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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
Nov 19, 2019Importing Tabs and Settings from Chrome
We know the longer you’ve used a browser, the more it feels like home. You’ve set up your browser behavior to your liking and tweaked its various settings to fit your needs. It has all your user data...
csrswalch
Dec 11, 2019Brass Contributor
Hi Elliot Kirk - thanks for the great post! We've a quirk in our environment which prevents this feature from working if the default user profile path for Chrome isn't used; resulting in Chrome not appearing in the drop-down list when the Import Browser Data dialog is used.
GP Path: Administrative Templates/Google/Google Chrome
GP name: Set user data directory
Value: ${roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\User Data
Reg Path: SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
Reg name: UserDataDir
If the GP is removed and Chrome is relaunched, as expected a brand new Chrome profile is created in the default directory, and only then after relaunching Edge does it pick up Google Chrome in the list for Import Browser Data.
It would be great (at least for us) if the dialog could check for the existence of the reg key and scan that directory instead.
Thanks for your help and keep up the great work!
- Martin_WielageDec 11, 2020Copper Contributor
csrswalch
Hi,
I have the same quirk and i am using also the path: ${roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\User Data
I solved this by setting the Microsoft Edge user data directory via temporary GPO to the same path used by Google Chrome.When you start Edge it will use the Google Chrome data straight away without the need to import.
I did not test it with every data set (like passwords), but my bookmarks are perfectly shown inside Chrome and Edge. Finally sync the data to your Edge profile and get rid of the chrome data and temporary GPO.