Google Chrome 6.0 gets support for extension sync

Posted on Friday, June 18 2010 @ 20:07 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
CNET spotted that Google has released developer's builds of Google Chrome 6 with a new feature to synchronize extensions across multiple computers.
Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome dev 6.0.437.1 for Windows and Linux, and version 6.0.437.2 for Mac, include a rudimentary version of extension sync that users need to manually activate, a collection of the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks, and also combines the stop and reload buttons into one to streamline the omnibox and free up space for extension icons.

To enable the extension sync, users must go to a Chrome shortcut's properties and, at the end of the Target field, add the following command line switch: "--enable-sync-extensions" without the quotes. For novice command line switch users, note that a space is needed between the end of the "chrome.exe" and the sync extension switch.


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