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Google has officially updated its Chrome for Android app to include password and autofill data syncing for your mobile device. Those features were available for beta users last month, but now everyone can enjoy them. The app syncs the autofill and password data stored on your computer, further integrating the browser on both devices and making Google Chrome an even more compelling choice for users.

This password and autofill data sync is a Godsend for many users. We all know how dreadful it can be filling out form data while registering for services, or even typing out our passwords, especially if they’re complicated. You can imagine how much worse those tasks are when you’re typing them out on a mobile device. This new update helps give Android users a much welcomed shortcut through these mundane tasks.

Of course, in order for the sync to work, you will have to be signed into both your Google Chrome desktop app and your Google Chrome Android app. If your data isn’t syncing, don’t worry. Google says that this is normal as it’s still rolling out the features to users. You may have to wait at most a few days before you can take advantage of these features.

Alongside the addition of the new sync feature, the Chrome for Android update brings many other bonuses as well. Scrolling performance should be much smoother, pinch-to-zoom should be more responsive, interactive pages should be much faster, there is more support for HTML5 features, and audio will continue to play even if Chrome is in the background. You can go ahead and grab the update from Google Play now.

[via Android Community]

Chrome for Android now syncs autofill data and passwords is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google Chrome for Windows, OS X, and Linux received a fairly hefty update today. The browser got bumped up to version 26, and it comes with spell check improvements, desktop shortcuts for multiple profiles on Windows, and an asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux versions, as well as the usual bugfixes and performance improvements.

The improved spell checking is quite a bump up from traditional spell checking that we’ve known. Google Chrome’s spell checker checks for grammar this time around, as well as proper nouns, homonyms, and context-sensitive spell checking. All you have to do is enable the “Ask Google for suggestions” spell check feature in settings.

Of course, Google Search and Google Docs have had the new spell checking feature for quite some time, but now it’s coming universally in Google Chrome on any website, which is pretty cool. The update will be rolling out in the next couple of weeks, so don’t worry if you’re not seeing the update right away, as it’s still being released.

As for the desktop shortcuts feature for multiple users, Google Chrome users who share a computer can now create shortcuts on their desktop of Google Chrome for each specific user in the family. This eliminates the need to open up Chrome and manually switch accounts — a great feature if you have multiple people in your household using one computer.

Google Chrome for desktop updates with improved spell checking is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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With both Chrome and Android being Google products, it was a logical assumption that Chrome and Android could somehow merge of be integrated with each other. After all since Chrome is an app that can be downloaded for Android and iOS, it almost makes sense that both products would see a merge in the future. However according to a discussion with reporters in India, Google’s Eric Schmidt stated that both Android and Chrome would remain separate products, but he did acknowledge that there could be an overlap of either. We guess with Google hoping that Chrome OS takes off, keeping the operating system separate of Android might help encourage users to adopt Chrome OS for their browsing needs, while using Android for their smartphone/tablet needs. That’s just speculation but what do you guys think? Would you have liked to see both products merge together? If Microsoft managed to create Windows 8 for both laptops, desktops and tablets, why not Google, right?

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There’s no shortage of browser-based games available to casual gamers, but none are as quite unique as a new project called “World Wide Maze.” The game uses actual websites to build 3D mazes in which players can then guide around a small steel ball, similar to the likes of Marble Madness or Super Monkey Ball.

The game builds the 3D mazes dynamically using the HTML elements of the website, and players use their Android smartphones as a controller for the game, which is played on their computer in the Google Chrome web browser. You simply sync the two devices through Chrome using a unique code, then you can fire up the game and go at it.

Players either tilt their mobile devices or use the on-screen controls to guide the steel ball around, and just the Wii U’s gamepad, your Android smartphone’s display can mirror what’s on the computer screen. The video above shows what the game is all about and provides a quick demo so that you can see it in action. It’s in Japanese, but most of the important stuff is all visual anyway.

You’ll need a fairly decent computer to run the game, even if it is purely browser-based. World Wide Maze works uses the WebGL standard, and it requires at least 1GB of RAM and a 256MB graphics card for hardware acceleration. However, most computers nowadays will be able to handle it. While this may not be a game that you’ll spend hours playing, it’s certainly a cool thing to try out, and it could very well be the future of a new type of gaming.

[via Ars Technica]

World Wide Maze turns any website into a 3D maze in Google Chrome is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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When Andy Rubin left Android last week and was replaced by VP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai, it was a departure that launched 1,000 theories. And every single one of those theories that Android and ChromeOS are now just begging to be merged. Well Eric Schmidt has a rebuttal for you: No, mostly. More »