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DrMoishe Pippik
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First, there may be multiple Chrome profiles. After transferring the profile from Ubuntu, it must be selected. This can be done by a command line argument, or by selecting the default profile in Chrome.

However, there might be issues transferring a profile between Linux and Windows because of differing end-of-line conventions. Windows uses CHR(13)+CHR(10) (\r\n) to terminate a line, LinusLinux just CHR(10) (\n). In copying a Firefox profile, a few years ago, I found onea file or two files needed to be editedediting to accommodate that difference;difference, which might no longer be an issue; I've not tried it with Chrome.

First, there may be multiple Chrome profiles. After transferring the profile from Ubuntu, it must be selected. This can be done by a command line argument, or by selecting the default profile in Chrome.

However, there might be issues transferring a profile between Linux and Windows because of differing end-of-line conventions. Windows uses CHR(13)+CHR(10) (\r\n) to terminate a line, Linus just CHR(10) (\n). In copying a Firefox profile, a few years ago, I found one or two files needed to be edited to accommodate that difference; I've not tried it with Chrome.

First, there may be multiple Chrome profiles. After transferring the profile from Ubuntu, it must be selected. This can be done by a command line argument, or by selecting the default profile in Chrome.

However, there might be issues transferring a profile between Linux and Windows because of differing end-of-line conventions. Windows uses CHR(13)+CHR(10) (\r\n) to terminate a line, Linux just CHR(10) (\n). In copying a Firefox profile, a few years ago, I found a file or two needed editing to accommodate that difference, which might no longer be an issue; I've not tried it with Chrome.

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DrMoishe Pippik
DrMoishe Pippik
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First, there may be multiple Chrome profiles. After transferring the profile from Ubuntu, it must be selected. This can be done by a command line argument, or by selecting the default profile in Chrome.

However, there might be issues transferring a profile between Linux and Windows because of differing end-of-line conventions. Windows uses CHR(13)+CHR(10) (\r\n) to terminate a line, Linus just CHR(10) (\n). In copying a Firefox profile, a few years ago, I found one or two files needed to be edited to accommodate that difference; I've not tried it with Chrome.