Chromium asking for default keyring

[MarkDH102]

Since updating Bookworm this morning, Chromium is now asking for a "Default keyring" whenever I launch it.
What is this exactly and do I really need it.
Bad enough that I've now also lost Ublock Origin...

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[stevend]

Since updating Bookworm this morning, Chromium is now asking for a "Default keyring" whenever I launch it.
What is this exactly and do I really need it.
Bad enough that I've now also lost Ublock Origin...

Consider switching to Firefox - it still supports such things.

[hippy]

Consider switching to Firefox

Unfortunately, on my Pi 4B 1GB Bookworm, Firefox runs but almost immediately hangs and requires a power-pull reset where Chromium is fine.

Regarding the keyring I simply gave it a password and carried on as usual.

'uBlock Origin' getting turned off wasn't a surprise. It would be nice if Raspberry Pi could pre-include whatever the recommended blocker now is to save having to figure that out oneself and the effort of installing it. I chose 'uBlock Origin Lite' and that's taking 'forever' to install; twenty minutes of the 'spinning thing' so far. I don't know if that's hung or what.

[MarkDH102]

OK. Annoyingly, I went to my usual Garmin website to keep track of my wife while she cycles (with her permission!) and it asked me to input the password that I used for the new keyring to stop that particular prompt coming up.
No other website has asked for it yet.
Is it possible to roll back to a previous version of Chromium. I'm not really keen on Firefox. Thunderbird is bad enough!

[pidd]

This keyring password thing isn't just Chromium, its something changed in the OS because Remmina (an RDP/VNC program) also asked last night when I was busy, created a password which I have now totally forgotten, also forgotten my VNC admin password so now I am locked out of all my remote Windows computers which I need to access now.

My biggest gripe is .that none of these pop-up boxes indicate which program has been the trigger, I thought it was something else of no concern. If I'd known it was Remmina I would have been loads more careful..

[MarkDH102]

pidd - this might help?
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=373677

[pidd]

pidd - this might help?
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=373677

Thanks, that is what I ended up doing after trying various other things. I also found that when it asked for VNC admin password", I misunderstood what it was asking for, it wanted the password of the user at the remote server, that way I managed to access my computers but VNC wouldn't store the passwords because of the keyring issue.

Apologies to OP for thread-stealing, I just wanted to indicate its not a Chromium issue per se, its any program that chooses to use the keyring to encrypt its password storage.

[tkonan]

Bad enough that I've now also lost Ublock Origin...

Grappling with both these issues also, I discovered that there's a simple replacement for Ublock Origin - Ublock Origin Lite.

[stevend]

Bad enough that I've now also lost Ublock Origin...

Grappling with both these issues also, I discovered that there's a simple replacement for Ublock Origin - Ublock Origin Lite.

Its not a direct replacement; the 'Lite' version is somewhat neutered compared with the original:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-ho ... -web-store

Possibly this will give you a little more time: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/15/googl ... ther-year/

See also:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/ ... 3_rollout/
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/ ... warns_end/