Bearing the upcoming Chrome OS in mind, this should be taken into account quite strongly.Regular programs will probably not move cleanly and nicely from Windows to Chrome OS, but, at least, Google products should migrate seamlessly, without any data loss (and passwords are a very important part, too), in my opinion.
Having a specific export option for passwords only (only during the transition, only when the profile is not used anymore in the former OS), even unencrypted and then re-encrypt them when Chrome on the new OS finds an old profile from another platform - could be some sort of a solution. ☆PhistucK On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 23:20, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Orlow<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I really like the idea of being able to move people between > >> operating systems and just bringing the profile along > >> without having to export and import... > >> > >> (seems to me there are online services that offer that > >> convenience, but being able to do it with the raw file > >> is cool.) > > > > In what scenarios would this be useful? If it's easy to do, it'd be > cool, > > but it seems like this would have a very small minority of users. > > When migrating users between operating systems. Say, > a company decides to migrate all its office workers from > Windows to Linux. Or if somebody installs Ubuntu on > a Windows machine on its own; I believe they try > to migrate settings when you do that. > > One goal of Chrome was to make operating systems not matter; > one way to do that is to make the profile file (mostly) portable. > - Dan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
