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Direct Market Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.chrome The download is a hefty 16MB.

Features:

* Chrome-to-mobile, Sync bookmarks, history, settings, Auto sign-in

* Bandwidth management (preload webpages)

* Privacy settings

* Developer tools: Tilt Scrolling, USB Web Debugging (debug web pages from Chrome Desktop via USB??)

* Incognito mode

* About screen: http://i.imgur.com/Ahr6t.jpg

The homepage has a "sync" icon with all the tabs open on your desktop: http://i.imgur.com/6eadl.jpg

It can be a little slow to sync pages between devices, but works much better than Chrome to Phone.

Overall, Chrome Beta is a welcomed improvement.



Instructions on how to use web debugging via USB: http://code.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/debugging.html

You can then access http://localhost:9222/ which shows a list of all pages currently open on your device, which link to a page on http://chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com/ for example http://chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com/static/16.0.912.... which in turn connects to a websocket on localhost like ws://localhost:9222/devtools/page/2 to debug your mobile browser!


To get a feel for USB web debugging, check out this remote debugging video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4zpL4VBbuU


Similar video of remote debugging for Opera. Might be a bit outdated as it is from 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZt-k93qLbg


> USB Web Debugging

That will be great. Even better if iOS gains something similar--it's maddening to not have a real debugger.



I have it and it's handy, but the iOS simulator is not an emulator. It behaves differently, especially Mobile Safari. When it runs fine on the simulator and not on the device, iWebInspector doesn't help.


Simulator != real device




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