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Google Chrome as Root - The Revenge
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DanYHKim


Joined: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 103
PostPosted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 12:00    Post subject: This is great! Works really well
Subject description: Created a script and .desktop to launch it		  
I am running Lucid 5.2.8 on a Motion M1300 tablet. My wife wanted to be able to read Kindle books using their Cloud Reader in Chrome, but I couldn't make it work with a new Chrome install. It was driving me nuts.

(Needed a new install because the .pet for Chrome does not support offline reading)

Installed Chrome 25.0.1364172 (google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb)
Installed puppy-gc-001.pet

Made relative symlink from /opt/google/chrome of "product_logo_48.png" to /usr/share/pixmaps

Made a script to put in /usr/bin called "chrome_noroot" that has:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libpuppygc.so" google-chrome


Made a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications called google-chrome.desktop that invokes the script in its "Exec=" line, and also assigned the product_logo_48.png file as its icon.

Also dragged this .desktop to the Desktop and assigned it the same icon.

Now, I can launch Chrome from the menu or from the desktop icon, and it will run the preload, then chrome. It takes a little time to load up, but afterwards is appears to run without problems.

Thank you so much for this contribution. I was at the end of my rope.
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