"profile will be deleted" at startup after chromium 89 update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After updating the chromium-browser snap from 1497 to 1506, Chromium refuses to work with profiles that are linked to Google accounts. Each of them is deleted whenever first opening it. And turning on profile synchronization does not work.
See the attached file for a screenshot of the issue.
Workaround:
1. Kill the current chromium process.
2. Revert the snap back to an older version.
Warning 1: Running on an older version of Chromium comes at its own issues.
Warning 2: Any already deleted profile will not be restored by going back to an older version of Chromium. You will have to create and link the profile again.
This bug is severe and means that Chromium has become unusable in a professional environment.
"We also need:"
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
2) The version of the package you are using
$ snap list chromium
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
chromium 89.0.4389.72 1506 latest/stable canonical* -
3) What you expected to happen
Chromium works as usual, linked profiles work, new profiles can be linked to sync with Google accounts.
4) What happened instead
Chromium cannot work with linked profiles. Existing profiles from older versions of Chromium that are linked to sync with a Google account are deleted upon start, and the feature of linking a profile to a Google account for syncing is broken.
summary: |
- profile will be deleted + "profile will be deleted" at startup after chromium 89 update |
I fear this is the consequence of an announced google chrome/chromium change, and will not be changed (in fact the API is being removed in the not too distant future and this is just the start of the the changes announced with https:/ /developers. google. com/web/ updates/ 2020/12/ chrome- 88-deps- rems)
Note - this is opinion only.