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I need to report an intermittent crash of Google Chrome (stable channel) that I experience several times a week. However I strictly don't to share with Google some pieces of my user profile (certain cookies, site data and pieces of cache, some parts of my browsing history and the similar stuff). History is not synced with my Google Account.
I can live with losing several hours (or days) or browsing history and saved passwords (created while I am reproduce a crash), but it's absolutely necessary to maintain an up-to-date session (open tabs and windows), as it always reflects my current 'state of work' on multiple projects. During those hours/days, I won't be visiting the sites that I don't want to share info about.
My first idea is to create a replica of my user profile for the purposes of reproducing, clear up all sensitive info from it (or even populate a blank profile with only "{Last|Current} {Session|Tabs}" from my original profile). Then live with it until I report enough crashes, and after that copy the latest "{Last|Current} {Session|Tabs}" files from the replica to my original profile. Will such open tabs data from the temporary profile work with my original profile when moved back to it from temporary profile?
Alternatively I am considering to manually collect raw crash data with windbg. Will the log by windbg be human readable enough to make sure that it contains nothing I don't want to send to Google?
Any other ideas are appreciated.
1Google already knows pretty much everything about you, including browsing history, etc. Don't fret about a crash report. – Jon – 2013-12-15T22:28:53.790
@chipperyman573 Not relevant to my question. – yurkennis – 2013-12-15T22:31:47.830
1Its really simply. Create a backup of your profile data. At this point disable all syncing. Get your session to the point where you want it, submit the data you want to submit, then restore the backup profile. – Ramhound – 2013-12-16T00:43:04.797
@ramhound Looks a valid answer in itself, why not post it as a real answer? Only need to keep latest session files (tabs and windows). – yurkennis – 2013-12-16T04:18:52.737
1But you would still be in the same position: trying to sanitize sensitive data from the profile files before submitting anything. – Synetech – 2013-12-16T18:35:02.333