Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891614
Title:
[snap] password store issue, plus keepassxc integration fail
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Since switching to 20.04 I see a lot of problems with my standard
browser (chromium-browser), which seem to be related to snap.
Problem can be described as: Password management impossible
* chromium does not remember passwords and cannot import from csv
* chromium does not allow integration of keepassxc as a workaround to broken
internal storage
* after migration from 18.04 the pw storage format seemed to have changed, so
I needed to create new profiles, old password dbs were broken/inaccessible.
* the following applies to fresh profiles, too (without addons and other
config)
* Chromiums internal password store does not store any passwords any more,
none are shown in the list, none get stored, none imported
Settings:
chrome://settings/passwords
[x] Offer to save passwords
[x] Auto Sign-in
[ ] google account
[enabled] chrome://flags/#PasswordImport
Saved passwords
> Saved passwords will appear here
[none saved]
* import from csv does not work
* fill in passwords does not work
* save credentials does not work,
* sometimes a user list can appear (autofill of username fields)
I tried to switch to an external password manager (keepassxc), but failed,
since
* chromium cannot connect to keepassxc (seems to be a snap issue), while
firefox in parallel can
* Extension "KeePassXC-Browser" needed
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepassxc-browser/oboonakemofpalcgghocfoadofidjkkk)
The keepass helper script denies snap installs:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/master/utils
/keepassxc-snap-helper.sh
```
askBrowserSnap() {
if (whiptail --title "Snap Choice" --defaultno \
--yesno "Is this browser installed as a snap (usually NO)?" 8
60); then
# BASE_DIR="$1"
whiptail --title "Snap Choice" --msgbox "Sorry, browsers installed as
snaps are not supported at this time" 8 50
exit 0
fi
}
```
Is there any workaround
Version:
Version 84.0.4147.105 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)
apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
Installed: 83.0.4103.97-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher
Notes
chromium 84.0.4147.105 1260 latest/stable canonical✓ -
Additional questions
The snap install of a central component like a browser is an annoyance,
breaking other stuff, too (e.g. access to files): are there proper packages for
apt somewhere?
I spent hours already to try finding what is going on with $browser.
Can snap be completely deactivated?
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