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Extension sync support lands in Google Chrome source code
Preferences? Check. Form auto-fill? Check. Theme? Check. Extensions? ...
Maybe not yet, but we all knew it was just a matter of time. With Google pushing the "your apps everywhere" philosophy in Chrome OS, there was no question that our Google Chrome extensions would be added to its preference sync options soon enough.
This morning, extension sync appeared in the Chromium source code. Better still, it's enabled by default -- meaning there's no need to flip a command line switch to turn it on.
That said, it either hasn't been fully enabled yet or isn't quite working -- which shouldn't come as a surprise since this is the first time the code has appeared. Running the most recent Chromium nightly build on my Windows and Mac systems I tried installing new extensions on both, waited, and... Nothing. Patience, young Padawan, patience!
It's clear the Chrome developers are hard at work, and there's really not much difference between a .CRX containing a theme and one containing an extension -- and theme sync has been working beautifully for quite some time now.
So when will extension sync hit the Chrome dev channel? Sooner rather than later, I expect.
It's clear the Chrome developers are hard at work, and there's really not much difference between a .CRX containing a theme and one containing an extension -- and theme sync has been working beautifully for quite some time now.
So when will extension sync hit the Chrome dev channel? Sooner rather than later, I expect.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentskurtextremJun 9th 2010 9:57AM
Passwort Sync? Not complet yet.
SonnyjimbaJun 9th 2010 12:13PM
History sync? :P
Thomas JespersenJun 9th 2010 2:43PM
That's wonderful news. I run Chrome on both my Desktop and my netbook system.
chmouelJun 9th 2010 9:56PM
themes obviously have no preferences when addon has preferences so i guess it's a bit more hard to sync addons.
RahabibJun 10th 2010 5:14PM
what would be nice is if chrome would finally add a side panel or better bookmark managers. Once that happens Ill finally ditch firefox.
JamesJun 11th 2010 10:37AM
I would hope this would light a fire under Mozilla to do the same for Firefox, but people have been begging them for extension syncing forever to no avail.
__smooth__Jun 12th 2010 3:32PM
I'm hoping that this will eventually lead to a standardized browser.
Everytime I go to a random computer, all I have to do is open up chrome, input my credentials and have it setup just as the one I have on my home PC. Once I shut it down, it resets for the next user.
@Lee have any idea if/when this is going to happen?