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Mike Connor  
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 More options Apr 24 2006, 5:47 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Connor <mcon...@mozilla.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:47:14 -0400
Local: Mon, Apr 24 2006 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: Places and Firefox 2

L. David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 2006-04-23 22:00 -0700, Michael Schroepfer wrote:

>> 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

> So, what's going to happen to the portion of our testing community that
> has migrated their primary profiles to places-based storage?  Will they
> just lose all the changes they've made to their bookmarks since the
> switch to places?  When we switch back to places, will they lose all the
> changes they make from now until then?

Given that there isn't an exporter, those recent bookmarks won't be
accessible in branch builds.  If they're following the branch, they've
quite possibly had to nuke their sqlite file a couple times to make
stuff work right (I actually need to bite that bullet myself), so its
nothing really new.
 Best case, someone could write an exporter soon, and they could run
that from a trunk build...

> We don't want to make things too painful for our bleeding-edge testers
> or pretty soon we won't have any.

Agreed in principle, but I'm not sure what you're saying we should do
here.  Write a sqlite->html converter and ship that in the non-places
builds?  There's only so much we can do here, its just going to suck for
some people, but they can always run a trunk build and recover that
bookmark, its not like the date is _gone_.  They can at least drag the
bookmarks to Notepad or something and get the URLs.

-- Mike


 
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