bash script stops when opening chromium

Question

I have developed a bash script to open chromium on startup and then execute another python script. However, when I run a certain webpage bash seems to stick at the open chromium line until chrome is closed, then the python script will execute. I want the python script to execute straight after chromium line has executed.

Here's the script

    #!/bin/bash
: '
Script to clean up temporary files, start chrome and start python script
'
rm -rf ~/.chromium_temp_dir
DISPLAY=:0 chromium-browser --disable-translate --user-data-dir=.chromium_temp_dir --start-fullscreen http://ebsbi/Reports/
python3 /home/pi/LoginandSelectScreen.py

Answer 1

You probably need to execute chromium in the background: add a & at the end of the line that invokes it. Like this:

DISPLAY=:0 chromium-browser --disable-translate --user-data-dir=.chromium_temp_dir --start-fullscreen http://ebsbi/Reports/ &