Mozilla Pulls Major Firefox 2.0 Feature
Mozilla Corp. developers have yanked one of the most prominent features from the next version of their Firefox browser after deciding that it can't be finished in time.
The feature, dubbed "Places," was to be a rewrite of Firefox's bookmarking system, and would have allowed users to search through both bookmarks and the browsing history log to locate sites. Places relies on SQLite, an open-source database engine, to store bookmarks and the history data.
"As we have been preparing for the FF2 [Firefox 2.0] Alpha2 on May 9 it has become increasingly clear that we do not have time to complete an implementation of Places that lives up to our standards," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering, in a message on a developer's message forum.
"Rather than rush it to market, we'd prefer to spend the time it takes to get it right," Schroepfer added.
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In related news:
Mozilla has announced the winners of its “Firefox Flicks” contest, showing the best of 280 user-submitted 30-second advertisements for its browser at an event in San Francisco.
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