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I was using Firefox for long time and recently moved to Chrome. And after installing Chrome, when I opened it for the first time, it asks that "You have bookmarks in another browser. Want to import them?"
My question is: How does Chrome knows these bookmarks? Is that Firefox saves in the common place, where other Browser can make use it? If the answer is yes, then what is the reason to save them in a common place?
Please correct me, if I'm wrong!
Similarly, it can grab bookmarks from IE, as the format for storing them is also known. – Rory Alsop – 2011-03-29T12:51:54.443
Now the question is,How does they know how IE works? Its not a open source right? Then how does they found out this? – Ant's – 2011-03-29T13:07:11.583
1@Anto - by checking in "obvious" places like "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer" or "C:\users..." for changes when new bookmarks etc are added. – ChrisF – 2011-03-29T13:09:55.450
you don't need sources to know where the bookmarks are stored @Anto – Sathyajith Bhat – 2011-03-29T13:10:06.743
@Chris: oh thats fine:) – Ant's – 2011-03-29T13:10:56.493