Comments on: Chrome to Mobile Lets You Share Web Pages From Your PC to Your Phone – Yeah It’s Exactly Like Chrome to Phone

By: Hokuspokus

Hokuspokus — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000

One better: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.chefgon.clipbird
This one can sync your clipboard. Android->PC, PC->Android, Android->Android, PC->PC. really cool!

By: Ian Ward

Ian Ward — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:15:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Chrome to Mobile and tab sync are two different things, guys. C2M lets you explicitly send a tab to your phone, whereas tab sync just lists the metadata of all of your tabs on your computer on your phone, letting you click on them to open them on your phone.
Tab Sync can be enabled in about:flags, and I think it’s automatically enabled in the dev and beta channels (versions 18+). Once you enable it, go to chrome://settings/syncSetup and make sure Open Tabs is checked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:00 +0000

Well, I think the main difference is that ChromeToMobile syncs automagically, whereas ChromeToPhone required you to manually send a page to your phone. So right now I have 4 tabs open on my desktop, and if I open Chrome on my Galaxy Nexus I see my 4 tabs already waiting.

Yet to be seen is how much syncing this does and if it causes battery drain like google+ or photos or any of the other syncing services that tend to hang up in the GN.

By: Noyfb

Noyfb — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:47:00 +0000

chrome to phone never worked on my gnex, maybe this will

By: Judah Richardson

Judah Richardson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:20:00 +0000

I use Fox to Phone anyway (Firefox user)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000

except for the Chrome app itself

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:00 +0000

just you =/

By: koveleski

koveleski — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:03:00 +0000

F*&k. I just logged into my chrome and apparently had some bookmarks in the cloud previously and it just overwrote everything I had locally. %&$%&*$*$#*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Chrome to Phone does more in regards to app-specific links and text copying, but Chrome to Mobile is important in that it allows for multiple device management. That’s pretty huge, actually. I booted up my old OG the other day to play around with it and instantly had like 20 links pop up that I had previously Chrome to Phone’d with my Nexus. I do wish CtM had more of these other features, though, or that it just used CtP and added the device management feature.

Also, this is just an opinion but I like Chrome to Mobile in the Omnibox more than Chrome to Phone next to the settings button.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:46:00 +0000

If you already had tabs open, it won’t come up until you refresh it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Not Necessarily, because PremiumPass works just fine on my Chrome For Android

By: Chris Gustafson

Chris Gustafson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:10:00 +0000

And you can select which device to send it to Which you can’t with Chrome to phone.

By: Kiril

Kiril — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Yup, those are all hook-ups in the apps themselves. Just like clicking on a YouTube link anywhere will ask Browser or YouTube. Theoretically, the new extension should also work with YouTube, Market, Voice, Music, etc… although it probably doesn’t work with all.

By: PyroHoltz

PyroHoltz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:00 +0000

When Google streamlined their privacy policy they needed to find something for all those extra folks to do.

So, they recreate existing products and change the names slightly.