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Excellent, thank you for your work!

Does it mean the improvements to the Firefox "places" implementation will affect Seamonkey, too? Or is Firefox implementation different?

> Storing more history (180 days instead of 9 days by default) without performance decrease or memory increase

Well, I'm tracking a couple of performance in Places, in particular bug 223476 makes interacting with Firefox painfully slow:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223476

I'm wondering if Seamonkey will be affected by this, too.

We're directly using the toolkit implementaion of places, so, yes, all deficiencies and improvements in the backend used by Firefox 3.1 development builds are also in SeaMonkey 2 development builds.
One reason why we're doing this is to get away from having our own, separate, history backend and using a common one where we share the code with Firefox (and Fennec).

Will the preferences used to tweak the search results match (and possibly expand on) the ones in Firefox, or will they be completely different?

>>>No, we're not changing anything related to bookmarks at this stage!

What related to bookmarks will be changed at next stages?
It's so easy to work with HTML bookmarks...

I appreciate all of this. The ability to find something in the middle of a URL or within a title of a visited site is really helpful, especially when combined with a comprehensive history.

Hooray! I've been waiting for this development for a long time -- almost half a decade ago, I supported bugs related to replacing mork with a better database engine, which ended up being SQLite. I've been tempted to go the Firefox route for this very reason, but have been holding out for SeaMonkey to catch up. Much thanks for the hard work.