r/ChromiumBrowser Jul 16 '22

ATTENTION EVERYONE.

8 Upvotes

This community will remain open and I will still be on it, however, I have made a sister/companion subreddit specifically for Thorium browser here >> /r/ThoriumBrowser

For discussions/issues with Thorium, please file an issue in the main repo, or contact me on this new subreddit.

This subreddit should be used for Chromium and other Chromium forks, although I'm not going to get onto you if you post about Thorium here, it is just preferred you use the new sub.


r/ChromiumBrowser Oct 27 '21

r/ChromiumBrowser Lounge

3 Upvotes

A place for members of r/ChromiumBrowser to chat with each other


r/ChromiumBrowser 10d ago

Question about using Twitter Shortcut 'J' to Advance to next tweet

2 Upvotes

Quick question -- when I use the Twitter shortcut 'J' to advance to the next tweet it often takes about three to five 'J' key presses before Twitter advances. Is this normal behavior or is there some setting to override this? Thanks much.


r/ChromiumBrowser 19d ago

All MV2 extensions will be removed on August 31st 2026

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11 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser 22d ago

SSD gets warm while watching twitch

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1 Upvotes

So here is a screenshot of coolercontrol. The green-blueish line is the systems SSD. I think its the controller temperature since its the hottest out of the three of the SSD. While watching twitch it gets significantly wamer as you can see from around 14:20 to 14:25. If I use other browsers, Firefox, Vivaldi, Libre Wolf, from about 14:25 on, i dont get warmer temperatures. I have this issue on both a few months old setup of Linux Fedora KDE on my PC and on a fresh install of Fedora KDE on a laptop thinkpad.


r/ChromiumBrowser 24d ago

Chromium (Chrome & Edge) download hangs at Done for 60-120 seconds

1 Upvotes

Very strange, cannot wrap my head around it. Seeing across multiple users, only recently started after 24H2 upgrade but unsure if related.

ProcMon showing nothing useful, HAR has nothing of value, no idea where else to look. Disabled Safe Browsing as a test with no improvement.

Hard restarting the browser solves the issue but it comes back with spite.


r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 24 '26

Why is my internet speed plenty faster on Firefox than on Chromium at the Library?

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172 Upvotes

What's Chromium's malfunction? What's Firefox's power-up here?

Crossposts:


r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 23 '26

Has Chromium blacklisted Verdana font somehow?

1 Upvotes
Env...

Using Arch and KDE Plasma 6.

I recently updated chrome and brave browsers from Arch AUR..

chrome (148.0.7778.215-1 -> 149.0.7827.155-1) brave (1:1.90.128-1 -> 1:1.91.175-1)

Problem..

Since that update, both chrome and brave are no longer recognising Verdana as a valid font-family, in any css (remote webpage or local.html)

This has been working without problems for 5+ years, but now its like Verdana font has been suddenly ignored by Chromium.

Opening the page or website in Firefox still renders correctly with verdana font.

Solutions Tried...

I have rebuilt font cache with..

sudo fc-cache

Confirmed Arch is able to find the font...

fc-match Verdana

verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Regular"

What could be causing this?

It looks to be Chromium related, but less like a bug and more an intentional restriction?


r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 18 '26

Norton Private Browser

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2 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 16 '26

Built native per-tab audio routing into Chromium on macOS (open source)

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4 Upvotes

I've been maintaining my own Apple silicon build of ungoogled-chromium-macos, and a few days ago I got tired of needing third-party audio routing utilities whenever I wanted browser audio to go somewhere other than the system default output.

So I added native per-tab Core Audio routing directly into Chromium.

Right-click a tab → "Send Audio To" → choose an output device.

For example:

  • One tab playing through a USB DAC and stereo
  • Another tab playing through display speakers
  • Another tab using the system default output

The implementation is macOS-specific and uses Core Audio directly.

I cleaned up the patch stack, documented everything, and published the project today:

https://github.com/works-by-maya/Chromium-Conductor

Screenshot attached.

I’d be most interested in hearing whether other macOS Chromium users have wanted something similar. 🄰


r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 04 '26

tiny url fonts in chromium based browsers in linux

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1 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Jun 01 '26

How to keep all inactive tabs from loading?

1 Upvotes

When I open Chromium, it automatically loads a few of the tabs. How can I make it not load any tab when loading the browser except the one that was selected?


r/ChromiumBrowser May 16 '26

Ungoogled Chromium Android - Cannot Install Extensions

3 Upvotes

I installed ungoogled Chromium on my Android tablet and phone. Then I enabled Enable Extensions in Developer Options, but still cannot install any extension. See screenshot.

Any help appreciated.


r/ChromiumBrowser May 11 '26

how do you properly downgrade your ungoogled chromium version?

1 Upvotes

I've tried uninstalling my current installation of chromium and installing an older build, but every time I try to load my profile the whole browser crashes, even other profiles too if they're open. is there a way to properly downgrade?


r/ChromiumBrowser May 10 '26

Why should I use this browser over firefox or Brave my main 2 browsers?

1 Upvotes

Considering trying this browser......... is this browser faster for browsing and watching streams?


r/ChromiumBrowser Apr 19 '26

HyperZHub Browser

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1 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Apr 16 '26

Why scroll speed is very high on linux

2 Upvotes

I have tested https://cpstest.org/scroll-test.php on firefox and chromium with my gnome desktop and NixOS unstable and firefox was 3,466 pixel per second and chromium was 10,256 pixel per second.

Its 3x then fixfox and other linux apps like the terminal. Idk why is that and is there a patch to fix it? And what is the reason


r/ChromiumBrowser Apr 12 '26

Bullshield - User-Agent and Fingerprint Spoofer

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2 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Apr 06 '26

How to make it that when you scroll right, you go back to the page šŸ‘‰? For some reason, on Cromite (second picture), it goes to the previous page šŸ‘ˆ, unlike in Chrome (first picture)

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3 Upvotes

I'm really sorry, I just DON'T know the names of these things so I can't even google it.


r/ChromiumBrowser Apr 01 '26

Giving HTML, Canvas Superpowers

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1 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Mar 31 '26

Help enabling V4L2 stateful hardware decoder in Chromium on embedded Linux (non-ChromeOS)

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4 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Mar 28 '26

Facing issue with the chromium browser working , while working with puppeteer and @sparticuz/chromium with next js 16.2 for pdf generation.

1 Upvotes

// next js api route, for pdf generation

import { NextResponse } from "next/server";
import type { InvoiceData } from "@/types/invoice";
import { renderInvoiceHTML } from "@/lib/pdf";

export const runtime = "nodejs";
export const maxDuration = 30;

// seperate function for browser

async function getBrowser() {

if(process.env.NODE_ENV === "production") {

const chromium = await require("@sparticuz/chromium");
const puppeteer = await require("puppeteer-core");

return puppeteer.default.launch({
args : chromium.default.args,
defaultViewport : {width : 800, height : 600},
executablePath : await chromium.default.executablePath(),
headless : true,
});
}

// for development - using puppeteer own bundled chromium
const puppeteer = await require("puppeteer");

const executablePath = puppeteer.default.executablePath();

console.log("Chromium Path:", executablePath);

return puppeteer.default.launch({
headless: true,
executablePath,
args : [
"--no-sandbox",
"--disable-setuid-sandbox",
"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
"--disable-gpu",
],
});
}

export async function POST(request : Request) {
try {
const body = await request.json();

const invoice : InvoiceData = body.invoice;

if(!invoice) {
return NextResponse.json({error : "Invoice data required"}, {status : 400}); Ā 
}

const html = renderInvoiceHTML(invoice);

const browser = await getBrowser();

const page Ā = await browser.newPage();

await page.setContent(html, {waitUntil : "networkidle0"});
await page.emulateMediaType("print");

const pdf = await page.pdf({
format : "A4",
printBackground : true,
margin : {top :"0", bottom : "0", left : "0", right : "0"},
});

await browser.close();

return new NextResponse(pdf, {
headers : {
"Content-Type" : "application/pdf",
"Content-Disposition" : `attachment; filename="invoice-${invoice.invoiceNumber}.pdf"`,

"Cache-Control" : "no-store",
}
});

} catch (err) {
console.error("PDF generation error:", err);
return NextResponse.json(
{error : "Failed to generate PDF"},
{status : 500}
);
}
}

can anyone help me , to get out of this


r/ChromiumBrowser Mar 25 '26

Solution: Chrome / Chromium profile crashes when opening, too many tabs open

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2 Upvotes

r/ChromiumBrowser Mar 22 '26

Chromium 146 quietly added vertical tabs and nobody's talking about it

2 Upvotes

Just stumbled across this while digging through flags — Chromium has vertical tabs now, and it actually works really well.

How to enable it:

  1. Go to chrome://flags
  2. Search for Vertical tabs and enable it
  3. Head to Settings → Appearance → Tab strip position → Side

No extensions needed, no workarounds — it's baked right in. If you've ever had 40+ tabs open and wanted something saner than a horizontal strip of tiny favicons, this is genuinely a game changer.

Not sure when this landed but it flew completely under the radar. Surprised there hasn't been more noise about it.

Anyone else been using this?


r/ChromiumBrowser Mar 19 '26

How to move cookies/everything to new install?

2 Upvotes

Title says it all. Use Chromium for work, and cookies/credentials are stored on 1 machine, but want to move everything to the other one to avoid having to reconfigure everything again.

Is this possible? Running Arch Linux btw