I just noticed hundreds of chromium.launcher processes running on my
machine with `sleep 60` and found that it's because of this fix. Looks
like this background process is started but nerver stopped? nor does it
checks if it's already running. This is especially visible in my case
because I'm running automated tests starting chrome using capybara, and
it'll be the same for everybody doing integration tests with chrome I
guess.

Maybe a good fix would be to check if this background process is already
running to not start it again?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/201687/79634864-773b1300-816d-
11ea-98f5-1a677aca60dd.png

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Title:
  [snap] suggestion: alert users when the snap has been refreshed while
  running

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  When the chromium snap is being automatically refreshed to a newer
  revision while the app is running, undefined behaviour might happen,
  as well as data loss (because the profile folder is versioned). This
  issue is regularly being reported (see e.g. the duplicates of bug
  #1616650).

  Jamie has an interesting suggestion to mitigate this situation, until
  refresh app awareness becomes default:

      « […] it would be possible for you to run something in the
  background that could occasionally see if the current symlink changed,
  and then alert to restart

      whenever refresh app awareness lands, it could be converted to see
  if something is pending, if so, prompt/alert to stop to have updates
  applied, or something

      simple idea is to nohup a script in a wrapper before invoking
  chromium proper

      iirc, firefox used to have UX built into it letting the user know
  it needed to be restarted, so there is some precedent for this sort of
  thing »

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