Love Starbucks but don’t love IE and Firefox? Starbucks may not love you back.

Lately I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend in emails I get from Starbucks. For some reason the images wouldn’t load in my Gmail on Chromium, even when I used their link to view the message in my web browser. I would always have to fire up Firefox just to drag the link into a tab to open the page. I finally got sick of it and sent them an email about it on Saturday.

The emails I get from My Starbucks Rewards always come in with broken images, even when I click the link to view it in a browser tab. The issue occurs in Chromium (16.0.912.75 (Developer Build 116452 Linux) Debian wheezy/sid) and Google Chrome (15.0.874.121), both with my ad blocking software disabled, but not in my alternate browsers: Firefox (9.01) and Opera (11.60). I really hate having to open another browser just to see the images in your emails.

Yesterday I got a response from them that made me wonder how much I want to keep giving Starbucks my business. rather than copy and paste their response I took a screenshot so you can see I’m not changing what they sent.

Yes, you read that correctly. “Unfortunately the website and other elements such as the e-mails we send are only designed to work with the correct coding that Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox use.” I sent back a response pointing out that it’s 2012 and not everyone uses Firefox or IE, and I don’t expect a reply. I actually had to take a bit of time to make sure that I wasn’t coming off as a geeky jerk, and I planned on just letting the matter drop completely but last night I decided to share their email with our readers.

When I tried to get a screen capture of one of their broken emails the emails displayed properly, but that’s no guarantee that they’ll always display properly. Consider this post a word to the wise.

[HOWTO] QuickTip: Do you use the OxyXmas icons but can’t change the icon for Chromium on LMDE with KDE SC 4.7.2?

Earlier this week I installed the OxyXmas icons as part of my holiday decorations, but no matter what I did I couldn’t get the icon for Chromium to change. I finally looked at the settings in the Chromium desktop file (/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop) and found the problem. There’s an icon for chromium-browser but not for chromium, which is how the browser is identified in LMDE. It turns out the fix is very simple.

• Download the OxyXmas tarball from KDE-Look.org if you don’t have it on your hard drive. Extract the tarball.
• Before creating the various icon sizes drill down to the OxyXmas/128x128/apps directory
• Copy the chromium-browser icon by manually copying it in Dolphin or by running cp chromium-browser.png chromium.png in the terminal
• Go back to the main OxyXmas directory
• In a terminal window working in the main oxyXmas directory run ./iconvert
• Install the icon theme via systemsettings or by copying the oxyXmas directory to /usr/share/icons/ or ~/.kde/share/icons (I prefer the latter)
• Open the System Settings dialog and go to Application Appearance > Icons and select the OxyXmas – OxySeasons Xmas-Theme and click Apply.

Voilà! You can now use the OxyXmas theme and show the Chromium icon sporting a jolly Santa hat.

How does my desktop look for the season? Here’s a clean shot:

And here’s a dirty shot:

Thanks to spacepenguin for creating this fun set of icons.

[HOWTO] Fixing Chromium on Linux Mint Debian Edition with KDE SC 4.7.2

Yesterday I wrote about updating to KDE SC 4.7.2 and the fact that Chromium broke thanks to a long known issue in Debian testing repos. My original fix was to install Google Chrome, but that wasn’t that great of a fix because I really want to run Chromium, not Chrome. Although running Chrome seems to fix the problem of missing the first character of Facebook status updates, which is a royal PITA. Today wayne128 shared a fix he uses to get past the “Aw snap!” messages.

NOTE: Please note that this fix uses an unusual source for getting the updated Chromium packages. If you add this source to your sources.list please disable it once you get Chromium installed to prevent other breakages.

The fix is to use a repository for aptosid. Before we add the repo let’s make a backup of your sources.list.

kdesudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup

Now open sources.list by running this command in your terminal

sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

Here’s the repo to add at the bottom of the list:

deb http://oscar.aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main
#deb-src http://oscar.aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main

You can leave the source code entry commented out or you can enable it by removing the “#” at the start of the line. Save and close the file and let’s get your package list updated.

sudo apt-get update

Let’s check to make sure your system can see the right version by running apt-cache policy chromium in your terminal. No sudo is needed for this command. You can ignore the version listed for Installed but the Candidate version should match this

~$ apt-cache policy chromium
chromium:
Installed: 15.0.874.106~r107270-1+c0.aptosid.1
Candidate: 15.0.874.106~r107270-1+c0.aptosid.1
Version table:
*** 15.0.874.106~r107270-1+c0.aptosid.1 0
500 http://oscar.aptosid.com/debian/ sid/fix.main amd64 Packages
500 ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/aptosid/debian/ sid/fix.main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
15.0.874.106~r107270-1 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
14.0.835.202~r103287-1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
~$

If the candidate version matches you’re ready to take the next step. If you already have Chromium (the browser) installed run sudo apt-get upgrade and make sure chromium is available to be upgraded.  Otherwise run sudo pat-get install chromium in your terminal. Either way you get Chromium 15.0.874.106~r107270-1+c0.aptosid.1 you can now launch it and be able to use the browser instead of being greeted with “Aw snap!” on every tab you open.

You’re almost done with the task. Before you go back to your web surfing open sources.list again and comment the lines you’ve added out by putting “#” at the start of each line. That way you won’t have to worry about getting prompted about updates you don’t need.  When Chromium gets fixed in Debian it should make the aptosid repos unnecessary, and if Debian updates it and you end up with the error messages again it will be an easy process of uncommenting the lines, getting aptosid’s newest packages and commenting them out again.

You can see wayne1287′s post itself on the Linux Mint Forums.

On a side note, you’ll see a number of packages being held back, and I wouldn’t worry about it. I’m not sure why the packages are being held back but I haven’t missed any held back package since I’ve done these updates. (If someone knows why they’re held back please leave it in the comments so we can get the info.) Updating and upgrading in the terminal will keep some packages held back but if you select all the updates in Synaptic they’ll be installed so I wouldn’t update with Synaptic if you’re running KDE SC 4.7.2 on Linux Mint.

Get past the On The Media splash screen in Chromium

One of my favorite NPR programs in On The Media (OTM), a show that looks at how media covers and reacts to events in our world. Unfortunately for users of the Chromium (and Google’s Chrome) browser they added a splash screen to offer their listeners to give to help support OTM. I say unfortunately because Chromium has gotten stuck on the splash screen. After contacting OTM about the problem I discovered that the problem is that cookies aren’t being set properly, and have found a solution for the problem.

The problem is that Chromium isn’t seeing the cookies that OTM is trying to set, as you can see in the image on the left. It sees the cookie for player.vimeo.com, but not the four cookies from onthemedia.org, as seen in the cookie info window from Firefox (on the right of the image). To fix that we have to create filter to allow cookies from onthemedia.org. Click on the cookie icon in the omnibar and select Manage cookie blocking… A new tab will open with the cookie management section of your content settings. Scroll to the bottom of the window and create a filter as shown below.

In the text box type [*.]onthemedia.com, with Allow selected in the listbox on the right. Simply press Enter on your keyboard and the new filter will be created. Go back to the tab with the OTM site and refresh the tab. Now you can click the OTM splash screen’s CONTINUE TO OTM WITHOUT PLEDGING button and go to the OTM home page.

I have filed Issue 85713: Cookies from onthemedia.org are not recognized on the Chromium bug tracker to try and get this bug fixed for future releases.

[HOWTO] Open PDF files within Chrome

One of the pet peeves for users of Google’s Chrome and the Chromium browser is that you can’t open PDF files within the browser. No matter what the source, as soon as the browser detects a PDF file it asks where you want to save it. It didn’t help matters earlier this year when Chrome devs bundled PDF support in the browser itself and began ignoring PDF-capable plugins.

Today I finally found a solution for the matter. In the Google Chrome Pdf plug-in is missing thread on the Ubuntu Forums kalyp provided a solution for us:

Actually I don’t know about the plugin, but I just googled again this issue this morning and found http://www.google.com/support/forum/…bace6c42&hl=en

I tried the “popular answer” and it works!!

I checked it out, and with one minor change (that could either be due to the fact that I’m using Linux Mint rather than Ubuntu or the fact that I’m running KDE rather than GNOME) I am finally able to open a PDF file right in Chromium rather than having to download the bugger and specifically open it in my PDF viewer. Here are the steps I followed, with the one I didn’t need struck through.

• Using your preferred package manager install acroread
• Install mozplugger
• Rename /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.nppdf.so to something like OLD_npwrapper.dppdf.so (It seems to have something to do with Chrome not recognizing my PDF plugin but my system doesn’t have that file)
• Edit /etc/mozpluggerrc (around line 78) to change
  define(ACROREAD, [repeat swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"]) to define(ACROREAD, [repeat needs_xembed swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])

Restart Chrome and when you go to about:plugins you should see the Mozplugger plugin. To check it go to a website with PDF files you like (I love getting the PDFs of the current issue of a local paper at http://www.mysouthend.com/) and click on a link to a PDF file. It should open the PDF file right within your browser.

Does it work? If so mark it SOLVED on your personal bug tracking list.

Many thanks to kalyp on the Ubuntu Forums. It may have come on Boxing Day but it’s one sweet belated Chrismukkuh present!

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Get new apps from the Chrom Web Store

I love using Chromium, the open source variant of Chrome, Google’s web browser based on the WebKit engine. Google is also working on the Chrome OS, a new operating system based on GNU/Linux, and as I’ve been checking the updates coming down the pike for the developer builds of Chromium I’ve seen a number of fixes for the operating system.

Why did I say all that? Because this past week Google launched the Chrome Web Store, a great way to get applications you love running right within your web browser. I found a story on OMG! Ubuntu! about enabling web apps in the Chrome browser on Ubuntu and went to the store and looked around. Before I get into some of the apps I found take a look at this video about Chrome’s web apps.

The Chrome Web Store is actually a one-stop shop for finding not just web apps but also extensions and themes for Chrome and Chromium. I already have a number of extensions installed on Chromium (of course) I started looking through the web apps available, but the first app I had to look for is TweetDeck. (I had seen mention of TweetDeck in the Web Store on Facebook but for the life of me I can’t find it now.) TweetDeck is the app I use to post links on my blog to both Facebook and Twitter, although I started using it when I first got on Twitter. My biggest complaint with TweetDeck is that it requires Adobe Air, and the combination seems to be a bit of a resource hog, so I hoped having it in Chromium would be a little easier on the appetite.

Installing it was a breeze, and as you can see from the screenshot your web apps show up on your New Tab page. I had already created an account with TweetDeck, although it isn’t needed to use the software. The plus for having an account with them is that you can log in with your TweetDeck account and whether you’re using the app itself or the Chrome app it will automatically get your settings so you don’t have to setting things up all over again.

And yes, TweetDeck as a web app is nowhere near as ravenous as it is on Air. You also don’t have to worry about having to reinstall anything when updates come out because the Chrome Web Store automatically applies any updates without your having to do anything, although I’d really prefer it if Chrome would at least let me know an update for add-on software is available before it installs it.

What things are in the Chrome Web Store that you’d like to use? We’d love to hear what they are, and you never know. We may not even have seen them yet and end up loving them as well.

Chromium Daily works again

If you’re like me and use the daily builds of the Chromium browser you undoubtedly discovered that several sites, including Gmail and the issue tracking section of the Google Code project hosting site, flat out refused to load. At first I thought it was due to Issue 40221: Incessant “Page unresponsive” errors in latest published build (Win, Mac, Linux), but it turns out that was a Chrome issue, not a Chromium issue, and Chromium users were referred to Issue 43042: Latest Ubuntu chromium-browser broke Gmail and news.google.com. The problem in a nutshell is that build 46027 of version 5.0.393.0 broke something important and was unable to render pages. I also found Issue 43013: [regression] Chromium 5.0.393.0 will not load http://www.google.com, that displayed the same misbehavior.

While we were waiting for the fix to come down the pipeline some of us rolled back to version 5.0.391.0~svn20100428r45775 while some of us switched to the ‘dev’ build channel, which combines the joy of testing code without the possibilities of brand new untested code committing sexual crimes against canines. Either choice is better than what some of us consider the barely acceptable option (at best) of switching back to Firefox.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the daily PPA to see when an update was available, especially since yesterday I wouldn’t help notice that it was being reported that version Chromium 5.0.395.0 (Developer Build 46223) Ubuntu was resolving the issues from  build 46027 although newer builds on the PPA were failing. All day yesterday I was waiting for i386 packages for build 46539 to build, wondering if it was supposed to take over 3 hours for the packages to build. This morning the updates were ready for me to install and I’m very happy to say that I’m finally back to using current nightly builds of the Chromium browser without problems on any sites I’ve tried. Gmail works, Google News works, the Chromium issue tracking site works, and even Twitter works.

I am running Chromium daily builds on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, but I have a few issues to track down before I post my thoughts on it. I will say it’s working fairly well, but a couple of instances are being a royal PITA. I want to say they’re fixed, or at least identified better, before I post my review of the upgrade.

Chromium getting you down? I finally found out what’s sexually assaulted the poor pooch

I’ve been enjoying the new Radiance theme that was created for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I’ve been meaning to post the way to get the new theme and scrollbars in the Chromium web browser. I was even going to mention that adding the scrollbars extension finally fixes the missing stepper issue in Chromium, which is great news to those who disagree with the Chromium devs who feel there’s little or no need for steppers in the GNU/Linux versions. (I too think they’re dead wrong on that matter, regardless of whether or not other OSes have them.)

But for the last several days I couldn’t help noticing that Chromium has wanted been crashing so often that I could hardly do a bloody thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to open a link, no matter whether the link started in my browser, my Twitter app or even my email/RSS app. It would be click… CRASH! It’s gotten to the point where I’ve considered doing some of my browsing in Epiphany or Opera just to be able to use URI’s without crashing every few minutes. Or less.

I hate to admit this but I’d gotten really bad about not checking my email and news feeds in Evolution lately. I’d read my email online, but I just wouldn’t make the time to fire up Evo and look at the messages that came in through it. If I had I would have see Tuesday’s post on Jorge’s Stompbox entitled Sad chromium tabs got you down?

Just a warning that the chrome-ubuntu-theme scrollbar extension has been causing crashes for people. Mike Basinger reported the bug here but it appears to be triggering a webkit bug.

Disabling the extension fixes the crashes for me.

While I hate losing my themes scrollbars and the setters that went with them I have to say that simply disabling the extension removed the issue on my system. I didn’t even need to restart Chromium, which is a damned nice things since my ability to recover crashed tabs isn’t exactly reliable.

Yooouge thanks to Jorge Castro for discovering and publishing the workaround. I definitely owe you a bewskie or two. At least.

Peng’s links for Tuesday, 26 January

Ack! I meant to write another links post two weeks ago! I hate when things get so busy that I can’t blog for two weeks.

• Ante Karamatić: Is this for real? Ante found some interesting screenies in his sister’s high school IT textbook. They teach IT in high school? Damn, have things changed that much since I graduated in ’78?
• Jordi Mas: gbrainy 1.30. Once again the leading (?) open source smartness app gets an update, now bringing the ability to track your personal records, nine new verbal analogies and a new logic puzzle, as well as an improved scoring algorithm to the mix, as well as better multiplatform support.
• Elizabeth Krumbach: New Leader for the Ubuntu Women Project. I’ve been meaning to congratulate Amber Graner for being named as the leader of the Ubuntu Women Project for about ten days but I kept letting time slip away without blogging it. (I’m surprised that Nanci didn’t post about this, although I know she’s been about as busy as I’ve been so far this decade.) I’ve linked to some of her posts in the past and I’m glad to see that her work as a woman using Ubuntu has opened up this great opportunity for her. The project can only get better, and I don’t think there could be a better woman to lead the project. Amber has also written a post about her new position that you should take the time to read.
• Paul Cutler: Debunking GNOME 3.0 Myths. As news comes out about the upcoming GNOME 3 there are some things that GNOME 3 is supposed to bring that aren’t quite accurate. Paul gives us a great site to bookmark so we have quick access for when we hear something about GNOME 3 that seems almost too good to be true. Or even just a bit far-fetched. Shane Fagan also has an informative post about GNOME 3 and the shell and panel support, two subjects that are finding some confusion in the user community.
• David “Lefty” Schlesinger: Browser Discipline. Lefty has noticed that sometimes he has “a bazillion tabs” open in his browser. He found a nice solution that you may find helpful as well.
• Martin Owens: Ubunchu Chapter 04: Licensing. That’s right, all you manga lovers, there’s a new chapter in the ongoing story of Ubunchu, the world’s first Ubuntu manga written in English. They don’t have a left to-right copy of the newest issue for some reason, but don’t let that stop you from getting up to date on their adventures.
• Alan Pope: MiserWare Beta for Windows as well as Linux. You may have heard about this very nice software title for helping you save money on your electric bills, especially since it was initially a Linux-only app. It’s now available for Windows users, so if this app sounds like something you may be interested in and have a Windows box you should definitely check it out.
• Dustin Kirkland: LCA2010: Day 2, Wellington, New Zealand. While attending an open source software conference in New Zealand Dustin was able to sit in on a presentation that revealed the juicy little tidbit that Avatar, the latest blockbuster that has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing motion picture ever, used Ubuntu to render their digital effects and graphics. Yes, when I saw this news the geek in me definitely went squeee! Big thanks to Algot Runeman from the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo for bringing this news to my attention.
• Danny Piccirillo: Download Disobedience, pro-piracy campaign. I meant to pass this along last week because it’s a campaign aimed not at trying to get legal approval for theft of copyrighted materials but to raise awareness about the massive amount of misinformation that’s out there in the name of protecting intellectual property. He also has a nice vid protesting the heavy handed protection of the copyright of that old chestnut “Happy Birthday”.  Yes, it’s illegal to sing that without paying royalties, something Dan Rydell got slapped for doing. (Extra points to Danny for allowing me to include a link to one of my favorite shows. )
• Martin Owens: Generating Calendars. Picture this scenario: You want a hard copy of your calendar for the month but you want to have your birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates so you can let others consult it. And it can’t look like crap. Martin has info on a nice little app that can do just that, and he’s even been kind enough to share the 2010 calendar he made, but without his personal info. While it’s a bit late for helping you make personalized Chrismukkuh gifts you never know when you may find yourself needing just this kind of program.

Before I close this post I want to pass along some great news to people who want to use the Chromium browser but have heard that there are some annoying bugs that mat be keeping you from using it more often. Issue 24210 – Cannot drag a bookmark into desktop has finally been resolved (at least in the daily builds) so when you find a site you want to return to you can finally drag a bookmark to your desktop where you can remember that you want to revisit the page. In addition, Issue 2238 – Add search engine dialog doesn’t allow “{” (open curly brace) has also been resolved so you can use all those great bookmarklets you used in other browsers. There’s also a great extension for Google Chrome called Chromy that makes it easy to manage your bookmarklets, although it may not be as easy to use as it’s predecessor, Bookmarklets Manager. I just installed Chromy though so I may simply need to play with it a bit longer.

If you’ve begged for forward slash searching it hasn’t been added to Chrome or Chromium, but there’s an extension called Type-ahead-find that brings this function to Chrome although it’s not as easy as the behavior built into Firefox.

Of course I can’t close without extending my congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for winning the NFC Championship game on Sunday. I’m still amazed that they made it this far, especially after all the times they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the past. That gives the Crescent City even more to celebrate, especially with Mardi Gras Day 2010 about 20 days away.

I’ll try to get another post up in a few days, especially since I still have 18 items flagged for blogging. I do know that I may be offline for a day or three next week when I get my new SATA controller card and finally get my 160 GB hard drive installed. It will take some extra time because I’ll be doing a fresh Ubuntu install and creating a fresh user account, so I’ll also need to see about migrating some of my user data to the new account.

[UPDATED] Fixes for recent bugs affecting both Chromium and RSS readers on Ubuntu 9.10

[Updated 9 January to include a status update on the Chromium issue. -Peng]
[Updated 10 January to report that the daily build of Chromium is working again. -Peng]

A day or two ago I noticed that I’ve been having problems getting Evolution opened due to a glitch in the RSS plugin that also affects Liferea and my affect other RSS readers. You know you are affected by this bug when you launch your RSS reader in the terminal and see an error that says something like

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined symbol: soup_content_decoder_get_type

I found a thread on the Ubuntu Forums that has a great fix for this bugger. It turns out something happened withe the WebKit Team PPA and they have to do a major upgrade. The short form answer is that you should open Symantic and do a search for libsoup. Look for libsoup2.4-1 and libsoup-gnome2.4-1, then select each package one at a time and use Package > Force Version to select these versions:

• libsoup2.4-1_2.28.2-1~kkwkt1
• libsoup-gnome2.4-1_2.28.2-1~kkwkt1

Apply the changes and you should be able to open your app. Please do not accept upgrades for these packages until you see an updated package that’s newer than today (the best place to see that info is to check the PPA link I posted above and check for a published date that’s later than today).

The Evo bug is one I’ve been dealing with for a few days, but after getting the daily updates I was found that Chromium flat won’t run anymore.  Not even Epiphany would run anymore so I had to fire up Firefox to find a bug report. I found Issue 31809: chromium does not start: Inconsistency detected by ld.so. Comment 17 has a fix for us.

Please stop confirming. We have enough info to show that it’s reproducible on a bunch of different ubuntu distros so it’s not something else. the bug is definitely in chromium (or in the way it is built in ubuntu). The error message seems to indicate
something about memory corruption.

In the meantime, you can downgrade to yesterday’s version, or shift to one of the other channels/PPAs:

https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/dev
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/beta

fta’s comment about not needing to confirm it anymore is because most of the previous comments were “me too” comments. I added the first PPA (the “dev” one) and was able to roll back Chromium to a version that works (version 4.0.266.0 (Developer Build 33992)).

I need to run to the grocery store before the place gets too crazy but I wanted to make sure I had the fixes for these two issues posted before I run out the door.

Updated 9 January 8:15am: I just saw a comment on the Chromium bug that I wanted to pass along.

malloc overrides have been reenabled in r35823, using a different method.

Ubuntu folks: tomorrow’s PPA will not have any malloc overrides and the next day’s will have the new set. Hopefully that will be enough to disambiguate any issues.

At some point, bugdroid will wake up and spam this bug will all the change records

In other words if you’re running Ubuntu don’t take the update today (Saturday), wait until Sunday’s update is available. And before you accept the update pop over to the bug report and see if there’s a confirmation that the bug is fixed for us. I’ll update this post again when I have confirmation that the daily build runs on Ubuntu again. Big thanks to agl for fixing the bug and for making sure Ubuntu users have the status information we need for running this great browser.

Updated 10 January 9:35am: I am very happy to say that the Chromium Daily PPA once again has packages that can be used by users of Ubuntu 9.10. Open your Software Sources (Applications > System > Administration > Software Sources), go to the Other Software tab, and make sure the only Chromium PPA enabled is the PPA for Ubuntu Chromium – Daily Builds (http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu) or a similar source for your system. The PPA should not be the dev or beta source I listed in my original post. Then update your package information with sudo apt-get update and you should see that there are updates available for chromium-browser. As the screenshot on the right shows the version you want to take to is 4.0.295.0~svn20100110r35882-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic, specifically looking for “r35882″. Install the updates, close Chromium, and when you relaunch Chromium you should be able to go to about:version and see something like this:

Chromium 4.0.295.0 (Developer Build 35882) Ubuntu

If you can’t launch Chromium after installing version 4.0.295.0~svn20100110r35882-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic than I think it’s safe to say that either you didn’t get the proper version or you have a glitch in your old install. Go ahead and remove, but not purge, Chromium with sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser and then reinstall it (sudo apt-get install chromium-browser). That should get your system able to launch Chromium again.

Yooouge thanks to Fabien Tassin (aka fta) and the rest of the Chromium devs for helping us identify, workaround and resolve this issue for us. Each of us owe you at least a round of drinks.