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* Flexible Query System | * Flexible Query System | ||
* Clean Architecture for ease of code reuse and maintainability | * Clean Architecture for ease of code reuse and maintainability | ||
== Background == | |||
Studies from the late 1990s show that while revisitations of pages previously seen counted for roughly 39% of all page navigations (see [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar]), Bookmarks and History usage was low (1-3%), despite the fact that roughly 20% of those revisitations were to pages seen > 10 URLs ago (and thus outside the usefulness range of the Back button or menu). | |||
Autocomplete in the URL bar is a useful tool but fails to address some common desires when looking up visited pages. There is a gulf between the capabilities of that tool, the capabilities of the Bookmarks and History systems today, and the desired capabilities of those systems. | |||
== Use Cases == | |||
* [[Places:History Use Cases]] | |||
* [[Bookmarks Use Cases]] (not specific to places) | |||
== Functional Requirements == | |||
The original requirements for Places in Firefox 3 are detailed in the [[Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document#Places|Firefox 3 PRD]] | |||
== Front End Architecture == | == Front End Architecture == | ||