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Browser polkitd pkla-check-authorization spam
I have a U2F yubikey device that works as expected, i.e. I can use it in Firefox and Chromium for U2F style authentication, and it even works on the command line with key-located/bound gpg and ssh sk ...
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Chromium browser tries to read sensitive files: ~/.ssh ~/.gnupg ~/.dbus /boot
I am experiencing very weird and suspicious issue on debian 12.
For context, I am using grsecurity + RBAC, which gives me the possibility to see what files each program wants to access. My issue is ...
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Enable DRI3 extension on Ubuntu VM with TigerVNC
I have downloaded the source code and built Chromium on an Ubuntu 24.04 VM (from https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git by following the instructions on https://chromium....
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google chrome window size is increasing in each relaunch
The window size of google-chrome is increasing in each relaunch.
I have checked:
No site has a specified zoom-level
Tried with all extensions diabled; still with no help.
I have added the following ...
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Chrome switching keyboard layouts on debian / xfce4, how to stop it?
My system runs Debian 13 and Xfce4.
Some key I hit switches the keyboard layout or input method of Google Chrome, such that the delete key is no longer the delete key.
According to my system settings, ...
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Chrome not use NVIDIA rendering
Environment: QEMU + KVM virtual machine with QXL virtual graphics card, directly connected to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA drivers installed in the virtual machine.
Environment variables set:
export ...
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I need to get my microphone, camera, and speaker working on a remote machine over X11
I have a strange situation that needs a strange solution. I have a Windows 7 machine that will not run a particular application. The application is web based so I would like to try using it on my ...
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Is it possible to play hevc/h265 content in chromium?
I seem to be able to play it just fine on firefox, however if I try to play hevc in chromium I just get this:
It plays the audio but not the video.
I read somewhere that to enable hevc hardware ...
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Visual glitches on Chrome - but only in some places. What could be the problem?
The computer in question is one that I've set up for my mother-in-law, but I can remotely access it anytime via TeamViewer. She is only using it for browsing web via Chrome, and so far it's worked ...
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Chromium kiosk mode across dual monitors - portrait mode (1080×1920), and stacked vertically
I have two monitors, both originally 1920×1080 (landscape). I want to rotate both to portrait mode so that their effective resolution becomes 1080×1920, and then stack them vertically using xrandr.
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Extract Chromium passwords stored via Kwallet
So I have Chromium (137), and Kwallet, and they work ok, Chromium saves and offers passwords on sites, and they are correct.
But I want to backup my passwords to external drive (and there are another ...
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Touchscreen sometimes stops registering inputs during kiosk mode
I am working on a project using a yocto build for a compulab module for the imx8 processor.
It contains a ft5x06 touchscreen, connected to using a custom out-of-tree usb-i2c bridge module.
This all ...
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Google Chrome 136 under Linux no longer honors Freetype font antialiasing overrides
For years I've used this to run Chrome/Chromium:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 chrome
This no longer works in Chrome 136.0.7103.59 (Official Build) (64-bit).
Does anyone know ...
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Is there any distribution of Chromium on Linux that supports Manifest v2?
With Chromium now rejecting manifest v2 extensions, I'm wondering if there is an open source fork of it to maintain that capability. I'd like to continue to use uBO and Chromium without having to jump ...
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Chromium: how to share other windows, or the entire screen, on Google Meet?
I noticed that Google Meet won't let me share the entire screen, nor another Window, on Chromium "Version 133.0.6943.141 (Official version) Fedora Project 64 bits".
But I can do it on Google ...