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Goolge chrome introduces extensions and Bookmark sync

Long awaited extensions and bookmark sync features of Google Chrome came out of beta yesterday. All the Chrome users will get the update through their current browser. If you are looking to update your Google chrome to support extensions, go to About Google Chrome under settings, and click update to new version.

The bookmark sync is a simplified version of Google’s browser sync (earlier released for Firefox). It works on your Gmail account, and you can set time interval of the bookmark updates.Google also has published a video explaining the new bookmark sync feature here.

Google Chrome extensions

But the major upgrade is the support for extensions lack of which was one of main reason for many still sticking with Firefox.With the introduction of extensions the growth in share of Google Chrome is expected to skyrocket. As Google was working with developers on extensions even before the official stable release support , most of the popular extensions of Firefox are now available for Google chrome here.

You can read the Google’s official release on Google Blog.

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Google to launch Browser Sync for Google chrome

Of all the softwares I miss the Browser Sync for Firefox the most, when Google withdrew the plugin late last year, I thought probably Google was worried about privacy concerns and dropped the plugin. Only after the launch of Google Chrome I realized the real reason. Maybe Google was little selfish in pulling the plug of a very popular plugin, but then thats how the industry is.

But now Google is launching the plugin again but only this time the plugin will stay much longer thanks to Google Chrome. A sneak peek was given in Google’s development blog about the launch of the Browser Sync. It is expected to be launched in a week and it will not have all the features of the firefox plugin.

The first beta of the plugin will have ability to synchronise only the bookmarks and later versions will add other features like History,Passwords etc. All these information will be stored under your Google/Gmail  Account.