2013/5/1 Ted Unangst <[email protected]> > On a new install, I was using firefox for a while. I installed > chromium. > > At no point did chrome ask if I wanted to import firefox history, but > nevertheless, it autocompletes urls based on things I've visited in > firefox. (And definitely not suggestions from google, the completions > include localhost:port combos.) > > I'm not particularly paranoid, but I think this is a security > expectation violation. I do not expect two browsers to be sharing > anything. At least part of the reason I'm installing two > separate browsers is because I want them to be separate. > > Idk about being paranoid, but it made me feel uncomfortable enough, to make me look into it when I ran into this autoimport. Where and why: in src/chrome/browser/first_run/first_run.cc, and because chromium devs think they know better, I guess. If I got it right, shipping either policies, or master_preferences is only option to patching first_run.cc to get rid of the behavior.
-Artturi
