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December 15, 2005
What is Ben doing?
It's been a busy year. Right now we're starting work on features for Firefox 2.0. I'm working on Firefox's new Bookmarks and History system with Brett, Brian, Annie and Joe. I've collected a bunch of architectural documentation here. At the same time I've also been thinking about Search and Subscription Handling. I'm looking for comments in the discussion pages in all of these documents - share your thoughts, experiences, ideas etc. Let's make searching and subscribing in Firefox 2.0 kick ass!
In the mean time, I'm going to be going on Christmas Vacation in New Zealand for three weeks, starting December 16. I'll be back on January 8, and don't anticipate being online while I'm away (yay!).
Posted by ben at December 15, 2005 10:07 AM
Comments
Bookmarks management: The last frontier.
Posted by: James AkaXakA at December 15, 2005 3:03 PM
I think the paneled approach Sage has to RSS reading is particularly good. The current bookmark manager has a great layout for feed reading. I could see the live bookmark subscription at the side, and the search bar still there...and below, an HTML rendered layout of the the newsbites.
It's familiar, and a seperate window...of course, I think the Sage format is cool too.
Posted by: Dan at December 15, 2005 6:08 PM
You'd better not to forget about the "memory leak" problem, at least no Windows XP (I don't know about other operating systems).
Other suggest is turn back the design of the options panel, as it was on 1.0x versions, the new one seems to be more confuse and disorganised.
Beside that, the work on Firefox is awesome, the better browser of the internet era, making the IE developers following your tracks, as we can see we we read the IE developers blog.
Posted by: Moyzes at December 16, 2005 2:49 AM
Man, don't screw up the Bookmarks! ;o) I have a 900KB bookmarks.html file collected since 10/1996 (Netscape 3.0), don't mess with it! :o)
Posted by: Sebhelyesfarku at December 16, 2005 4:59 AM
A couple days ago I found a very interesting RSS reader extension called Fizzle. It displays your existing Live Bookmarks in a very simplifed reader. It is probably not full featured enough for a heavy RSS user, but far more useful than viewing titles of feed articles only.
Posted by: JoeChongq at December 16, 2005 5:26 AM
I hope you enjoy yourself in the wonderful country I live in :)
Posted by: Nessie at December 16, 2005 6:13 PM
Another proposal, for bookmarks management : to be able to manage them more easily. So far, we need to open in a new window the bookmark management page. My preference would be to simply allow that, when we hit control-B to show a sidebar with the bookmarks, that they can be opened only with a double click, not a single click, so that we may easily drag and drop them.
And for god's sake, in the about:config, make the sorting options of the bookmarks more simple to understand, it takes 30 minutes of online searching to find documentation explaining what is the about:config line and option to chose to avoid auto-sorting of the bookmarks.
Oh yeah, another idea : a full complete about:config documentation bundled with firefox, not needing to be found online :)
Posted by: Sabin at December 17, 2005 4:19 AM
Maybe this is already something easy to do, but I'd like to see a standardized protocol for online bookmark management. I should be able to "subscribe" to one or more bookmark files and have them show up in the toolbar just like regular bookmarks. I should also be able to add and manage bookmarks like normal, but have the changes notify the server.
Posted by: Aaron at December 18, 2005 8:42 AM
Buy the updates of Firefox I can tell you work very hard. Take a good rest on your holyday, you deserve it.
Posted by: Marko Petkovic at December 18, 2005 7:37 PM
The plans for the new bookmarks manager sound great. I actually posted a bug for a new bookmarks manager for Camino that is basically the same as this (but with a lot less detail):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311286).
Nice to know that others share the same views as me when it comes to organising bookmarks!
Can't wait for Firefox 2! Now all I need is to convince the Camino team that this idea is a winner.
Posted by: Ben A. at December 19, 2005 1:33 AM
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