> As we have been preparing for the FF2 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 of user
> experience and quality.   Places is a complex and exciting feature which
> changes the way people use bookmarks, history, and navigate through
> their private space of the web.   Rather than rush it to market - we'd
> prefer to spend the time it takes to get it right.

> Thus, we are going to disable Places on the 1.8 branch and continue work
> on the feature on the trunk for inclusion on a future release.   This is
> a difficult decision - but doing it this early in the release cycle
> gives us the time to focus on delivering an extremely high quality FF2
> in Q3 and gives Places the room it needs to develop into a truly
> innovative feature.

> To be clear - we're still focused on delivering Places as a truly
> compelling end user feature in a future release.  We're also confident
> that the other features and enhancements slated for FF2 will provide a
> great upgrade for 1.5 users and continue to be a compelling browser
> choice for new users.  Firefox 2 will improve security, tabbed browsing,
> search, RSS/structured content discovery, performance, and extension
> support.  In order words, all the reasons people love Firefox will get
> demonstrably better in this release.

> At the Bon Echo meeting Tuesday at 11am we'll do a more in-depth review
> of status of every feature area to figure out what else is at risk and
> make sure we have all available effort focused on the critical areas. So
> come prepared to talk about your feature area and plan for a longer
> meeting than normal.