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Old May 30th, 2009, 01:08 PM
m00nbl00d m00nbl00d is offline
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Default Re: Portable Google Chrome

For those interested in having Chrome/Chromium fully portable, do the following.

(I keep mine in default path C:\Program Files\Chromium)

Steps:

- Open Windows Explorer, go to Tools > Folder options > See > Show hidden files and folders

- Windows Vista users, go to C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Chromium OR Google\Chrome

- Copy the UserData folder to C:\Program Files\Chromium, and rename it to Profile.

C:\ is the my drive letter. Yours may be different.

- Windows XP users go to C:\Documents and Settings\[Your User Name]\Application Data\Local\Chromium OR Google\Chrome

- Follow the above steps.

Then, to make Chrome/Chromium not create a new UserData folder in AppData, you must start it with a "special" command. The easier way is to create a shortcut, either in Desktop, for easier access, or your pen, if you place Chrome/Chromium in it.

To create a shortcut, right click in an empty space, New > Shortcut, then go to the directory where Chrome/Chromium was extracted to, and pick chrome.exe. Then pick a name for it. I named mine Chromium, because... well, that's what I am using.
Then, right click that shortcut and go to Properties > add the following --user-data-dir="PROFILE" after "C:\Program Files\Chromium\chrome.exe", and press OK. From now on, you have fully portable Chrome/Chromium.


Cheers