Google introduced this feature for Mac users in version 73. So, update your browser on Mac to use this desktop shortcut feature. It works exactly like Windows version, however on Mac you can’t add the shortcut in desktop. You can only add the shortcut as an app and access through “chrome://apps” or from the “Apps” bookmark. Is Google Chrome always installed to the default path, the '/Applications/' folder? I have tried the following commands. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? Locate '.Chrome.app' When i used this command it only search the DB entries of installed software. Find / -type d -name '.Chrome.app. Bonus: How to open Google Chrome on your Mac Once Google Chrome finishes installing into your Applications folder, you can access it from there. Go to Applications in the Finder (or press the F4 key to open it) and click or tap on Chrome. Accessing Chrome from the Applications folder. I can not find them under /Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/; Where are they? Mac Pro 10.8.4 Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65.
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Like Mozilla Firefox, the Google Chrome browser profile folder stores all information related to your browser, including settings, bookmarks, saved passwords, history, cookies, extensions, apps and much more.
The Google Chrome profile folder is separate from the application folder, which will protect your data if anything goes wrong. If you ever run into any issue with your Google Chrome browser, a new installation can help you resolve the issue.
By doing that, you need to know where your Google Chrome browser profile locates and then backup and restore user data after installing a new copy of the browser.
Find Your Google Chrome Profile Folders On Windows, Mac, And Linux
We would not recommend to manually backup your Google Chrome profile because sometimes it doesn’t work properly. You should try to backup and restore entire Google Chrome settings with this guide, instead of doing it manually.
But if you still want to backup these user data and settings manually, then please follow locations below to find your Google Chrome profile folder on each platform.
Google Chrome profile folder on Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10: C:Users(username)AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefault
Your Google Chrome profile folder on Mac OS X: Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
The Google Chrome profile folder on Linux: /home/(username)/.config/google-chrome/default
Just replace (username) with your username, and copy the whole folder to backup your Google Chrome profile.
However, if you have created and been using multiple profiles on Google Chrome, the profile folders may differ and not like the locations we mentioned above.
Don’t worry! You still can find the exact location of your Google Chrome profile folder with a simple trick.
Firstly, you need to switch to the profile you want to get the place of the profile folder.
Next, copy “chrome://version” and paste it into the Google Chrome’s address bar and press Enter.
It will show you information about your Google Chrome profile, including version number, revision, operating system, Javascript version, Flash version, and profile path.
In order to backup your Google Chrome profile, just copy the “Default” or “Profile X” folder, depending on which profile you want to backup – and save the copied folder to somewhere safe.
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The “X” is the number of the profile.
If you want to restore your Google Chrome user data, just overwrite the backup folder to the existing folder of the browser. Mac os sierra fat32.
If you want to erase all user data of your Google Chrome browser, simply delete the “User Data” folder. The next time you launch the Chrome browser, this folder will be automatically generated with a fresh default profile.
We hope you can find the location of your Google Chrome profile folder and backup your user data to keep it safe. If you have any question about this guide, just leave your comment below.
If you are using Mozilla Firefox and want to find the location of its profile folder, we also have published a guide to show you how to find it here.
The Google Chrome browser is now available as an Apple M1 native application, for those of you lucky enough to have M1 Mac Mini, Macbook Air, or Macbook Pro systems. (If you've been living under a rock for the last few weeks, the M1 is Apple's newest in-house-designed ARM silicon, which the company began selling in traditional form-factor laptops and Mac Minis for the first time this week.)
Google presents Chrome for download as either an x86_64 package or an M1 native option—which comes across as a little odd, since the M1 native version is actually a universal binary, which works on either M1 or traditional Intel Macs. Presumably, Google is pushing separate downloads due to the much smaller file size necessary for the x86_64-only package—the universal binary contains both x86_64 and ARM applications, and weighs in at 165MiB to the Intel-only package's 96MiB.
Performance
In our earlier testing, we declared that the previous version of Google Chrome—which was available only as an x86_64 binary and needed to be run using Rosetta 2—was perfectly fine. That was and still is a true statement; we find it difficult to believe anyone using the non-native binary for Chrome under an M1 machine would find it 'slow.' That said, Google's newer, ARM-native .dmg is available today, and—as expected—it's significantly faster if you're doing something complicated enough in your browser to notice.
The first benchmark in our gallery above, Speedometer, is the most prosaic—the only thing it does is populate lists of menu items, over and over, using a different Web-application framework each time. This is probably the most relevant benchmark of the three for 'regular webpage,' if such a thing exists. Speedometer shows a massive advantage for M1 silicon running natively, whether Safari or Chrome; Chrome x86_64 run through Rosetta2 is inconsequentially slower than Chrome running on a brand-new HP EliteBook with Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U CPU.
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Jetstream2 is the broadest of the three benchmarks and includes workloads for data sorting, regular expression parsing, graphic ray tracing, and more. This is the closest thing to a 'traditional' outside-the-browser benchmark and is the most relevant for general Web applications of all kinds—particularly heavy office applications such as spreadsheets with tons of columns, rows, and formulae but also graphic editors with local rather than cloud processing. Chrome x86_64 under Rosetta2 takes a significant back seat to everything else here—though we want to again stress that it does not feel at all slow and would perform quite well compared to nearly any other system.
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Finally, MotionMark 1.1 measures complex graphic animation techniques in-browser and nothing else. Safari enjoys an absolutely crushing advantage on this test, more than doubling even M1-native Chrome's performance. The Apple M1's GPU prowess also has an inordinate impact on these test results, with Chrome both native and x86_64 translated on the M1 outrunning Chrome on the Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U powered HP EliteBook.