Ungoogled-chromium added to obcommunity

wastelander

Just letting you know that I have added this good privacy-oriented browser to obcommunity (of course the -bin version). If anyone wants to test it, feedback would be always appreciated.

wastelander

UPDATE: added librewolf

Bertram

Hi wastelander,
since you communicated that you put ungoogled-chromium-bin to obcommunity I supose it was you who made the update these days.
Many thanks.
Unfortunately https://web.whatsapp.com makes chromium crash:
[4344:4356:0223/190453.586847:ERROR:ev_root_ca_metadata.cc(162)] Failed to decode OID: 0
Segmentation fault

PS: I've been using chromium from obcommunity as my main browser since beginning of February without any problems.

nfg

Bertram
Looks like someone posted a similar issue two weeks ago involving a different website on the ungoogled-chromium github repo:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/3187
Unfortunately, they haven't gotten a response.
Do you store a secret in u-c that the whatsapp site is trying to access?

Bertram

Well, I'm not aware of any secrets stored.

wastelander

Hey @Bertram have you tried to delete .cache/chromium and .config/chromium before launching Ungoogled Chromium?
Seems to be something like that:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux/issues/145

Bertram

Thanks for the hint.
Deleting these two directories solved the problem.
Unfortunately, deleting just the cache is not enough.

But I wanted to avoid to reinstall all my add-ons etc.
So I restored the .config/chromium directory.
Further googling I found the hint to just remove GCM Store
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1312
I found two of them -- Default/GCM Store/ and System Profile/GCM Store/.
I removed both and web.whatsapp.com works now and all the rest seems to work as well

wastelander

You are welcome, glad that you found a solution. As a general advice, better to never mix UG with previous Chromium installations.

Bertram

I didn't reuse stuff from a previous Chromium installation.
I just made an update.