One of the biggest problems for users with multiple devices is keeping everything synced in between all the devices. Luckily most web browsers are making this easier by syncing browsing history, open tabs, recent tabs, settings, passwords, address forms, auto-fill and more. Firefox provides another feature that lets users to push tabs and webpages from one device to another device and with the version 77 Google just rolled out this feature update in chrome. Using the option “Send to your devices” we can send webpages to other devices on chrome
Note : For this to work, we need to sign into the same google account in chrome on all our devices & also needs to update our chrome browser to the latest version.
Also read : How to disable “Hover Card” previews in Google chrome
How to send a web page from chrome on desktop :
- Click on the URL bar and then click on the laptop icon in the right end.
- From the available list, Select the device you want to send the tab to.
- You can also use mouse right click (context menu) on the webpage to choose a device and share the tab with.
- A pop-up confirmation will be shown that this webpage is sent.
- You will receive a notification on the other device, which you can simply tap / click to open the web page in chrome browser.
This works on Windows 10 & Linux desktops as of now. Update for mac is not yet released.
How to send a web page from chrome on android
- Tap on share icon when you are using chrome browser on android.
- From the options, choose “Send to your devices”
- Select the device you want to share this tab or webpage to.
- A notification will be received on the other device. Simply click on that notification and the tab will be opened in chrome.
How to send a tab / webpage from chrome on IOS
- Tap on the share icon in the top right corner on chrome in IOS / iPad OS
- From the options, choose “Send to your devices”
- This will show you a list of registered devices.
- Select the device you want to send this web page to.
- And click on the button “Send to your device”
Unlike Android & Windows 10, If you have shared a tab to IOS device, you need open chrome browser on IOS to see the notification. “Tab Received” – Tap “Open” to open the received tab.
Although Firefox has been providing this feature from a long time, Chrome has the largest user base and a lot of users are going to benefit from this feature. However I’m personally looking forward from the feature to “close open tabs from other devices” which is only available in one browser for now in the entire web browser industry. Please leave a comment if this article helped you and also let me know if you have any questions.
Sources : life hacker, google chrome, verge, android police
