Places disabled in Firefox 2
Places, the new bookmark and history system planned for inclusion in Mozilla Firefox 2 will not be included in the official builds. Places is a rewrite of Firefox’s bookmark and history system which uses SQLite-based MozStorage engine. It was first seen in the Bon Echo Alpha build, which I wrote on this blog last month. According to Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s directory of Engineering, the implementation of “Places” can’t be finished in time. Rather than rush it to market, Firefox developers prefer to spend the time it takes to get it right.
People who have been using Firefox 2 Alpha, will need to export their bookmarks to HTML before upgrading to the new builds (which will use the old bookmark system). Read the post Important Message for Branch Nightly Users - Places for more information and for instructions on how to export your bookmarks.
Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 2 build is in preparation to be released on May 29.