Questions tagged [chromium]
Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project from which is the base for the Google Chrome web browser. Use this tag only for the Chromium browser. Otherwise, use 'chrome-for-android' tag for its Google Chrome counterpart.
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Enable Chromium flags from the shell
In Chromium, command-line options can be enabled by browsing to chrome://flags and setting "Enable command line on non-rooted devices" to "Enabled".
However, is there a way to do ...
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Pass flags to Chromium [duplicate]
I've built Chromium from source for arm64. I was reading this page which discusses how to pass flags to Chromium upon startup. It gives the following example:
out/Default/bin/content_shell_apk argv -...
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Enable Chrome Tab's Reader View manually
I was read this idea
Enable Chrome's Reader View manually, when it isn't offered?
To open a web in reader mode using chrome://dom-distiller but then since I want to open it in chrome tab, I ...
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Start Chromium at web page with ActivityManager
I've got Chromium 106 installed on my phone and can successfully launch it via
$ adb shell am start -n org.chromium.chrome/com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main
However, when I try to bring up a ...
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How to change the User Agent string in Edge or Chrome
How can I change the User Agent string in either Edge or Chrome on Android?
I found old tutorials suggesting either going to about:debug or about:useragent but neither of these seem to work anymore.
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How to suppress the welcome note and sign-in form on freshly installed chromium(for android) browser startup
I have created a script for modifying the chromium browser's behavior when it starts. If the browser is freshly installed and if anyone opens it for the first time, the user will get a welcome note ...
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Chrome unable to read files from SD card
I have some HTML files in the SD card in my phone, which I want to open in Chrome. But, when I am entering the URL of those files in the Chrome's address bar with the file:/// prefix, Chrome says ...
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Use flags in Chrome command line without root
I'm using Chrome version 74.0.3729.136. My phone is not rooted. I'm trying to use flags in Chrome command line without root.
I use the guide from Run Chromium with flags. According to that guide, with ...
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Sign in to Chromium on Android not working
I am trying to sign in to Chromium for Android from my Android phone and it is not working. I am getting the following error message.
The account already exists on your device.
I tried to delete the ...
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Chromium: Option to save passwords and change encryption greyed out
I am using Chromium build 353428 on PacROM 5.1. After signing in with my Google account, I tried to set a separate sync passphrase (using instructions given here). However, when I click on my account ...
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How does Android WebView Update from Google Play work?
One of the touted features of Android 5 is the updates of WebView through Google Play.
The official documents state:
The initial release for Android 5.0 includes a version of Chromium for WebView ...
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Run Google Chrome with flags (not from chrome://flags)
There are command line flags (or "switches") that Chromium (and Chrome) accept in order to enable particular features or modify otherwise default functionality.
Chromium Command Line ...
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How can I add a custom search engine to Chrome (beta, stable...)?
Call me dumb, but, I don't see an obvious way to do this.
I want to add duckduckgo.com as the main search engine in Google Chrome for Android (beta, stable...)
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Is it possible to install Chromium on Android?
I really like the Chromium browser, it's quite speedy, but I can't find any functioning downloads for Android.
All the sites I've tried so far have the following error while trying to install the APK ...
