Migrate/Share everything between vivaldi and chrome under linux

I just found the vivaldi browser, which based on chromium, works really good for me. Thus I need to find a way to migrate. Here we go:

  1. Find a config file of chrome, usually located under ~/.config/google-chrome|~~/.config/google-chrome-beta|~/.config/chromium or similar places.

  2. Create a soft link of the folder called default with ln -s or whatever method preferred.

  3. Run vivaldi once and close it to generate proper configuration files.

  4. Locate the vivaldi config file, usually located under ~/.config/vivaldi.

  5. Delete the default folder under ~/.config/vivaldi.

  6. Copy the softlink just created here and name it default.

  7. Till now, we got everything but stored password in the browser migrated successfully. If preferred, copy the whole default folder from chrome and override the one for vivaldi will do the same trick but prevent sharing config files.

  8. Also, copy all the content under
    ~/.config/google-chrome|~~/.config/google-chrome-beta|~/.config/chromium

    into
    ~/.config/vivaldi
    litereally

==For now, no automatic way to make importing password possible. However, one can manually do so….==

2017/5/12