Bug 1361734

Summary:	Use unique .config directory for Fedora Chromium
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Goode <adam>
Component:	chromium	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	nphilipp, tcallawa
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Description Adam Goode 2016-07-29 23:14:08 UTC

Description of problem:
For the officially built version of chromium in Fedora, consider using a unique directory under .config. Right now if I build chromium from upstream source, it uses the same profile as the distro installed chromium. This causes issues since the version built at head is often quite experimental.

As a workaround, I could alternatively configure my development chromium to point elsewhere, but it seems reasonable to keep .config/chromium as a place for non-distro versions of chromium to use.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
chromium-52.0.2743.82-2.fc24.x86_64

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2016-08-15 11:45:20 UTC

Not good, as users updating would lose their settings etc.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-08-15 17:13:29 UTC

(In reply to Nils Philippsen from comment #1)
> Not good, as users updating would lose their settings etc.

Yeah, I agree.

I think you want to use --user-data-dir= here instead.