[CentOS] Problem with chromium 89.0.4389.82

Mon Apr 5 17:38:01 UTC 2021
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 04/05/2021 12:49 PM, H wrote:
> On 04/05/2021 12:31 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> On 04/05/2021 11:56 AM, H wrote:
>>>> On 04/05/2021 01:38 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 21:32:03 -0400
>>>>> H wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here are two typical examples:
>>>>> Javascript is disabled?
>>>>>
>>>> No, just checked that Javascript is allowed in the browser settings.
>>>> When I load the browser and try to access eg nytimes.com I see
>>>> "Establishing secure connection" in the bottom infobar and that's where
>>>> it seems to get stuck.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if some other software was also updated and the new version of
>>>> that not loaded until I had to reload the browser and is the root cause
>>>> of the problem??
>>>>
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>>> Continuing to research this and while googling - using Firefox since that
>>> does not work either for me right now - I found some mention of a
>>> temporary fix of changing proxy settings. I went to the Advanced/proxy
>>> settings in my chromium and get an error message:
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the system
>>> proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not supported
>>> or there was a problem launching your system configuration.
>>>
>>> But you can still configure via the command line. Please see |man
>>> chromium-browser| for more information on flags and environment variables.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Very weird. I have not used a proxy on this computer but this might be the
>>> reason for my problem? Anyone else have had similar problem?
>> Some of our users wanted Chrome instead of Firefox so we installed
>> Chromium from EPEL for them. Over the time, we had several problems where
>> a build didn't work and also updates were not in time. We also had
>> problems where some people were able to run chromium while others were
>> unable to launch it with their profile, even on the same host.
>>
>> We solved the issue by removing chromium completely and told our users
>> that Firefox has to be used :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>>
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> I understand but Firefox does not render all pages correctly as it seems to misinterpret css. And, it is always to have more than one browser installed as I have just discovered.
>
> I found a work-around: launching chromium-browser from a terminal window with the argument --no-proxy-server. This launches the sites I listed in my post without any problems. It thus seems the proxy settings somehow have been messed up, perhaps one time when I unceremoniously killed the app from the command line...
>
> I now need to find out how to reset the proxy settings in chromium since I am unable to access it from the settings menu in the browser.
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Hm, It seems I am wrong on the above. I tried adding --no-proxy-server to the settings in my Mate menu and then start the browser - failure with the same problem as before. I then went back to the command line and just started it with chromium-browser, without the --no-proxy-server argument and it starts fine.

So, it seems to have something to do with starting it from the desktop vs the terminal window.

Weird. Ideas?