How do you manage Google Chrome Bookmarks

[jertsy]

Hi

 

I am just deploying Chrome but I have hit a snag with bookmarks, if I understand correctly it looks as if I redirect them using ${documents}\google\google chrome it may cause corruption when chrome is updated. I also get a message saying that its not recommended that the user data is redirected to a network drive. I know google have google sync but that requires users to log in to google. I am tempted to leave IE as the default browser and just let google store stuff in the local app data meaning bookmark's wont follow the user. We have local appdata here and folder redirection.

 

I just wondered how you guys manage it?

 

Thanks

[Rob_D]

I've got chrome in a couple of schools.

 

In one it's in the user's appdata folder, which is then redirected, this is no different from using any redirected folder.

This works ok most of the time, but we do have problems with different versions of profiles and the app. Normally this only happens if a user's profile is for a more up-to-date version of chrome than the one installed, so if you can keep a handle on the updates then it's not too bad.

 

The second school had this at first, but it stops you from having 2 instances of chrome open on different computers, our teachers do this all the time (classroom and office/workroom). Given the choice they would rather be able to do this than save bookmarks, so the chrome profile went back on the local computers. This gives me no real problems.

 

In neither school do we enforce a default browser, the staff are encouraged to use whichever they want, or more often whichever works best.

 

Hope some of this helps.

[jertsy]

I've got chrome in a couple of schools.

 

In one it's in the user's appdata folder, which is then redirected, this is no different from using any redirected folder.

This works ok most of the time, but we do have problems with different versions of profiles and the app. Normally this only happens if a user's profile is for a more up-to-date version of chrome than the one installed, so if you can keep a handle on the updates then it's not too bad.

 

The second school had this at first, but it stops you from having 2 instances of chrome open on different computers, our teachers do this all the time (classroom and office/workroom). Given the choice they would rather be able to do this than save bookmarks, so the chrome profile went back on the local computers. This gives me no real problems.

 

In neither school do we enforce a default browser, the staff are encouraged to use whichever they want, or more often whichever works best.

 

Hope some of this helps.

 

This is kind of where I am at, I think having no bookmarks is better than having profile issues or chrome crashing, I have set the policy so that chrome is not the default browser too so users can at least have the choice.

 

Thanks for the input @Rob_D

[LinkZ]

I use logon/logoff scripts to copy the bookmark files from the local appdata to the users home folder and back again.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/109216-chrome-bookmarks.html#post1015582

[CyberNerd]

Log into the browser and it brings your bookmarks with you.

[AJWhite1970]

You can add --user-data-dir="r:\Chrome\User Data" to the chrome shortcut, works fine here without issue (R is our user home directory)

 

Andrew

[jertsy]

I use logon/logoff scripts to copy the bookmark files from the local appdata to the users home folder and back again.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/109216-chrome-bookmarks.html#post1015582

 

Thats another way of doing it, I will take a look.

 

Thanks

[jertsy]

You can add --user-data-dir="r:\Chrome\User Data" to the chrome shortcut, works fine here without issue (R is our user home directory)

 

Andrew

 

Cheers