On 04/05/2021 04:44 PM, H wrote:
> On 04/05/2021 02:34 PM, Richard wrote:
>>> Date: Monday, April 05, 2021 18:31:36 +0200
>>> From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Some of our users wanted Chrome instead of Firefox so we installed
>>> Chromium from EPEL for them. Over the time, we had several problems
>>> where a build didn't work and also updates were not in time. We
>>> also had problems where some people were able to run chromium while
>>> others were unable to launch it with their profile, even on the
>>> same host.
>>>
>>> We solved the issue by removing chromium completely and told our
>>> users that Firefox has to be used :-)
>> Is there a reason to still be trying to use chromium, rather than
>> chrome? Later releases of chrome didn't work with centos-6, hence
>> chromium, but c-6 is now EOL. My experience is that chrome (from the
>> google repository) works fine with centos-7.
>>
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> You are right and I installed chrome from the google repository. Worked fine out of the box. I proceeded to move (1) Session Buddy, (2) bookmarks from chromium to chrome which also went fine. Prior to that I had installed the very same extensions I had been using on chromium to chrome.
>
> One thing remains: I would also like to move my entire browsing history from chromium to chrome but am not sure which physical files I need to copy? There does not seem to be a function for exporting browsing history to another browser but I would love to be corrected.
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Further progress - found an extension that allows me to export history, up to 90 days which is the maximum chrome/chromium stores, into a json file from chromium. But, I am still searching for a way to /import/ it into chrome. Have not found an extension for that yet, nor does there seem to be a setting for importing history, only bookmarks.
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