This is only necessary if you’re using a classic window manager. If you’re using any modern window manager, including those that come with all of the major desktop environments, you should make sure that “Use system title bar and borders” is not selected.
Under the Appearance heading, select “Use Classic Theme” in order to force Chrome to use the default blue and white color scheme instead of whatever scheme you specify for GTK+ applications. Keep in mind that Linux desktop environments totally unrelated to GNOME, including LXDE and Xfce4, still use GTK+ libraries for applications. If the colors look a bit strange, then you have Chrome set to draw system colors from your GTK+ theme. Do make sure that “Protect you and your device from dangerous sites” is selected, however.
More than likely, you’ll want to disable the use of web services and prediction services. This box is rather important considering that you’re going to be working with a dated browser. Once you’re done you’ll probably wish to disable guest browsing, and then select “Show advanced settings…” to continue before you’re able to select the Privacy box by clicking on the related button. Since you won’t be using this browser for any real work, it’s recommended to choose only one and delete the rest. You’ll need to then click on “Manage Search Engines” and select a default search engine. Once both messages are gone, click instead on the menu next to the star-shaped Favorites icon and select Settings. You don’t want an old browser being your default. Click the x next to this warning before proceeding, and then select “Don’t ask again” in the prompt regarding Chrome not being your default browser. Regardless of where the icon is, click or tap it to open a new Chrome window.Ĭhrome will ask you to sign in after warning you that the Linux system you’re working under isn’t supported any more. This will appear under the same moniker in the Whisker menu under most flavors of the Xfce desktop environment. If you use any form of GNOME, KDE or LXDE, then a new Google Chrome icon will have been created in the Applications menu under Internet. If it reads “Reinstall Package” and “Remove Package” as labels on the two top buttons, then you know that it installed properly. You’ll receive a quick description of the package you might have seen before, which you can close out as well. Click or tap the close button to send the package installer windows away. Once the package installer finishes the installation, it will announce it, but you’ll have to manually close it unless you selected otherwise. These will resolve automatically if you do, though the installer might ask you to approve the installation of additional packages if needed. Under most circumstances, you won’t have dependency problems. Click the “Install Package” button, and then you’ll be prompted to run the installer as root.
You may have to double click on the file in a file manager at ~/Downloads in order to open it. Once you’ve acquired the file and fully understand the risks involved, open the package with the graphical package manager. This will work on distributions that use DEB packages, which includes Debian and Ubuntu.
Sites like the Internet Archive at legitimately hold a safe copy of this file, but you’ll still want to conduct a malware scan even after you’ve completed a verification. You’ll need to confirm the md5sum as well, so keep this in mind when searching for it. Search for a file entitled google-chrome-stable_.116-1_b, but make sure to only download it from a reputable source.
It’s also not at all advisable to install this package if you have some other version of Chrome installed already.
You’re also injecting closed-source code into an open-source installation by doing so. You shouldn’t use it as a live browser, but it does still support the Netflix platform. Since you won’t be secure, you’ll only want to use this for a few specialized tasks like watching Netflix videos.
In fact, the software will warn you as such. Google no longer supports this version, so you won’t receive updates. There’s a workaround to install the last stable version of the 32-bit software on machines, but keep a few caveats in mind. Modern versions only come out for 64-bit Linux environments. Google surprised many Linux users, however, when they announced they would no longer provide updates for 32-bit Linux distributions.
Many reports indicate that Google Chrome is the most popular Web browser on desktop, portable and mobile devices.