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rlemon
Asked: 2011-12-22 10:33:00 +0800 CST

How to import Chromium Browser-Data to Chrome

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In Chrome under Settings -> Personal Stuff, I am given the option to 'Import Data from Another Browser..'. However Chromium is not displayed as an option...

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Is the only way to do this to sync with my Google account? Is there an offline way to copy over the data? Or a workaround that does not require I have a Google account to sync to?

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Do a copy of your ~/.config/chromium directory to your ~/.config/google-chrome directory.

    You can also do a symlink, like this:

    ln -s ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/google-chrome

    That will use the chromium config as the "authoritative"/"master" config directory, with chrome just looking into chromium.

    It's also a wise decision to quit Chromium and/or Chrome so that you don't have any issues with config directories.

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  2. The answer is almost the same for all browsers.

    In Chromium, go to Bookmarks/Bookmarks Manager (NOT to "Import bookmarks and settings")- "Organize": "Export bookmarks to HTML file" and save your bookmarks as html file. Then in Google Chrome (or very similarly in any other browser) go to Bookmarks manager and in the same way import bookmarks from the HTML file that you just saved. Save your bookmarks as html from time to time and import them when you need them in new browsers.

    Shortcut to access bookmarks manager: Shift-Ctrl-O.

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    1. Find out your source directory, typically that’s one of:
      • srcdir=~/.config/chromium
      • srcdir=~/snap/chromium/common/chromium
    2. If you’re planning to continue to use both profiles and want to share them, use a symlink (note you cannot use both simultaneously, only one browser can be running at a time). If no sharing is necessary make a copy or move the directory.
      Make sure, ~/.config/google-chrome doesn’t yet exist (rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome if necessary), then:
      • Symlink: ln -s $srcdir ~/.config/google-chrome
      • or copy: cp -r $srcdir ~/.config/google-chrome
    3. If you want Chrome to be able to also read Chromiums saved passwords, you need to make sure they use the same master key:
      • Assuming --password-store=gnome-libsecret, you’d do: 
        secret-tool lookup application chromium | \
    secret-tool store --label="Chrome Safe Storage" application chrome
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  4. As opposed to the answer that suggested to copy or symlink the ~/.config/chromium folder to ~/.config/google-chrome (this actually results in starting Chromium when running the google-chrome executable - I guess, many settings inside the config folder are responsible for this), it is actually correct to copy/symlink the Default folder inside Chromium's config folder to Chrome's config folder. (Or vice versa, if you will.)

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  5. I found on mac that rsync can do the trick it help to copy all your data .

    rsync -a ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/Chromium
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