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Hi! I'm Emanuel from Italy. I'm very satisfied with BusterDog64 on my Asus K50C, it's much better than the previous Lubuntu 18. I just wonder. I would like to know if it is possible to completely replace Pale Moon as the default browser with Chrome, e.g. in the Tint2 panel. Thanks!

EP65 wrote: Fri Jul 09, 2021 6:11 am

Hi! I'm Emanuel from Italy. I'm very satisfied with BusterDog64 on my Asus K50C, it's much better than the previous Lubuntu 18. I just wonder. I would like to know if it is possible to completely replace Pale Moon as the default browser with Chrome, e.g. in the Tint2 panel. Thanks!

Hello Emanuel,

Just remove palemoon and install google-chrome-stable (if you didn't already):

apt purge palemoon
apt install google-chrome-stable

Then there are several choices to add to the top panel, e.g. go in ~/tint2launchers, edit the Exec=.. line in the "Browse" launcher, either to run as unprivileged user:
Exec=run-as-user google-chrome-stable --disk-cache-size=10000000 --media-cache-size=10000000 %U
Or to run as root:
Exec=google-chrome-stable --disk-cache-size=10000000 --media-cache-size=10000000 --no-sandbox --test-type %U
Or copy '/root/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop' to ~/tint2launchers and edit as preferred similar as above (required is a tint2 restart then to show in the top panel)
EDIT: The Exec=... line in '/root/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop' shows "ddliveapp ... ..." which works the same as "run-as-user ... ..."
The Menu > Internet > "Google Chrome" entry will launch google-chrome from /root/.local/share/applications/ (as unpriviledged user, so edit it if you prefer running as root).

Fred

Done with the first instruction. Many thanks!