Installing Google Chrome on Clear Linux*

how can i install chromium edge?

Anyone having issues with Version 92.0.4515.107 not connecting to the internet for some reason?

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Yup. Same here. A whole lot of this on the CLI:

[10622:10622:0802/112140.102874:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[10581:10581:0802/112140.592777:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(331)] Network service crashed, restarting service.
[10581:10581:0802/112141.755671:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(331)] Network service crashed, restarting service.

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Same issue with stable Chrome and Chromium, FF works fine. Does not work with old kernel either.
As workaround Updated Chromium and Chrome to latest betas and worked fine after.

Update: Looks like latest stable google-chrome-stable-92.0.4515.131-1 works fine also

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Ungoogled Chromium runs fine too :

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/archive/refs/tags/91.0.4472.164-1.tar.gz

There is a flatpak for that

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Confirmed. 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) is also working for me. Google must have quickly realized their error.

Since updating to Clear Linux 34930, I can’t access any tab in Google Chrome stable.

ā€œError code: 159ā€ is displayed.

Google Chrome Dev still works however.

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Same problem as @erik. After updating to 34930, Chrome cannot open any page including settings, etc… It really sucks

When starting chrome I get notifications that all of my extensions have crashed. Additionally, Firefox also does not appear to be loading. The only browser that currently works is Ungoogled-chromium.

This level of disruption is really tough to justify.

Here is the CLI output from Chrome:

Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
[1817:1871:0808/203834.863895:ERROR:component_installer.cc(349)] Failed to read manifest or verify installation for OnDeviceHeadSuggest (/home/jbolle/.config/google-chrome/OnDeviceHeadSuggestModel/20210729.388084711).: Success (0)
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
[1853:1853:0808/203834.926209:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

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Related Issue here

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And that is not the first time.

Why adding it as a systemwide installation?
I always only download the original package and open the chrome binary from a terminal.
DONE.

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This works great.

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Or the light version as a flatpak :

Google Chrome stable works normally after updating Clear Linux to version 34940.

For me the flatpak version of either chrome/chromium didnt work with gnome shell integration extension.
I tried some platform agnostic package managers like guix and nix.
Couldn’t manage to make Guix work but got lucky with nixs.
Below are my rough notes for working with nix

## Installing nix package manager
## Source: https://nixos.org/download.html
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
$ . /home/user/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh 

## Show desktop files in gnome search / overview
## source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/310666/nix-desktop-files
## add XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.nix-profile/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}" to .profile
## alt-f2 restart for restarting the shell

## upgrade nix to unstable version. smplayer was not installing due to some missing /etc folders and stateless architecture of clearlinux
$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA nixUnstable
## always use -A while installation
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.vscode-with-extensions nixpkgs.ungoogled-chromium nixpkgs.eternal-terminal nixpkgs.freerdp nixpkgs.smplayer nixpkgs.cudatext

## Install an app
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello
$ hello
## Remove an app
$ nix-env -e hello  
## Search for an app
$ nix-env -qa chromium
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Have you updated Clear Linux to version 34940?

if I’m not mistaken, nix packages (and guix for that matter) comes with a complete set of dependencies which makes it use its own version of glibc, for example.

No I’m still on OS version: 34930