Can’t speak for every aspect of config, like extensions, but I do know that chromium (and derivatives) can export bookmarks to standard HTML. On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 14:12 Mike Cloaked via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Javier via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 1/20/21 10:02 AM, Geo Kozey via arch-general wrote: > > >> ---------------------------------------- > > >> From: Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > >> Sent: Wed Jan 20 02:09:17 CET 2021 > > >> To: <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >> Cc: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >> Subject: Re: On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync > > support on March 15 > > >> > > >> The current maintainer of chromium no longer wishes to be the > maintainer > > >> -- without this feature, he does not consider Chromium to be a > > >> competitive, useful software. Fair enough -- no one is ever by any > means > > >> forced to maintain anything they don't want to. > > > > > > It would be easier to understand if maintainer explain this themselves. > > This is second time he stated plans about dropping chromium because > > upstream removed some api from public use. At first time those plans were > > aborted after users feedback which showed that removed api isn't crucial > > for using the app for them and this time it looks similar. > > > > > > It's ok to stop packaging something that maintainer doesn't like > anymore > > even without waiting for excuse but stopping it only because lost feature > > that most users can deal without just fine is weird unless maintainer > > himself relied on it. > > > > If a chromium user, after the loss of the sync api, would like to > transition their setup from one computer to another, such as when a new > arch install has been done on a new computer, is there a mechanism to > transfer the bookmarks and passwords from one machine to the other if sync > is not available? Even now if you rsync the config directory then the > browser does work as it did on the original machine - and getting passwords > into the new browser on a different machine does not seem to be something > that is easy unless a clean profile is started, and the old and new browser > synced by logging in to the same account. Can someone say how that would be > achieved when sync to the cloud is no longer available? > > > > > > > > Yours sincerely > > > > > > G. K. > > > > Totally agree with Eli, in that the devs are the ones deciding chromium > > fate in Arch. > > > > BTW, another dev has already mentioned he would adopt it, if dropped by > > its current maintainer, and keep it without sync if required. So, I > guess > > it's a matter of time now, to see what'll happen. > > > > -- > > Javier > > > > > > -- > mike c >
