diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8850e27..361fc7d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # use the verse rocker image, as it contains tidyverse, devtools and some texlive
-image: rocker/verse
+image: rocker/tidyverse
 
 # define stages of runner. at the moment,
 # just build (no test or deploy).
@@ -23,22 +23,25 @@
 
     - start_section install_linux_packages "Installing missing Linux packages"
     - apt-get update
-    - apt-get install -y build-essential libglpk40 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libsodium-dev libsecret-1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libssl-dev libxt6 libpq-dev imagemagick ghostscript software-properties-common inkscape scour
-    - add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta
-    - apt update
-    - apt install -y chromium-browser
-    - chromium-browser --no-sandbox --headless --disable-gpu --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf https://www.ids-mannheim.de/
+    - apt-get install -y libvulkan1 libu2f-udev fonts-liberation build-essential libglpk40 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libsodium-dev libsecret-1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libssl-dev libxt6 libpq-dev imagemagick ghostscript  inkscape scour
+    - wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
+    - dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb || apt-get install -y -f
     - locale-gen de_DE.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_US.utf8
 
     - end_section install_linux_packages
 
+    - start_section testing_chromium "Testing chromium PDF export"
+    - ./ci/html2pdf https://google.com test.pdf 1
+    - ls -l ./test.pdf
+    - end_section testing_chromium
+
     - start_section install_fonts "Installing Libertinus and Fira fonts"
     - wget -O- https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/archive/refs/tags/4.202.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/share/fonts -zx --wildcards "*.otf"
     - fc-cache
     - end_section install_fonts
 
     - start_section install_r_packages "Installing missing R packages"
-    - R -e "install.packages(c('RKorAPClient', 'httr', 'tidytext', 'httpuv', 'scales', 'sp', 'raster', 'kableExtra', 'DT', 'svglite'))"
+    - R -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'RKorAPClient', 'httr', 'tidytext', 'httpuv', 'scales', 'sp', 'raster', 'kableExtra', 'DT', 'svglite'))"
     - R -e 'devtools::install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/IDS-Mannheim/idsThemeR")'
     - R -e 'devtools::install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/IDS-Mannheim/posterdown")'
     - end_section install_r_packages
diff --git a/ci/html2pdf b/ci/html2pdf
index 1744ebf..9341aea 100755
--- a/ci/html2pdf
+++ b/ci/html2pdf
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh -eu
 in=$1 out=$2 page0=${3:-} page1=${4:-$page0}
-${CHROME:-chromium-browser} --no-sandbox --headless --disable-gpu \
-    --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --print-to-pdf-no-header \
-     --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf="$out" "$in"
+google-chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=TranslateUI,BlinkGenPropertyTrees,ImprovedCookieControls,SameSiteByDefaultCookies,LazyFrameLoading --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio --blink-settings=primaryHoverType=2,availableHoverTypes=2,primaryPointerType=4,availablePointerTypes=4 --no-sandbox --no-startup-window --disable-gpu --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf="$out" "$in"
 GS_ARGS=
 if [ -n "$page0" ]; then
         GS_ARGS="-dFirstPage=$page0 -dLastPage=$page1"