By Jon Brodkin | Published 7 days ago
Google has unveiled a remote desktop service allowing connections between any two systems running the Chrome browser, regardless of operating system. As usual with Google, there's a big emphasis on the “beta†tag in the Chrome Remote Desktop BETA, which is ready for the public to use, but mostly exists to demonstrate Google Chrome Remoting technology and get feedback from users.
...
The Chrome extension has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and been given strong ratings by users.
“It's simple to use and it works,†one user writes in the Chrome Web Store reviews. But the same user noted that it's difficult to use when accessing one's own computer from a remote location, because someone needs to provide an access code. (One way around this would be to grab the access code before you leave home. But the code does change every time you use it, so if you drop the connection and have to reconnect, you'd have to get a new code.) Others noted performance problems, with one user saying “needs speed when running applications and manipulating software in general,†and another complained that left-clicking the Windows 7 start button didn't work and that overall performance was “very, very slow and unresponsive.â€
