Google unveils Chrome cloud synchronization plans

Google has revealed its plan for a Chrome synchronization service that will allow users to sync their browser data from Chrome with their Google accounts. The framework will become part of Google's open source Chromium project later this week; a dev build of Chrome with the sync feature will be made available later this month.

At the moment, the Chrome synchronization framework will handle bookmarks, though it is designed for other types of browser data too. The framework uses a push messaging model and is used to propagate notifications, which means that changes can be synchronized simultaneously in other instances.

If anything, such a move will take Chrome to a new level of competition with the popular Mozilla Firefox. If anything, one can certainly expect a new range of browser-based applications that will be created to take advantage of the new cloud capabilities.

With its substantial investment in the cloud, Google is infinitely better positioned to compete against the likes of Firefox and even Safari in offering such a service. It remains to be seen whether similar frameworks will be implemented by the other browsers though.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Ars Technica

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