Firefox 2.0 to ship without Places

Firefox 2.0 to ship without Places: "Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source
One of the most-touted feature updates scheduled for Firefox 2.0, Places, has been axed from the Bon Echo roadmap and instead rescheduled for Firefox 3.0. In a post to the Mozilla development newsgroup, developer Michael Schroepfer announced the delay of the 'complex and exciting feature which changes the way people use bookmarks, history, and navigate through their private space of the web,' saying they 'do not have time to complete an implementation of places that lives up to our standards of user experience and quality.' Many users and developers have expressed disappointment and some are even arguing that without the Places feature, Bon Echo no longer deserves the '2.0' label. Lead developer Ben Goodger has posted a blog entry responding to the criticism and justifying the change.

[Via Ars Technica]

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