Mozilla Shows Mock-up of Firefox 3.0's Places

[John.Michael.Kane]

Mozilla Shows Mock-up of Firefox 3.0's Places (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137087-c,mozilla/article.html)

Other images can be found here granParadisoUI (http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/granParadisoUI/)

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Looking nice...
What would be /really/ good, though, is if those were pleasantly searchable by the browser generating keywords for those bookmarks.
They can do all they want with this, but we still have a bigger problem to deal with, of too many bookmarks being unwieldy.

[starcraft.man]

It does look good. I hope it get delivered soon :)

[bikeboy]

Currently, you can add bookmarks to the database without them actually being in your bookmark menu, they show up in bookmark searches without crowding the bookmark menu. Custom tags can also be applied to those hidden bookmarks.

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Okay, good. Thanks, Bikeboy. Are bookmarks sort of like promoted History items, then?
In my opinion, the ideal system would involve ranking bookmarks, where the lower ranked ones are only visible in searches, and where bookmarks can become visible at set points in time. Sort of an email approach, following the idea that people often see web sites they intend to read later.

[bikeboy]

I'm not completely sure of the workings, but history, bookmarks, tags and probably other things are in the one database, so it could be how you describe.

One of the great benefits of this is that you don't have to remember the url of a page when typing into the address bar. eg.after having visited this thread, to find it again I could start typing "mock" and the autocomplete will show the matches, with this ubuntuforums thread being at the top. I also believe (think it was added just the other day) that when you select an item form the autocomplete, it gets a higher ranking in subsequent searches with that term.

One other benefit is that the default history to remember is now 180 days, using a database allows this to happen with little to no performance hit. Finding visited sites is now much better.

As far as UI goes, not a lot has been done yet, the plan is to get all the backend done during alpha then merge UI changes post-alpha. Still, there have been some improvements already. All this I've just found out by following the nightly threads on mozillazine and running the nightlies on my Gutsy install.

For a periodic update of additions to the trunk, see this site:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

[multifaceted]

Looks okay so far, I hope they don't mess with the UI too-too much...

[kadath]

I like how all of the mockups and screenshots we've seen so far have been wonderfully Vista-centric :mad:

I'm running FF3 Alpha 8 right now, and rendering does seem a little faster than with FF2. Some of the new features seem totally useless to me though. A search feature in the download window? WTF?

I think we'll get a much better idea of how FF3 will turn out once the betas start getting released. I just hope (probably in vain) that Mozilla cuts down on the bloat. Remember when FF was supposed to be a light browser?

In all honesty, I would've moved to Opera by now if it was a little more flexible.