Google is trying to kill it as of 2021: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/chromium-sync-google-api-removed The lack of sync is a major major blow. So selfish. Google makes billions, and it won't give in a little bit of settings storage...
This has happened a few times a day on Ubuntu 24.10 and Chromium 133. It has also been happening in previous versions of Ubuntu and Chromium.
As Ciro Santilli starts typing on the omnibox, sometimes the window freezes and the dreaded "is not responding" window shows up.
Opened one at: askubuntu.com/questions/1544448/chome-chromium-ui-sometimes-freezes-for-several-seconds-when-i-start-typing-on-t
Lol it is note possible what a joke. Notably this makes it harder to have of a superior third party password manager like Proton Pass (though there seems to be an autocomplete app as an alternative path), and an ad blocker. Fuck Google.
Also, Chromium is not available on Google Play by default, you can install the apk, but you will miss updates:
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HTML Standard by WHATWG. Introduction, web platform scope and quick HTML example; document processing and scripting model
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CSSOM View Module by World Wide Web Consortium. Viewports, Zooming and the VisualViewport interface
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