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How to Print to Save as PDF from a command line with Chrome or Chromium
Chrome has started headless program.
With that, we can create a pdf. e.g. for windows navigate your commandline to
C:\Users\{{your_username}}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application>
Then ...
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NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED in Chrome/Chromium, introduced with MacOS Catalina
A quick workaround (ensure you trust the site)
In the chrome browser whilst on the page, type:
thisisunsafe
source https://podtech.com/os/mac-osx/chrome-catalina-certificate-issue/
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NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED in Chrome/Chromium, introduced with MacOS Catalina
Apple has introduced a series of new requirements for SSL certificates to be accepted by Catalina, documented at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210176. To summarize here:
Key size must be at least ...
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Where can I download old stable builds of Chromium from?
Another way, as described here:
Look up the version number (for example "44.0.2403.157") in the Position Lookup
In this case it returns a base position of "330231". This is the commit of where the 44 ...
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I can't log in Chromium (I was a Chrome user before this, so should make another account or something)?
As of 15th of March 2021, Google removed several features from all third-party Chromium-based browsers (also Chromium itself) including synchronization. Users need to either install and use Google ...
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How to Print to Save as PDF from a command line with Chrome or Chromium
You must be using Google Chrome / Chromium 59 or later version & it’s only available for MAC OS and Linux users.
* Windows users still have to wait for some time till Version 60 *
Command :
$...
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How can I find a list of Chrome's hidden URLs with chrome://?
Complete List
Many of them seem to be undocumented and not listed in chrome://chrome-urls such as chrome://interstitials/ssl. You can find the complete list in the source code, under chrome/browser/ui/...
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How can I find a list of Chrome's hidden URLs with chrome://?
You can also find clickable ones here: chrome://chrome-urls, whichever are available in your build. Not all seem to be there though.
There's also a separate For Debug category at the bottom which ...
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How do I recover tab / session information from Chrome / Chromium?
Attention to passerbys!
The two answers here are both outdated as of July 2021.
The Current Session|Tabs files are no longer used.
But you will find in the Default/Sessions/ folder lies the last two ...
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How can I print a webpage in landscape mode using Headless-Chromium on the command line in Linux?
Well, Certainly the Question needs more Research and I am writing down what I've found regarding it. So, It may not be an exact answer and somehow more can be added to it.
How it Started
In the ...
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How to change the new format of context menu in Chrome to be like the old one?
*** EDIT for ver 126.0.6478.57: None of these solutions work anymore. If you can, wait to upgrade until a new solution have been found, or better yet change to Firefox or other quality browser. ***
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Is there a way to hide the “What's New” tab on Chromium-based browsers in the Developer Tools pane?
Go to Settings under Dev Tools:
“Settings > Preference > Appearance”
Uncheck "Show What's New after each update"
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How can I enable Chrome browser extensions for specific domains/URLs (and disable them for others)?
You can use Extension Manager:
Go to its settings -> Rules
Add a new rule with chosen extensions or predefined group of extensions.
Add a condition to match by URL, even regexes are supported.
Set ...
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Disable WebP format in Chrome
Try putting a ? after the image location, then save.
Make http://example.com/image.png like this http://example.com/image.png? and CMD+S save (Mac) will save as the expected format.
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H.264 video support in Chromium, missing codec?
By default, Chromium does not support proprietary codecs (like h.264, aac). Official info: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video
So, on macOS, you need to compile Chromium with the proprietary codecs ...
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How to make google-chrome or chromium use less memory
I am using cgroup this way:
sudo cgcreate -a $USER:$USER -t $USER:$USER -g memory:groupChromiumMemLimit
sudo cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=$((1024*1024*1024)) groupChromiumMemLimit
cgexec -g memory:...
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How to set a default search engine in Chromium?
This is a variant of Michael Kolber's answer, specific to making Google an option for default search engine. This is what worked for me in Chromium 113 on Linux Mint:
type chrome://settings/...
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NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED in Chrome/Chromium, introduced with MacOS Catalina
If you need a workaround to get the site working without replacing the certificate you can do the following.
Download the certificate from the server (using another browser or with openssl)
Install ...
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Cannot find the Chromium Sync feature anymore
Fedora no longer supports use of Googles private APIs in Chromium (only officially branded Chrome). The change occurred this weekend.
See more info here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-...
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Xubuntu Chromium NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
It's an Ubuntu bug with Chrome 53, so simply upgrade to a newer version.
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How to install the flash plugin for Chromium on Debian Stretch?
Debian multimedia archive has the flashplayer-chromium package, which contains the necessary files (notably libpepflashplayer.so). Just add
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
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How to set a default search engine in Chromium?
I think you're confusing "Default search engine" with "Default search engines", which in all fairness is an easy mistake. The default search engines are those that come preinstalled on Chromium. From ...
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"No cast destinations found" in Chromium on Arch Linux
Go to chrome://flags/#load-media-router-component-extension and change Load Media Router Component Extension from Default to Enabled.
This enables the closed-source code neccesary to use Chromecast. ...
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How to make google-chrome or chromium use less memory
There are a couple of other Chromium options you could use:
Since Chromium 67 you may also want to disable Site Isolation to save another 9-11%, using flag chrome://flags/#site-isolation-trial-opt-...
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Set custom URL for Chrome / Chromium Desktop App
The best way I've found to do this is to change the URL before even making the shortcut.
You can do this using Chrome Devtools and the history object in the console.
For instance, say I wanted a ...
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How can I disable the "Chromium didn’t shut down correctly" message when my browser opens?
This finally worked for me, and it's pretty simple:
Shut down Chromium gracefully
Change the "Change content" permissions of ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences to "Nobody"
That will lock the ...
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In KDE plasma 5, how to I create standalone launchers/desktop shortcuts to web apps like gmail?
Try going to chrome://apps , rigth clicking and app and selecting "open as window"
Source: https://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Your-Favorite-Website-Into-Desktop-Apps-With-Google-Chrome
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Chrome UI size & zoom levels in Ubuntu 16.04
I managed to get Chrome to auto-scale to the same scale I'm using in gnome desktop by doing the following:
I created a bash script at /usr/bin/chrome-scaled:
#!/bin/bash
text_scale=$(gsettings get ...
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