Re:Chrome for Android. Finally.
by JDS950 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:25PM
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I would love it if this synced your chrome profile with your phone, so my bookmarks were present on my mobile. Also it would be cool if it tried to match your apps and extensions to possible chrome mobile extensions and sync those as well...come on chrome team!
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Re:Chrome for Android. Finally.
by ConstantineXVI on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:52PM
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Honeycomb already does Chrome sync, logic would say that it'll show up in ICS on phones as well.
Well, Firefox Mobile does sync bookmarks & history. But I think most mobile devices are still limited enough you can't really run a full-featured browser and get good performance -- thus the current lack of a direct Chrome port on Android.[1]
Trying to 'sync' extensions between two radically different apps probably isn't worth the headaches it would cause... even an auto-suggest would probably mess up enough to be annoying.
[1] And, despite this article's headline, that doesn't seem to have been announced.