Filed under: Google, Open Source, Beta, Browsers
Early stages of sync functionality appear in Chrome nightly (gallery)
Announced just over a week ago, Google is working on resurrecting Browser Sync in Google Chrome. With the recent development jump to v4, it seems a good bet that sync will be an integral part of the next major release of the speedy browser.
In the most recent nightly builds, the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together. Looking through the Chrome command line switches, I noticed the following lines:
Don't get too excited when you press the buttons. Like Marvin the Martian learned after Bugs stole his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator there won't be any Earth-shattering kaboom. For now, we can look. We'll have to wait for Google to flip the switch to see syncing in action.
Check the gallery after the break for screenshots, including early designs for the login and merge/sync pages!
In the most recent nightly builds, the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together. Looking through the Chrome command line switches, I noticed the following lines:
Like any good dev channel tester would, I immediately appended the switch to my Chrome 4.0.202.0 shortcut and launched the browser again. With sync enabled, there is a new entry in the wrench menu as well as on the Personal Stuff tab of the options screen.// Enable syncing bookmarks to a Google Account. const wchar_t kEnableSync[] = L"enable-sync";
Don't get too excited when you press the buttons. Like Marvin the Martian learned after Bugs stole his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator there won't be any Earth-shattering kaboom. For now, we can look. We'll have to wait for Google to flip the switch to see syncing in action.
Check the gallery after the break for screenshots, including early designs for the login and merge/sync pages!
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
