I'm considering migrating from Chrome to Chromium due to the licencing and graphics acceleration support.
To avoid setup and save disk space, I am thinking of symlinking:
~/.config/google-chrome
to~/.config/chromium
~/.cache/google-chrome
to~/.cache/chromium
Assuming I only want to run one instance of a web browser at a time, I'm guessing that the locking of ~/.config/{browser}/SingletonLock
should work fine.
I've searched around and not seen this approach before. I believe that both browsers share a huge percentage of code base, so I don't see why this wouldn't work.
Apart from "backup, try it and see", would there be any gotchas to look out for or reasons not to do this?