Chromium Browser No Saved Passwords

[Agentl074]

So, since software manager does not hold the Brave repository yet, I started using the Chromium browser -- which is decent, but it will not store passwords. Is there a fix in the future?

[RamBurner]

They stopped it from syncing a couple months ago also, which made it useless for me.

[mintmdrescher]

They stopped it from syncing a couple months ago also, which made it useless for me.

Hi RamBurner,

I came here to ask, if someone has experienced the same problem I have since today. Seeing this, my question would be, who is 'they' in this context?
For me, chromium-browser (95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on LinuxMint 19.3) stopped syncing today. I see a 'Not signed in' in this avatar thing on the top left.
Tried all the tricks and hints and what not, but this particular browser does not sign in. Works well on some different Linux machines, so I'm sure, the account is not broken in any way shape or form.

Thanks, have a nice evening!

[Agentl074]

I am just holding my breath for Brave to show up on Flatpak....

[legacypowers]

So, since software manager does not hold the Brave repository yet, I started using the Chromium browser -- which is decent, but it will not store passwords. Is there a fix in the future?

if you want to use Brave, use Brave.

We will have to use the terminal but don't be intimidated.
Be sure to have curl installed and apt-transport-https, just to be sure execute this

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sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

Add the brave repository key into your keyring ( i recommend copy and paste into the terminal )

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sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

Add the brave repository to your "installed repositories"( also recommend copy and paste into the terminal)

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echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

Update your package manager cache using this command line

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sudo apt update

then you should be able to install Brave using this command line

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sudo apt install brave-browser

[bendipa]

So, since software manager does not hold the Brave repository yet, I started using the Chromium browser -- which is decent, but it will not store passwords. Is there a fix in the future?

I use Chromium and store all my passwords locally, having imported them from Firefox which I used to use. It's perfectly safe, as in order to use Chromium I have to login to it each time I start a new Mint session.

[RamBurner]

They stopped it from syncing a couple months ago also, which made it useless for me.

Hi RamBurner,

I came here to ask, if someone has experienced the same problem I have since today. Seeing this, my question would be, who is 'they' in this context?
For me, chromium-browser (95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on LinuxMint 19.3) stopped syncing today. I see a 'Not signed in' in this avatar thing on the top left.
Tried all the tricks and hints and what not, but this particular browser does not sign in. Works well on some different Linux machines, so I'm sure, the account is not broken in any way shape or form.

Thanks, have a nice evening!

@mintmdrescher "They" is Google. They found a security flaw in it and stopped syncing in chromium-browser. They may re-enable it sometime, but who knows.

[alang886]

I had the same issue, I'm using Microsoft Edge now, which is working without issues.

So, since software manager does not hold the Brave repository yet, I started using the Chromium browser -- which is decent, but it will not store passwords. Is there a fix in the future?

[Agentl074]

I decided to use the Brave repository and manually command it... all is well.

https://brave.com/linux/

Just run each command -- copy and paste.