Trunk and Branch are going Places
Starting tomorrow, February 16th, the new bookmarking and history system based on SQLlite (called Places), will be enabled by default on both the trunk and the 1_8_BRANCH (as per bug 327188.) There are no remaining bugs that report data loss, but the migration from your profile’s bookmarks.html file into the database driven system is non-destructive. If you end up losing data, simply erase the bookmarks_history.sqlite file from your profile and your old bookmarks and history will be re-imported from your bookmarks.html and history.dat files.
Once running with these builds, please feel free to start filing bugs against Firefox:Places. There is a tracking bug that you should scan for duplicates before filing.
This change will be checked into the default build options, so if you want to build without places you’ll need to add ac_add_options --disable-places to your .mozconfig file. This build option will be supported only for the next week or so until all regressions have been fully examined and fixed.