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Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward

Posted by Zonk on from the go-you-crazy-dino-go dept.

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."

13 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. So how long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:So how long... by Headcase88 · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

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    2. Re:So how long... by bruno.fatia · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    3. Re:So how long... by ehrichweiss · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    4. Re:So how long... by StarReaver · · Score: 2, Funny

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

    5. Re:So how long... by Lorkki · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  2. Re:When? by BosstonesOwn · · Score: 2, Funny

    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 ?

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  3. Re:Reinventing the wheel? by RandomPrecision · · Score: 3, Funny

    Regular ass-bookmarks? Ew.

  4. Come on people! by VinB · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  5. Leap Forward? by LMacG · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  6. Re:Bloat or Performance Issues? by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny

    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 :-)

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  7. Re:When? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't remember.

  8. Re:When? by graphicsguy · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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