How can I recover Google Chrome extensions, settings after a Linux crash?
- by Norman Ramsey
I'm running Google Chrome 5.0.307.11 (Official Build 39572) beta
on Debian Linux (lenny) kernel version 2.6.26-2-686. The machine is a laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X300) and sometimes it freezes, usually shortly after wakeup from sleep. The only cure is the power button, but when I restart my Google Chrome web browser after such an event,
Settings on the Options menu revert to defaults.
Chrome removes all the extensions from ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions, leaving me with no extensions.
The set of "pages last open" is lost.
I'd love to know how to poke at the file system in order to recover any or all of this information, especially my extensions. It is a pain to re-do everything by hand each time. How can I recover Google Chrome's extensions and settings after a Linux crash?