Comments on: Chromium on Ubuntu ! [HOW TO]

By: Olivier Pons

Olivier Pons — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:14:48 +0000

Hi,

I’ve just installed Chromium, everything went fine. The first time I launched it it asked me which default search engine I wanted (google, yahoo and another one) so I chose one. Now, when I lauch it, it appears on the taskbar (“launching chromium”), then disappears and.. nothing else. Any idea? I’ve installed the MS fonts as well.

By: m1so

m1so — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:55:38 +0000

Hi, can i post link of your great tutorial on my blog about ubuntu? I’d like to use your tutorial in my article Firefox vs. Chromium. Blog will start on 20.4.2010. My team and i have already made some tutorials and articles. Thanks for answer, m1so

By: flyfishingphil

flyfishingphil — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:52:40 +0000

Tried Chrome for Ubuntu today. Really glad I have Firefox! FF does everything I want. Chrome pretty much does what I don’t want.
1. Doesn’t offer HTML in web site based email Compose (site thru Dot5)
2. Doesn’t work with games in Pogo. Will go to site but won’t open the games.
3. Locks up suddenly. Trying to post question(s) in Ubuntu Absolute and it locked up about 5 lines into entry, highlighted entire entry, refused to accept further text, would not close, required shutdown/restart to get out of it.

I’m not a programmer and don’t want something that requires me to spend a bunch of time looking for solutions and applying them. Looonnnngggg way to go for Chrome.

By: John CC

John CC — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:25:13 +0000

Background
I recently kicked an old laptop (Toshiba Satellite A10) back into life as a dedicated terminal for use ONLY for secure Internet Banking. To achieve this I installed Linux-Ubutu 9.10, and Google Chrome for Linux from http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux&hl=en.
Everything works fine, even though it says it’s a Beta version.
The reason I selected Chrome is the SECURE billing it gets, compared to all the other browsers.
But here is the rub: the security relies on a “sandbox”, and this in turn relies on exploiting Windows security features. So this leads to my question – if you could be so helpful as to give me the benefit of your experience and technical judgement:
If I am running Ubuntu, does that mean the “sandbox” is not activated in Chrome?
Do you know of future plans to introduce a Linux version of Chrome with this feature or similar enhanced security features?
Are there other secure browsers which function under Linux OS, which serve my purpose?
I was interested to read some of the earlier comments about limitations of Chrome running in Linux systems (not possible to cut&paste – I noticed the same) but I am willing to put up with all that if the system is SECURE,
I would be very grateful for any feedback you can help me with on this theme.
Best regards = John

By: Jonah Bron

Jonah Bron — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:45:38 +0000

Key fix didn’t work for me. Command needs two dashes before the arguments. This works:

sudo apt-key adv -–recv-keys -–keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 5A9BF3BB4E5E17B5

By: tgdesign

tgdesign — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:00:55 +0000

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 5A9BF3BB4E5E17B5

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:54 +0000

Stefano, your instructions worked like a champ for Ubuntu 9.10. Chromium is running perfectly… Thank you…

By: stephan

stephan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:18:25 +0000

These sources also work now already:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

By: dougz

dougz — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:18 +0000

More credit where due. All of the pages that *never* rendered for me have been working since my last post. Yahoo!, latimes, etc.

Blast from the past — “Aw, Snap!” error today on page http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/07/kindle_gets_company_with_barne.html?wprss=fasterforward

That page is fine on Firefox 3.5. Chromium fails on page reload.

One hundred steps forward, one back. Not bad.

By: tomas

tomas — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:26:32 +0000

@ethnopunk
Do you have libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 in /usr/lib? If not, reinstall libgtk2.0-0 .