14 DAY TRIAL // We've got word from Vivaldi Technologies that they are planning to bring Sync support to their Chromium-based web browser, and they're showing you the code live on July 5, 2017.
Based on the Chromium Sync functionality that Google uses on its Chrome web browser for a long time now, Vivaldi Sync is the most requested feature of the web browser targeted at power users, promising to finally allow you to synchronize your settings. passwords, bookmarks, and notes across multiple PCs where Vivaldi is installed.
"Vivaldi Sync is based on the Chromium Sync code with some modification and uses the same protocol. The data to be synced is encrypted, then sent to our server from which it can be requested from other Vivaldi instances from the same user," reveals Vivaldi for Softpedia News. "Some merging then takes place to ensure that everything remains consistent."
Vivaldi Sync will be similar to the sync functionality of other web browsers
Vivaldi said that the sync functionality they plan to implement in a future version of the Chromium-based web browser will be pretty much the same as those of other popular web browser. In the long run, the company plans to offer sync support for settings, bookmarks, passwords, notes, tabs, extensions, autofill data, as well as typed URLs, but some of them won't be available when the service launches.
To demonstrate the world that Vivaldi is an open and modern project, software developer Julien Picalausa will be live-streaming the coding work on the new sync feature next week, on July 5, 2017, in a five-hour session hosted on the livestream.com website. The live coding session will start at 1 p.m. CEST (11 am GMT) so be there if you want to get a sneak peek into the progress behind Vivaldi's upcoming Sync feature.
In the meantime, the rest of Vivaldi Technologies' software developers are working hard on the next major release of the web browser, Vivaldi 1.11, whose development kicked off last week with a new configuration panel for Reader Mode. Vivaldi 1.11 will be based on Chromium 59 and could be the first release of the web browser to ship with Sync.