Google Chrome does not appear in applications or 'internet' section - Ubuntu 18.04.03

Step 1: Press Ctrl Alt t to open terminal.

Step 2: Type the command to create a desktop file chrome.desktop

nano ~/.local/share/applications/chrome.desktop

Step 3: Insert the following content into that file:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome
Name=Google Chrome
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/google-chrome.png

Step 4- Make it executable by running this command:

chmod +x ~/Desktop/chrome.desktop

Step 5- Click on this button

I had the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: after moving up and down icons on the Dash, the Google Chrome icon was gone (other icons were also missing). I tried to remove and install again google-chrome-stable, but without any success, the icon was not there. I could only start using sudo and the parameter --no-sandbox

I end up removing the /opt/google/chrome directory and running the install again using the instructions on Google Chrome website https://www.google.com/chrome/. The icon was back on Dash and worked as expected.