Chromium password management hell

Yesterday's Chromium updates seem to really, really fucked thing up on my setup...
Chromium is driving me crazy with the user/ password prompt.
Not only wiped every single password I had stored, but also is offering to store (or not) every single page that has authentication, and of course, it is not storing nor the preference not to save the password, but also fails to store the password if I choose to type it.
And yes, I am aware of the way that Chrome/ Chromium used to store passwords, that is -among other reasons- why I have an encrypted $HOME.