The stripped-down Chrome experience is slowly bulking up as it beats the path to full-fledged OS: Data syncing will hit the developer release of Chrome this month. Bookmarks now, but it’s designed for more data later. And it’s push.
https://gizmodo.com/google-chromes-getting-hardware-accelerated-3d-graphics-5320618
That means anything you do in one browser will show up immediately in all your other Chrome browsers, no actual syncing required, like with Xmarks. Add a bookmark. Delete one, it’s shows up instantly. You’ll also be able to get to your bookmarks in any browser through a web app by logging into your Google account. Ars says that the sync framework’s designed to scale to handle other types of data.
Honestly, though, a data syncing framework from Google—even a tiny one—just makes me think of one thing: The long-rumoredGDrive online storage with full data sync and backup powers. Which would make Chrome OS a lot tastier. Mmmm. [Google via Ars]
