Switching from Edge to Chrome should be about to get a lot easier
Previously, Edge favorites could not be imported to Chrome
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A Chromium developer has submitted apatchthat, if accepted, will eradicate an irritating bug affecting users switching fromMicrosoft EdgetoGoogle Chrome.
Edge was initially built withMicrosoft’s own proprietary EdgeHTML web engine. However, the company then rebuilt its flagshipbrowseron top of theopen sourceChromium engine, which also acts as the foundation for Google Chrome.
The new Chromium-based Edge browser, which works across all major desktop and mobileoperating systems, has enjoyed considerable success since launch in January last year, though some estimates suggest itsuser base has plateaued.
If you are one of the users looking to move from Edge to an alternative, particularly Chrome, you will likely have faced frustrating issues when importing favorites.
Irritating bug
Developer Toshiaki Tanaka discovered that when a user tries to import their favorites from Edge to Chrome, the resulting list is either out of date, incomplete or entirely empty.
That happens because, during the import, Chrome (or rather its Chromium core) reads the legacy Edgedatabaseinstead of the new Chromium Edge database.
It is due to this peculiarity that users fail to successfully migrate their favorites from inside the new Edge browser into Chrome.
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Once he realized what was happening, Tanaka wrote a patch to fix the Chromium importer to read bookmarks from Edge’s new Chromium database instead of the old one.
The patch is currently undergoing a review, before it can be added to the Chromium code base.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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