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

[Ben Laurie]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jed Donnelley <capability at webstart.com> wrote:
> 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.

There definitely is one.

> 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
>
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