I want to update my chrome on ubuntu.
Will it clear my cookies, session and other data of some particular link?
2 Answers
No. Your cookies, cache, and site-specific data will remain, as well as all the cached .js files.
In general, it's best to let the system handle your updates, unless you have something special you absolutely, positively, utterly, need the very latest shiny version for. Chrome's an exception, since you originally installed it by downloading the installer from Google's website (it's not in the list of packages for 18.04).
says Linux users: To update Google Chrome, use your package manager.
2It did for me (on Chromium), but only because since Ubuntu 19.10, Chromium comes as a snap instead of a deb, meaning the location of cookies, history, user sign-ins, extensions, etc. is now at ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default instead of ~/.config/chromium/Default. Copying that folder over makes all things I listed appear again in Chromium.
