ungoogled-chromium-windows: --disable-encryption not working anymore

Hi,

There is currently an issue with the patch to disable encryption to allow portability (Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#591) on Windows. Looks like this regression occurs between Chromium 76.0.3809.132 to Chromium 77.0.3865.75 (see https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3385#issuecomment-545787343 and portapps/brave-portable#33). Do you have any idea about this @tangalbert919 @Eloston? I would like to fix this on Brave and ungoogled-chromium but hard to find something relevant. I have this output when I open ungoogled-chromium (80.0.3987.149) if --disable-encryption is enabled:

[1896:2800:0323/163555.011:ERROR:os_crypt_win.cc(102)] Failed to decrypt: Clé non valide pour l’utilisation dans l’état spécifié. (0x8009000B)

Thanks

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okay, i just tested this a bit.

turns out that you should use --user-data-dir=profile --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id on shortcut ,in your first use before you even have a user profile if you plan to backup for use in other pc or use it for portable, remember to disable clear cookies on exit.

if you enable it on flags without using --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id on shortcut before creating profile, you might encounter cookies delete when restart even if you disable clearing cookies on exit, so best just to use it via cli shortcut

Also, dont switch off --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id, it will clear cookies and reset if you remove it

achose369 on May 27, 2023

Just to clarify - I’m not saying the location of the [profile] folder (could be [user-data-dir]\Default, or [user-data-dir]\Profile 1, [user-data-dir]\Profile 2… based on your use case) is changed. I’m saying the Cookies file has moved. For example, prior to 97, it likely resided as [user-data-dir]\Default\Cookies, but after 98 it is [user-data-dir]\Default\Network\Cookies. If there is a script that deletes the Network folder as a whole, then the Cookies file inside it is deleted as a result. I do write my own (super aggressive) script to clean the junks of Chrome, so such minor internal file shifting sometimes causes me trouble.

And yes please try a new profile. That’s a good first-step for trouble-shooting.

jiangzhenjerry on Feb 8, 2022

Not true, try running your ‘portable’ app on another machine. https://portapps.io/app/ungoogled-chromium-portable/#known-issues

kleuter on Feb 8, 2022

No, this issue still exists. Please refer to the details in #1239.

jiangzhenjerry on Apr 6, 2021