I have a MacBook Pro and an iMac, and Google Chrome is installed on both the machines. I need to keep tabs in sync, otherwise it’s a giant “let’s email open tabs links to myself” mess. In the age of sync anywhere, anytime it amazes me that Google still hasn’t come up with a reliable solution to keep tabs and sessions in sync between different machines.

I’ve been using the Xmarks service for some months now, and while I don’t really care about bookmarks and passwords sync (1Password all the way), it’s been tremendously useful to keep tabs in sync between my two computers. I just don’t like the way it forces me to open tabs: one at a time and I have to hit the Xmarks button for each tab, as they can’t open in the background.

TabCloud is a neat little extension that works with your Google Account (or even better, the AppSpot infrastructure which plugs into Google’s API) and lets you save tab sessions on every machine you run Chrome on. Once you log in with your Google credentials, every time you want to save a snapshop of your current window you open TabCloud’s menu and hit save. What’s great is that when you run TabCloud on the second computer, all the tabs will open simultaneously in a new window. Makes much more sense to me.

TabCloud works great, it’s free and available here.