Chromium has no sync option

InvisibleRasta · 2024-03-21 19:31:52

Hello guys, I have been using chromium browser on my installs for quite a while. There is one thing tho that I do not understand, why on arch the sync option is not available and on debian it is. How do I enable it?

seth · 2024-03-21 21:05:39

What "sync option"?
vsync, google sync, browser update,…?

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

In case of "google sync", see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium and https://archlinux.org/news/chromium-los … rly-march/ - there's a difference between chromium and chrome and year you were looking at debian, resp. the version matters, too - let alone whether it actually works.

InvisibleRasta · 2024-03-21 21:17:21

I am speaking about google sync. On an up to date debian bookworm with chromium browser Version: 122.0.6261.128-1~deb12u1 the google sync option is working out of the box. So i am wondering what are the differences between the two since on one distro its available and on another no.
By the way the year is 2024 on both systems.

seth · 2024-03-21 21:31:36

Did you see the linked wiki/announcement?
It's been diesabled because google withdrew access for anything but chrome.

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/ … _changelog as several refereneces to ungoogled chromium, so it might actually be https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ungoogled-chromium - idk whether it provides a sync feature, but such would naturally sidestep the google-problem.
Alternatively debian might have opted for one of the mentioned, temporary, workarounds.

You'll have to ask the debian maintainers, but officially chromium cannot use google sync.

V1del · 2024-03-21 23:50:45

If you provide a valid API key it still works, but generating one is a bit involved e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … atures_on/

seth · 2024-03-22 07:17:36

Even the chrome API key still works (both options are mentioned in the linked wiki), but the operative term is "still" and wrt the OPs question: while don't know what they're doing, my money would, because of Debians nimbus, be on using ungoogled-chromium and an therefore alternative service. *shrug*

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