Chromium not working..

[Member marcelocripe]

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I did the test with the link above, I kept the option “All pages” selected, I printed to the “.pdf” file. When I opened the file, I saw that only page number 1 was sent, all the others were lost.

Eu fiz o teste com o link acima, mantive selecionado a opção “Todas as páginas”, imprimi para o arquivo “.pdf”. Ao abrir o arquivo, eu vi que foi enviado apenas a página número 1, todas as outras foram perdidas.

[Member PPC]

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@Marcelo- I’m sleepy and almost going to bed, but try this (it should work in firefox):
Right click the part of the web page that is translated > “this frame” > “Print frame” and then choose to print it to pdf…

Em pt:
Pelo menos no firefox isto deve funcionar:
Faça click com o botão direito do rato na pagina traduzida pelo google > “esta frame” > “Imprimir frame” e escolha imprimir para pdf…

P.

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Thanks, it worked.
It’s just regrettable the quality that is much inferior, if compared to Google Chrome or Chromium. I have to find another solution.

Obrigado, funcionou.
Só é lamentável a qualidade que é muito inferior, se comparada ao Google Chrome ou Chromium. Eu tenho que encontrar outra solução.

[Member Xecure]

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I found the last chromium version 88 that still supports SSE2, packaged by Debian here.

You need to download:
– For 32 bits:

    chromium_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_i386.deb
    chromium-common_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_i386.deb
    chromium-l10n_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_all.deb (for translations)

– For 64 bits:

    chromium_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_amd64.deb
    chromium-common_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_amd64.deb
    chromium-l10n_88.0.4324.182-1~deb10u1_all.deb (for translations)

Ant then install them all together (after removing any trace of chromium on your system).
Write in the terminal
sudo apt install
leave a space after “install” and drag and drop all the downloaded .deb files from the Downloads folder to the terminal (that will paste the path of each file).
Run the command and see if it installs properly.

Test to see if it works, and if it does, then pin those packages so that they don’t receive updates:
sudo apt-mark hold chromium chromium-common chromium-l10n

Remember that these browser no longer have support and will put the computer at risk of being attacked. Always browse the web with javascript off if possible.

Note: This Chromium version will work for CPUs that support the SSE2 instruction set (not for SSE only). You can check if your CPU supports it running
inxi -Cx | grep "flags"

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Xecure has come up with a temporary viable solution. Please pay close attention to his caution and look for other (safer) options.

Remember that these browser no longer have support and will put the computer at risk of being attacked. Always browse the web with javascript off if possible.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Brian Masinick.

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Regarding risk of attacks, it may be inconvenient at times but no script is a big help.
Always have a backup of the system and whenever worried use a live stick.

Even on the latest Firefox as delivered and TOR (also Firefox) I have experienced CSS events resulting in
freezes, Killing the browser with the tool left me with high system and network load, screaming fans and headless
browser needing kill -9 and process number to get back to sanity. I was not on what would normaly be considered
high risk sites either no Porn no Darknet which is often not as dark and criminal suggested by many politicians.

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Hello Xecure, and all the others here, also from the man from Brazil with helpful posts to my topics start.
… chromium 88 works!
I did everything the way it was described.
Well, chromium is now present again with my risk on my laptop, along with the good Seamonkey and Firefox ESR. With chromium, the translated can be feasible again as usual.
! The risk of browsing I have always underestimated so far. In addition, I accepted the Linux was hardly vulnerable in terms of Windows. But so it does not seem to be (more). In addition, Antix 19 is a firewall on board.

Now, the system works well with me, have several browsers in German, boats works, grub problem we could solve, I can now get to know the distribution better with all the applications and learn Linux.

Finally, I say thank you very much for the conclusion and solution to this thread! Dankeschön!

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I’m fortunate at the moment because even two of my “old” systems still have 64-bit capability and are still capable of handling SSE2 and SSE3.

I very much appreciate the fact that not every system has these capabilities. Only a couple of years ago I still had not one, but two 32-bit systems. They were rugged and served well. In fact, they were quite reliable and worked. Since I was able to replace them with either “used” or on sale models, I did so.

Over the past year, I’ve also been watching sales of relatively inexpensive current models. Last year I was able to get a “Black Friday” sale on an Acer Chromebook 715, which works with Chrome OS. This year, just a month or so ago I found another short term sale on an Acer Aspire 5 A515-55. Both of these systems had two features that I was looking for – a backlit keyboard and solid state disk (SSD) technology, and I got both at prices well under $500.

I understand that even at those prices, they may be more expensive than some of us can manage. I’ve tried to be a good citizen and recycle any working equipment to places that will put them to good use, since all of my systems have been in working order. One really good system I did this with was a Gateway 2000 Model PA6A, a 17″ 32-bit laptop with a metal chassis. The other one was a little smaller, but very similar otherwise, a Lenovo 3000 series Model Y410. I hope that both of them are now in good hands!

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Kexs wrote:

Well, chromium is now present again with my risk on my laptop, along with the good Seamonkey and Firefox ESR. With chromium, the translated can be feasible again as usual.
! The risk of browsing I have always underestimated so far. In addition, I accepted the Linux was hardly vulnerable in terms of Windows. But so it does not seem to be (more). In addition, Antix 19 is a firewall on board.

If you are worried about the risk, just start it each time with the firejail program, which will put the chromium browser in a protective “sandbox”, not allowing it to harm your system.

$ sudo apt install firejail firejail-profiles
$ firejail chromium

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I’m sorry to learn about Chromium no longer working with Non-SSE3 processors. But it is inevitable that the mainline browsers will drop support for old computers. One “feature” of computing with old machines is the constant changes we need to make, to “adjust” to alternatives to do what we used to do without such adjustments. For me, this is a hobby. But for others, like maybe Marcelo and others here who are using antiX to keep their aging systems up and running, it may be more critical that the old systems work the way they always have.

My approach when this happens (support for my software is dropped) is to find alternatives and see if I can learn new ways to do what I want to do. Many times there are alternatives. But there also many times when you simply have to get used to working with less or using many more steps to accomplish what you used to do in one or two steps.

With respect to browsing the internet the new way is rarely as easy and comfortable as my old way. I usually complain about how the internet has become unusable for me and long for the old days when things were easier. But eventually I learn to adjust and/or settle for what I can get.

With modern browsers you can do so much with just a click. Scripting and other powerful features make it much easier to get things done. But now that nice feature has been yanked from your paws – what to do? When YouTube could be used in my browser on this old machine it was easy. Click and watch. But now I have to use alternatives to watch internet videos on this same machine (SMTube of Streamlight for example). And I can’t even use most browsers for regular non-video applications. I use alternatives and settle for less.

SeaMonkey and FirefoxESR are capable browsers and are “current” with current updates. I prefer SeaMonkey. But FirefoxESR and Palemoon are also alternatives to Chromium. I have also tested Brave, Badwolf, Netsurf, and Otter-Browser. I get varying results with all of these. But I have no choice if Chromium is not going to support my old hardware anymore.

For translation it seems that a Firefox or Firefox derivative is easiest to adjust to. There are extensions for Firefox that will replace the translation features built in to Chromium. And there may be other alternatives. I was able to use Otter-Browser to get the translation. But printing to PDF did not work. But if I needed to I would continue to figure out what adjustments I need to make to get it done.

The alternative to learning new ways to do old tasks on old equipment is to upgrade the equipment. This is not always easy. But maybe there will be “new” computers that can be handed down to those who need hardware that supports Chromium. Each year old computers get handed down or sold on the used market.

Seaken64

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The Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop is 5-6 years old and is still a capable system that has SSE2 and SSE3 capabilities.

I’ll check the Internet for some other suitable alternatives.

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I found these 2015 laptops that might be available and useful for Web browsing:

1. Asus ZenBook UX305
2. HP SPECTRE x2
3. Microsoft Surface Pro 4
4. Surface Book
5. Dell XPS 13 (Skylake)

2016 laptops:

1. Lenovo Yoga Book
2. Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga
3. Lenovo Yoga 910
4. HP Spectre x360
5. Dell XPS 13 (Baby Lake)

These ought to work with Chromium and the prices on a few of them might be affordable.

I hope that this helps.

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2014 laptops:

1. Dell Latitude E7440 Ultrabook
2. Alienware 17 (2014 Edition)
3. Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Ultrabook
4. Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
5. HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation
6. Toshiba Portage Z10t
7. Samsung Ativ Book 9 (2014 Edition)
8. Lenovo Thinkpad X240
9. Toshiba Kirabook

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All laptops Brian listed are way too new for me. The newest my laptops are 2011 and I do not consider them old:
– Thinkpad X61 (3) – 2008
– Thinkpad Z61 (1) – 2008
– Thinkpad T410 (3) – 2010
– Thinkpad X220 (1) – 2010
– Thinkpad T520 (2) – 2011
– Thinkpad T60 (1) – 2006

All the above have absolutely no problem running Chromium except T60 (2006), the only 32bit machine, which runs Chromium with certain issues, probably not related to SSE3, as per inxi it also has SSE3 support.
So it looks like those without SSE3 support must be still older than 2006…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

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That’s great news! This means that most people will be able to get an affordable system that works with Chromium; thanks for the information.

Since those models work, I will check the Thinkpad X201; it may also work with Chromium.

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