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Is it possible to import data from Chromium browser?

Open Botspot opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

I'm an advanced Linux user and have use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my daily driver.

It has to be possible to copy certain files from my Chromium's config directory into Min's config directory, to allow most websites to recognize my login. I attempted doing exactly that, using this command:

cp -a ~/.config/chromium/Default/. ~/.config/Min/Partitions/webcontent

This did not work. Upon relaunching Min, nothing changed. No websites automatically think I'm signed into them.

Botspot avatar Aug 20 '21 00:08 Botspot

I wouldn't assume it's possible to copy all data from Chromium to Min in general - features implemented in the rendering engine will have the same storage format, but features implemented at the UI level won't.

  • Min uses a different format for bookmarks and history than Chromium. For bookmarks, you can export them as an HTML file from Chrome and then Min has an !importbookmarks command. History can't be imported.
  • Passwords also can't be imported.
  • Cookies should be the same - copying ~/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies and Cookies-journal into ~/.config/Min/Partitions/webcontent should work. It's not something that's officially supported, though, so if it doesn't work it's probably easier to just sign into sites in Min again.

PalmerAL avatar Aug 20 '21 03:08 PalmerAL

Can the history be imported?

airpods69 avatar Jun 09 '23 13:06 airpods69