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Google Chrome 19 Syncs Your Life. Didn’t Firefox Do that Last Year?

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 15, 2012

For those of you keeping score in the open source browser numbering acceleration, Google is now out with Chrome 19. As always, lots of security fixes, but what Google chose to highlight in their announcement blog post is a feature many of us have enjoyed for some time now – tab syncing across machines…

Now if I’m not mistaken, we’ve had sync across Google Chrome for some time. In fact, I first wrote about Chrome sync in August of 2009, a staggering 16 Chrome browser releases ago…

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Sean Michael Kerner

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