DISQUS

ivansoto · 5 months ago

You are referring to Chromium as Chrome which is incorrect.

But thanks for the tip, it's really useful

Manu J · 5 months ago

I know the difference :). But most people don't and get confused over
the differences between chromium and chrome. SO i have chosen to use
chrome instead of chromium everywhere.

jF · 5 months ago

you missed a dash out it should be ~/Downloads/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-plugins

Manu J · 5 months ago

you are correct. While pasting it i think wordpress ate the double dashes

Therese Reuterswärd · 5 months ago

Dear Chrome enthusiaste! I am a non-technical girl from Sweden trying to install the latest build on my PowerBook G4.
The string ~/Downloads/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-plugins

generates: No such file or directory.

Can U tell me what I am doing wrong?

Manu J · 5 months ago

The error you are getting means your path is wrong. That is, you have saved the chrome-mac folder some where other than Downloads

Even if you get the path right, as far as I know chrome runs only on intel macs. Did you try running just the chrome app ? It should fail

rajesheber · 4 months ago

Thanx for that tweak to chromium. Its working. I would like to know if it could be made a permanent so that i dont have to type these commands ever now and then. Another detail that i want is there any tweak to change the font size

Name · 5 months ago

@Therese youve saved chrome in a different place other than downloads

Arthur Sabintsev · 4 months ago

Thanks for the post. Been using the Chromium builds for 6 weeks now and have been waiting for flash support. Doesn't seem to work well with certain flash games though.

raj · 4 months ago

Good tip.

For those who want to know how to enable this by default, you can try writing your own AppleScript to launch the application with this extra command line option, or perhaps a shell script. The AppleScript goes something like:

do shell script "/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-plugins"

the shell script:
#!/bin/bash
Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-plugins

Make sure you name the shell script file as NAMEHERE.command

The .command makes it so the terminal autolaunches the script when you double click it.


That's all if Chromium lives in the Applications folder. If not, put the correct path there.

Also, I posted a script on my blog which automatically downloads and installs the latest build into the Applications folder.