On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
A profile (for a browser) is where you bookmarks/cookies/cache and other associated stuff needed exist.
You can typically (on most browsers) have more than one profile.
If you aren't running chromium currently then you delete the files. You might do a "ps -elf | grep -i chromium" and make sure you only see the grep.
After removing all thing chromium under my home directory, I got the authentication required message. Of course, it didn't like any password I had, but it ran after I gave up and clicked on cancel.
Chromium sure has some crappy code in it.