This is not a registry kludge, but a means of managing bookmarks as individual entities in a lightweight DB layer. The key advantage I see is the ability to cleanly synchronize changes to/from the bookmarks DB with a server or other PC. Although there are BM synch extensions available for FF, due to its implementation of the bookmark file, these solutions are jerryrig fixes. The original netscape bookmark file was not designed to allow this effectively.
Although an XML-format file with altered functionality in the browser code could fulfill this need fine, the DB will open a much greater field of opportunity for creative programmers.
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This is not a registry kludge, but a means of managing bookmarks as individual entities in a lightweight DB layer. The key advantage I see is the ability to cleanly synchronize changes to/from the bookmarks DB with a server or other PC. Although there are BM synch extensions available for FF, due to its implementation of the bookmark file, these solutions are jerryrig fixes. The original netscape bookmark file was not designed to allow this effectively.
Although an XML-format file with altered functionality in the browser code could fulfill this need fine, the DB will open a much greater field of opportunity for creative programmers.
So I, for one, am excited by this functionality.