+ chromium-dev (this time, sorry for the resend)
Is the OS in the user-agent string?
"Mozilla/5.0 (*Windows*; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.6 Safari/532.0"
There's a chance that http resource caches will contain data tweeked per OS.
Maybe for cosmetic purposes... to make it look more OSX'y or ChromeOS'y or
Windows'y... or perhaps for functional purposes like <foo> plugin works
better on this and <bar> plugin works better on that in some odd corner
case.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org>
>> 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
>>
>> >>
>>
>
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