How to Import Chrome Extensions from Another Google Account

The Sync feature of the Google Chrome browser lets its users transfer their Chrome items across different devices or accounts, and one such item is the Chrome Extensions. In this blog, you will learn how to import Chrome extensions from another Google account.

The moment you turn on the sync in your Chrome browser, everything from the bookmarks, passwords, settings, and even extensions up to the current date is transferred across all the devices you are signed in with the same account.

This means that if you are using an extension, namely Gmail Snippets, which stores your email templates, you can access them on any device that is connected to your same account.

However, you cannot automatically sync the Chrome extensions among different Google accounts. Thug, you can easily sync your media across using Chrome sync, but it does not work well when it comes to switching accounts. For that, you will need to follow some extra steps.

What is Google Chrome Sync to Import Chrome Extensions?

Google Chrome Sync is one of the most useful features of the Chrome browser, which helps users keep their browser settings, history, passwords, and extensions across all their devices. This allows the users to use Google Chrome on any platform, irrespective of thinking about their saved items.

If you don’t know how you can manage the raw folder of Chrome Extensions, learn how to load an unpacked Chrome extension.

If in the future, you think of switching to a new computer or setting up a whole set of new devices, you will need to set up your browser from scratch, it would be better for you if you turn the sync on before you make any such changes.

This will help your Chrome to sync all the Chrome data, such as the extensions, bookmarks, and settings, to save to your Google Account, which will help you further access these data on any device you are using.

Also, if in case you decide to turn off the sync, the bookmarks, extensions, passwords, and every other Chrome data will remain on your current device, but no futter changes you make will not get saved to your Google Account, which means your upcoming alterations will not get synced across your other devices with the same account.

Although there is no direct step to import Chrome extensions from another Google account, however, you can easily transfer the extensions among different Chrome profiles.

Set Up your Chrome Profile to Import Extensions

Here are a few steps on how you can easily set up the Chrome profiles for import of extensions.

1. Set Up Multiple Profiles in Chrome

You can easily customize your browsing experience for different people working on the same device using Chrome profiles. In each profile, you can keep your settings, bookmarks, extensions, and history so that every user can have a personalized experience. Also, the moment you sign in with your Google Account, your data gets synced across all your devices.

• Simply just open your Google Chrome browser and navigate to the top-right corner of the browser window.
• Then click on the current user icon. It might appear with your name, email, or an icon saying Sign in.
• After that, select the Switch Person option from the dropdown.
• At the bottom of the window,  you will find the button for Add Person, simply click on it and a new profile will be created.
• Then sign in with the Google Account you want to sync extensions from. This step will allow all your extensions, bookmarks, and other browsing data to sync to the new profile that you recently created.

2. Enable Sync on Both Profiles

While Chrome by default, syncs all the Chrome profiles, you can still able to customize the settings for individual profiles so that you can control what data is shared. Also, enabling sync on both Chrome profiles ensures that the data is consistent across other devices.

• Open your Chrome browser and simply click on the three dots in the top-right corner of your Chrome Window.
• From there, click on Settings.
• Under the You and Google section, click on the Turn On Sync option to enable syncing on both profiles.
• Then, you will be redirected to sign in to your Google account.
• Also, make sure that the option to sync Extensions is turned on for both profiles.

How to Import Chrome Extensions from Another Google Account

Here are a few steps on how you can easily import the Chrome Extensions from one profile to another. 

• Simply first open your Chrome browser on Profile 1 and also ensure that you have all the extensions you want to transfer to another profile. Also, check that they are all enabled and set up properly.
• Then, ensure that the Chrome Sync is enabled. This will make sure your extensions can easily sync between the profiles.
• In case you are using the same Google account for both profiles, you will also need to sign out of Profile 1. You will not be able to sync the extensions unless you are not logged out.
• Once you sign out of Profile 1, simply switch to Profile 2. In Profile 2, sign in with the same Google account either with Gmail or Outlook, you can also use the Microsoft Account, which you can use to sync your extensions.
• Then, Chrome will automatically start syncing all your data, including your extensions, to Profile 2. This might take a few minutes.
• Once your data is synced, navigate to Profile 2 and check if the extensions from Profile 1 have been installed. Also, make sure that all your extensions are installed properly on Profile 2.
• Once you are assured that your extensions are synced, you can sign out of Profile 2. But, you need to be careful enough that you do not uncheck the options related to sync or extensions.
• Then, sign in back to Profile 1. You do not need to worry; the sync will be restored, and your extensions will remain in place.
• If, in the future, you go back to Profile 2, you will see that all the extensions from Profile 1 are there.

Conclusion

To sum it up, while Chrome does not have a direct option to transfer extensions between different Google accounts, you can still move them easily by using multiple Chrome profiles.

You just need to create a new profile, turn on sync for both accounts, and your extensions will sync across the profiles.

After signing out of one profile and into the other, Chrome will automatically transfer the extensions. This way, you can easily import your Chrome extensions from different accounts.

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