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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."
Pointless extra bloat (like this) is the reason I still use Firefox 1.5. It's fast, and has all the features I need, and unless these conditions improve, I can't imagine why I would try to fix something that wasn't broken.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.
Someone with no technical knowledge cannot run a technically oriented company. Fire Winifred! That's Winifred Mitchell Baker, the CEO of Mozilla, a socially uncomfortable lawyer who became CEO when no one thought there was an opportunity. Now that Mozilla Foundation is making millions from making Google the default browser, Winifred can afford to hire people to make herself look good.
Don't let ignorant and foolish and even stupid managers destroy your programming efforts. Find some way to have them removed.
The idea of using SGLite is a good one, provided there is a way of exporting bookmarks to HTML.
However, there are many, many quirks in Firefox that should be fixed first, but no technically oriented manager to organize that.