{"id":4,"date":"2007-10-26T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/2007\/10\/26\/i-love-places\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T14:09:09","slug":"i-love-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/2007\/10\/26\/i-love-places\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Firefox 3, the bookmarks and history systems are getting an overhaul, collectively known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Places\" title=\"this doc is sort of out of date\">Places<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I was skeptical of this work when it first started, and I&#8217;m sure I wasn&#8217;t alone in that view.\u00a0 I rarely used bookmarks, preferring to just search Google to recall a page I had previously visited.\u00a0 Just how relevant was any overhaul of bookmarks going to be to my modern browsing?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~tmielczarek\/urlbar-autocomplete.png\" alt=\"urlbar autocomplete in Firefox 3\" height=\"164\" width=\"676\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I was wrong.\u00a0 Places is here, and it&#8217;s awesome.\u00a0 It has improved my browsing workflow so much that I can&#8217;t even use Firefox 2 anymore.\u00a0 In Firefox 3, the urlbar now autocompletes what you&#8217;ve typed from both URLs and page titles from your history and bookmarks.\u00a0 Maybe that doesn&#8217;t <strong>sound<\/strong> impressive, but in practice it&#8217;s fantastic.\u00a0 I tend to visit a lot of pages on the same site (mostly bugzilla), and with the old urlbar autocomplete, it was hard to find things from bugzilla.\u00a0 With the new autocomplete, all you need to do is type in part of a unique word from the page title or URL, and it will be found.\u00a0 In addition, if you bookmark a page (just by clicking the handy star there) it will get weighted into your autocomplete results.<\/p>\n<p>I hear there&#8217;s still more work to be done, including improving the formatting of the results, but it&#8217;s already vastly improved my day-to-day browsing.\u00a0 Hats off to the Places team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Firefox 3, the bookmarks and history systems are getting an overhaul, collectively known as &#8220;Places.&#8221;\u00a0 I was skeptical of this work when it first started, and I&#8217;m sure I wasn&#8217;t alone in that view.\u00a0 I rarely used bookmarks, preferring to just search Google to recall a page I had previously visited.\u00a0 Just how relevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}