Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2

segphault writes "Apparently, the new bookmark and history system (called 'Places') scheduled for inclusion in Firefox 2 has been removed from the roadmap and disabled in the builds. An article at Ars Technica discusses some of the implications: 'Since Firefox 2 (and all alpha builds from here on out) will use the conventional bookmark system, those of you that have been using Firefox 2 alphas (the Gecko 1.8 branch) will have to export your bookmarks to HTML in order to preserve them. As a Firefox user and a software developer, I am personally very disappointed with the removal of this innovative feature.'" Update: 05/01 01:16 GMT by Z : Ars link updated.

Re:Firefox has the wrong focus

[Cheapy]

Well there goes your Karma.

Re:Corrected arstechnica link

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't stray too far from your computer.

We're going to need you to repost the correct URL when this story is duped ;-)

Re:Bad URL

[Golden_Eternity]

Anonymous Coward has a web site? Let me guess, no "Contact Us" link, right?

Re:Not just Firefox

[mmmiiikkkeee]

i dont know what the hell your talking about??? when u pick what destrobution u install u get to pick how much bloat to put on a machien..... firefox comes pretty bare bones(consistent with this articial..).... nothing too fancey unless u plugin it the hell out.... still it works fine on older hardware... how do i know.. its on my family guest computer... 700MHZ 256 MB ram ... old chunker.....that machien was going ot be scraped now its fully capable guest computer at my house.... yea at first it had some problems with too much stuff slowing it down... but i googled how to configure with old hardware... things load in VERY resonable time and once loaded there perfectly fine... i looked in to a useing a speical non-gnome(i started with ubuntu since i am pretty new to linux and i like there comunity support i have experienced so far) user-iterface.... to speed things up but that did not really show much improvements()... turned on prelnking.. and preloaded open office on start up... i can multi task on that computer very fine. i dont know how much older a machien u want to use if u go much older u should jsut set it up as dumb terminal connected to "good" computer.... honestly though... firefox is not the only web-browser out there... u dotn like.... hell u want bare bones.. use a text based browser??

Re:Welcome to Software Engineering

[SirBruce]

>You start with 1000 awesome features, and end up implementing 2.

And 1 of them doesn't work right.

Bruce

Re:Cut from Firefox2, but "removed from the roadma

[Ohreally_factor]

Maybe so, but it's pretty clear to many of us that Jim Allchin [microsoft.com] needs to be removed from the FF dev team, perhaps forced to retire early.

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If you don't like it

[Rogerborg]

You can just fork off.