Google Chrome Problem
1 message · started by Rex Bouwense on Jan 24, 2020
Google Chrome Problem
From Rex Bouwense · Jan 24, 2020
For some reason an individual may want to install Google Chrome on his/her system instead of Chromium. And since using Linux is all about choice, who am I to object in spite of the fact that the application tracks you. In any event, occasionally when you install and then launch Google Chrome it will state in a popup that the key ring was not unlocked at startup and it will ask you for a password to unlock it. Of course your password will not work. I raised this problem with Devi and he quickly offered a possible solution. https://askubuntu.com/questions/31786/chrome-asks-for-password-to-unlock-keyring-on-startup. After trying the solution on two separate desktop computers that Ubuntu 18.04.3 installed on them, I can confirm that the offered solution on that website and on https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2377036&p=13708937#post13708937 work.
You switch to
basic for the password store
basic is chrome's builtin password storage, but it stores
password's in plain text.
This is why chrome
defaults to using the Ubuntu keyring. They store password
encrypted.
To set it to default to use basic try this
cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
then open gedit (you can open it directly with the following command:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktopIn gedit Find each of the lines that begin with Exec and add --password-store=basic like so
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic %U
Save and then when you launch chrome you should never be asked for your password to open the keyring.