Sven, allow me to contribute a few corrections/clarifications to your article:
« but as they use Chromium (the pre-installed open source version of the Google Chrome browser) » This is incorrect, chromium is not pre-installed. One has to go and install it from the package manager/software store. « ... and I do not understand the reaction - Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) wrote on 2020-04-23: "Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated." » Samuele referred to a comment that contained offensive language (thus violating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct) that was removed to keep the conversation civil. « $ snap remove chromium $ sudo apt install chromium-browser » Not every piece of advice on the internet should be followed blindly. The chromium-browser deb package is now a transitional package that installs the snap, so the above will obviously be a no-op. There are details about why this was done at https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium- in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-transition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps Status in snapd: Triaged Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/7952972d4897e085030b288e44dc98b824f6723a/userd/launcher.go#L55 snapd has a hard-coded list of allowed URL schemes. Currently that is limited to "http", "https", "mailto", "snap". We have a number of applications in the store which are trying to use protocol handlers outside this scope and break when that's not possible. e.g. Telegram Desktop: tg:/ Github Desktop: git:/ IRCCloud Desktop: irc:/ These are the ones I know of, others may also be affected. Can we please at least expand the list to those that we know of, and perhaps research other popular protocol handlers? Ideally we wouldn't have a whitelist, because this delays our ability to land new applications with as-yet unknown url schemes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
