Enable Bookmark Sync In Chromium

By , Published November 16, 2009

I tweeted this news yesterday but in case you don't use twitter or it got lost in the chatter, here's the news again. Chromium_Icon


Enable Bookmark Sync

To enable bookmark sync in Chromium (That's Chromium, not Google-Chrome just yet) simply add the following flag to your launcher.

–enable-sync

How to add the flag

  • Go to System > Preferences > Main Menu
  • Go to 'Internet' in the left-hand panel
  • Click on the 'Chromium' entry in the main window
  • Choose 'Edit Launcher'
  • Add the flag at the end of the text in the 'Command Field'
  • Click Ok, Close.
  • Make sure no instance of Chromium is running, and then launch it from the menu.
  • Go to the wrench icon and then click 'Sync My Bookmarks'.

thanks to Seif Sallam

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Great to see this finally implemented. Now I’ll have to choose between this method & xmarks.

  • Hatem

    Does this sync to google documents still, or does it do google bookmarks now?

    • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

      Google Docs is the future GDrive, so google bookmarks is out of the game

  • John

    Um, what version are you all running? Still doesn’t work for me on 4.0.245.1

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Your version number is Chrome’s current dev release version… This only works on Chromium as stated. The most up-to-date Chromium via the daily PPA is 4.0.249.0

      • John

        Ah, thought 4.0.245.1 was the latest version – can’t be arsed to get the daily build – will be patient for a few more days then :)

        • John

          Sweet, the dev channel has been upgraded to 4.0.249 :) Bookmark sync works – sweet!

  • http://twitter.com/SeifSallam Seif Sallam

    its a lot better than xmarks for now, but xmarks is cross browsers sync, anyway i don’t use anything but Chrome :)

  • Ninja

    I’m feeling pretty stupid, but I don’t understand how to use it.
    I mean, I have enabled the function in the launcher, and…what? I add a bookmark by clicking on the star, but then where do I retrieve the bookmarks? I don’t see them in my google.com/bookmarks page!
    Anyone can help this old fool? thanks

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      You’re certainly not stupid, Google are! Currently bookmarks are stored in Google Docs and you don’t really need to worry about them; they’ll automatically sync with another browser if you log into bookmark sync on another browser.

      • Ninja

        Thanks d0od! I understand now. I’ll see how it works for me now.

  • 5nak3

    While this is a good feature and I’m happy it finally works, is there still no way to sync across different browsers?

    That would be the perfect solution for me and Chromium might actually get some user time with me finally!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      XMarks have a Alpha version of their browser sync extension – i happily sync between Chromium, Chrome and Firefox over Ubuntu AND Windows 7.

      • 5nak3

        Thanks for pointing out the alpha…just gave it a go. While it obviously need some more work it is better than nothing. I think i may give Chromium a little run, stretch its legs and see how it performs!

  • Anonymous

    This is a great feature to see.

    Unfortunately, I tend to launch Chromium via a launcher in Docky, not otherwise (otherwise, it works just fine). I pinned Chromium to Docky using the “Pin to Dock” option, while running a sync-capable session. But every time I open the browser via Docky’s launcher (and only there), it seems to run Chromium without any command-line arguments. Anyone know a way around this? Is this perhaps a bug with Docky?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Remove Chromium from Docky, change the menu entry as the article, re-add it to docky.

      • Anonymous

        I didn’t think to change the menu entry. I’d just been modifying the icon on the gnome-panel.

        Worked great! Thanks a lot, d0od.