EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-CHROME(1)

📦 version 3.8.18, in ubuntu stonking

💅 EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-CHROME(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to section 1 of the manual (that's General Commands Manual, the main character section), and today's episode is all about edbrowse-plugin-chrome. no cap, she's a little helper and she eats. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

edbrowse-plugin-chrome — render a page with headless Chrome, for edbrowse 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

edbrowse-plugin-chrome url

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, edbrowse-plugin-chrome is a helper that edbrowse(1) invokes through the plugin config fragments installed in /usr/share/edbrowse/plugins. it's giving "backstage crew", not "main character on stage" — you don't normally run this one by hand, okay? it's not for you like that 🙈

what it does do is drive a headless Chrome through Selenium, wait for the page to settle (yes, she waits, she's patient 💖), and then write the resulting HTML to standard output. the whole point? pages whose content only shows up after scripting — the kind edbrowse's own engine literally cannot run. so if the vibes only load post-JavaScript, this plugin is your girl. images are disabled btw, so no distractions, just text. periodt. ✨

edbrowse picks this plugin by prefixing the URL with chrmrndr://, and the script strips that prefix right back off again. a plain path works too and gets converted into a file:// URL. slay. 💅

✨ DEPENDENCIES ✨

ngl, she has needs:

  • python3-selenium — required 👑
  • a Chrome or Chromium binary with a matching driver — also required, and it has to match, iykyk 🌸

neither of these gets pulled in by the package, because the plugin is optional. so if you want her, you gotta bring her stuff yourself. no free rides bestie 💀

✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

she bails with a non-zero status if:

  • no URL was given, or
  • Chrome cannot be started 😭

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written for the Debian distribution 🐧💜

and that's the whole page, babe. this was edbrowse 3.8.18, dated 2026-08-17, and yes, it really is EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-CHROME(1) at the top and bottom — she's consistent, she's iconic, she's a whole vibe 🌈⭐ bye 💖

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