I have issue with this on ubuntu 20.04 focal, I have setup the color emoji for chromium and another program for using. Once I update to 20.04 and it using snap version of chromium, It turn back to black and white emoji which is quiet annoy me for spending time to debugging it and find out that is snap version causing it.
I have turn the chromium-browser back to deb version and it all back to normal. -- 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/1794354 Title: [snap] emoji show as black and white if fonts-symbola is installed Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using the Chromium Snap from the Beta channel. Test Case ========= 0. Be sure you don't have the Chromium deb running. 1. Visit https://launchpad.net/bugs/1779569 The rainbow emoji ๐ should show in color 2. sudo apt install fonts-symbola 3. Close Chromium. Wait a few moments to make sure it closes then open it and repeat step 1 4. The rainbow emoji ๐ shows in black and white Other Info ========== Firefox and GTK apps like gedit correctly show ๐ in color as long as fonts-noto-color-emoji is installed, regardless of whether fonts-symbola is also installed. I also was unable to duplicate this bug with the Firefox Snap [edge channel 63.0b9-1 (134)]. System Info =========== Ubuntu 18.10 fonts-noto-color-emoji 0~20180810-1 $ snap info chromium name: chromium summary: Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome publisher: Canonicalโ contact: https://forum.snapcraft.io/ license: unset description: | An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. commands: - chromium snap-id: XKEcBqPM06H1Z7zGOdG5fbICuf8NWK5R tracking: beta refresh-date: 8 days ago, at 13:41 EDT channels: stable: 69.0.3497.100 (494) 141MB - candidate: 69.0.3497.100 (494) 141MB - beta: 70.0.3538.16 (487) 142MB - edge: 70.0.3538.9 (472) 142MB - installed: 70.0.3538.16 (487) 142MB - To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1794354/+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
