Mozilla Corp. is finally giving Microsoft some competition in the department of bad decisions. News has just poured in that the company has decided to forsake one of its most popular features and the reason cited for it is, a lack of time. The feature called ‘Places’ was suppose to be very handy tool which would work in conjunction with Firefox’s bookmaking system. It would basically allowed users to search through both bookmarks and the browsing history log to locate sites and was based on SQLite, an open-source database engine. Now you don't have to dig too deep to find that website that showcases your mother in laws old pictures.
"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.
This has no doubt disappointed thousands of Firefox users who see Firefox as a great alternative to IE. According to them, there’s nothing to look forward to now as Firefox 2.0 would offer the same set of feature which are found on all previous versions. Users of Alpha 1, which had Places enabled, will be able to export their existing bookmarks using a new feature to appear in Alpha 2.
Mozilla's Firefox 2 Alpha2 Release on 9 May source
Sourced By T.P. Edited by Colbert Low
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