Actually, I ended up uninstalling Chrome and installing a chromium deb. Since no chromium deb exists in Ubuntu or Pop OS repositories anymore, I followed the instructions from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204571/how-to-install-chromium-without-snap to add the Debian stable repo and install Chromium from there instead.

the snap-based chromium cannot access files on my separately-mounted /opt filesystem. The non-snap chromium has no such limitation. Until or unless the snap version ever is able to access all the filesystems on my device, I am willing to live with the risk of a PPA-based version.

sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/' ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences sed -i 's/"exit_type": "Crashed"/"exit_type": "Normal"/' ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences

The best way to now perform this task, without having to use incognito, is to adjust two settings in the Chromium preferences. They are: exited_cleanly exit_type

sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ && echo '{ "URLWhitelist": ["magnet://*"] }' |sudo tee /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/whitelist.json

Here is a link to install a deb version of chromium, seems like it be easier to use another browser myself.

Not sure but might be a chromium snap problem. Snaps have very few permissions, can try going to software centre/store and see if you can give more permissions, should just be on/off switch, or might need to use another browser(deb not snap). Chromium might have a deb only version now again, but not sure if for 19.10 or only 20.04.

This solution also works for chromium-browser.

If you’d prefer not to allow third-party cookies, and if you’re using a Chromium browser (like Chrome or Brave), you can allow cookies from the extension itself. In this case, you’ll allow cookies from [*.]bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek.

sudo apt purge chromium-browser chromium-chromedriver Bye bye, fake Chromium packages.

Debian still maintains Chromium as a regular package in their APT repository. We can configure Ubuntu to get it from there, and continue to receive timely security updates along with all of our other OS updates. This makes sense from a security perspective, since Debian is where Ubuntu already gets most of its packages, and is a very well known high-profile project. There is no need to risk installing software from some random source or telling your system to trust a PPA.

You can use Chromium from the Debian buster repository.

The strangest "quirk" I had was that I couldn't get the web browser to save a file directly to an attached, encrypted drive. Permissions problem. So I had to save to an interim folder then move it across by hand. Utter pain.

Chromium is a very popular web browser, the fully open source counterpart to Google Chrome.

The chromium browser has been available as a deb package for all supported Ubuntu releases and as a snap since version 60, and the time has come to start transitioning away from the debs.

All right, whoever, who wanted to get the latest Chromium work without worrying about snaps, get it from here 15, unzip it and make a executable link to executive file “chrome” in it. It opens instantaneously (in a snap). This Chromium web browser is NOT installed, but lives in a folder called chrome-linux.