Solved (258573, 258679) Chromium unable to add extensions or download files

[Cath O'Deray]

… OpenBSD … run Chromium with --enable-unveil flag then it will be prevented from accessing anything other than the ~/Downloads directory. No such thing on FreeBSD …

Something like the opposite on FreeBSD. The second of these two bug reports:

• 258573 – www/chromium Could not install package: 'FAILED_TO_COPY_EXTENSION_FILE_TO_TEMP_DIRECTORY'
• 258679 – www/chromium: Unable to download files with chromium-92.0.4515.159_2

 

[Cath O'Deray]

I added an extension (Authenticator), then downloaded a file.

% pkg info -x chromium
chromium-97.0.4692.99
% date ; freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
Sun  6 Feb 2022 07:24:41 GMT
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #1 main-n252531-0ce7909cd0b-dirty: Wed Jan 19 13:29:34 GMT 2022     root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG  amd64 1400048 1400048
%

Solved.