Modifications to My Browsing Preferences

After working through a user account rebuild on my main operating machine in the past 24 hours, I’ve come to appreciate the fact that I haven’t relied upon locally stored “Favorites” for quite some time. I had been a very happy user of Yahoo!’s toolbard and bookmarks function until they upgraded their toolbar and broken most of the features I really liked.

So, I decided to ditch the Yahoo! toolbar for that component and hand one more thing over to Google, because I’m also very happy with their toolbar. Google’s presentation of my bookmarks is exactly what I had and miss from the newest version of the Yahoo Toolbar. In part of that migration, it appeared to be necessary to export everything from Yahoo! to IE’s favorites and then import IE’s favorites into the Google Bookmarks functionality. Everything worked like a charm, but it kind of surprised me that IE still relies on an HTML file to import the bookmarks. I’m really surprised it wasn’t an XML format at this point with IE7.

Another new use of IE7 that I haven’t really taken advantage of in the past is letting IE7 remember and store my logins and passwords for sites. How many other people let IE7 handle that aspect for them? I used to be concerned about my logins/passwords being stored anywhere other than the neurons in my brain remembering them. I’m just not sure if it’s really an issue anymore. What do you think?