Bug#627148: chromium: 11.0.696.68 freezes after update (with old config or sync?)

[Jonathan Nieder]

(just forwarding to the bug log)
Thomas Renard wrote:

> The state for 11.0.696.71~r86024-1: It does not crash anymore (fine and
> this would be a "works for me" here) but it does bookmark syncing only
> (so no other parameters are synced with our currend chromium version).
>
> With every upstream version to the actual one (from 11.0.696.63 to
> 12.0.742.100) more syncing parameters began to work again.
>
> I did the tests with three machines: Debian/11.0.696.71~r86024-1,
> Debian/12.0.742.100, Win7/12.0.742.100. All machines amd64. Machines
> were cleaned up before installing the chrome/chromium browsers (deleted
> ~/.config/chromium). Started up one (11.0.696.71 once and on another
> test with the Deb/12.0.742.100) machine and filled up with bookmarks,
> plugins, settings, then started up the other browsers and started
> syncing there and checked up which bookmarks, settings and plugs were
> synced.
>
> 12 - 12 works, 12 - 11 does not, 11 - 12 either.
>
> I tried a syncing test with a 686-machine/chromium 11.0.696.71~r86024-1
> once - cross platform - but this also failed (11 - 11 negative too,
> bookmarks only).

Ah, good to know.  So the crash is fixed in 11 but for sync to work
reliably we'll need 12.