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Suya Lynx
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How to make Chrome portable run totally portable?

Hi guys

I love chrome portable but some months ago while cleaning my seemingly broken chrome portable, I found out that it save the user profile / user data to the pc %appdata% . How to make it to save the profile to my portable device?

Why I say it save the profile to pc %appdata%, because when I try to remove some broken extension by deleting the profile from the Chromr Portable dir, to does not work, but after erasing the one from my pc, it works

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Default Browser, Misbehaving Extensions

If you set Chrome to be your default browser, it'll run chrome.exe directly and run in local mode. So, if your whole profile is there, that's what happened.

Additionally, there are some problematic extensions that will not work unless installed locally. We don't track them, but recommend you test individual extensions yourself to be sure.

Chrome's "apps" are another story entirely and only work locally.

There are also the issues with passwords locked to a specific PC, certificates installed on the local PC, proxy configuration from the local PC, and Chrome losing extensions and extension data as you move PCs or if a single character is changed in Chrome's configuration by a 3rd party app like an installer. These are all by design of the publisher, though.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Suya Lynx
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Hi John

Hi John

At that point, I have no Chrome installed as default browser ( it was IE set as default browser ) but previously, someone installed Chrome on my PC but I uninstalled it and switch to portable Chrome

I have read that Mozilla Firefox portable will not behave like this, I think I'll try Firefox for a moment and observe

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