Chrome rather than Chromium
Google Chrome is not FOSS. But it does stuff Chromium does not do. You can replace Chromium with Chrome, or have them both on the system. You do not have to choose one or the other because you can have them both.
Apparently in Mint 18.3 Chrome cannot be installed via the Mint Software manager. Instead we shall go to console and install it.
- Create a text file in the path /etc/apt/sources.list.d
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d vi chrome.list
- Add the following text to the newly created chrome.list file
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
- Download the current signed key
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - apt-get update
- Install Google Chrome from the new repository
apt install google-chrome-stable
This procedure was verified in 2017 on Mint 18.3 Sylvia installed Google Chrome Version 63.0.3239.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)
***note:Although Ubuntu requires the repository be added manually as shown above, it is probably not necessary with Mint as this distribution allows non-FOSS. Try installing w/o adding the repo first.
***note:sudo can be used with the deb command, but cannot be used with wget to add the key (for some reason) so you may have to sudo bash then use wget to update key.
