[RESOLVED] Chromium Issue

[ticojohn]

I am running Jessie with XFCE desktop. Normally I use Firefox-ESR but there is one particular website for which I use Chromium. I have noticed that the first time I launch Chromium that Chromium takes a really long time to load (around 10 seconds). I tried launching from a terminal, and it launches much faster (less than one second), but I get a some interesting errors that I do not understand.

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john@JohnBoy:~$ chromium &
[1] 3712
john@JohnBoy:~$ [3712:3738:0831/153228.681372:ERROR:nss_util.cc(808)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
[3757:3757:0831/153228.746725:ERROR:child_thread_impl.cc(762)] Request for unknown Channel-associated interface: ui::mojom::GpuMain

What I have done, which doesn't eliminate these errors but makes it so I don't have to see them, is to create a desktop launcher.

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#! /bin/sh
chromium &
exit

So now I can just click on the icon and launch. No delay in loading.

I presume that something is missing in the installation, or maybe there is a keyring issue (I have the Gnome Keyring enabled). Can someone give me a hint as to what is causing the errors?

[ticojohn]

UPDATE: It appears that all of the ssl certificates are marked as untrusted! Why would that be? How do I update them? Guess I need to do a little more searching.

Tried to set TLS to max 1.2, as suggested in another post. Doesn't solve the issue. Still hoping for some feedback here!

[ticojohn]

Solved the issue. Got rid of Chromium!

[None1975]

Solved the issue.

How?

[ticojohn]

Solved the issue.

How?

Guess I shouldn't say solved the Chromium issue. I solved MY issues with Chromium by getting rid of it. So I will change SOLVED to RESOLVED.

The apparent problems are reported in many different forums. I have tried some of the suggestions, such as changing TLS maximum to TLS2, but that doesn't fix it. The issue seems to be with the ca-certificates which, when I look at them in Firefox, have an expiration date of 2014 but are also marked as PERMANENT. Chromium does not appear to want to accept them. Not much I can do. The Chromium developers are apparently aware of the issue.

[ticojohn]

To those that are going to cry foul:

I would like to further clarify my reasons for marking this RESOLVED and for removing Chromium.

As I stated earlier, there appears to be some issue with Chromium accepting the ca-certificates that are acceptable in Firefox. If Chromium is not accepting the certificates then how can I be assured that I am able to safely browse the web, and even further, how can I be assured that I have a safe connection to a secure site? The best choice, in my opinion, is to not use that browser. Therefore I removed Chromium thereby resolving any security concerns.

UPDATE: I tried Chromium on Stretch amd64 and do NOT see the same issue. So, it is either a 32 bit Chromium issue or a 32 bit Jessie issue. I do not have Jessie amd64 available to test.