How do I install non-Snap Chromium Browser

[fhins]

No Snaps!!! Then what do you need to install Chromium?

[Snowhog]

Within the standard repositories, Chromium is only available via Snap. If you want to install Chromium, go to https://download-chromium.appspot.com

Read the notice on the page carefully before deciding on anything.

[claydoh]

There are other sources that may be better:

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/11/chromium-browser-deb-available-linux-mint-20/ (prob the best choice atm)
and maybe:
https://launchpad.net/~xalt7x/+archi...s_filter=focal (read instructions at the bottom of the description)

[GreyGeek]

I installed Mint's Chromium.
1) First observation: Waterfox is noticeably faster at opening new pages
2) Importing HTML links is more difficult
3) Importing sites and passwords is, without as yet unknown extension or plugin, impossible. (I cancelled my Google account and disabled in references to Google in Chromium)
I have yet to locate an extension which allows me to mail a url + subject line by clicking an icon in the toolbar.

After trying various "send email" extensions, none of which worked for version 87 without requiring a Google account even when you use "use default", and after trying to import my URL's and passwords, and several other customizations, I decided it wasn't worth the effort to replace Waterfox for those few web[ages where Waterfox doesn't work. So I purged it and got on with my life.

[jglen490]

For what it's worth, and for some it won't be ...

O.K.

I have to use Chrome for certain work-related activities. On my work-provisioned laptop, it comes without much choice and works better than Firefox or the MS stuff. On my personal (Linux) PC it works without a doubt and at least as well as Firefox. My prime is FF, but for certain work-related sites that are better accessed outside the VPN (and therefore on my PC) Chrome is a great alternative. I obtained Chrome on my PC straight from Google, not a work-related repo or source, and required nothing special beyond installation.

In my opinion, work requirements aside, Chrome is a fine browser and a good addition/alternative to whatever browser(s) you may have.

[GreyGeek]

I'm not saying Chrome isn't a great browser, I'm saying that it didn't work for me.

I was somewhat surprised that it was slower than Waterfox because I had its desktop "Accelerated" setting on.

I probably could putz with it to get its speed up, but not being able to import logins and passwords without using a Google account, and even trying

chromium --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=PasswordImport --flag-switches-end

failed, turned out to be the show stopper for me.

I've totally removed snap and pstore from my system. If future releases of an Ubuntu based Kubuntu attempt to force me to accept snap then my 11+ year run with Kubuntu will come to an end.

[Bings]

I think Chrome has been slower than Firefox for a while now. They don't really need to bother, it's automatically on people's phones. People have forgotten the Internet Explorer lessons. That was used for work too.

[jglen490]

Like I said, O.K.

No one has forgotten Internet Explorer and how MS tried to bend people's brains into thinking that the OS and the browser were totally dependent on each other. Even MS learned a little from that, enough to change their tune, but not their BS.

If you think that one browser is slower than another, then it is - for you. It might be, but then again, it might not. It depends on what you are measuring, and how.

If you don't like something, fine, don't like it. Just don't try to rationalize it. That's MS thinking.

[Bings]

Rationalising would be writing a list of reasons why you have to use a certain browser. I've never been a user of chrome, so when I said "I think", I meant that I have read various benchmarks over time and my memory is sketchy at 1am. Personally, I chose not to use chrome or chromium because of the fact they are differing levels of spyware. It's sad if workplaces compel people to use spyware products.

[verndog]

Chromium without snap

Here's what I used with mostly success. Its debian to the rescue:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204...m-without-snap
A similar answer here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1179...206502#1206502

[GreyGeek]

I used that "A similar answer here" method. What turned me off of the latest Chromium is how it tried to enclose browsing into Google's walled garden. If one doesn't have a gmail account it is almost impossible to easily import links, logins and passwords, and the extensions and plugins are scarce as well.

Not only did I drop my google, gmail and YT accounts (all by deleting my Google account) I also installed a hosts file which blocks about everything google, fb, twitter and other social media sites. That sped up my browsing considerably because those sites and their pixel trackers aren't sucking bandwidth to track me.

[dandv]

Install Chromium from the Mint repo

I installed Mint's Chromium.

How exactly did you install Mint's Chromium?

[GreyGeek]

http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/c/chromium/

[dandv]

Did you just download a deb from there over http? There's no https.

[chimak111]

Did you just download a deb from there over http? There's no https.

AFAICT, even Ubuntu doesn't use https. Check out the links for specific packages from https://packages.ubuntu.com/ or check the repos on your own system. Mine look like this:

Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
          1: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted
          2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted
          3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal universe
          4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates universe
          5: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal multiverse
          6: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates multiverse
          7: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
          8: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main restricted
          9: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security universe
          10: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security multiverse
          Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
          1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
          Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
          1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
          Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-ubuntu-libreoffice-7-0-focal.list 
          1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-7-0/ubuntu focal main
          Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mkusb-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list 
          1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/ppa/ubuntu focal main
          No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unit193-ubuntu-inxi-focal.list 
          No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unit193-ubuntu-test-focal.list