Comments on: Firefox 3 Places Gets "Smart Folders"

By: Neues von Mozilla: Prism, Firefox 3 und Sunbird « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:48:42 +0000

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By: Technology Talk - 10/14/2007

Technology Talk - 10/14/2007 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:01:16 +0000

[...] covers a new feature in Places that he calls Smart Folders. Places is a much anticipated feature in Firefox 3.0 that Firefox users are going to [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:53:30 +0000

Dkong wrote:

Wait, so when’s Fx3 supposed to come out? Like the official thing, not a beta or anything….

There's no news on that yet. Mozilla is keeping any official schedule very tightly behind closed doors because they don't want to be criticized for being late. They are estimating sometime in the first quarter of 2008 though (I think that's what I read).

By: Dkong

Dkong — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:48:02 +0000

Wait, so when’s Fx3 supposed to come out? Like the official thing, not a beta or anything….

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:24:42 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

I love the fact that’s there are SOoo many features over v2. FF 2 didn’t contain as many, I’m finally switching for sure when 3.0 comes out. For that matter, FF1’s standards support was also sufficient to switch but I couldn’t easily adjust to it since I was so used to IE6.

I'm actually a bit surprised at how many nice features they have been able to get implemented, because the development process started off extremely slow. We didn't start seeing the new features roll in until Alpha 4 or 5, because before then they were working on the new rendering engine. I believe that was worth it though as well, because pages load faster and there is now the real page zoom capabilities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:23:49 +0000

I love the fact that’s there are SOoo many features over v2. FF 2 didn’t contain as many, I’m finally switching for sure when 3.0 comes out. For that matter, FF1′s standards support was also sufficient to switch but I couldn’t easily adjust to it since I was so used to IE6.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:59:10 +0000

I think they plan on getting a backend implemented for that so extensions can work off it. I don’t think they were actually planning to make some sort of bookmark synchronization built-in though.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:49:28 +0000

Yeah, menu-bar-less is the way to go nowadays. Are they gonna get online bookmark sync? That’s the part I was hoping for the most when I used Fx.