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Explain how to enable USB on snap-packaged Chromium #984

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Expand Up @@ -130,14 +130,15 @@ <h2><a href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></h2>
<p>Officially supported browsers for the web install method:</p>

<ul>
<li>Chromium (outside Ubuntu, since they ship a broken Snap package without working WebUSB)</li>
<li>Chromium</li>
<li>Vanadium (GrapheneOS)</li>
<li>Google Chrome</li>
<li>Microsoft Edge</li>
<li>Brave (with Brave Shields disabled, since it caps storage usage at a low value to avoid fingerprinting available storage)</li>
</ul>

<p>You should avoid Flatpak and Snap versions of browsers, as they're known to cause issues during the installation process.</p>
<p>You should avoid Flatpak and Snap versions of browsers, as they're known to cause issues during the installation process.
However some of them can be solved.</p>

<p>Make sure your browser is up-to-date before proceeding.</p>

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<p>On Arch Linux, install the <code>android-udev</code> package. On Debian and
Ubuntu, install the <code>android-sdk-platform-tools-common</code> package.</p>
</section>

<section id="enabling-webusb-on-snap-packaged-chromium">
<h2><a href ="#enabling-webusb-on-snap-packaged-chromium">Enabling WebUSB on snap-packaged Chromium</a></h2>

<p>Ubuntu and some derived distributions ship Chromium packaged in Snap. This has access to USB disabled by default.
You can enable it using this command:</p>

<pre>sudo snap connect chromium:raw-usb</pre>
</section>

<section id="working-around-fwupd-bug-on-linux-distributions">
<h2><a href="#working-around-fwupd-bug-on-linux-distributions">Working around fwupd bug on Linux distributions</a></h2>
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