One of my mates converted me from Firefox to Chrome about a year ago and I must admit I was delighted with it’s speed and the multitude of extensions that it offered.
I had Chromium installed on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and it was working fine. I was connected to the web using a password protected HTTP Proxy server. Now I’m not sure exactly what changed, whether it was an update to Chromium, an update to Ubuntu or some change that I made but one day Chromium would no longer connect through the proxy.
I tried the usual “turn it off turn it back on” and uninstall and reinstall the browser but none of it seemed to work. After spending about an hour trying to get it working I just went back to using Firefox, that was until today. Today I was looking at different browser extensions when I came across one that I wanted to try out. Unfortunately for me it was only available for Chrome. This brought me back to the original problem that I had.
I fired up a terminal and entered chromium-browser into it to launch the browser. I was keeping an eye on the terminal as I changed the proxy settings in Chrome when I spotted this line
Major: (0×00020000) An invalid name was supplied | Minor: (0x96C73AF3) Cannot determine realm for numeric host address
My proxy server is generally inputted as an IP Address and not a hostname. Seeing the error above I edited my /etc/hosts file to add 1.2.3.4 proxy to it (where 1.2.3.4 was the IP Address of my proxy server) I restarted the browser and was able to log on through the proxy and on to the internet.
