From: Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: questions
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:57:12 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130730082712.GA10189@dethkomp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGBogHzqYazO4t61s=csaMy4gi+5hnj_NJSGwbObYBAzMY8mKw@mail.gmail.com>
On 30/07/13 at 12:11pm, Pavel Volkov wrote:
> I have 2 questions about how Chromium operates with a clean profile.
> I run it like this:
> % chromium --user-data-dir=<dir>
>
> Directory <dir> is empty (at first launch).
>
> After the first launch, some entries immediately appear in History. I
> visited those before, but it's not everything I visited. Approximately
> 10-20 entries.
> From where is this information taken? If it's Google servers, what info is
> used for identification? IP address, system user name, something else?
Just a hunch but have you signed into Chromium with your google account
? Google has this feature/anti-feature (based on your outlook) where it
syncs bookmarks, history among other things with their servers so you have
access to it on all your computers where you've signed into Chromium.
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- Yohan Pereira
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
-- Mark Twain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-30 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 8:11 [gentoo-user] Chromium: questions Pavel Volkov
2013-07-30 8:27 ` Yohan Pereira [this message]
2013-07-30 8:57 ` Pavel Volkov
2013-07-30 14:46 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-30 21:59 ` Mick
2013-09-01 9:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Pavel Volkov
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