karlunity Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 If you have chrome on a 32 bit box LEAVE IT ALONE . If you try to reinstall and lose it you will be SOL as Google is not issuing Chrome. Found out that the hard way karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gun nutty Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 My recommendation is to uninstall Chrome on a 32-bit system. That 32-bit version of Chrome may run, but you won't see any security updates. You have two options: - Install Chromium: http://chromium.woolyss.com/ - Install Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/ Chromium is a web browser based-on the (open) source code of Chrome. Google adds custom stuff atop the open parts of the Chromium code, but visually and operationally there isn't much difference between the two. You'll manually have to add flash (www.flash.com). Chrome add-ons work in Chromium. Firefox is my preferred browser. It does what I need, and it's open source in every way. As with Chromium, you'll have to manually add Flash. -- For Chromium, add the following extensions/add-ons: uBlock Origin, Flash Control, and Https Everywhere. - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en - https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere%20 - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidmkgnfgnkihnjeklbekckimkipmoe?hl=en For Firefox, add the following extensions/add-ons: uBlock Origin, Flashstopper, and Https Everywhere. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ - https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere%20 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashstopper/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gun nutty Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 If you have chrome on a 32 bit box LEAVE IT ALONE . If you try to reinstall and lose it you will be SOL as Google is not issuing Chrome. Found out that the hard way karl Why are you running a 32-bit OS? Were you running Fedora Linux, or is this on a Windows PC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted August 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 I have a few old laptops and the take 32 bitr Worked fine till I got cute and tried to speed thing up karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gun nutty Posted August 12, 2016 Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 I have a few old laptops and the take 32 bitr Worked fine till I got cute and tried to speed thing up karl Those laptops must be damn old. Are you sure they won't support 64-bit? Fedora 24 supports 32 bit (and 64-bit, of course), and Chromium is in the Fedora/RPMFusion repos. That's actually a simple fix. I'd prefer a Linux alternative to trying to run XP/Vista. Absolute security nightmares. Chromium (and Chrome) definitely won't work on either XP or Vista. I ran Chromium for a bit, and it was tough to tell the difference between it and Chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted August 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Old? about 2003 and 2005 I think. They were about 1200 -1500 at the time is I recall. I shall figure a fix karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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