://settings and change the search engine to something different than Google. http://ddg.gg/ is a good recommendation, because it doesn't track you.

neymac · 02-21-2014, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jtsn

Go to chrome://settings and change the search engine to something different than Google. http://ddg.gg/ is a good recommendation, because it doesn't track you.

Thanks, this solution I tried before, it works, but I need google as my standard search engine, I use a lot of their services (gmail, google maps, google drive, google etc). And I don't mind being "tracked", it's a price to pay nowadays. And the duckduck is too slow as search engine, and not so integrated to google-chrome as google search engine. When I want be "off track" I use Tor.

neymac · 02-21-2014, 11:03 AM

I tried the extension Speed dial, it worked (removed the big logo and the annoying useless search option) but it messed up with the bookmarks bar (the bookmarks bar folder's options freeze). The solutions I've found recommend change the "chrome's flags" (using "about://flags" or "chrome://flags/"), but the options to change didn't appears to linux chrome. New suggestions are welcome.

jtsn · 02-21-2014, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by neymac

Thanks, this solution I tried before, it works, but I need google as my standard search engine, I use a lot of their services

Then everything is fine with the browser. You have to accept Google's branding if you want to use their services.

neymac · 02-22-2014, 01:33 PM

@jtsn: Everything is fine with the browser, but this http://www.omgchrome.com/google-remo...tab-page-flag/

notKlaatu · 02-26-2014, 04:26 AM

I question whether it is "the most popular browser" because I really don't believe web stats. I, for instance, use Chromium at work but only because my Firefox session is full of work stuff, so chromium becomes my personal browser to check personal email and so on. It's not that I have a preference for it, but I figure it's better than using Opera, and I haven't got sudo permissions to install other alternatives.

Secondly, yeah, I don't get the appeal either. At home it's my troubleshooting browser (like if something doesn't work in Firefox, I double check in Chromium just to make sure it's them and not me at fault).

s09 · 03-19-2014, 06:36 AM

As Firefox ESR crashed several times (randomly) when it shouldn't, I gave chrome (on one machine) and alienbob's chromium (on another one) a try. Both feel faster and snappier than FF, and some extensions that I use appear better integrated and slightly more functional (compared to the same in FF).

That was to say that I am pleased, so far

BTW, I have noticed that alienbob's chromium build renders fonts considerably sharper than FF under the same conditions. Has anybody else noticed that?

arsivci0 · 03-19-2014, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by s09

BTW, I have noticed that alienbob's chromium build renders fonts considerably sharper than FF under the same conditions. Has anybody else noticed that?

I think Chromium (don't know about Chrome) has a custom font (Ani) built-in. That might be the reason.

dugan · 03-19-2014, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by s09

BTW, I have noticed that alienbob's chromium build renders fonts considerably sharper than FF under the same conditions. Has anybody else noticed that?

Doesn't Chromium have its own font renderer? Skia, I think?

irgunII · 03-27-2014, 10:49 PM

I just installed Alien Bob's chromium txz binary and the pepperflash and pdf plugins for it.

Tried to start it in a konsole and got this:

Code:

/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: undefined symbol: hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs

I've no idea what that means and no idea what to look for to install(?) for it.

Installed on a Slackware 14.1 32 bit system.

Any ideas? I *cannot* do the download thing of a GB, since I'm only on satellite and restricted to my bandwidth usage, to try and build it on my own system. Besides...I'm thinking that this error will make it not build anyway.

Alien Bob · 03-28-2014, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by irgunII

I just installed Alien Bob's chromium txz binary and the pepperflash and pdf plugins for it.

Tried to start it in a konsole and got this:

Code:

/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: undefined symbol: hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs

I've no idea what that means and no idea what to look for to install(?) for it.

Installed on a Slackware 14.1 32 bit system.

Any ideas? I *cannot* do the download thing of a GB, since I'm only on satellite and restricted to my bandwidth usage, to try and build it on my own system. Besides...I'm thinking that this error will make it not build anyway.

On a stock Slackware 14.1 system you should not be getting that error. Have you upgraded your harfbuzz or icu4c packages?

Eric