Export/Import for User Settings

mib2berlin

@BaakerBhaai
I support this request but which Chromium browser support the export of all settings?
At moment 221 settings are synced, more than enough to start a new install.

Cheers, mib

Pesala

@BaakerBhaai Vivaldi does automatically sync many settings, but some are missing, and we need a local copy as a backup.

derDay

@mib2berlin said:

At moment 221 settings are synced, more than enough to start a new install.

where can I see, which settings are "syncable"?

Pesala

@derDay See Settings, Sync and vivaldi://sync-internals

RasheedHolland

@Pesala said in Export/Import for User Settings:

@BaakerBhaai Vivaldi does automatically sync many settings, but some are missing, and we need a local copy as a backup.

@derDay said in Export/Import for User Settings:

where can I see, which settings are "syncable"?

And like I said before, zoom settings should also be included in exportable settings, also via sync.

Giresharu

This feature is very much needed. Compared to other browsers, Vivaldi has a multitude of customizable features. Conversely, because of this, it can be very painful to manually adjust the configuration again when creating a new user profile in Vivaldi. The web sync feature cannot fully meet this need. This is because when we use multiple profiles, most of the time, we want to log in to different accounts on certain websites and browse the web under different identities. If we use the sync feature, then everything that shouldn’t be synced gets synced in.

dalinar

I suggest:

Import/Export a single XML file
ability to backup the XML to cloud (time stamped but with editable name) and to restore them from a saved backup in the cloud to the current profile (so this way multiple browsers or profiles can be restored to from the same backup)

electryon

Chromium's Initial preferences is a good way to have your chromium and vivaldi setup pre-configured with the settings you want.
You have to create the json file yourself, find the settings and add them, but it works great.
Initial preferences work not only with chromium normal preferences, it works even with secure preferences.
It even works with extensions, you can configure it to auto-install from chrome's store the extensions you want automatically.

Initial Preferences
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences/

Pre-installing Extensions
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/pre-installed-extensions/

mib2berlin

@electryon
Hi, very interesting, just setup Vivaldi with basic settings an copy the Preferences file over to a new install.
It should be possible to even add workspaces, mail and more if you copy the corresponding folders, too.
I tested this with the Mail and the Sessions folders.

Cheers, mib

ericknoleto

@electryon Gonna try this later and save the result in google drive (with correspondent version installer too)

I hate to redo all the settings when I need to create a new profile... And with the installer saved I can restore it to a new machine.

Still, having this feature on a menu option would be really nice...

electryon

@mib2berlin said in Export/Import for User Settings:

@electryon
Hi, very interesting, just setup Vivaldi with basic settings an copy the Preferences file over to a new install.
It should be possible to even add workspaces, mail and more if you copy the corresponding folders, too.
I tested this with the Mail and the Sessions folders.

Cheers, mib

Yes, this is also a good way to backup your settings.
initial_preferences is more flexible though.
Vivaldi actually has its own initial_preferences file.
It is in vivaldi's installation folder, the folder where vivaldi.exe is located.
If you edit or replace this file with your own, then every new profile will be created with the defaults of this file:)
And it applies your settings stored in the file not only to the Preferences file, it applies them to the Secure Preferences file.
With the Secure Preferences you can even change the default engine from Bing to whatever you want, this information is stored in the Secure Preferences file.
Also have a look at this file in the Vivaldi installation folder.
"\resources\vivaldi\prefs_definitions.json"
It is a treasure of information:)
It has all Vivaldi's settings and how to be stored in json format.

benlstumpf

import/export settings gives options to people when sync is down for over a week.