Issues with Chrome and Chromium Browser on Ubuntu

So many issues with this — what is going on??

Teri Radichel
Bugs That Bite
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2 min readAug 2, 2024

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I have had so many issues with Ubuntu Pro and Chromium lately. What is going on here? I think people at AWS (who offers the Ubuntu Pro images, Canonical, Google, and Portswigger should take a closer look and figure out why these things are not working by default.

Also why can’t I run sudo apt-get install chrome on on an ARM instance??

Why is chome being installed in different locations like snap directories and /usr/bin?

Something strange is going on here and some of the recommended solutions I’m reading in blog posts are insecure. Make this work securely by default, please.

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Teri Radichel
Bugs That Bite

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