I have Ubuntu Mate 14.04, in case it matters. The Software Updater keeps giving me updates for some Chromium extensions, but I don't even have Chromium. The only browser I have currently installed is Firefox.

I checked the Synaptic Package Manager, searching for "chromium" in the quick filter. It says I have the two following packages:

Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser (chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra)

Web browser engine for Qt (codecs) (oxideqt-codecs-extra)

Is there another application using these packages? How can I tell? Should I remove them??

Thanks in advance for the help!

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To tell if you can remove safely a package I will chose to use apt in shell. Run:

as @mook765 says using -s option will be a better choice to prevent any mistake

apt-get -s remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra oxideqt-codecs-extra

And you can see if there are dependencies that are gonna be resolved by removing packages u wanna keep or installing new ones

$ sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra oxideqt-codecs-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'chromium-browser' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: bbswitch-dkms linux-headers-4.4.0-93 linux-headers-4.4.0-93-generic linux-image-4.4.0-93-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-93-generic linux-signed-image-4.4.0-93-generic nvidia-prime
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed: oxideqt-codecs
The following packages will be REMOVED: oxideqt-codecs-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed: oxideqt-codecs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
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