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1) Tags - this will allow a bookmark to be at more than one place, it will place a bookmark in more than one 'folder', so you will still have hierarchal bookmarks
1) Tags - this will allow a bookmark to be at more than one place, it will place a bookmark in more than one 'folder', so you will still have hierarchal bookmarks


2) Later - a special tag (user-defined of course) that will store a page the user want to read later (for whatever reason, like saw it at work, but want to see it at home), this should have some time since the bookmark analogy, something like the color of the text goes from black to white in 30 days ( the time also should be user defined), the main reason for this is to alert the user to read it, after that time, the bookmark will be erased (or the user should be presented of a wway to store the bookmark  on his system as definitive ( this is a brainstorm of the idea, it's all open for discussion ).
2) Later - a special tag (user-defined of course) that will store a page the user want to read later (for whatever reason, like saw it at work, but want to see it at home), this should have some time since the bookmark analogy, something like the color of the text goes from black to white in 30 days ( the time also should be user defined), the main reason for this is to alert the user to read it, after that time, the bookmark will be erased (or the user should be presented of a wway to store the bookmark  on his system as definitive ( this is a brainstorm of the idea, it's all open for discussion ). The "Later" bookmarks should automatically become accessible offline.  When you are temporarily disconnected, they provide you with content.


3) All of this should be able to sync between computers
3) All of this should be able to sync between computers
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* Add a simply button to clear the text and the possibility to use the [esc]-control
* Add a simply button to clear the text and the possibility to use the [esc]-control


'''I realy would like to see the option to search in the bookmarks with the websearch bar''' so you have one collum with the webresults and possible a second one with the results from the bookmarks and bookmarks-keywords in it
'''I realy would like to see the option to search in the bookmarks with the websearch bar''' so you have one collum with the webresults and possible a second one with the results from the bookmarks and bookmarks-tags in it


== Security ==
== Security ==
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I'm thinking of something similar to the button the NoScript Addon is putting in the  bottom right corner of the screen, where you can change the script execution settings for the given site.
I'm thinking of something similar to the button the NoScript Addon is putting in the  bottom right corner of the screen, where you can change the script execution settings for the given site.
Another possibility might be next to the bookmark start on the URL bar, which would be useful to show if the user has cookies for that site (just as it shows if the site is in the user's bookmarks).


==Government Audience==
==Government Audience==
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* A 64-bit version of the browser is really welcome!
* A 64-bit version of the browser is really welcome!


* A possibility to make incorporation of other rendering engines and switching between them, e.g., MSHTML, KHTML is very welcome. Maybe it's possible to add a flexible interface to enable this?
* A possibility to make incorporation of other rendering engines and switching between them, e.g., MSHTML, KHTML is very welcome. Maybe it's possible to add a flexible interface to enable this? Auto-switching would be ideal ie switching to the IE engine when you go to the windows update site.


* It would be useful to add some options to auto-completition. For a single form i would like to clear its history (for example a day I mistyped my login, and every time i have two choices but i don't want to clear all the forms). It would be also useful to say that i don't like auto-completition in a specific form (for example when asking for credit card number)
* It would be useful to add some options to auto-completion. For a single form i would like to clear its history (for example a day I mistyped my login, and every time i have two choices but i don't want to clear all the forms). It would be also useful to say that i don't like auto-completion in a specific form (for example when asking for credit card number)


== Typo? ==
== Typo? ==
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PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN INDIA STILL USING WINDOWS 98 WHY U NOT SUPPORT THAT OS ? PLEASE CONCERN THIS - DIEHARD FAN OF FIREFOX
PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN INDIA STILL USING WINDOWS 98 WHY U NOT SUPPORT THAT OS ? PLEASE CONCERN THIS - DIEHARD FAN OF FIREFOX
=== Windows 98 is an unsupported OS anyway ===
Microsoft has already dropped support for Windows 98 anyway. If you don't mind running an outdated, unsupported OS then why would you mind running an older version of Firefox on it?


== Open New Tab Right Next the Parent Tab ==
== Open New Tab Right Next the Parent Tab ==
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I'd like to see the copy feature improved.  For example, if I copy the data in the cells from this page http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/top-50-cities-2006.html using Firefox and paste into Excel, all the data goes into cell A1.  However, if I copy the same data from the same page using IE and paste into Excel, the data is pasted correctly into the spreadsheet.  That's the only reason I use IE during times of data mining.  Otherwise, I'm all Firefox.  : )  Keep up the great work. -Brian
I'd like to see the copy feature improved.  For example, if I copy the data in the cells from this page http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/top-50-cities-2006.html using Firefox and paste into Excel, all the data goes into cell A1.  However, if I copy the same data from the same page using IE and paste into Excel, the data is pasted correctly into the spreadsheet.  That's the only reason I use IE during times of data mining.  Otherwise, I'm all Firefox.  : )  Keep up the great work. -Brian


===
Great Idea: why not extend it to ODF (Open Document Format)?
Great Idea: why not extend it to ODF (Open Document Format)?
===
 
Or the Corel Formats?
There are so many…


== Manage search engines ==
== Manage search engines ==


In Firefox 3 the add-ons like Flash Player,... are already in the add-ons panel, with the themes and the extensions but I would like to see something like that in the same panel for the search engines.
In Firefox 3 the add-ons like Flash Player,... are already in the add-ons panel, with the themes and the extensions but I would like to see something like that in the same panel for the search engines.
== Windows 98 support ==
Although Windows 98 Second Edition is no longer supported by Microsoft effective on July 11, 2006, it still enjoys use by people who like to run older games and for use in running older educational programs at schools. The reason Microsoft does not support the Windows 9x source code anymore is because of the cost of supporting 2 lines of source code even though the Windows 9x source code is the safer line supported by DOS which is the maintenance operating system according to Chris Quirke, Most Valuable Professional of Microsoft.
http://www.spywarepoint.com/forums/t26963-p7-microsoft-zero-day-security-holes-being-exploited.html
http://cquirke.blogspot.com/
    The secunia.com website highlights how Windows 98 Second Edition is safer than Windows 2000 and Windows XP when running Mozilla Firefox because Internet Explorer has many security vulnerabilities. Even if Windows 98 Second Edition is given a Priority 2 or Priority 3 status I would still be glad to see Mozilla Firefox 3 support it.
Vendor Microsoft
Affected By 32 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 9% (3 of 32 Secunia advisories)
Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Less critical
http://secunia.com/product/13/
Vendor Microsoft
Affected By 194 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 15% (30 of 194 Secunia advisories
Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows XP Professional, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Highly critical
http://secunia.com/product/22/
Vendor Microsoft
Affected By 164 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 13% (22 of 164 Secunia advisories)
Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Highly critical
http://secunia.com/product/1/
== Automaticaly change proxy's ==
There is an option in Firefox to detect automatically the proxy's
But for me it isn't working, on Mac nor on Windows.
Can better?
== Printing functions ==
Wouldn't it be nice to have the option to chose for 'print only on first page':
----------------------------------------------------
    header 1        header 2        header 3   
----------------------------------------------------
              print only on first page           
----------------------------------------------------
                      webpage
-
-
-
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------
              print only on first page           
-----------------------------------------------------
    footer 1        footer 2        footer 3   
-----------------------------------------------------
and than the other pages:
----------------------------------------------------
    header 1        header 2        header 3   
----------------------------------------------------
                      webpage
-
-
-
-
-
         
-----------------------------------------------------
    footer 1        footer 2        footer 3   
-----------------------------------------------------
Just for information that you want to have, but wouldn't want to look at whole the time...
== Search bookmarks ==
When you are typing something in the search field for the web, it would be nice if Firefox would also search in your bookmarks (tags and bookmarks foldernames also).
Possible that FF would show a second column with those search results.
== Better treatment 'Closed tabs' ==
When I close a tab that I acually wouldn't have to close, I want to press command+Z (control+Z on windows), but that isn't working.
This would be a nice to have
== full-screen-width text with columns! ==
.....Back in the dawn of time (1982), Bill Gates begat a PC screen that was 640 pixels wide, that permitted only 80 characters on a line -- the same as on a typewriter (remember them?).
.....Then came the internet browser, and with a lot of those 640 screens still around, developers decided that the only way to get an article to you was to roll it down like toilet paper, narrow but long.
.....It made sense then, but that was then. Last year the New York Times came out with its "Times Reader," which took any article in the paper and laid it out all the way across the screen vertically and (yesss!) horizontally, in multiple columns that are easy to read. In fact, on today's detailed screens such an article is clearer, bigger, with less page-fumbling, and easier to hold up than it is in the paper edition. The Times is selling this version of its FREE web edition for $15 a month (almost the price of the hard copies).
.....There had to be an answer to this organized pickpocketing of web readers, and so an obscure coder named Manu wrote a routine using the script-running extension Greasemonkey. It has started small, converting only a dozen websites, but gloriously, one of them was nytimes.com. Now there is a free version of what the Times is selling for $180 a year. (That's $1,800,000, even if they have only 10,000 users.)
.....When you think about it, today's browsers look awfully dumb. And that includes Firefox. Here we are with giant screens that can hold the whole top half of a newspaper page, every letter razor-sharp, and these screens are WIDE. Yet the browser windows continue to be narrow, and very high. Rather than glancing from column to column with folded arms, we clickety-click the down arrow or spacebar, and if we need a name from earlier, we clickety-click back up to get it, and clickety-click back to where we were reading. We're in the dark ages of browsers, and we don't even know it!
.....When you have read your whole gigantic multi-column screen, you hit a right-arrow and find another screen of multi-column text. Even the longest Times articles wrap it up before the second screen is covered.
.....Manu knows this is the wave of the future, but he has a job and a family and no time to develop this idea. He is happy to let someone else be the hero. Pick up where he left off by visiting http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9022.
.....You will find that he uses the "print" function of a web page as a crutch. But any coder with smarts and dusk-to-dawn energy can make this tool "copy" the text, take note of its font, and lay it out full screen with multiple columns. Is anybody reading this? (Or do these notes just fade away unseen?) If so, what are you hanging around for? It's time to write code!
-- yankeedam
== Resampling Options for Image Scaling (Enables Higher Quality) ==
-Currently, Firefox will just resize large images to fit in the browser window. This method is adequate, but better options should be provided for users; however it's up to them to enable it or not (depending on system capability/performance),
-We may borrow algorithm/codes from other open-source projects (such as The GIMP). Options that could be provided are :
1. Resample (Lanczos) - highest quality; slowest
2. Resample (Bicubic) - better quality
3. Resample (Bilinear) - good quality
4. Resize only (Nearest Neighbour) - lowest quality; fastest
-Detailed explanation/information could be provided as tooltips and within the documentation (help file).
-The most easy way to assess this (my) suggestion is at Wikipedia Featured Pictures page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures. Here, most pictures are usually way larger than common monitor resolutions; so when Firefox automatically scaled the picture, the first impression (of that picture) is not as good as it should be (imagine jaggies/aliasing when scaling a picture to 1/4th of its original size).
-This feature could be determined by Firefox at first run (after setup) whether to turn it on or not by assessing the system performance. Later, user could change through the Options...
Regards,
--[[User:Musafir 86|Musafir86]] 21:56, 12 March 2008 (PDT)
== First Run Auto-Tuning/Optimization (Out-of-Box Experience) ==
-Some software (mostly OS) have first run wizard that will auto-configure their (common) settings. In Microsoft(R) Windows(R), they call it Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE). Firefox already have this, but only for importing preference/user data (cookies, history, etc.) and setting default browser.
-How about we also auto-configure other options to optimize the end-user experience? We may ask the user to close other running programs/tasks so the final result would be the best. Examples of settings that we can configure are:
1. Network speed (turn on pipelining, max connections, etc.)
2. Image scaling algorithm (refer here : [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Firefox3/PRD#Resampling_Options_for_Image_Scaling_.28Enables_Higher_Quality.29])
3. GUI effects/skins (turning off on ancient systems)
4. Others (we can think later)
-We could provide each option on its own page so user may skip them if he/she doesn't want it.
Regards,
--[[User:Musafir 86|Musafir86]] 00:40, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
== Bookmarks referring to unbookmarked sites ==
First problem: some websites have multiple adresses.
Simple example: http://www.wesnoth.org and http://wesnoth.org are two different websites with the same contents
I had bookmarked the first one, but an other webpage on the web refers to the second one.
Result: I didn't see the star from places and I bookmarked twice
Second problem: I came on a webpage that is familiar but I don't remember from what.
A nice to have would then be a system that indicates when you already have a bookmark referring to a webpage on that website.
-> Bookmarked: ''http://www.wesnoth.org'' or ''http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Project'' or something else on the website,
-> Indicates: ''http://'''wesnoth.org'''/'',
''http//www.'''wesnoth.org'''/wiki/Play'' when you later are browsing on this pages
so you can seen that you have already  been interested in this site.
I have done it with bold tekst, but it is also possible with a background color or something like that.
Some people might say that we have now the new dropdown menu in the locationbar.
Yes, but what to do with some hundreds of bookmarks? Searching around costs in this case to many time, surely if you don't remember what you are searching.
And this increases the easy of use from the places-system.
== Protect tabs from accidental closing ==
When the user clicks the Close Box on a tab, close the tab only it is already selected. Otherwise select the tab and leave it open.
'''Why this would be useful'''
Because the Close Box is surrounded by the label that one must click to select the tab, it is easy to close a tab when one intends to select it.  Once the tab is closed, there is no way to recover it.  This may result in losing a large amount of work (e.g., in a form) irretrievably and without warning.
'''Why this would be intuitive'''
If a user tries to close a non-selected tab by clicking its Close Box and finds that the tab does not close, her first impulse will be to click the Close Box again.  Because the first click selects the tab, the second click will close the tab as intended. After doing this a few times, the user will consciously or unconsciously come to understand the feature.
--[[User:jhsachs]] 6 April 2008
== SVG Performance Improvements ==
SVG is often unbearably slow.  Since it has great potential for improving webmasters' layouting and webpage design, it should be sped up to a useful performance level.
This may involve more hardware acceleration, I don't know.
--[[User:Aetherane|Aetherane]] 07:39, 16 June 2008 (PDT)
== Firefox 3 Compatibility issues ==
I was wondering if there has been any success at making Firefox 3 compatible with Microsoft Silverlight. I really don't understand why it is compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.14 and not Firefox 3. There is a lot of documentation about this problem here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432371
I hope someone has an answer and can fix this.
== Auto-hide Status Bar. ==
It would be nice to have the possibility to choose an auto-hide option for the status bar, that could disappear when the page loading is complete. Something similar is present in Google Chrome browser and I find it useful...
== Clearing private data should have a context option ==
I find 'clear private data'-function very handy, but sometimes i want to clear session of a specific site without losing the other session on the other window on the other desktop.
Clear private data should have a context option (dimension) or something like that, i.e:
* clear private data for every site (default)
* clear private data for current site
* clear private data for all sites on this window
== Why isn't the schedule updated? ==
The schedule only has info up until Beta 4. Isn't a complete schedule the single most important thing to involve the users in Firefox's development? I think so.
== "Firefox is already running, but not responding" suggestion ==
This error message ticks me off to ''no end'' whenever I see it and it gets frustrating to keep seeing it time and time again on Firefox 3.5.
And of course, the moment I open my Task Manager to close the 'not responding' Firefox process, IT EXITS!
As such, I would like to make a request for the "Firefox is already running but not responding" dialog box: '''add a "Force Quit Firefox" button.'''
Seriously. It'd end a lot of headaches.
== Local content (from hard drive) should never be cached.  ==
What reason is there for local content to ever be cached? In development, often most testing is local. This necessitates extra steps to ensure everything is refreshed every time an edit is made.
== Clearing cache should be complete, every time. ==
Some files don't get cleared for a page that is currently open. This problem has plagued Firefox for years. Where it is most noticeable is with Flash apps that load multiple Flash files. The subsequent SWF files are NEVER cleared from the cache unless the user closes the window or navigates away from the page the files are on. This makes for extra steps in clearing in the cache for every edit. As a developer I have to explain this process repeatedly to many clients and colleagues. They are either confused or frustrated by the issue. 
== Caching: The Ghost of the Internet ==
Any developer knows, caching can be a confusing hinderance of development. I've often wondered how many times I've solved an issue, but was unaware because the page cached and I had already moved on to the next hacky attempt at a solution. As ubiquitous as caching is to the web, clearing of the cache should be simpler and options/controls for the cache could be me robust for every browser.
I can think of several ways to improve caching. It seems like it's always a buried option that is always in a different place in the tools or preferences, and has a different and obscure hot key, for every browser. In Firefox, it's clumped in with a bunch of other "Private data", in IE it involves clicking through and confirmation in several annoying windows. Even the single window Firefox uses for confirmation is an annoyance to me. It makes people feel like they are doing something "techy" which is scary to them, when really there shouldn't be any risk to clearing a cache, and therefore no need for any confirmation. Just DO it!
Seriously. Imagine as a developer, at the 11th hour of many projects, having to diagnose cached items for why your clients are seeing funny stuff, asking them what browser they are using, and going through the process of clearing the cache on the phone. Then imagine this being true for just about anything that goes wrong just because you need to rule that out.
An option to have a "clear cache" button right next to the reload button would be awesome. How about an option to force every reload to clear cached items for the current page. How about a check box that defeats all caching without changing other caching options (in prefs would be cool but right on the browse would be cool too). There could be an indicator on the browser window that shows weather or not there are any cached items on the page. There could be a way to reveal what items are cached right on the page.
I believe caching is important enough to be it's own preference panel. There, you could specify caching options for individual pages or domains, like max/min file size, file types to cache, duration to keep files and max cache size for each page/domain.
Is this crazy? I know it would save me TON time, trouble, and sanity.
== Tab Reordering/Tearing Animations ==
It would be nice to have tab animations when the user grabs a tab, and rearranges it on the tabs toolbar. An example of this is in Chrome and Safari, where the tabs move themselves accordingly to where the user holds the grabbed tab at the moment. This makes the reorganization of tabs look more smooth. However, there should be an choice in the options page where the user can allow/disable these animations.
Also, animations should be added for when tabs are torn from the toolbar, and are either used to make a new window, or join another window's tabs. These animations are also found in Chrome and Safari, and add a nice touch to the browsing experience. These animations would make the browsing on Firefox look more smooth and seamless.
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