Synchronizing Extension Settings in Chrome Sync

[Henry D]

Hi, all,

I'm a long-time Chromium / Chrome user who has the browser installed on dozens of devices across multiple platforms. I find it useful that the cloud sync synchronizes my Extensions from one installation to another. This way, I don't have to manually re-install all my extensions each time I install Chromium / Chrome on a new device.

Unfortunately, it appears that the cloud sync only synchronizes the Extensions themselves and not the Extensions *SETTINGS*. So each time I install Chrome on a new device and sync the Extensions, I still have to manually configure each Extension one-by-one with all my settings and options. As you can imagine, this gets *VERY* tedious and cumbersome when you have more than five Extensions and dozens of browser installations to manage.

Can the Chromium / Chrome team please focus on adding Extension settings to the cloud sync? In my opinion, adding this feature should be a top priority -- the lack of this feature is a glaring omission from Chromium / Chrome!

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

This was implemented many releases ago. Extensions have a synced data storage location available to them, which lots of extensions use.

 

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[Henry D]

Can you name some extensions that use this synced data storage location? I'm using at least eight extensions, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them sync extension settings via Chromium / Chrome itself. As a matter of fact, many of these extensions are incorporating Dropbox-based settings sync. If the extensions developers were aware of the native "synced data storage location", why would they be resorting to third-party cloud services like Dropbox to achieve settings sync?

FYI, here are some of the extensions I use:

AdBlock

FireShot

Checker Plus for GMail

Ghostery

Xmarks Bookmark Sync

Zoomy

[Mike Frysinger]

Richard is of course correct -- the functionality is available and has been for a long time.  i've written extensions myself that use it.

specifically, the issue is that the extension authors themselves need to update their code to use the new API.  many extensions take a split approach ... user settings go into synced storage while cached/dynamic state go into local storage.

i'm not sure how naming specific extensions is useful.  the API is clearly documented:

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage

-mike

[PhistucK]

The difference between Dropbox and the synchronized storage is the capacity. The synchronized storage provides little capacity (it is usually enough, but for some, it is not) - 100 kilobytes, while Dropbox offers (if the account is empty) a few gigabytes.

I know AdBlock may sometimes need more than 100 kilobytes for excessive blocking definitions, but I imagine Checker Plus for GMail does not need a lot, so I guess they just did not implement it for some reason.

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