Synchronize your Bookmarks in Google Chrome

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Synchronize your Bookmarks in Google Chrome

Posted on November 4th, 2009 linuxandfriends 3 comments

Google Chrome beta web browser now has a much awaited feature – Bookmarks synchronization. Now it is possible to sync your bookmarks across computers in Google Chrome.

The Google Chrome bookmarks synchronizer works as follows :
- You need to have a Google Account for the bookmarks synchronizer to work.
- When you click the synchronize button in Google Chrome, it will ask you to log into your Google Account.
- The bookmarks synchronizer then uploads the bookmarks to your Google Account – more specifically Google Docs account.
- From now onwards, all your bookmarks are automatically sync-ed with your Google Account.
- If you are using Google Chrome on a different machine, you just have to click the synchronization button again and log into your Google Account to have all your bookmarks accessible on that computer.
How to synchronize bookmarks in Google Chrome

Incidentally, Opera web browser already has the browser sync feature but Firefox doesn’t.

Opera synchronizes not just your bookmarks but all your notes you have stored in the web browser as well.

Bookmarks sync is another feature that I will add to my list of 10 things I like about Google Chrome.

Note: Google Chrome browser sync should not be misunderstood for Google Sync which synchronizes all the data on your cell phone to your Google account.

At present, Bookmarks Synchronization feature is available only in the latest beta version of Google Chrome. Google has been adding new features to its flagship web browser on a regular basis. Some of them being Google Chrome themes, new Google Chrome extensions, speed improvements and so on.

To learn more about Google bookmarks sync, watch the following YouTube video from the Google Chrome team.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cR30Q7WVk]

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3 responses to “Synchronize your Bookmarks in Google Chrome”
- Vadim P. November 5th, 2009 at 18:34
  
  Now only if I could sync it with my android phone! :/
- Kap4Lin November 10th, 2009 at 05:56
  
  C’mon, be honest. Your website is “linuxandfriends”! This feature is only for Windows.
- linuxandfriends November 10th, 2009 at 09:41
  
  Kap4Lin,
  Yes as of now Google Chrome beta is available only for Windows. But this is going to change as a Linux version of Google Chrome is in the offing. There is a project called Google Chromium which is an open source version of Google Chrome which runs natively in Linux.
  
  PS: I do write about any topic that catches my fancy – not just Linux. For more details, check out the “About” page.