Monday, April 11, 2011

ChromeTabs

My typical weekend day is spent juggling my Macbook, my iPad, and my smart phone.  Each device running a completely different browser from the other.

Frequently I do a bunch of surfing on my Macbook, only to jump into bed with the iPad - or to take the dog for a walk (with my smartphone along for the ride).

Why can't my "tabs" in chrome come with me?

Firefox 4 has a nifty feature called Weave (the Weave project itself has been around for awhile, long before Firefox 4) - but this of course doesn't do me any good if I use Chrome as my browser on my MacBook, mobile safari on my iPad, and the browser on Android.

I decided to throw together a quick extension for Chrome that monitors my currently opened tab set - and keeps track of them via a small website that I can visit on any of my other devices to see what tabs I have open.



Good enough for me, for now - but I could easily see myself turning this into a full fledged extension and service for other people to use.

1 comment:

Carol Pike said...

You are so organized! But I remember the days!