Thanks for the tests Lonnie. So it looks like it's a bug that was fixed in chromium 69 (and you were not seeing it in chrome because the latest stable release is 69 already, whereas I'm in the process of updating the chromium packages to 69 in Ubuntu).
It's not necessarily something wrong with permissions/ownership of your file system. It could very well be NVIDIA-specific (I have an Intel GPU here). Given your feedback, I'm going to mark the bug fixed (chromium-browser 69.0.3497.81-0ubuntu1 is in cosmic and will make it to {xenial,bionic}-security soon). ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788441 Title: Chromium Freezes Upon Adding Folder to Bookmarks Bar To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1788441/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs