> > Chrome should have an export browsing history feature so when moving > > to another machine, if Chrome (or maybe even another browser is > > there), there is a seamless transition.
Even more seamless solution would be adding history sync to the already existing bookmark sync feature. This would solve two problems: 1. Give Google even more access to its users private data. 2. Make Omnibar more useful for people who use multiple machines and don't want to spend time organizing bookmarks. On Dec 30 2009, 11:23 am, Bapabooiee <[email protected]> wrote: > Uhh, what would be the point of that? You can already easily > "transplant" your history. > > Just go to your User Data directory (you should know where to find it. > If not, Google its location), then copy every file with the word > "History" in it. Save them somewhere safe, then paste them into your > new User Data directory on your new OS. That's all you have to do. > Someone in one of the comments for the bug report even pointed-out > that you should do that. > > But if you're looking for a front-end "history export" feature - that > is not a good idea. If it was exportable, then the individual History > files that make up your browsing history would have to be consolidated > into a single file (they're separated by month), and I do not believe > that would be feasible, for multiple reasons. And there's no browser > out there, that I know of, that lets you import your browser history > by importing a file - they all work off of detecting the other > browsers on your machine, and having routines to import from them. > > All in all, I doubt it's gonna happen. So don't count on it - just > copy the History files, and you'll be good. > > On Dec 9, 1:09 am, 4Jonah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I know Google has the browsing history stored under the settings tab. > > For some reason (maybe I was signed out), there are many sites that > > come up in my Chrome History that dont come up under the thing in > > Settings. > > > Chrome should have an export browsing history feature so when moving > > to another machine, if Chrome (or maybe even another browser is > > there), there is a seamless transition. > > > Not only bookmarks, but browsing data could be transfered. I made this > > but its gone ignored: > > > This seems useful. If someone reading this is on the dev team, can we > > push this forward a little? > > >http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25753 > > > Thank you:) -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
