[lug] Issue updating google chrome

Mon Aug 31 18:23:15 MDT 2020

Thanks David.

For your curiosity, it's not a website. As far as I understand Chromium vs
Chrome I don't think there could be a website, even purposily crafted,
which works in the latter but not in the former (except perhaps some DRM
things? but I don't do them)
It's about the organization of my computer activity.

For work, I need about 20 websites (tabs) to be open at once and for
convenience I often double that to around 40 (on two Chrome windows, on two
monitors).

For personal life, I use 8-10 tabs in my "important" activity, in Firefox,
with no script strictly blocking almost everything (on a different virtual
desktop).

For "regular" browsing of "I don't care" websites that I need, or other
things that I do care, but I do not mind losing if a website makes the
browser crashes or similar issues, I use Chromium.
Examples of "I don't care website that I need" are search results. I first
attempt them in Firefox, and then "move" them to Chromium if forced by them
not working with no-script and me **really** wanting that search result.

I could switch Chrome and Chromium, but not Firefox because of no-script
not really blocking crap in Chrom*.

My work laptop is managed by my employer and offers Chrome, Firefox and
Safari. There I use Chrome for work related websites and Firefox (with less
tabs) for my personal ones, with Safari for "throw away" stuff. Using the
same browser for 2 out of 3 things drives me less mad than the other option
(using the same browser for only one of the three options, and besides some
of the work-related things do not work in Safari, e.g. JupyterHub). Perhaps
I could ask them to install Chromium in my work laptop, but I prefer the
"don't ask" policy.

Cheers,
Davide

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 3:07 PM David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:

> Glad you got it fixed! Now, I'm curious about the site that works in
> Chrome but not in Chromium, or if it's not a site, what other
> life-complication makes both browsers necessary.
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
> Date: 8/31/20 14:50 (GMT-07:00)
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <
> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Issue updating google chrome
>
> I use Chromium too (and Firefox also), but that is for different purposes.
> I wish I did not need them all, but life is complicated.
>
> Anyway, the problem was this one
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1078813/the-repository-http-dl-google-com-linux-chrome-deb-stable-release-does-not-h
> which when solved exposed this other one
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1173427/how-to-update-google-chrome-past-v70
> When that was fixed too, Chrome updated and the problem with that website
> disappeared.
>
> The idiot GUI who manages updates NEVER says anything about these
> problems..... Days like this let me miss the good ole days when you could
> get things done without X (back then I used pine as an email client... but
> I digress)
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:27 AM David L. Willson <dlwillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
>
>> Consider trying chromium. It's in the main repos, and it's up-to-date.
>>
>> ```
>> $ docker run -it ubuntu:18.04
>> ...
>> root at c38b6cf4101f:/# apt update && apt search chromium
>> ...
>> chromium-browser/bionic-updates,bionic-security
>> 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
>> ```
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Jonathan Eidsness" <jonathan.eidsness at gmail.com>
>> *To: *"BLUG" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>> *Sent: *Monday, August 31, 2020 11:01:36 AM
>> *Subject: *Re: [lug] Issue updating google chrome
>>
>> I remember dealing with an issue similar to this a while ago on fedora. I
>> think they may have changed the package name for the stable builds.
>>
>> The fix for me involved either installing the new package name or
>> downloading the rpm from Google again and installing from there.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:50 AM Davide Del Vento <
>> davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On my Linux Desktop I've been experiencing a problem with a website
>>> (which I need for work) and I think I triaged the problem  to my Google
>>> Chrome being at Version 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit) whereas
>>> according to https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/ (and other sources)
>>> I should be at least at 84.
>>>
>>> According to
>>> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
>>>
>>> *Linux users:* To update Google Chrome, use your package manager.
>>>
>>> which is what I've always done and has worked well in the past (I
>>> clearly remember it updating in the past). Obviously this stopped quite a
>>> while ago without me noticing, since I am at 70 and not a number closer to
>>> 84.
>>>
>>> Checking the settings for my package manager it contains and has the
>>> checkbox tick for
>>> http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ main
>>>
>>> and when I launch the update, it says that everything is up to date. I
>>> am running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.
>>>
>>> Any clues on what might be wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Davide
>>>
>>>
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