CentOS - Apr 2021 - Problem with chromium 89.0.4389.82

On 04/05/2021 02:34 PM, Richard wrote:
>> Date: Monday, April 05, 2021 18:31:36 +0200
>> From: Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
>>
>> 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.

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 at invoca.ch>
>>>
>>> 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.  
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> 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.
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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.