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I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone.

Edit: Still a cool extension you've got there! Not taking anything away from it.

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And just for the record: for firefox users there is fox to phone: http://www.foxtophone.com/

Chrome for iOS does this job beautifully :)

Indeed. If only it weren't stuck with a slow js interpreter.

I jailbroke my phone and installed the Nitrous addon to give all apps access to the Nitro engine. Though, i'll admit it's not an option for everyone.

yes, chrome on iOS is unsable because of this. I'd love to use Chrome more, but even lightweight js sites are tediously slow on chrome/ios

Not just the javascript either, Chrome becomes horrendously slow with week wifi signals where Safari is fine. For some reason only Apple apps can do the 3G/LTE/Wifi request pooling magic that they added in iOS 6.

Unusable?! I've been using Chrome on my iPhone 4 for the past week and I haven't noticed a significant difference.

jailbreak + nitrous. problem solved. :)

Did that for a few weeks, and the Chrome performance boost was nice. I had to jail-unbreak though because stability was horrid for me, with applications constantly crashing :/

iOS is so last decade :)

Do you guy know something like a "Phone to Chrome"? I'm desperate to find a way to open simply with my desktop Chrome web pages that I stumble upon with my Android but which are impractical to read with it.

You can do this if you use Chrome on your phone, and are signed in with sync enabled. The tabs on your phone are accessible from the 'New Tab' page on you desktop and vice versa. On desktop Chrome, there's a little 'Other Devices' drop down at the bottom; on Chrome for Android, there's a button with a pair of arrows at the bottom right.

Can that work in one direction? I have dozens of tabs open on my desktops, and I don't want to punish my phone with that.

It doesn't open the tabs automatically. Your tabs open on your desktop are listed essentially like bookmarks on your phone. You choose to open them or not at any given time.

The feature is enabled by default so if you're using Chrome already (on both devices, with your Google account), then it's likely already syncing (and clearly not punishing your phone).

That's great! Thank you.

Also check out Push Pop - http://pushpop.herokuapp.com/

You mean like pastefire, the browser plugin that sends text to your iPhone clipboard, that I've been using for years ;) http://pastefire.com/

Here's what I did to solve this problem. It works on all platforms/all phones/all browsers.

I created a document using TitanPad (http://titanpad.com/) -- any paste bin service will do. I then bookmarked that document on all my computers and phones. I called the bookmark 'Text Sync'.

Bonus if your favorite paste bin supports versioning. You can use secure Gists if you've got some private text to pass around.

This is exactly the kind of thing that Apple will likely implement one day as seamless integration is their speciality.

They haven't done anything with text yet but there's iCloud Tabs for URLs. Anything you have open in Safari is available on your iPhone/iPad too and anything on those devices is available by clicking the cloud icon in Safari.

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