Mountain View, California — Google has just rolled out the first preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, along with the addition of bookmark syncing tool to the list of features available through Chrome’s developers’ channel.
With the recent development, this new feature should herald some big progress to the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for Web pages but as for now it just boasts a cloud-based bookmark synchronization tool.
“This new feature simplifies it to keep the same set of bookmarks on all your machines, and stores them alongside your Google Docs for easy web access,” says Google’s Tim Steele.
“Once you set up sync from the Tools menu, Chrome will then upload and store your bookmarks in your Google Account. Anytime you add or change a bookmark, your changes will be sent to the cloud and immediately broadcast to all other computers for which you have activated bookmark sync,” Steele wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
To activate the bookmark sync feature in Chrome, launch Chrome with the –enable-sync command-line flag, wrote Steele.
Mozilla has employed a similar feature in its Weave product, which enables users of the Firefox browser to sync their preferences on multiple machines. Last month, they announced a new version of it.
Earlier this week, Mozilla has released some additional information about what they are working on to improve Weave. These include improvements in operation, usability, flaws, and things beyond just syncing. More details about that here.
A Mac version is also being rumored and may arrive soon.