Chrome has been complaining for a while that it's in need of an update.
It doesn't update through the normal process.
So, I download the latest, and attempt to install it.
It won't install, because libdrm2 is out of date. But! In the process of failing to install, it corrupted the previous version, which now won't launch at all. (Hey, guys? Why didn't the dependency check happen before making changes to the system?)
Argh.
Google won't let me download a down-rev version.
But! I have a version downloaded in January of this year. I can install that, and maybe try updating to the last version that was supported on this system?
Can install, yes. Can update, no. It points, apparently, to a repository with an invalid signature.
Oh, well. So I run a half-year-out-of-date browser for a while; maybe next month I'll finally switch over to the new workstation.
The January version does indeed run, and comes up with the windows and tabs that I had open before the attempted update. But....
Nothing will load, and I get a weird error message.
A little poking, and it demands that I sign back into my Google account.
After that, things more or less work. But the tabs I had open aren't open, and won't open on a reload; I have to click on the location bar and hit ENTER to make the page open.
And, my saved passwords aren't showing up. They're in Password Manager, but not in the browser. Just to make life extra fun, the browser, despite being set to offer to save passwords, doesn't do so. And all my cookies seem to have gotten tossed. And using Password Manager is a royal pain nowadays, requiring repeated sign-ins and extra UI levels to get anywhere.
Growf.
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