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I signed into chrome on a friends laptop and now when I am on my personal rig I noticed our accounts have been somewhat "merged" I have all my extensions, but I also have his extensions, I have all my bookmarks, but I also have all his bookmarks. When I look at browsing history there are 2 columns, one for my history and one for my friends, and I assume he is having the same problem on his laptop. How can I get everything from his account off my account, short of deleting every thing and redoing all my preferences?

 

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I signed into chrome on a friends laptop and now when I am on my personal rig I noticed our accounts have been somewhat "merged" I have all my extensions, but I also have his extensions, I have all my bookmarks, but I also have all his bookmarks. When I look at browsing history there are 2 columns, one for my history and one for my friends, and I assume he is having the same problem on his laptop. How can I get everything from his account off my account, short of deleting every thing and redoing all my preferences?

I don't think you can. And I don't think they "merged".

Basically, Chrome syncs everything you have together. So when you logged into your Chrome account onto his laptop with all his extensions, settings, and bookmarks, it merged that into your own. I doubt it happened to him unless your stuff stayed on even after you logged off your Chrome account which should not have happened. 

The only way I can think of fixing this is just to delete all his stuff. Sorry.

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I know they didn't really merge, that's why I quoted it but that word pretty much summed up what happened, as long as he didn't get all my chrome settings, extensions, and history, than it's not really a big deal, however after deleting everything I still have search history from his laptop when I was on it, is there a way to get rid of that? here is a screen cap of what it looks like http://imgur.com/xUxF6EO, I cleared my browsing data with the exception of saved passwords and content licenses. 

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I know they didn't really merge, that's why I quoted it but that word pretty much summed up what happened, as long as he didn't get all my chrome settings, extensions, and history, than it's not really a big deal, however after deleting everything I still have search history from his laptop when I was on it, is there a way to get rid of that? here is a screen cap of what it looks like http://imgur.com/xUxF6EO, I cleared my browsing data with the exception of saved passwords and content licenses. 

Well, firstly, I would look at the historys. If the history on the laptop is only from when you searched things on it, then I wouldn't worry about it, because then it's only your history and not his (from when you were on his laptop).

If you still want to get rid of it, click the little arrow and see if there is a delete option. 

Also, try clicking that "Learn more" button in the bottom right corner. That might help.

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