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ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services.

ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services.

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How to install ungoogled-chromium on Ubuntu 20.04

I have read that the ungoogled-chromium web browser is not only free from Google services and tracking, but unlike other Chromium forks it is essentially a direct replacement for Chromium, featuring tweaks to improve privacy, control and…
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How do I use the user namespace sandbox?

README from https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/linux_portable/64bit/ instructs me, before I run ungoogled-chromium, to setup my system by using the user namespace sandbox so that the browser's sandboxing will…
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Is there a portable version of ungoogled-chromium for ubuntu?

I'd really like to use the "ungoogled-chromium"-browser alongside firefox- but as a portable version. This mean: All the necessary files are stored in one folder and/or subfolders, so that I can move the folder whereever I want and run it from this…
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Install ungoogled-chromium using binaries

As a follow-up to someone else's question here I was wondering if someone could help me by walking me through an install of ungoogled chromium via binaries. I am a total ubuntu newbie, and most of you will probably laugh but where do I start? Here…
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Always use default fonts in Chromium

In Firefox, there is an option to Allow sites to choose their own fonts, which, when disabled, always uses the default fonts. Does this preference have an equivilant in Chromium? PS: I'm using ungoogled-chromium EDIT: To clarify, I'd like to disable…
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Chromium opens PDFs with Gimp, rather than the system default

This is a really weird issue: whenever I download and open a PDF in Chromium, it will always open it with Gimp, while my system default PDF viewer is evince (aka Document Viewer). I don't know why this happens. I've tried solutions such as changing…
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How can I build `ungoogled-chromium` from source on Ubuntu 18.04?

I've put in about an hour at this point, and I'm starting to feel a bit dead inside. I started by downloading ungoogled-chromium version 71.0.3578.98-2 from GitHub. I extracted the tar.gz file into my home folder. Then, using the instructions from…
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How to install ungoogled-chromium on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04.01, I want to use ungoogled-chromium as my main browser. ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services. The other answers in AskUbuntu seems outdated and I…
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Making an AppImage .desktop file for Ungoogled Chromium

I've tried on and off for several weeks now to create a .desktop file for the Ungoogled Chromium AppImage I use. I had tried to install the browser through other means, such as through the instructions on its github which includes building binaries,…
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After update UnGoogled-Chromium Web-Browser is not connecting to the internet

I've been using the UnGoogled-Chromium Web-Browser for two years now and never had any problems with it until yesterday, the only thing I did was an update Web-Browser Version: Version 95.0.4638.54 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) Ubuntu…
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uBlock Origin blocks all connection of UnGoogled-Cromium Web-Browser

After updating UnGoogled-Chromium Web-Browser to the latest version: Version 95.0.4638.54 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) Ubuntu (64-bit) The browser extension uBlock Origin blocks any connection of the UnGoogled-Chromium Web-Browser. As soon…
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How to install ungoogled-chromium on Ubuntu 18.04

I tried to install ungoogled-chromium from download page but I couldn't manage to install any package, and since I am not sure how it works, so I would like to have an instruction of how to install this. Every time I use dpkg -i to install…
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Dependency is not satisfiable: libre2-4(>=20160901)

I'm trying to install ungoogled chromium using .deb file using this site for linux mint(ubuntu bionic), however i get the error in the title, same error when i'm using manual installation option I tried different thing and none of them worked: sudo…
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