Backup Google Chrome

By Nick Mead on 23 September, 2008

Google ChromeIt's hardly been on the market a few weeks but already it seems people are customizing Google Chrome enough to want a backup of their Google Chrome profiles. And why not? If your PC or Chrome were to crash suddenly, you may lose all your add-ons and carefully customised Chrome interface.

Google Chrome Backup is a simple and easy to use tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. It can backup all the most essential components such as history, bookmarks, add-ons etc. It also works with Chromium which is basically the open source version of Google's browser. It works very much like MozBackup for Mozilla profiles simply requiring you to select the profile you want to backup. In addition, it also features a restore function for corrupted profiles, the ability to delete old profiles and also create a new one.

Google Chrome Backup screenshot

While Google Chrome Backup adds a bit of presentation and ease to backing up profiles, you can of course still back it up manually by simply making a copy of the file located in: Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\User Data.

Comments

  • Elliot Taylor Elliot Taylor

    There's nothing in the "Application Data" folder? Could ya e-mail me the software at mightyhoorayelliot@hotmail.co.uk?

    • Sent on 02 Jul 2009
  • Nicholas Mead Nicholas Mead

    Hi Elliot, I can't e-mail you the program but you can find two download links for it on the developer page here: http://www.parhelia-tools.com/products/gcb/Download.aspx You could try the EXE file if the ZIP hasn't worked for you.

    • Sent on 02 Jul 2009
  • Lucyen Lucyen

    Hey i have linux that is broken and i can boot into it... so what should i copy to make full backup on the history, bookmarks, passwords and settings ?

    • Sent on 19 Feb 2011
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