How to Synchronize Chrome

Picture the scene, what would you do if a truck came along and ran over your laptop, it could happen – but it doesn’t have to be a disaster, just so long as you weren’t holding at the time.

You might be one of the smug thousands who think that they’ve got it covered anyway! Well done, you’re one of the enlightened ones who are living in “the cloud” – apps for music, apps for email, apps for just about everything in fact. All of your critical documents, files and photos saved to places where you can access them from any computer with an internet connection, no matter where you are in the world. Come on truck, bring it on, all is not lost at all, so the body of your laptop might be dead but it’s soul lives on in any other internet-connected computer.

Alright, that’s most of the important stuff covered, but what about all the rest of it, your browser extensions, bookmarks, preferences, all which are used daily and help you to really motor through the necessaries of the day. Did they die along with your laptop? Hmmm, yes they did. What a pain. You’ll have to start over, finding your favorite extensions, locating the websites which you had bookmarked over the years – how time consuming. Ha ha, whenever there is a problem, there is always an answer (eventually).

How to Synchronize Chrome

Many of the modern browsers of today have the answer, or at least they’re working on it, browsers like Firefox and Chrome are working on features which they call synchronization – or “sync” which is much shorter and easier to say, never mind spell. Sync allows you to save all of your browser settings in the cloud, online, saving them for eternity, with or without your trusty laptop.

Sync really does help to make life easier, even without a road traffic accident. If you work on more than one computer, at work, at home, in a different office for example, you don’t have to painstakingly create bookmarks for your favorite websites and stuff on every one, if you change something on your syn-enabled browser on one of the computers, the others will automatically be in sync within a few seconds – as if by magic.

If we use Chrome as an example, the sync will save all of your preferences, themes, bookmarks and extensions to your Google account. Whenever you use a different computer (as long as it’s connected to the internet of course), you simply have to use Chrome and log in – hey ho, it’s all there when you log in to your Google account through the sync feature on the browser. How much time could that save you?

It makes no difference how many computers you use, they can all be synced together, so if one of them does come to a premature end life goes on.