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Chromium for 64-bit Windows - All Codecs: MS Visual Studio 2017
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Roaming Profile crashes Chromium at startup (v119 and above) #141

Closed BrianMwit closed 7 months ago

BrianMwit commented 7 months ago

Chromium ungoogled crash at startup if RoamingProfileSupportEnabled is enabled and a roaming profile already exist. https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=RoamingProfileSupportEnabled This policy used to work fine upto v118. It started crashing from v119 onward.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Policies\Chromium\RoamingProfileSupportEnabled to 1
  2. Download release v119 onward: https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases/tag/v119.6045.110-M119.0.6045.110-r1204232-Win64 in .7z format
  3. Run chrome.exe once, it will work fine and create a Roaming profile at %APPDATA%\Chromium\User Data\Default\profile.pb
    • This can be checked at chrome://sync-internals/ About tab > Local State > Local Backend Path
  4. Exit and restart chrome.exe again, it will crash at startup
  5. Change the registry back to 0, and chrome.exe will start again

I was unaware of this setting. When updating the version, chromium no longer start and I did not know why.

macchrome commented 7 months ago

I don't grant administrative (privileged) policies to ungoogled-chromium: I cannot and am not willing to check this issue,

BrianMwit commented 7 months ago

I can reproduce the issue by setting the policy at user level (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). No administrative (privileged) permission required. If you meant ungoogle-chromium do not have access to read policy settings, it should ignore the registry value rather than crashing.

The same issue does not occur on ungoogled-chromium-windows' build: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows/releases/tag/123.0.6312.105-1.1