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Google Chrome
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Google Chrome
This tag is for Google's browser, Chrome. For questions on Chromium read and use chromium.
· Chrome Homepage
· Download page
· Features
Chrome is not available in the default Ubuntu repositories, but you can install it by using Google's PPA. Ubuntu ships Chromium, the open source project that Chrome is built from. See this for a detailed list of differencesbetween Google Chrome and Chromium.
Since version 28, all Chromium based browsers use a forked version of Webkit, called Blink.
Questions
Q: What's the difference between Google Chrome and/or Chromium? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each?
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I used Google Chrome in Windows, and am now using Chromium in Ubuntu. Is there any difference to the two programs? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each program? Which one seems better?
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User: runningutes
Answer by jorge-castro
There are some key differences between Google Chrome and Chromium. First off, Google Chrome is a commercial closed source product made by Google which is based on the open source Chromium project.
Chrome is not available in the default Ubuntu repositories as it's not open source, however Google makes Chrome available through their own 3rd party repository. Chrome is updated by Google directly, as they run the entire repository and update Chrome on their schedule. Since it doesn't need to be redistributable and open source, Chrome includes things that we can't ship in Ubuntu out of the box, like Flash and H264 support (See the Ubuntu promise). However you can install this support with a few packages (see below).
Chromium, being open source, is available in the Ubuntu repositories. This is maintained by Ubuntu developers and goes through our Stable Release Update process. Chromium has a release process exception, which allows the team to upload a Chromium build as soon as a new upstream release is made.
There really aren't any proper "releases" made of Chromium, so Ubuntu developers base their build on what stable version of Chromium the stable Chrome build is based off of. Fabien Tassin has a blog post about this process that goes into much more detail.
The following packages in Ubuntu install the codecs and features in Chromium that you can find in Chrome:
· chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 
· chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
· flashplugin-installer
Really it depends on what you want. If you trust Google to not break your computer and like the convenience of Chrome then you can use that; if you want an open source browser that is the basis of Chrome that is peer reviewed by Ubuntu developers and doesn't require 3rd party sources then you want Chromium.
This Wikipedia page outlines some of the security/usage tracking differences between the two browsers.
Answer by zerwas
The official Chromium Wiki provides a detailed table about the differences between Google Chrome and Chromium. It does not reflect differences of vanilla source versus those that are specific to Chromium packages provided by Ubuntu.
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Q: YouTube movies are playing too fast with chrome
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I've got movies playing in fast forward in YouTube HTML 5 mode if I play it in Google Chrome. If I open it with Firefox, it plays well. Any ideas?
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User: yura-taras
Answer by jacob
If you're using Chrome from the dev or unstable channels, you probably have a bad Flash plugin enabled (this affects HTML5 audio as well for some obscure reason).
To fix it, go to chrome://plugins and disable all the flash plugins. Then click +Details to show the individual versions of Flash, enable them one at a time until the problem goes away.
This is the configuration that worked for me:
If you none of the versions you have work, you may need to install the adobe-flashplugin package:
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
Answer by puneet
Please note: sometimes if the problem still persists then this may be related to pulseaudio, in such case you can use
killall pulseaudio
pulseaudio
And restart the browser and it will work.
If this only works temporarily, you can try replacing pulse audio with the alsa module for good.
Answer by fenrig
I found some solutions:
· Reset you're sound settings, (apparantly if you use hdmi for audio and video there is nothing slowing the playback down) so what you have to do is try changing audio playback device :)
· One user found that "setting the specific speaker layout fixed my problem (from nothing to 5.1, as that is what I have)."
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Q: How To Enable WebGL In Chrome On Ubuntu?
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chrome://gpu/
And http://webglreport.com/
google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 27.0.1453.93
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl
How To Enable WebGL In Chrome On Ubuntu ?
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User: qasim
Answer by qasim
For WebGL to work in Google Chrome (and Chromium), Here are the steps to enable WebGL in Google Chrome.
Step 1: Open Google Chrome
Step 2: Type chrome://flags in the address bar
Step 3: Press Ctrl + f and type Rendering list , Override software rendering list should come up, Now click on Enable and restart the browser.
Step 4: Restart Chrome for the change to take effect.
Now check chrome://gpu/
http://webglreport.com/
Source
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