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Let's review what I have learned about the Places module in Firefox. | Let's review what I have learned about the Places module in Firefox. | ||
0. Places code by lines is 20% of mozilla/browser, see below: | 0. Places code by lines is 20% of mozilla/browser, see below: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Ddahl#Places_Source_Code_is_bloated | ||
1. Initially developed in a bunker at Google with little input from Mozilla, much less users at large (I assume), mostly in C++, by developers who should be working in a Computer Science research lab instead of working on a relatively simple (in scope) bookmarking application. This caused major code complexity. | 1. Initially developed in a bunker at Google with little input from Mozilla, much less users at large (I assume), mostly in C++, by developers who should be working in a Computer Science research lab instead of working on a relatively simple (in scope) bookmarking application. This caused major code complexity. | ||