Interviewed by CNN on 14/02/2012 14:11, Doors told the world: > What happened to 'File' in bookmarks, it used to be easy, direct and > obvious. > You selected file, it popped up a tree viewyou could scrioll if needed, > and you clicked where you wanted it, now you have to use some funky > folder menu you you have to open then navigate, I used to be able to > just click, now I have to navigate, why? > Is the old USABLE one still there just hidden? > If so, where please? > > Who decided that bookmarks needs to be a bloody sql file?
Bookmarks.html was fine, if the only thing you expected from bookmarks was a static list you searched manually. The move to a sql database was part of the "Places" feature that debuted in Firefox a few years ago, and in Seamonkey in version 2.1. The main advantage is that search inside the places.sqlite is very fast, even if you have several thousand bookmarks. This allows a number of new features, such as: - The history/bookmarks autofill search when you start typing an URL on the address bar; - The little symbol that tells you if you have already bookmarked the current site. Also, the database format is better suited for the "Firefox Sync" feature -- one that I personally love, since I can have the same bookmarks in my desktop Seamonkey, my desktop Firefox, my Portable Seamonkey and my Android Firefox. A very minor feature is that the website icons are now stored inside the database itself. Under the old system, website icons on bookmarks were almost useless -- they worked only for the sites you visited often. Icons from sites you hadn't visited in a while were cleared from the cache and disappeared from the bookmark lists. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Atari 2600. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.7.1 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
