Not content to offer mere bookmark, preferences and theme synchronization between browsers, Google Chrome has upped the ante by now offering to sync installed extensions as well:
Extension sync has landed in the Google Chrome dev channel build.
It’s not enabled by default, so you won’t see it in your sync options menu unless you activate the feature via a command line switch. –enable-sync-extensions –sync-url=https://clients4.google.com/chrome-sync/dev turns it on.
Sync in and of itself is a pretty standard feature, as most browsers offer some form of synchronization through the use of third-party plug-ins or extensions. However, adding extension sync is pretty killer because there is no need to remember to download, install and configure an extension on multiple computers – do it once and its taken care of everywhere else you use that same browser.
I have been sold on Google Chrome for quite some time now, having migrated away from Firefox on OS X. I find the latter to be bloated, slow and largely unresponsive compared to Chrome, which feels lightweight and speedy. Chrome does everything I need it to do, and just as good, if not better, than Firefox.
Plus Chrome has the one feature I adore the most – a combination search and address bar. No need for the multiple input boxes, one for the address bar and one for search, like what Firefox and IE offer. Chrome does it better. Period.
