Comment 50 for bug 1776873

Sven, allow me to contribute a few corrections/clarifications to your article:

« but as they use Chromium (the pre-installed open source version of the Google Chrome browser) »

This is incorrect, chromium is not pre-installed. One has to go and install it from the package manager/software store.

« ... and I do not understand the reaction - Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) wrote on 2020-04-23: "Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated." »

Samuele referred to a comment that contained offensive language (thus violating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct) that was removed to keep the conversation civil.

« $ snap remove chromium
$ sudo apt install chromium-browser »

Not every piece of advice on the internet should be followed blindly. The chromium-browser deb package is now a transitional package that installs the snap, so the above will obviously be a no-op. There are details about why this was done at https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-transition.