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InformationWeek: Mozilla Pulls Major Firefox 2.0 Feature

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 30, 2006

“Mozilla Corp. developers have yanked one of the most prominent
features from the next version of their Firefox browser after
deciding that it can’t be finished in time.

“The feature, dubbed ‘Places,’ was to be a rewrite of Firefox’s
bookmarking system, and would have allowed users to search through
both bookmarks and the browsing history log to locate sites. Places
relies on SQLite, an open-source database engine, to store
bookmarks and the history data…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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