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Best to move to Vivaldi Browser.  Chromium is history.
Vivaldi is working very good.  One of the members recommended it.  I installed it and I really like it.
I copied the old Chromium files over to it and got all my stuff back.

I uninstalled netfilter-persistent.  It also uninstalled iptables-persistent.
I think it is rules for the firewall. But there is no rules in it.

I got vpn working.
1 installed network-manager-openvpn-gnome.
2 went to vpn connections and configure vpn.
3 selected autoConfiguration under the openvpn.
4 inserted my .ovpn file from the service provider.
I didn't think network-manager-openvpn-gnome was needed since the network-manager-openvpn was installed.
 
Note:
At first the configuration window disappeared.  I thought it didn't work.  So, I went back to the vpnconnection and saw that it was configured but it was unchecked.  I clicked on it and the yellow lock appeared on the network icon on the right side panel.
 
Apps installed
openvpn  network-manager-openvpn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  gadmin-openvn-client  gadmin-openvpn-server

For those who may have the crashing problem with VLC in TinkerboardS.
       Tools>pref>Input/Codecs/Hardware-acceleratedDecodeing select VA-API video decoder via DRM  
Correction....
       Tool>pref>video>output>XVideoOutput  worked with 1080p

It's working finally.  I guess update or a fresh install did it.
This new installed asked me to update my firmware on the board. I said yes.
I ran    sudo armbian-config   Then installed the desktop. That is where it asked to update the firmware.
 
Thanks for your help.
 
Also the below stopped my VLC crashing.
 
       Tool>pref>video>output>XVideoOutput  worked with 1080p