Google cracks down on 3rd-party Chromium browsers using Chrome Sync

Google cracks down on 3rd-party Chromium browsers using Chrome Sync
January 15, 2021
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-cracks-down-third-party-chromium-browser-chrome-sync/

Limiting Private API availability in Chromium

 

Wait a minute, shouldn't all Chromium based browsers be able to use Google services?

 

chromium builds are "sync", "nosync" and "ungoogled". Edge has its own, Vivaldi also. Depends on compilation and code for sync.

 

Yes, but I believe that Google Sync should be available in all browsers since Google plays such a major role on the web.

 

Google's killing sync for old Chrome browsers you definitely should not be using anymore
Forget about 'vintage' browsers and hit that update button
November 4, 2021
https://www.androidpolice.com/googl...s-you-definitely-should-not-be-using-anymore/

 

That's the whole problem.
Monoculture.

B.t.w., Firefox has it's own Sync service.

 

According to this support page it's only for versions 48 and older.

 

Well, perhaps I misunderstood, Chrome Sync was a feature meant to be used by Chrome exclusively, similar to how Vivaldi and Firefox have their own sync features.

BTW, a bit off topic, but do you know if browsers like Vivaldi will also save extension settings via the sync feature? For example I use certain extensions only on a couple of sites, you can configure this via Extensions-->Permissions-->Site Access. I use the ''On specific sites'' option, the problem is, I don't see any option to save these settings to some config file.

 

Sorry, no idea.
I never use sync functions in browsers...

Maybe ask at the Vivaldi forum?

For Chrome you can also make a backup of the profile folder and transfer that to another machine:

Code:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Vivaldi should have something similar in AppData

 

Thanks, and yes it's probably a good idea to ask this on the Vivaldi forum. But perhaps a backup of the profile folder will also do the trick. But I do know it might sometimes corrupt stuff when you upgrade the browser to the latest version.

But it's really a matter of bad design of Chromium, very weird that you can't simply make a copy of all websites that you want some extension to run on. Because currently you keep having to add those websites one by one, how dumb is this.

 

Have a look at:
https://superuser.com/questions/123...e-extension-data-from-one-computer-to-another
There are several folders to consider...

• Local Extension Settings
  
• Local Storage
• Sync Extension Settings
• IndexedDB (?)

Only the ".\Default" subfolder (not entire .\User Data").

[Edit]
I see now that you mean something different...

Maybe a backup of the entire ".\Default" subfolder is the easiest option.

 

Thanks, I will take a look. I will try to copy certain folders and let's see if Vivaldi will remember the exact same extension settings.