Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Sometimes after shutting down later rebooting Chromium i see settings Bookmarks, some passwords, home page, few extensions and chrome://flags settings have disappeared

this has happened at least 10-15 times now

after booting i usually update. Save is set to auto. Any ideas?

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Possibly Chromium is saving its settings in /tmp?

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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bean wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:58 am

this has happened at least 10-15 times now
after booting i usually update. Save is set to auto. Any ideas?

what are you updating and how do you do it?

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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After i boot into EasyOS each morning i usually update via the icon on the desktop, that's fine it just updates.

I am almost at the point where i am using EasyOS 95% off the day, .

would like Conky to work and Remote Desktop like Windows 11 is a breeze and works well, and simultaneous connections ie multiple users log on Windows access by Remote desktop, a patched/modded termsrv.dll ive used since Windows 7 Enterprise days.

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Updating Easy daily should do nothing most days, unless there is an update available.

Do your chromium setbacks happen when an EasyOs update actually downloads and the update app run to completion? or maybe on the next reboot?

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Chromium runs as user "chromium", and everything is in /home/chromium
...bookmarks, etc will be somewhere in there.

I can't think what would cause that information to disappear.

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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@BarryK ,

Hm, chromium is running as user chromium? I thought so too, but in running chromium I can still access the whole filesystem inclusive mounted partitions of AntiX (I need for Grub2) or other EasyOS versions on other partitions.

I can up-and-download from/to any folder I like!

Sorry, why?

Thanks for your answers :-)


EasyOS 5.2.2 on separate partition. Asus Netbook, Intel Atom N450 processor, Nvidia graphics, 1GB RAM.

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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Berto wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:50 am

@BarryK ,

Hm, chromium is running as user chromium? I thought so too, but in running chromium I can still access the whole filesystem inclusive mounted partitions of AntiX (I need for Grub2) or other EasyOS versions on other partitions.

I can up-and-download from/to any folder I like!

Sorry, why?

Thanks for your answers :-)

Yeah, that's the way it is now. But it can be tightened up in the future.

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Re: Chromium browser settings lost after reboot

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@BarryK

Hahaha, that's no answer to the question "why?"

In former EasyOS versions I sometimes had trouble to find my downloaded things from Firefox or SeaMonkey again - very restricted access.

I always set the download folder to /shared, that I could access from containers too. Now in Chromium, everything is open anyway....

However, I am no security fanatic, thinking that on Android I don't have a choice too, and I'm using Android more than 'Linux'.

I just wanted to report that Chromium can access all files, what maybe could be a problem for other users.

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