Google revoked access to the sync functionality to anything that's not Chrome on March 15th this year. This was discussed at length here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/future-of-chromium-in-ubuntu-with-google- blocking-sync/20567.
Patching the UI to make this clearer is out of the packaging scope I'm afraid. You could try suggesting this as an upstream bug (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry). ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- 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/1951571 Title: Profile menu doesn't allow you to sign in Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: The profile menu in Chromium apparently has had the sign in functionality disabled. When clicking "Add", Chrome takes you to a sign in page. Chromium has you create/modify profile locally. I presume this is Google specific code that can't be open sourced. If that's the case, the UI should make it clear that the sync functionality isn't available in Chromium - otherwise it looks like a bug to anybody vaguely familiar with Chrome's sync (which after all is typically used once in the lifetime of a browser install). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10 Package: chromium-browser 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-21.21-generic 5.13.18 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Nov 19 04:58:01 2021 DiskUsage: Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 ext4 22G 15G 6.2G 71% /home tmpfs tmpfs 16G 153M 16G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 ext4 22G 15G 6.2G 71% /home InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-06-23 (148 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420) MachineType: MSI MS-7978 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13.0-21-generic root=UUID=eae448fb-97c0-4bd7-bf3a-83836cf4b78a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 Snap.Changes: ID Status Spawn Ready Summary 20 Done 2021-11-18T09:37:12-06:00 2021-11-18T09:38:08-06:00 Install "chromium" snap 21 Done 2021-11-18T17:52:22-06:00 2021-11-18T17:53:09-06:00 Auto-refresh snaps "chromium", "core18" Snap.ChromeDriverVersion: ChromeDriver 96.0.4664.45 (76e4c1bb2ab4671b8beba3444e61c0f17584b2fc-refs/branch-heads/4664@{#947}) Snap.ChromiumVersion: /home/rfirmin/Downloads was removed, reassigning DOWNLOAD to homedir /home/rfirmin/Documents was removed, reassigning DOCUMENTS to homedir Chromium 96.0.4664.45 snap SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-21 (28 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 07/04/2018 dmi.bios.release: 5.12 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.E0 dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string dmi.board.name: H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978) dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2.E0:bd07/04/2018:br5.12:svnMSI:pnMS-7978:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnH170AGAMINGPRO(MS-7978):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:skuDefaultstring: dmi.product.family: Default string dmi.product.name: MS-7978 dmi.product.sku: Default string dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MSI To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1951571/+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
