[arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15

[Matt Compton]

Can’t speak for every aspect of config, like extensions, but I do know that
chromium (and derivatives) can export bookmarks to standard HTML.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 14:12 Mike Cloaked via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Javier via arch-general <
> arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > On 1/20/21 10:02 AM, Geo Kozey via arch-general wrote:
> > >> ----------------------------------------
> > >> From: Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org
> >
> > >> Sent: Wed Jan 20 02:09:17 CET 2021
> > >> To: <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>
> > >> Cc: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
> > >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync
> > support on March 15
> > >>
> > >> The current maintainer of chromium no longer wishes to be the
> maintainer
> > >> -- without this feature, he does not consider Chromium to be a
> > >> competitive, useful software. Fair enough -- no one is ever by any
> means
> > >> forced to maintain anything they don't want to.
> > >
> > > It would be easier to understand if maintainer explain this themselves.
> > This is second time he stated plans about dropping chromium because
> > upstream removed some api from public use. At first time those plans were
> > aborted after users feedback which showed that removed api isn't crucial
> > for using the app for them and this time it looks similar.
> > >
> > > It's ok to stop packaging something that maintainer doesn't like
> anymore
> > even without waiting for excuse but stopping it only because lost feature
> > that most users can deal without just fine is weird unless maintainer
> > himself relied on it.
> >
>
> If a chromium user, after the loss of the sync api, would like to
> transition their setup from one computer to another, such as when a new
> arch install has been done on a new computer, is there a mechanism to
> transfer the bookmarks and passwords from one machine to the other if sync
> is not available?  Even now if you rsync the config directory then the
> browser does work as it did on the original machine - and getting passwords
> into the new browser on a different machine does not seem to be something
> that is easy unless a clean profile is started, and the old and new browser
> synced by logging in to the same account. Can someone say how that would be
> achieved when sync to the cloud is no longer available?
>
>
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely
> > >
> > > G. K.
> >
> > Totally agree with Eli, in that the devs are the ones deciding chromium
> > fate in Arch.
> >
> > BTW, another dev has already mentioned he would adopt it, if dropped by
> > its current maintainer, and keep it without sync if required.  So, I
> guess
> > it's a matter of time now, to see what'll happen.
> >
> > --
> > Javier
> >
> >
>
> --
> mike c
>