Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2

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.

Comments

I agree

[imsabbel]

Personally, 1.5.0.2 has been the buggiest version in a long time.
Closing firefox without a zombie process? No happening since 1.5.0.0...
Firefox using 350Mbyte after a few hours? Well, seems to be 50Mbyte more with every version...
Firefox freezing spontaniously when dealing with embeded media files? No problem in earlier versions, but recently everything goes bolloks.

During a normal day, the typical "oh, clicking on links doesnt work anymore->close firefox->open task manager->kill zombie process->restart firefox" procedure happens at least once, sometimes 3 or 4 times.

But downgrading otoh isnt adviceable anymore considering that nowadays there are exploits for firefox in the wild..

features smeatures

[JerLasVegas]

id rather have functionality than features