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Chromium

Installation

Install/upgrade Chromium for all users (Windows, terminal):

$ chromium_installer.exe --system-level

Latest Chromium binaries

ungoogled-chromium

Extensions

chromium-web-store allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium.

Security/Privacy

uMatrix filters net requests. Source

uBlock Origin is a general-purpose blocker. Source

Cookie AutoDelete deletes cookies and other browsing site data as soon as the tab closes, domain changes, browser restarts. Source

ClearURLs removes tracking elements from URLs. Source

Canvas Blocker - Fingerprint Protect prevents HTML canvas element from generating a unique identification (not needed for ungoogled-chromium if fingerprint deceptions are enables in chrome://flags/).

Bookmarks

Bookmarks Commander is a dual-pane Norton Commander liked bookmarks manager.

Bookmark Dupes display/removes duplicate bookmarks or empty folders. Source

Selective Bookmarks Export Tool exports selected bookmarks.

Misc

Feedbro is an advanced feed reader (RSS, Atom, RDF).

Print Edit WE: edit web pages prior to printing.

Tabs to Front v2 opens new tabs in the front.

YouTube™ No Buffer - Stop Auto-playing prevents auto-playing YouTube videos.

Development

HTML Validator adds HTML Validator in Developer Tools.

Markdown Preview Plus enables rendering markdown files as HTML. Source

Command Line Switches

If you have Profile in /dev/shm/chromium (/dev/shm is a ramdisk ) and do not want using GNOME Keyring:

$ /usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir="/dev/shm/chromium" --disk-cache-dir="/dev/shm/cache" --password-store=basic --force-device-scale-factor=1.0

List of Chromium Command Line Switches

Flags

chrome://flags/#smooth.scrolling
disable: Do not animate smoothly when scrolling page content.

Configuration / Options

chrome://chrome-urls/
chrome://bookmarks/
chrome://crashes
chrome://downloads/
chrome://extensions
chrome://flags
chrome://gpu
chrome://net-internals
chrome://policy
chrome://predictors/
chrome://restart/
chrome://sandbox
chrome://settings/
chrome://settings/content
chrome://settings/fonts
chrome://settings/siteData
chrome://site-engagement/
chrome://system

Font Rendering

By default , chromium is hinting fonts as hintfull. To change the font rendering: create/modify $HOME/.config/fontconfig/.fonts.conf

Tips

Disable Media Router - ungoogled-chromium Wiki
By default, Chromium sends SSDP network broadcasts on the local subnet. Setting EnableMediaRouter to false stops SSDP traffic.