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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."
Who cares?
Until they make fixing the massive memory use a priority, FF will be just another bloated beast not worth wasting my time on.
Yes, it's using artillery to shoot sparrows. It's messy, overkill, orders of magnitude bigger than a hash table, and slower too.
Any software will expand until it uses SQL-like databases and incorporates at least one scripting language of its own. No matter whether that's useful or not. It's a desire for abstraction of everything which has been the bane of programming since Djikstra became more popular as a reference for programming than Knuth.
FF is a fucking fraud! It doesn't deserve to be labeled version 3.0. Even a version like is 0.0.0.0.0.1 is being generous.
This bloated monstrosity has run it's course. How many millions is Google pumping into the idea-bankrupt Mozilla Corp.? And they can't put up a million dollar bounty sum to fix the memory problems? Fuck, even Netscape 4 was better than this shit. At least it didn't take 30 minutes to start up and consume a gig+ of RAM.
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.
Regardless of how "light" this is, it really sounds like feature creep to me. Why don't the work on improving the existing code and making it faster and have a smaller footprint? I don't see myself upgrading to some SQL based web browser. Maybe they're also going to rewrite firefox 3.0 in java?
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.
Hey, while you're not using FireFox, why don't you go fuck your self?