@SteveITS I went back and retraced my steps, ONLY to realized that I had actually been attempting to restore an OPNsense config and NOT a pfSense config into pfSense 2.8.0...
Today I had been running the same exercise (prep for switching from Cable to Fiber) in both...
Hence False Alarm: pfSense 2.8.0 was "Correct", in fact it was NOT a pfSense config!!!
Restoring Today's Initial Chrome config into pfSense 2.8.0 works as expected...
Lawrence Houston