[cap-talk] Petname tool for Firefox 3.x?

[Jed Donnelley]

At 03:01 PM 9/5/2008, Karp, Alan H wrote:
>Jed wrote:
> >
> > Can you give us any insight into how the new Google Chrome
> > browser came to be set up to automatically pick up the
> > Firefox Petnames and to display them? e.g.:
> >
> > http://www.webstart.com/projects/Petnames/chrome-petnames.jpg
> >
>Those aren't petnames, in the sense of the petname tool.  They are 
>bookmarks, which Chrome offers to import from Firefox and IE>

I see.  I guess what puzzled me was that they (alone) would show up 
as a labeled box there at the upper left as with the above image.  I 
believe I had other "bookmark" folders that didn't show up like 
that.  I don't recall any "offer" of an import during the Chrome 
installation process.  Perhaps I missed it.

I see you're right though that they act simply like bookmarks and not 
like Petnames.  Thanks for the clarification.

It appears then that any use I make of Chrome will have to be limited 
as with my limited use of IE until there is support for Petnames (or 
something equivalent) in Chrome.

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html