Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.0 has passed a major milestone! The Places feature has been added to the alpha client slated for release next week. Places is a complete re-work of the bookmarking and history browser functions. It was at one point slated for Firefox 2.0, but will instead see release in Mozilla's next major version. '"We enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk," said the Places team in a post to the Mozilla developer center blog. "Although there is still much to be done, this is an important milestone for us." Firefox 3.0 alpha 5 is scheduled to launch June 1. Because Places uses the open-source SQLite database engine to store and retrieve bookmarks and history entries, it's incompatible with earlier Firefox editions' bookmarks. Alpha users must convert their existing entries, Mozilla developers said."

So how long...

[Anonymous Coward]

Until they decide to remove it and delay it until Firefox 5 (after they skip 4)

Re:When?

[BosstonesOwn]

Consider it a feature. They want to test all the memory in the machine for you ! Now that is what I call good folks.

All joking aside , isn't it on the bug tracker a lot ? I thought that the whole reason for this write was to fix the various memory issues before they moved on ?

Re:So how long...

[Headcase88]

They've got to skip 4, 5, 6, and 7 to get ahead of the game. The quality of a browser is directly proportional to its version number.

Re:Reinventing the wheel?

[RandomPrecision]

Regular ass-bookmarks? Ew.

Re:So how long...

[bruno.fatia]

Oh so THAT'S why Opera is cleary winning..

Come on people!

[VinB]

Where's all the hearty IE bashing that I've come to know and love around here?

Leap Forward?

[LMacG]

Firefox is going to rapidly transform from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist browser [wikipedia.org]?

Re:So how long...

[ehrichweiss]

Heh, funny you should say that. Back in the day I remember having a "discussion" with someone over how the Amiga OS was only at v3.1 and Windows was "clearly ahead"; I responded with "So, Windows 95 is 95 times better than Windows 1.0? and almost 32 times better than Windows 3.1?". The silence was deafening.

Re:So how long...

[StarReaver]

I have a feeling you meant "Inversely proportional", but I'll let it slide this time.

Re:Bloat or Performance Issues?

[cerberusss]

What I like about sqlite is that it's public domain (not even BSD licensed or something). But still people call the developer and ask for a license. He assures them that no, they don't need a license and it's all public domain. Usually the reply is something along the lines of "yeah sure, but what does a license cost". So he sells them a license :-)

Re:When?

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't remember.

Re:When?

[graphicsguy]

No, you can't open it in your text editor...

Ah, emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/sql.el [emacswiki.org]
Okay, maybe that's not quite what you meant, but it's close.

Re:So how long...

[Lorkki]

I think I had similar discussions on a school yard around the same time.