** DONE Importing Chrome Search Engines to another Chrome                     :blog:suderei:software:
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As I [[id:Switching-from-Firefox-to-Chrome][wrote yesterday]], I am running Iron which is Chrome without evil
code basically ;-) I am using the feature to define own search engines
quite often. It speeds up my workflow tremendously. Not only for
search sites!

Iron/Crome got the feature of syncing Bookmarks and stuff using a Google
account. But unfortunately, those defined search engines are not synced
between my Iron on Mac OS X and my Iron on GNU/Linux.

But once I installed all my quicklinks on my Mac OS X Iron, I just
wanted to copy them to my other Iron browser settings. And this is how
it can be achieved.

Searching with [[https://www.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?language=english&cat=web&query=keyword][my cool search engine]], I found a web forum where they
[[http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=2442b1a6cf925975&hl=en][discussed this topic]]. I found out that those config files are [[http://www.sqlite.org/][sqlite]]
databases. A friendly user also added a short shell script to extract
the search engines and write them into another sqlite config file.

# 2022-06-08: Original URL was http://qr.cx/44D but site is offline.

So I took his idea, write this nice shell script (2022-06-08: sorry,
this *script URL is outdated*) and copied my Mac OS X settings related
to search engines to my GNU/Linux config file.

Quite handy, if you need this some time ...




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