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Coming Soon To Chrome: Google Bookmarks?

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This would be a killer feature from Chrome. It's not earth shattering but with Google you have little fear of downtime or the inability to reach your precious bookmarks.

The question of course becomes privacy and security. Ideally there would be an option to bookmark for machine specific bookmarks. I don't need my work bookmarks at home usually, and some home bookmarks may not be suitable to be at work with me.

Chrome has a lot of potential to really be the first /cloud/ browser, but it's yet to be seen if it can make a significant land grab for anything more than initial wow factor.

Flock tried to do a lot of the cloud integration and social networking pieces, but it never succeeded in differentiating itself from Firefox due to the Fox's easy ability to do anything via plugins, and herein lies the problem for Chrome.

Does Google even want to really enter the browser war? Or is it content to keep working on its own and let Firefox / Safari / IE really fight it out? We'll see.

Wasnt there someone who had made a firefox extension to add surfing history to google bookmarks, and then google had scalability issues due to which they sent him a check, mug and a tshirt and a request letter to discontinue his extension... This seems something similar! Ofcourse the load on google is gona be less as we don't bookmark each and everything

I was hoping to see this, however as a del.icio.us user I'm afraid I'll be left out seeing as how I'm sure Google will not implement an 'open' social bookmarking mechanism.

does anyone care? does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? this thing has turned out to be a huge flop for google, and a big waste of time. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.

does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser?

I do.

as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.

It's necessary for the health of the internet. A two-browser monopoly is just as bad as a one-browser monopoly.

Assuming Google implements this correctly, it will be the first damn browser to actually make syncing bookmarks user-friendly. That's a feature that should be standard by now, but it's not. The browser space is still open to innovation.

I use it a lot and really like it.

As far as what Google stands to gain: they pay millions to firefox and others for search referrals stemming from the firefox homepage and the integrated search bar. Also, Google certainly benefits from people surfing the web faster (more page views = more money for them).

I've always wondered if this is naive: couldn't a large part of it be that somebody at Google said "all these other browsers suck" and decided to fix it? I mean, Chrome takes ideas from other browsers and puts it together into something that's superb in nearly every way, especially for a beta. Google could very well have started the project intending just to make a really good thing.

That and, you know, the millions of dollars thing. That's big too.

(Does anybody else find it annoying that Google's software is always more aesthetically pleasing than their online programs?)

I do as well on my Vista work laptop. I sometimes have to do IE or FF specific things, and I use FF at home on Ubuntu, but for Windows I just use Chrome. I don't need a lot of plugins at work, the omni-tab page substitutes well for bookmarks and the browser is way faster, which is important since Vista is so chipper.

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