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Ongoing sync between Microsoft Edge and Chrome - Discussion
Thanks everyone for sharing your perspective on this topic. It is really helpful to see the sentiments and thoughts towards such a possibility. Please consider this thread closed for now. Stay assured, we are paying attention to everyone's requirements and concerns and are committed to doing the right thing for all of you.
I think it would be great if we could all just go back to using "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Favorites" IE still uses that folder and it is much easier to manage compared to Chrome bookmarks. Windows and Mac both support the .url files. Sync is convenient, so we could have built-in sync to OneDrive. I really think Chrome should support .url bookmarks. I mean a .url file is just about as platform agnostic as you can get.
What would be really awesome is if I could just use Internet Explorer and be able to switch out rendering engines as desired or needed. So Trident and edgeHTML obviously, but then Blink and WebKit too.
Back to the subject of the thread though, I don't know if an extension would be the best solution. It seems clumsy to me. I wouldn't think that these two browsers are so different that they can't share a database file. You would have to protect it from getting corrupted by it being accessed at the same time or if one browser dramatically changes something. Maybe, folder redirection like what OneDrive uses now, or a write-filter?