Places bookmarks have landed!
Dan Mills
The places team has been hard at work to get the bookmarks portion of
places in shape for it to go out with alpha 5. And we are excited to
let you all know that tonight we enabled the places implementation of
bookmarks on the trunk. Although there is much to be done still, this
is an important milestone for us.
There are a few points we would like to make right away, to avoid any
confusion, tears, and/or death threats:
* Backup your bookmarks data before starting. It's just common sense.
Now, we do back up your bookmarks.html (to bookmarks.preplaces.html) in
case the worst happens, but wouldn't you feel better knowing you have
your own copy somewhere safe?
* Migration from bookmarks.html -> places.sqlite will happen only once.
From then on, bookmarks.html will be kept up to date with changes in
the db, but not the other way around. This means that after initial
import, if you make any changes to bookmarks.html (say, by running
Firefox 2 and editing your bookmarks) you will need to manually export
them and re-import them into the bookmark-on-places nightly (see bug
381216).
* There are rough edges; please wear your hard hat at all times.
Remember that the UI is still being designed (e.g., tagging UI thread),
and don't be surprised to find some regressions, both functional and in
performance (see bug 380307). However, that said, we would love for you
to tell us about your experience.
* In addition to bugzilla and the newsgroups, we usually hang out on
#places on mozilla irc. Feel free to drop by, whether you have issues
or just to say hi.
Thanks!
The Places Team