Unsupported Browser Issues in Chrome?

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Hi all, I’m quite new here. Have had my EOS/plasma/arch setup on a new computer for a few weeks, and the computer has been working just great.

I just started running into issues on Chrome (from AUR) with multiple web pages marking my chrome browser as unsupported, and in each case have been able to get around them in chromium. But, I have a bunch of password/bookmark/other data associated with my Chrome profile that I do not want to lose, and I’d like to stick with Chrome if I can.

Troubleshooting steps and info:

The websites giving me trouble thus far: Netflix, Slack web login, Overleaf docs

After the issues began, I updated Chrome, found newest version on the AUR, along with updating other AUR packages (yay -Syu)

Chrome vers. 133.0.6943.98-1

Chrome Version shown in Chrome “About” 133.0.6943.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Have tried every option in “User-Agent Switcher” extension on chrome to no avail, including disabling the extension. This agent switcher worked for issues that were confirmed linux related earlier this week (Xfinity streaming blocks linux clients) so I hoped it would do the trick.

Have tried disabling all extensions and reloading.

Slack docs showed that chrome versions >122 should work, so my default is totally fine

One post I found suggested to check my timedatectl and to run timedatectl set-ntp true , which has not changed anything.

Plasmashell version (if it helps) plasmashell 6.3.0

Kernel version 6.13.2-arch1-1

Please let me know if I can provide any other details to help diagnose or if you have any ideas!

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Welcome to the community! :vulcan_salute: :enos_flag:

First thing’s first: Do you know how straight-forward, easy, and convenient it is to switch from Chrome to Chromium like you never even switched?

Can only imagine how difficult it would be to try to convince you to switch to Firefox.

Next: I’ve gotten these error messages too in Firefox, and usually an update fixes it.
I’m guessing your AUR package may have just been out-of-date by a few hours to a day.

Another thing may be if you have hardened your browser a bit by disabling Javascripts or using extensions which add a layer or so of privacy or even ad-blocking. Websites that do advertising obviously don’t like that.

And the only other thing I can think is just the fact that you are using Linux, and some websites don’t want you using them unless you’re on Windows or Mac.

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spitballin…

make any moves in chrome://flags lately?
third party cookies disabled in regular settings?
I don’t see user agent as the issue but the rest of the troubleshooting you are doing right.

save all that stuff with a .temp after the folder name then nuke the Profile? Seems extreme but these things sometimes work (fresh startup, that is)

spitballing over. wait for the pros :slight_smile:

9 times out of 10 “unsupported” means out of date but you checked it so it’s got to be in the minutiae