Chromium upgrade breaks more than it fixes

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[George from New England]

Anybody using Chromium 98.0.4758.102 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)

My son upgraded it last night for me.

There are things I need google search results for and ...

When I type in search box I see the cursor move, and invisible typing occurs. The drop down suggestions appear incomplete. If I am searching for btc. I see an invisible position in the text box and the suggestions appear "itcoin, etc. The first character is invisible, even in the suggestion drop down.

Upgrades: One step forward, three step back.

[George from New England]

I expect to hear, use StartPage !!

Just not as good at times.

[bert]

EDGE

[mjp]

On 2-18, I downloaded the KB4023057 update, the optional windows 10 version of 21H1 for x64 based systems. It completely uninstalled my Libra office program without my permission. Now all the libra office documents on my computer appear as Word documents instead of Libra office documents.

[Red Badger]

Ping!.................

[Red Badger]

I use Brave...................

https://brave.com/

[ArcadeQuarters]

Same here but Brave is built on Chromium so I’m holding off on this upgrade.

[BipolarBob]

it signs me out of websites and I’m unable to access certain sites so I have to go another browser.

[gibsonguy]

You could not make worse choice than google as a search engine. If you do nothing else change that.

[norcal joe]

What the heck is Chromium? (Other than a heavy metal.)

[minnesota_bound]

#3 Change the default program back to LibreOffice.
Right click on say a Word doc icon and in the menu choose Open with> Choose another app and choose LibreOffice.

You can also just open libreoffice and it should tell you “the following file formats are not registered to be opened by default in LibreOffice”.

Click OK to fix.
A window will pop open and you can check the box next to the file formats then click on the Save button.
Close LibreOffice and then you can double click on the LibreOffice icon that should be back.

Example when I open LibreOffice I see the message above after MS Office took over once:
.odp
.odt
.ods

[minnesota_bound]

Vivaldi is much better.
https://vivaldi.com

[Tell It Right]

Chromium is the API back end from Google (Chrome browser) that newer web browsers like MS Edge and Brave are based on. The idea is that most people liked the Google Chrome browser, so instead of keeping on re-inventing the wheel every time HTML changes or people's expectations change on how objects are laid out on the page, just let the Google Chrome back-end figure all that out in your Edge browser or Brave browser.

Ostensibly it's not supposed to be spying on you like Google Chrome does. Ostensibly.

[dayglored]

What operating system are you on? I have Chrome installed in Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux 18 and 20, and MacOS Catalina and Monterey — None of them are showing the symptoms you describe.

[gracefullyparanoid]

Chromium is an open source browser. Google skins it, adds their surveillance and spyware and calls it “Chrome”. There are other versions of chromium including MS Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera. Chromium is basically Chrome without the google add ons. It doesn’t sent all your personal information back to the google collective to control you.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Mint 20.4 here and same. No issues.

[dayglored]

One other important distinction. Chromium -- the browser "foundation" on which all those other browsers are built -- is completely public open source, and there are thousands of professional programmers constantly looking at it to find bugs, hidden stuff, etc. That keeps it very clean, spyware-wise.

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and the others add their own "special sauce", which CAN contain spyware, because the additional code is often not open source.

[Gaffer]

I spent hours and hours removing anything from my computer that even smacked of Google. Chrome? Chromium? Just more Google, AFAIC...

[dayglored]

I suspect a local problem on George’s machine.

[daniel1212]

"Upgrades: One step forward, three step back."

In terms of best functionality, I think Chrome has always been behind Firefox, while Firefox Quantum was one step forward, three step back in that regards, but not in speed and security.

[daniel1212]

"Vivaldi is much better. https://vivaldi.com"

Yes, I think Vivaldi is the best Chromuim-based browser, as long as I can do this:

EASY VIVALDI MULTI-ROW GUIDE

Go into vivaldi://experiments/ and enable “Allow for using CSS modifications”
Use Windows Explorer to create your alternative custom folder.
Go into Vivaldi Settings/Appearance, under “Custom UI Modifications”, and select the alternative custom folder. This allows your customizations to survive updates, at least for now.
In that custom folder (in Windows Explorer) create a text file and rename it “custom.css”. It can’t have any spaces in the name.
In the new .css file copy and paste all the info from nomadic’s Vivaldi forum post here on page 6 (or later if someone updates it?) [https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/442801]. Notice that there is more there than you first see (scroll bar)!
Save (as unicode in Notepad++, it said I would lose info if I didn’t use unicode), and restart Vivaldi.
I will monitor this thread for a few days if anyone wants to help me write this better (maybe I edit it?). But everyone feel free to write/re-write this going forward! Obviously I just rewrote what smarter people here already said. Thanks again, team! - https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/445548

Multiple tab rows as with Firefox hacks is here: https://adamfeuer.com/notes/2021/06/06/multiple-rows-of-tabs-in-firefox-89-proton/ or here https://blog.grebulon.com/multi-row-tabs-in-firefox-71/