Places:Plan

Places Plan

Roadmap for future work on Places, the SQLite-driven Bookmarks and History system.

Firefox 3.1

• Performance
  • add visits on a background thread? (bug 429988, bug 429989)
  • reduce query volume
  • simplify query result observer codepath
  • get better tree views performance on large history trees
  • reduce copy/paste/delete operations weight

• Tagging
  • bulk editing (bug 412002)
  • autocomplete (bug 415960)
  • querying (searching, filtering)
  • quick-tag

• Awesomebar
  • API hooks (frecency bonus, external providers?)
  • expose frecency in the query infrastructure
  • portability (Weave)

• External
  • Weave integration?
  • user-specified db location (or html/json?)
  • tags in HTML export/import?

• Database
  • move tags out of bookmarks folder (avoid data duplication and perf)
  • use relation tables for keywords and tags (avoid null filled columns)

• Library
  • add back preview for bookmarked items (db size issues)
  • add back advanced search UI
  • allow one-click bookmarking

• Backend
  • Simplify expiration behaviour

• Sidebar
  • better grouping for history
  • allow one-click bookmarking

• Frontend
  • Simplify drag&drop code

Firefox 4

• Database
  • investigate changing bookmarks table to use a preordered nested tree algo
  • VACUUM in a background thread
  • unified identifier for bookmark and history items?

• Library
  • Pluggable views based on collection type