[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Google to phase out Sync, other services here

[brainout]

Yeah, on Monday Sync destroyed my Chrome browser. Last straw, for me. I uninstalled and reinstalled and uninstalled again. All it would do was hang. Worst part was, it initially destroyed my bookmarks the second time I signed into Google from Chrome, automatically replacing my bookmarks with the ones left over from years ago. I had no say in the matter. When I figured out what happened, I had to uninstall and reinstall to even GET the option to configure Sync. Thereafter I could change the parameters before signing in. But I was afraid that were I already signed in so to post in a forum or magazine article, then without thinking invoked Chrome, all the same junk would hit my other machine's copies of Chrome.

BECAUSE IT ONLY WORKS DOWN TO YOUR MACHINE, unlike Firefox, which is harder to use but at least you don't auto-invoke a download TO the machine you're on, and you can configure the sync to include MERGE with your machine, rather than only a down-to synching.

So if Chrome would work more like Firefox but without the arcane Firefox password 'recovery key' nonsense, synching with Chrome would have been good. As it stands, whatever damage it did to my machine here (XP Pro, main machine), I can't install it again, even though the registry has been cleaned of Google Chrome entries.

Chrome's cookie handling is the best. It has some endearing features and extensions; enough, to warrant using it. But what it gets wrong is really wrong: unreadable url at the lower left, arcane structures you have to guess at, way too much white space, stupid design for bookmarks and their organization, lack of exportability, arcane help (come on, what's a 'host pattern'), can't zoom text only, can't find where it stores your passwords so you can back them up, etc.

[moe8125]

I hope they get rid of all the syncing. Bookmarks, apps, omnibox, open tabs and the other things you can sync as well. If you delete something, it just resyncs it when you sign in again. The only thing that sync is good for is a one time use when you install Chrome a new computer. Then you don't have to install all your apps and bookmarks on the new machine.

[gocappy]

That sucks, it was a great way for my wife and to stay in sync together without having to connect our phones to the computer. Thumbs down

[eyephoto2]

I am a traumatic brain injury survivor and finished writing a note to Kim Komando. In the letter I stated that I use Google for its' ease of use for both my computer and smartphone to sync. I have major short term memory problems. Now, I cannot use it?What will I do? This is terrible!