If you are a Chrome user and would like to clone your settings (like bookmarks, extensions, cookies etc.) from Machine X to Machine Y, here is a tip for you.

  1. Close the browser in both the machines
  2. Backup C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data_Backup in Machine Y
  3. Copy C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data from Machine X to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data in Machine Y
  4. Boom… Open chrome in Machine Y & make sure you have everything that you had in Machine X.

FYI – I have tested this in Windows XP Chrome Dev Channel 5.0 versions.

Update: I have tried this in Ubuntu machines and also between Windows XP & Ubuntu 9.10 and it worked fine. Replace the above folders with this one for Linux machines – /home/your_user_id/.config/google-chrome/Default

Right there I see some opportunity for developing a Chrome extension. If I get sometime and Google or anyone else didn’t come up with something for this, I might crack up some extension to do this automatically.

3 thoughts on “Copy Chrome browser settings from Machine X to Machine Y (Windows & Linux)

  1. Thanks Just the confirmation needed.

    > Local Storage in default is where mu newsreader keeps it setting so I only need to copy 1 file.

    Sweet.

  2. I have a small (well one line) script which backs up my Chrome settings in Windows 7:

    robocopy %userprofile%”\appdata\local\google\chrome” destination_drive:\destination_folder /MIR

    in my case the exact command I use is

    robocopy %userprofile%”\appdata\local\google\chrome” d:\ChromeBackup /MIR

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