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Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sing-thee-to-thy-rest dept.

segphault writes "Apparently, the new bookmark and history system (called 'Places') scheduled for inclusion in Firefox 2 has been removed from the roadmap and disabled in the builds. An article at Ars Technica discusses some of the implications: 'Since Firefox 2 (and all alpha builds from here on out) will use the conventional bookmark system, those of you that have been using Firefox 2 alphas (the Gecko 1.8 branch) will have to export your bookmarks to HTML in order to preserve them. As a Firefox user and a software developer, I am personally very disappointed with the removal of this innovative feature.'" Update: 05/01 01:16 GMT by Z : Ars link updated.

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  1. fork a new branch by bigalsenior · · Score: 0, Redundant

    why not just create a new fork and include the feature in that branch
    arnt you supposed to be able to do that with open software

    1. Re:fork a new branch by Glonk · · Score: 1, Redundant

      It is still included as a feature in the "Trunk" branch for Firefox3.

  2. bad article link by icepick72 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well I'm disappointed the damn first link doesn't work! I expect to see the fix soon ... anytime now ...

  3. Re:Parent isn't shouldn't be marked redundant! by damiam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, why not? There's no point in having two posts with the same info. The moderation system isn't really meant to be a reward/punishment system; the goal is to clean up the comments. Regardless of the GP's good intentions, their post is, very much, redundant.

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  4. bookmarks replaced with web-services? by ksw2 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've wondered in the past if the traditional web-browser bookmark system will be replaced with a web-service (like del.icio.us?) or maybe even a combination of a web-service and firefox extension.

  5. Make target smaller then by SuperKendall · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In safari the close button takes up only a very small part of the tab and I've never hit one by accident. I have to not seen the new Firefox implementation of close buttons on tabs but I would say don't kill the whole feature because the targets are a bit too large. It does not seem like the author of that bug wanted the feature removed, just the buttons made less obtrusive.

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  6. Since when.. by Anonymous+Cumshot · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Did Mozilla become a corporation?

    It looks like its days as a "community organization" are numbered. :(

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