Royce Barber

Your guide to Firefox 4 and its shiny new features (Download Squad)

Nov 15th 2010 1:48AM "Sync? Doesn't Chrome does that already for ages?"

Your statement really bothers me, because Google made you believe it does something that it not only can't, but it does the opposite: It DESTROYS bookmarks every time you "sync". Google lied to you. They viciously lied to you.

I'll say it again to be very clear: Chrome does not sync. Try it. Go ahead. You'll find that it bugs up every time. Research this. Chrome will also bug up a folder in your GoogleDocs, adding all your bookmarks, making them permanent forever unless you do a fix which doesn't always work. Want to delete a bookmark from your Chrome while Sync is enabled? Too bad, you can't, it comes back with six copies. Try deleting those. Too bad! You can guess what it does.

And don't tell me the Beta Chrome fixes this - it just makes it WORSE. I know Chrome, I love and use it continually. It does amazing things, but it does NOT Sync. It will NOT Sync until Google takes it's customers seriously. And I say customers, because we look at Google adds all day long, and Google knows a ton about us, and also I pay for extra Google storage, among other Google products.

Another thing that ticks me off is that it's not possible to insert images into spreadsheet cells on GoogleDocs. But thats another story.

This rant is more about Google than about anything you said. You're innocent as far as I know. But please, don't ever in your life suggest that Chrome has SYNC. At least not until it does and then some. And refunds me countless hours lost fixing thousands of bookmarks.

All that said, I do use chrome daily, and I do love it dearly. I just don't love the evil broken sync. For sync all good chrome users use the plugin Xmarks. I don't work for xmarks, or even care if they survive, but they work well.