Firefox 3.0 Passes Major Milestone

[Mr. Analog]

New 'Places' feature added to alpha release set for next week.

Mozilla Corp. has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0, developers said yesterday, by adding another chunk of the new Places feature to the alpha set for release late next week.

Places -- a complete revamp of the bookmarks and history functions of the browser -- was at one point slated to debut in Firefox 2.0, but was yanked a year ago in the run up to that version's October 2006 release. Instead, it will debut in Firefox 3.0.

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Bookmarks on Places now enabled for Firefox 3 alpha 5

The Firefox Places team has been hard at work to get the bookmarks portion of Places in shape for it to go out with Firefox 3 Alpha 5 scheduled later this month.  And we are excited to let you all know that last week we enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk.  Although there is still much to be done, this is an important milestone for us.

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I, for one, am very interested in this new feature considering how incredibly messy my bookmark list is and how poor the history features are in most browsers (including FF).

[Thorin]

What surprises me is how much development work is still going on with this browser...  As compared to IE.  Almost like the Firefox team actually wants to put their name on a product they can be proud of.

[Mr. Analog]

I certainly like to see development in areas beyond plug-in integration, that's for sure!

[Lazybones]

What surprises me is how much development work is still going on with this browser...  As compared to IE.  Almost like the Firefox team actually wants to put their name on a product they can be proud of.

The fact that Mozilla Corporation pulls in millions probably has something to do with the continued development.

[Thorin]

Yes, I was comparing it to IE development, whose parent company pulls in a lot more than Mozilla Corp...