Patent ID: 8335837

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by one or more devices, a request to import browser data, associated with a first web browser, to a second web browser; collecting, by the one or more devices and based on receiving the request, the browser data associated with the first web browser, the collected browser data being in a first format; packaging, by the one or more devices, the collected browser data into a second format to form transformed browser data, the first format being different than the second format; assigning a tag to each of one or more data items included in the collected browser data, each tag representing a data type of a corresponding one of the one or more data items; determining, by the one or more devices, whether the one or more data items are supported by the second web browser; and sending, by the one or more devices and to a device associated with the second web browser, the transformed browser data and the tag assigned to each of the one or more data items, the second web browser utilizing browser data in a third format that is different than the second format, sending the transformed browser data and the tag assigned to each of the one or more data items including: importing, to the second web browser, a portion of the transformed browser data and the tag assigned to each data item of a corresponding portion of the one or more data items, based on determining whether the one or more data items are supported by the second web browser.