Chromium profiles and compatibility/portability between forks and versions

dapgo / Menu4multiple_Webrowsers

A Menu launcher for all your WebBrowsers (available for Win and *nix/macOS) that allows sharing a common profile among different Firefox webbrowser (Basilisk, FF,Waterfox or Palemoon and forks ). Feedback and bug report are welcome ;)

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Chromium profiles and compatibility/portability between forks and versions #8

Open dapgo opened 5 years ago

dapgo commented 5 years ago

Some Chromium versions (not the old ones?) encrypt the user profile based on the machine SID

to avoid that and make more portable some new versions accept: --disable-machine-id --disable-encryption

additional info: https://chromium.woolyss.com/#secure-preferences