"Mayayana" wrote in message
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But [Microsoft] have refused to even produce
a real browser, separate from Windows.

I wish Microsoft would produce browsers and mail clients which were
independent of Windows version.

When I went from XP to Vista to Win 7, I had to get used to going from OE to
Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail, because you can't run an older mail
client (or new "engine" with existing "dashboard") on a version of Windows
that it was not intended for.

It's a shame also that there isn't an industry-standard way of porting
bookmarks and mail folders between (for example) IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome,
Opera or between OE, Win Mail, Win Live Mail, Thunderbird.

I'm not talking about a one-off migration, I'm talking about regularly
synchronising bookmarks and mail folders between computers that use
different browsers / mail clients (or even between several browsers on the
same PC).

I want something where I'm in control which set of bookmarks is the master
copy and which browsers get a slave copy of the master, to avoid the
problem with cloud-shared bookmarks where if you accidentally delete/change
a bookmark on one computer, it is immediately replicated to all others that
use the same cloud account; that behaviour is no use to man nor beast. At
least if I have to manually export from master computer to JSON file, copy
it to slave and import it from JSON (which is what I do with Firefox on
various computers) I am in control and know what is happening and when.