Status

• History and Bookmarks are currently running on the Places back-end
• The annotation service is currently enabled
• Livemarks and Microsummaries are both using the Places back-end services

Ongoing work:

• The tracking bug for Places in Firefox 3: bug 374945

Overview

The primary objectives of this project are to:

   * Improve access to History and Bookmarks
   * Make it easier for people to Bookmark pages 

Secondary objectives include:

   * Consolidating user data formats
   * Providing a platform for using interesting per-URL metadata
   * Improving the capabilities of Live Bookmarks
   * Providing a solid architecture for bookmark sync and remote storage 

Motivation

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Use Cases

• sync
• tagging
• ease bookmark and history extension development

Requirements

PRD #	Title	Priority	Type	Bug #	Owner	Notes
PLCS-001a	Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places datamodel objects to a remote server	P1	FR	374518		This is just an event model and not the network infrastructure/sync layer, just the platform hooks.
PLCS-001b	Build a sync client on this new infrastructure	P2	FR	374519
PLCS-001c	Provide platform support to support generic annotations	P1	FR	bug 374943		New area for extension authors to explore. We aren't going to be able to implement everything for Places ourselves.
PLCS-001d	Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility	P1	NFR	374520
PLCS-002a	Unified user interface that improves the usability and discoverability of features	P1	NFR	374521		details
PLCS-002b	Parity with Firefox 2 Bookmarks/History UI	P1	FR	355737
PLCS-002c	Provide some UI that allows users to mark a URI as "interesting"	P2	FR	374522
PLCS-002d	Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with tags	P2	FR	374524
PLCS-002e	Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with free-form notes	P3	FR	374525
PLCS-003a	Protection and safeguarding against data loss	P1	FR	374526
PLCS-003b	Bookmark data is never lost between browsing sessions	P1	NFR	374527
PLCS-003c	Provide backup and restore functionality for bookmarks	P1	FR	374528
PLCS-003d	Make it easy for users to export their bookmarks for use in another application	P2	FR	374529
PLCS-004a	Index web page content into a DB that can be queried	P2	FR	342913
PLCS-004b	Allows users to search on all available URI metadata	P2	FR	374530
PLCS-004c	Support SQL queries of the bookmarks database in the Error Console	P3	FR	374531
PLCS-005a	Improve performance (as measured by memory use, transactional speed and Ts) of bookmark and history storage and retrieval operations	P1	NFR	374532

Schedule

Only P1s are currently listed here.

Target Milestone	Feature	Notes
A1	Platform support for annotations	Done
A5	Places Bookmarks on by default	Bookmarks turned on 5/18/07
A5	UI Parity with Fx2	Done (with a few minor exceptions
A5	Protection and safeguarding against data loss	Done
A5	Bookmark data is never lost	Done
A5	Backup and restore for all Places data	Done
B1	Platform support for sync
B1	Unified Places Organizer
B1	Improve performance
Ongoing	Platform API for extensibility

Design & Implementation

Documentation

• User Interface
• Architecture
• Test Plan

Repository

mozilla/browser/components/places/

for the front-end,

mozilla/toolkit/components/places/

for the back-end.

API Changes

Developer documentation

Extensibility

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Customization

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Performance

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Reliability/Stability

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Security

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Privacy

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Global Audience

l10n

• Places l10n meeting

a11y

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Discussion & Implications

Caveats / What We've Tried Before

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References

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