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Hello everyone.
My name is Claude Doucet, I live in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
I have been aware of Linux for a long time, but never really took the time to look into it, until last week... Apart from my Windows 7 desktop, which is fairly up to date, components-wise, I also have an older laptop (Acer TravelMate 2420), wich was running Windows XP. With the discontinuance of XP support, and the fact that it was slow as molasses while running XP to begin with, I decided to look into Linux, and finally decided to install Lubuntu, as it is said to be less ressource-hungry than other distros.
Because of the small hard drive (40GB), and the fact that even if deleting most of the programs I used in Windows, I still had barely 16GB available, I chose to not run a dual boot, but to completely get rid of XP and use the whole hard drive for Lubuntu. The risk is minimal, as the friend who sold me the laptop can reinstall XP, should I ever choose to do so. But I want to give Lubuntu a fair chance, first.
I have the following partitions on the disk:
/boot, 250MB (Ext4)
/ , 27GB (Ext4)
Linux-swap, 2GB (same as amount of memory on laptop)
/media, 11GB (NTFS), so I can drop files onto the laptop from my Win7 machine.
On my Win7 machine, I use Google Chrome as my default browser. I am used to it, I have all my favorites on it, the plugins I use regularly, the search engines I like, etc. I figured I would use Chromium, in Linux, to browse, so as to keep all those favorites, etc. Now that it is installed, I can't type into it! Neither in the omnibox, to go to any particular web address, nor in the sign-in box, to sync all my settings. If I go to the Firefox browser, I can type in it just fine. The version downloaded is Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972).
Though I doubt this has anything to do with it, I also downloaded (but did not yet activate) Gufw (firewall) and Clamtk (antivirus).
Can anyone think of what would cause this to happen? I'd really like to use Chromium, if I can...
My name is Claude Doucet, I live in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
I have been aware of Linux for a long time, but never really took the time to look into it, until last week... Apart from my Windows 7 desktop, which is fairly up to date, components-wise, I also have an older laptop (Acer TravelMate 2420), wich was running Windows XP. With the discontinuance of XP support, and the fact that it was slow as molasses while running XP to begin with, I decided to look into Linux, and finally decided to install Lubuntu, as it is said to be less ressource-hungry than other distros.
Because of the small hard drive (40GB), and the fact that even if deleting most of the programs I used in Windows, I still had barely 16GB available, I chose to not run a dual boot, but to completely get rid of XP and use the whole hard drive for Lubuntu. The risk is minimal, as the friend who sold me the laptop can reinstall XP, should I ever choose to do so. But I want to give Lubuntu a fair chance, first.
I have the following partitions on the disk:
/boot, 250MB (Ext4)
/ , 27GB (Ext4)
Linux-swap, 2GB (same as amount of memory on laptop)
/media, 11GB (NTFS), so I can drop files onto the laptop from my Win7 machine.
On my Win7 machine, I use Google Chrome as my default browser. I am used to it, I have all my favorites on it, the plugins I use regularly, the search engines I like, etc. I figured I would use Chromium, in Linux, to browse, so as to keep all those favorites, etc. Now that it is installed, I can't type into it! Neither in the omnibox, to go to any particular web address, nor in the sign-in box, to sync all my settings. If I go to the Firefox browser, I can type in it just fine. The version downloaded is Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972).
Though I doubt this has anything to do with it, I also downloaded (but did not yet activate) Gufw (firewall) and Clamtk (antivirus).
Can anyone think of what would cause this to happen? I'd really like to use Chromium, if I can...
