Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 29th Apr 2009 07:24 UTC
"Operating system vendors face this problem once or twice a decade: They need to migrate their user base from their old operating system to their very different new one, or they need to switch from one CPU architecture to another one, and they want to enable users to run old applications unmodified, and help developers port their applications to the new OS. Let us look at how this has been done in the last 3 decades, looking at DOS/Windows, Macintosh, Amiga and Palm."
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2007-09-06
Thanks, I see how it works now. I like the feature being native rather than a plugin though my own apprehensive would be with including an unknown third party in my data storage.
For the Mozilla family, I believe there is a flicker/facebook kind of site for browser bookmarks. Actually, if that's still around it must support the various popular options.