general/other Need to run Chrome on freebsd - what's the best way

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Hi,
I basically need to access Chrome's open tabs on android on my phone - which Chromium won't do with.
So how can I access them on my system on FreeBSD? I was thinking maybe running a VM of ubuntu to then run Chrome in it will allow me that?

Perhaps the most lightweight way to run Google Chrome would be my preference.

What I tried already : I treid the chroot with ubuntu using jails from here - however that doesn't allow me to open chromium browser (not even sure if chrome is available with jails) because of some screen issue, let along use Chrome (which is my primary requirement)

PS: The reason I want Chrome is the cards it displays that helps me find relevant information about my interests happening with blogs/news/etc - this functionality isn't supported by Chromium, hence the need.
 
We discussed patches for Chromium that makes it support Google account sync just recently. Dunno what the status is wrt getting that committed,
 
cracauer@ said:
We discussed patches for Chromium that makes it support Google account sync just recently. Dunno what the status is wrt getting that committed,
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Thanks. That's good to know - though it doesn't solve the current issue I have.

I think the entire problem for me is that the feed discovery for Chrome - is what makes it suitable to discover new content and I think it works pretty well for me, soecially with an android phone. Unfortunately they don't make it acessible other than Chrome - kind of a lock-in mechanism.

Is there some other way to run Chrome efficiently/low resource way on FreeBSD meanwhile? A VM would be the recommended solution? (I do have some ram)

I suspect the commits might take a fair bit longer.
 
Tracker said:
Hi,
I basically need to access Chrome's open tabs on android on my phone - which Chromium won't do with.
So how can I access them on my system on FreeBSD? I was thinking maybe running a VM of ubuntu to then run Chrome in it will allow me that?

Perhaps the most lightweight way to run Google Chrome would be my preference.

What I tried already : I treid the chroot with ubuntu using jails from here - however that doesn't allow me to open chromium browser (not even sure if chrome is available with jails) because of some screen issue, let along use Chrome (which is my primary requirement)

PS: The reason I want Chrome is the cards it displays that helps me find relevant information about my interests happening with blogs/news/etc - this functionality isn't supported by Chromium, hence the need.
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There is this Chrome port: www/linux-chrome, try them and see if they work.
 
There is also Chrome clone www/iridium for lighter weight machines.

Since Iridium is a secure Chrome implementation I doubt it does what you want. You can check it out and see.

For any of the linux-* ports you must enable Linux emulation with linux64=enable in rc.conf.
 
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