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bassrek

Jan 27 2005, 12:43 PM

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5976

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Ben Goodger has announced an updated schedule for Mozilla Firefox 1.1. The final version of 1.1, previously scheduled for March, will now be released a little later than originally planned (an exact date isn't given). In addition, there will be a series of test builds issued before 1.1 final: a Developer Preview, a Preview Release and one or more release candidates. Mozilla Firefox 1.1 isn't expected to contain any major new features but will include updated versions of core components such as Gecko, which has received many improvements over the last few months. The Firefox Roadmap will be updated soon. Jesse Ruderman has a list of changes to expect in Firefox 1.1.

An updated Gecko engine should mean faster page rendering and maybe an expanded quirks mode? I'm not upset about it being delayed, though. 1.0 has worked great for me.

Somebody asked about SQLite implementation, and I was unfamiliar with this. Turns out, the plan for Mozilla and Firefox is to switch from their multiple file format for all the configuration files (prefs, certs, bookmarks, history, etc.) and switching to a unified database store for everything. This is quite interesting. Although I've never experienced it, suddenly disappearing bookmarks is a reoccuring problem, as is trying to make anything out of the history.dat file.

http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/Mozilla2:Unified_Storage

Joe

Jan 27 2005, 02:13 PM

Sounds groovy! 1.0 has worked a treat for me, never had any problems with bookmarks myself.

1.1 sounds like it will be faster, I doubt they could enhance the usability or looks of it since it's bloody awesome as it is

Waleed

Jan 27 2005, 02:18 PM

so there'll be a database for the history, bookmarks and passwords and stuff? will that reduce the memery used up, or what?

Joe

Jan 27 2005, 02:23 PM

Lets hope so

bassrek

Jan 27 2005, 02:30 PM

The db will be powered by SQLite and according to what I read, it leaves a 250KB footprint. I'm not sure how that compares to having all of the information spread out across multiple text files, but it seems as though it would be more efficient. It probably won't appear until Firefox 2.0, so we have a while to wait.

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