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."

Comments

I don't want features; I ONLY want speed

[TheGratefulNet]

scrolling is painful on FF.

I'm using the latest 2.x trunk, built from ports on freebsd.

mouse based scrolling is VERY VERY slow. even on a very fast box (c2duo e6600 3gig ram).

I'm not sure what they are doing to make scrolling so bad but I would think the engine is already too bloated in terms of how much i/o and cpu it needs JUST to scroll pages!

I'm happy with the feature set for 2.0. I need no new features. I DO need usability improvements and that's mostly in terms of screen speed.

(or do I have to give up and go to opera just to get reasonably modern scrolling speed?)

Moderators: Parent is wrong

[Vexorian]

Parent is wrong about grand parent not being a troll. The guy complained about it taking 0.25MB! that's a troll for you.