SUGGESTION: Gmail Labs integration rather than requiring Chrome + Extension

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Guys this application is absolutely amazing!!!

Could I make a suggestion to increase the scope of application usage. Alot of 
people use PC's where you either cannot install Chrome due to security settings 
(work pc) or you are just using an internet cafe/friends PC etc and would not 
want to.

It would be great if you could create a GoogleMail labs add-in which adds a 
text box to your gmail screen with the 'Send to Phone' button.  Could also 
perhaps be a third button on the already existing Search Box with 'Search Mail' 
and 'Search the Web'.  Another bonus is any updates you make will automatically 
be included when people login.

This app is going to be a revolution!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chris.br...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 8:51

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Chris,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but would this proposal just send a link from a GMail 
mail to your Android phone? Wouldn't it be just easier to open GMail on your 
phone in the first place?

Original comment by patrick....@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 5:02

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No the text field would be unrelated to gmail/emails itself and would just be 
an simple avenue (portal) to send links/text to your phone without the need to 
install a plugin.  You are already logged into your google account so should be 
really easy/convenient.

I would see it working as follows:
- The Search text field already existing on gmail at the moment is given a 
third purpose through the addition of a third button 'Send to Phone'
- If I copy and paste a link into this field and press 'Send to Phone' 
depending on the type of link (map, youtube, website) it will open on my phone
- If it detects that I just pasted some text into the field then it will send 
this to the phones clipboard.
- Could have further integration to allow me to call me gmail contacts directly.

Hope this gives a bit better explaination - only a suggestion in any case.

Kind Regards
Chris

Original comment by chris.br...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 5:20

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Original comment by aml...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2010 at 7:27

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I think that a first step could be to put a mini page in 
https://chrometophone.appspot.com/ that allows to do this task, a simple 
header, logo and a text input to put the the url or contents that should be 
send to the phone.

It should be easy to setup as it's already hosted in the correct domain, so it 
can check if the user is logged in or redirect as needed and then it process 
internally the data without the need to add any code to talk to other servers.

Original comment by aml...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2010 at 10:41

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This would be cool, but I'd also think as long as you're going to log into your 
Gmail account, you might as well just send yourself an email with the text you 
want to send. This is currently what I do.

Yes, it would be more convenient for it to not be in an email, but the fact 
that you have to go to Gmail for this idea somewhat nulls out the convenience 
of being able to send text while being on any page without having to open 
anything. If I went through the trouble of going to Gmail, then I may as well 
go through the trouble of addressing an email to myself.

I hope that is easy to understand, my point was a little difficult for me to 
word. ANyway, i do support a Lab like this of course; it would make things a 
little bit easier.

Original comment by XXXRaide...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2010 at 6:29

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Thanks for your input raider but I do believe this would be truely useful.  I 
think you will find that probably about 90% of people when browsing the web 
stay permanently logged into gmail in a open session therefore I think this 
would get used alot.

I do agree you could just send an email but this goes for any ChrometoPhone 
transaction.

Creating an https://chrometophone.appspot.com/ would seem to be an excellent 
first step for this.  Then it can do added to other google pages like igoogle 
or even the main google.com search page when you are logged in with a third 
button "Send to Phone" too - doesn't just have any be gmail I just thought this 
was a good start with the labs feature.

Kind Regards
Chris

Original comment by chris.br...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2010 at 9:29

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Chris, my point was that the most convenient thing would be to copy some text 
and immediately send it to the phone - without having to leave the page I'm 
currently looking at, even if it only means switching tabs. Even having Gmail 
always open doesn't change what I meant. I can see how it is useful, just not 
that much so for me or someone else who wishes not to switch away from the page 
they are on.

Original comment by XXXRaide...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2010 at 3:32

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Issue 196 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by aml...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2010 at 2:07

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I'm not sure I like that.
I can see that this could be handy, but IMO it's a big security concern. If you 
have to install a plugin, then you can be certain of which PCs are able to 
access your Chrome2Phone data. But there is no (reliable) way to restrict this 
access otherwise - the headers used to identify a PC can be changed, and can be 
forged or spoofed. I just don't see a good way to do it without creating 
security problems, aside from making the user reauthenticate with the phone 
each time he wants to use the Web interface (at which point the app is no more 
convenient than an email).

If you really want to do this on any PC you can use the PortableApps.com 
version (works very well, I use it all the time in the library with the Xmarks 
plugin so anything I bookmark at the library I can open up later on my home PC 
in both Chrome and Firefox, and LastPass so that I can access all my saved 
passwords).

Original comment by scott.ka...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 3:08