Cannot save images in chromium

[vocal cypress]

Firefox works fine. for testing, directory is owned by user and user group, permissions rwx. Yes, using firefox is an alternative, but I would like a fix for this issue as well.

Only output in terminal is this:

Gtk-Message: 03:34:57.716: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

(process:677989): Gtk-WARNING **: 03:34:59.219: Attempting to add 'file:///home/hearth/travelpics/savedamnit.avif' to the list of recently used resources, but no name of the application that is registering it was defined

On wayland + hyprland, chromium v. 122.0.6261.94-1, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland is installed.

Not sure how else I can get at logs/what info would be helpful.

What actually happens when trying to save:

1. Right click image -> save as.
2. File browser pops up. Not thunar, it's some default thing. Looks a bit like nautilus, works even if nautilus isn't installed.
3. Name it whatever, pick folder. Hit save.
4. Nothing happens. No error, no weird visual artefacts, nada.

Thanks for any help 👍

[misty trail]

@vocal cypress does google-chrome work?

[vocal cypress]

Yes. Not sure how different chromium and chrome are these days.

chromium-snapshot-bin from the AUR also works, which is the nightly build, but when I use that it completely ignores the 'force darkmode' flag which is pretty annoying for me.

[misty trail]

why not use google-chrome instead of chrommium?

[vocal cypress]

I guess I will for now. I am a bit concerned long-term though with the recent ublock cat and mouse. I usually watch youtube with mpv, but still...

I will try the ungoogled version too, I didn't want to compile it but it seems there are repos with -bin packages out there.

I only started using it over firefox because some stuff I need pretty regularly is currently borked in ff

ah ok an ungoogled build doesn't work either.

ok for some mysterious reason it has started working again.

[misty trail]

all chrommium browsers have the ublock "cat and mouse" game

[vocal cypress]

not really sure what's with that. I played with some systemd services, removed a chromium flag and added it back...

[vocal cypress]

yes. but I'm not really sure of the specifics of the issues. I figured it's probably easier for them to 'win' the cat and mouse the more google cruft there is in there. (again, depending on specifics, which I know nothing about.)

there was a while in 2023 when I was affected by the cat and mouse on firefox too which I hadn't really seen before that point

came and went pretty quickly mind

[misty trail]

google has already won

[vocal cypress]

has it? I mean, in browser user share and other areas relating to privacy sure.
but ublock specifically? I have no issues blocking ads on youtube when I do opt to use a browser over mpv.

[misty trail]

why not use firefox?

[vocal cypress]

I do! but as I said, I have some issues with specific sites, so I temporarily use chromium for some things until they are fixed.

[misty trail]

install this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

pick chrome, linux and hit apply