[CentOS] Problem with chromium 89.0.4389.82

Sun Apr 4 16:52:27 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

On 04.04.21 18:29, H wrote:
> On 04/04/2021 11:24 AM, Richard wrote:
>>> Date: Sunday, April 04, 2021 10:19:34 -0400
>>> From: H <agents at meddatainc.com>
>>>
>>> I am running CentOS 7 and just updated chromium to version
>>> 89.0.4389.82 from EPEL.
>>>
>>> Although this version was released a few weeks ago, I had had the
>>> previous version of chromium (88.0.4324.150) running for several
>>> weeks but it crashed and the new version was then loaded.
>>>
>>> The older version worked fine but this new one refuses to load
>>> certain, ie most, websites that the old version did not have a
>>> problem with - it is jus stuck waiting for the domain in question.
>>> Further, the version of Firefox I also have installed loads all of
>>> them without any problems which suggests there is not a problem
>>> with those sites, the DNS resolution, nor with my system apart from
>>> chromium.
>>>
>>> Rpm does not allow me to downgrade to the previous version and
>>> cannot find the previous version. I remember having a similar
>>> problem loading websites at least a year ago which, if I remember
>>> correctly, was due to some bug in chromium.
>>>
>> Do you have firefox set to use DoH? That could change the perspective
>> of whether there is a DNS issue.
>>
>> With centos-7 you can use chrome, you don't have to use chromium.
>>
>> I use the rpms for chrome, for both the stable and beta releases --
>> currently at 89.0.4389.114 and 90.0.4430.51 respectively, from
>> google's repository without any issues.
>>
>>
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> 
> Understood. I checked and I cannot see that I am using DoH (DNS over https?) in Firefox. Since I have a vague memory of having had a similar problem with chromium in the past, I highly suspect it is a bug in the browser.
> 
> Where can I find the older release, ie 88.0.4324.150 of chromium? It is no longer in EPEL.
> 


Did you have the same issues with a new test account?


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Leon