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Bookmark sync arrives on Chromium for Mac - here's how to make it work
by Jay Hathaway Nov 13th 2009 at 9:35PM
Bookmark sync isn't on by default. To use it, you'll have to pop open your Terminal and do a little command-line magic. You'll want to right-click Chromium, show package contents, and then find Chromium inside the MacOS folder. Drag that to the Terminal, and then add the argument --enable-sync. Chromium should open, and you should see bookmarking syncing in your preferences.
Sign in with your Google account, and your bookmarks will be synced automatically to any other Chromium/Chrome browsers that you sign into. If you want to see where they're stored on the web, check a slightly strange location: a Chrome folder in your Google Docs account.
I know it seems like a lot of trouble to go through for bookmark syncing, but such is the peril of being on the bleeding edge of browser development. Bookmark syncing will very likely pop up officially in the Chrome Mac beta scheduled for early December.
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Marty K. said 10:53PM on 11-13-2009
Love how there was not a single mention Chromium for Linux and how it, too, just got bookmark sync ability.
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Zachary Waldowski said 11:03PM on 11-13-2009
I hate to sound like I'm advertising, but Xmarks also has an alpha of its bookmark syncing available for the mainline Chrome beta. Between their extensions and tray-tool apps, you can sync bookmarks between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
Also note that Chrome (as of Mac version 4.0.245.0) and Chromium don't yet have an actual Bookmarks Manager implemented on Mac yet, although I'm sure they're just making it sufficiently Cocoa enough before sticking it in a new Chromium build.
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sofr0sty said 11:02AM on 11-14-2009
go to utilities, then open apple script editor. paste this in:
do shell script "/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-sync"
then save it as an application. i named mine start chromium. i also copied the icon from chromium to make it feel more like home. should work each time w/o the need to run terminal.
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