What's wrong with my chromium browser?

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stevovo

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I just installed Lubuntu 11.10 on my netbook and the browsing on firefox is a heck of a lot faster than what it was with win7 but for some reason I can't get chromium (pre-installed) to work. I'm using a proxy and while there's no problem opening a page with firefox or chromium, chromium just takes about 1000x longer :confused:

Any ideas?

btw I dunno why it's called chromium on linux so that's why I called it that instead of just chrome :p
 
Was it an apt install or did you download the latest .deb package?

Also what plugins do you have installed? Which flash did you install?
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Was it an apt install or did you download the latest .deb package?

Also what plugins do you have installed? Which flash did you install?
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Its a completely fresh install. Chromium was already on the desktop after the installation of lubuntu.

Its as if it's busy doing something for a long time before each and every page load
 
re-install chromium as there are newer versions in the repos.
 
stevovo said:
btw I dunno why it's called chromium on linux so that's why I called it that instead of just chrome :p
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Chromium is the full open source version, while Chrome has some Google additions to it.

You can download Chrome as well on Linux if you want.
 
Done some more troubleshooting. It's only dog slow when I use the lan (which has to go through the proxy) but using my wifi hotspot it works fine.

Will update chromium through synaptic when I get more data.
 
open terminal.

type : sudo apt-get update [ enter ]
and then : sudo apt-get upgrade [ enter ]
 
Progress!!

I did do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade as above but still it didn't work. Then I found the following 2 sites:
http://mickotoole.com/2011/02/getting-chrome-to-work-through-http-proxy-on-ubuntu/
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60266

So instead of launching chromium with --proxy-server=http://x.x.x.x:80 (x.x.x.x being the proxy) I just added the IP address to /etc/hosts with the name 'proxy' and now launch it instead with --proxy-server=http://proxy:80

Everything seems to be going smooth so far.

For whatever reason chromium doesn't like using the actual ip :confused:
 
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