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  • Can CHROME be installed?

    From F. W.@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jan 4 11:49:08 2022
    Do you know a chance to install GOOGLE CHROME? Chromium does not work here.

    Thank you

    :-(

    FW
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to F. W. on Tue Jan 4 11:52:19 2022
    On 04/01/2022 10:49, F. W. wrote:
    Do you know a chance to install GOOGLE CHROME? Chromium does not work here.

    Thank you

    :-(

    FW

    https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-chromium-browser/

    chromium is as good as it gets



    --
    There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
    that sound good.

    Burton Hillis (William Vaughn, American columnist)
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  • From F. W.@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jan 4 14:31:06 2022
    Am 04.01.2022 um 12:52 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
    On 04/01/2022 10:49, F. W. wrote:
    Do you know a chance to install GOOGLE CHROME? Chromium does not work
    here.

    Thank you

    :-(

    FW

    https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-chromium-browser/

    chromium is as good as it gets




    I can not sync for my login seems not to work.

    FW
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  • From Jim Jackson@3:770/3 to F. W. on Tue Jan 4 17:22:08 2022
    On 2022-01-04, F. W. <me@home.com> wrote:
    Am 04.01.2022 um 12:52 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
    On 04/01/2022 10:49, F. W. wrote:
    Do you know a chance to install GOOGLE CHROME? Chromium does not work
    here.

    Thank you

    :-(

    FW

    https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-chromium-browser/

    chromium is as good as it gets




    I can not sync for my login seems not to work.


    What "login"?

    How do you know it is a problem with chromium?

    You have given very little information about your problem.
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  • From Theo@3:770/3 to Jim Jackson on Wed Jan 5 00:03:46 2022
    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
    On 2022-01-04, F. W. <me@home.com> wrote:
    I can not sync for my login seems not to work.


    What "login"?

    I presume logging in to their Google account in the browser for syncing bookmarks, history, etc. Which is different from logging into the Gmail, Google Apps, etc websites.

    How do you know it is a problem with chromium?

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322559/sync-chromium-with-a-google-account-does-not-work-any-more-solutions
    says Google deliberately broke it in March.

    The post at the bottom links to a workaround by inserting some API keys you
    can generate on Google Cloud Platform into a Chromium config file. It may
    or may not work!

    Theo
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  • From Anssi Saari@3:770/3 to F. W. on Wed Jan 5 10:20:43 2022
    "F. W." <me@home.com> writes:

    I can not sync for my login seems not to work.

    Yes, AFAIK Goggle started preventing Chromium syncs in March last
    year. Here's a possible workaround:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67459316/enabling-chromium-to-sync-with-google-account

    I have no idea if that works. Not using Chrome or Chromium any more
    obviously.

    As for running Chrome on the Pi, apparently some people have done it via
    x86 emulation since Google doesn't provide a binary for the
    Pi. Something to maybe play with. There was even a commercial product,
    "Exagear Desktop", which was apparently a convenient package to setup
    x86 emulation on a Pi and run x86 apps. Curiously, an example mentioned
    was video services with DRM support present in Chrome but not
    Chromium. It seems to me this would be hopelessly slow or only work at
    very low resolutions.

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