Withoug xdg-utils, chromium won't be able to open file it has downloaded. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open chromium in a terminal 2. Download a file using chromium 3. Try to have chromium open the file 4. See chromium complain about not finding xdg-open in the terminal Actual Results: Nothing. Expected Results: File should be opened using specified application.
Thanks for the report! Official chrome deb packages also show depend on it Fixed in all current in-tree chromium/chromium-bin packages