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by jauntywundrkind 702 days ago
Looks good!

I really wish folks had, back in the day, gone in on writing their own chrome sync services. I don't know what the state of the world is today, but for a long time it was a not-that-wild set of extensions atop XMPP. https://github.com/valurhrafn/chrome-sync-server

I don't know what Chrome does today. Writing extensions to manage all this state seems fine, sensible. But I wish we really could go deep & really supplant the actual cloud system the browsers use, as sweet as it is that we can strap on this other sync mechanism thanks to extensions.

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Thanks! I agree with you and would love to dig into other options to handle the sync. Extensions solve the problem for now, although in some browsers they are not available in the mobile version.