Google has revealed plans for a Chrome cloud service that will allow users to synchronize browser data with their Google accounts. The synchronization framework, which is still at an early stage of development, will arrive in Google’s open source Chromium project later this week. Google says that a Chrome build with the sync feature enabled could be made available through a dev-channel update this month.
A post from Google Engineer Tim Steele In the Chromium developer group revealed today, Google’s Chrome browser will be getting Google account synchronization….
Tim says:
c”A bunch of us have been working on a feature to sync user data in Chromium with a Google account,” Steele said. “We have built a library that implements the client side of our sync protocol as well as the Google server-side infrastructure to serve Google Chrome users and synchronize data to their Google Account.”
Sync feature will be limited to bookmark data at first, but it will eventually grow to include other browser data, developer documents say. The result would be similar to the Firefox browser extension Google discontinued last year, which synced history, persistent cookies and passwords across different machines.
“To make this sync infrastructure scale to millions of users, we decided to leverage existing XMPP-based Google Talk servers to give us ‘push’ semantics, rather than only depending on periodically polling for updates,” the FAQ says, “Using XMPP pushes, the sync servers don’t need to waste cycles for no reason.”
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