Google Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS

Chrome OS

Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login.

The feature was first mentioned on October 13: “Using Chrome as our login manager has a number of potential benefits.
Explore these tradeoffs and decide what to do about the login manager.” The code was checked in on December 14: “An early version of this change is finally in. It’s not ready for daily use yet, and we haven’t gotten the network picker on there or anything yet, but at least we’ve got a baseline in there. I’m filing issues for the follow-on work.”

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Chrome for OS X before 2010

Google is making some big announcements today during their Chrome OS press event. In addition to the official announcement for Chrome OS they also let another little tidbit of information loose:

Just this year alone in Chrome, there’s tons of new stuff coming.

Google Chrome

Before this year gets over, we’ll have 3 more announcements to make. Chrome for Mac will be ready, very close to launch.

That’s some pretty good news for those of you out there who are running the developer preview and are looking forward to integrating Chrome into your daily browsing.

Source: www.tuaw.com