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I have been running Google Chrome on a daily basis for some time on LL 3.4 and 3.6 and it seems stable.


May it be considered for inclusion in Lite Software for the Linux Lite 4 series.


Jocklad.

The reason for this not to happen is that chrome stopped supporting 32bit OSes (am currently using chrome on 32-bit system ... the idea is that it was last updated in 2014)

That would take some convincing given their unpredictable history on linux. Never say never but we would have to try and anticipate their future failures and have fixes ready.

I have very limited personal knowledge with using Chrome. Most of what I know is from reading articles on the 'Net. I've read lots of reports of various spyware in Chrome. I'd hate to see any application made readily available in Linux Lite that does contain spyware, or any malware. I have read that Chromium is basically the same browser, but is open source and contains no spyware. Wouldn't that be a better choice?

Google Chrome also has that funky issue that consistently trips up newbies with regards to the keyring. Firefox just works and has never let us down. It's FOSS too which sweetens the deal.

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(11-04-2017, 06:03 PM)smhardesty link Wrote: [ -> ]I have very limited personal knowledge with using Chrome. Most of what I know is from reading articles on the 'Net. I've read lots of reports of various spyware in Chrome. I'd hate to see any application made readily available in Linux Lite that does contain spyware, or any malware. I have read that Chromium is basically the same browser, but is open source and contains no spyware. Wouldn't that be a better choice?

Chromium is already included in Lite Software. See OP's original post.

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(11-04-2017, 07:42 PM)Jerry link Wrote: [ -> ]Chromium is already included in Lite Software. See OP's original post.

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My bad. I don't use Lite Software, opting instead to use Synaptic as I always have. Maybe I should have looked first. My thought would then be that Chromium is good enough. Before adding Google Chrome I'd suggest maybe SeaMonkey. It's a rock solid, all in one browser/email client that would be easy for new converts to use.

Just installed Chromium from Lite Software.


It still cant run Netflix.


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(11-05-2017, 12:08 PM)Jocklad link Wrote: [ -> ]Just installed Chromium from Lite Software.


It still cant run Netflix.


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dude how was you able to sign in to chromuim .. it never allowed me ... thats why i turned to chrome instead

Just sign in with your Gmail username and password, this will work for Chrome and Chromium.