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 <tr><th>Specific features</th>
 <th width="30%">References</th></tr>
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+; SRV RR Support
+* Add support for (minimally) _http._tcp, _ftp._tcp, preferably all protocols supported by Firefox
+This feature request was added to Mozilla in 1999...
+</td><td>
+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328 SRV RR Support]
+</td></tr>
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 Right now Firefox just assumes sRGB everywhere. The only color managed browser so far is Safari, so this feature would surely set FF apart.
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+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16769 ICC image profile support]
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 * Improve PDF support and handling (Built in PDF viewer with support for more exotic features like forms, javascript, etc.)
 * Save page as PDF
+* Add support for viewing ODF. It might be possible to get save-as ODF format if Cairo ever supports this.
 * Improve Java support
 * Add support for SFTP and FISH (SSH2)
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 * If no plug-in is installed, Firefox should redirect to a Firefox plug-in site which will lead the user to the correct plug-in, rather than waste time on a website which only has Windows or IE plug-ins.
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-See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162659 bug 162659]
+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162659 Save page as PDF]
+[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114376 ODF support]
 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>
+;Enhance support for HTML successor formats
+*Improve support for HTML successor formats like SVG, XForms and XHTML-Forms. I know, that there is already SVG support, but it is still not possible to mix SVG and XHTML in every way you would like to.
+</td><td></td>
+</tr>
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 See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208385 bug 208385]
+[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/ Fully integrated ftp client for Firefox](Firefox Extension - FireFTP by Mime Cuvalo)
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 * DJVU <sup>6</sup>
 * ANI for <code>cursor: url(''example''.ani), ...</code>
+** should be at least as cross-platform as CUR support is now
 * APNG <sup>8</sup>
-** should be at least as cross-platform as CUR support is now
 * Save page as image, this should save a complete page as an image just like a screenshot does. Optionally attach the image directly to a new e-mail.
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 <sup>7</sup> [http://dev.hyperstruct.net/xmpp4moz XMPP For Mozilla]<br />
 <sup>8</sup> [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257263 bug #257263]<br />
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td>
+;Image type finder
+* Assists in finding optional image format plugins and imagelib extensions, which could be used to display MNG, JPEG2000, and TIFF images.
+</td><td>[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574#c672 bug 18574 comment 672]
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 See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167303 bug 167303] and dependent bugs.
 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>
+; Unicode plane-1 support
+* Add support for the Unicode Consortium plane-1 standard natively.
+* This is useful for many business applications including support for MathML[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/].
+* Many browsers already support this.
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td>
+;Internal audio
+* Support playing simple audio formats without the use of a helper application
+</td><td>[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92110 bug 92110]
+</td></tr>
 <tr><th colspan="2">Flash</th></tr>
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 <tr><th colspan="2">Networking, HTTP/1.1</th></tr>
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-Please, improve support for special web pages with tens or hundreds of big images (201901); this means to be able:
+; HTTP
-<ul>
+* Please, improve support for special web pages with tens or hundreds of big images (201901); this means to be able:
-<li>to set a parameter about available bandwidth: modem 14Kbit, 28Kbit, 56Kbit, ADSL1/2 256Kbit, 512Kbit, 640Kbit, 1Mbit, 2Mbit, 4Mbit, 10Mbit, 20Mbit, 40Mbit, 100Mbit, etc.;</li>
+** to set a parameter about available bandwidth: modem 14Kbit, 28Kbit, 56Kbit, ADSL1/2 256Kbit, 512Kbit, 640Kbit, 1Mbit, 2Mbit, 4Mbit, 10Mbit, 20Mbit, 40Mbit, 100Mbit, etc.;
-<li>or to set other new parameters in preferences (GUI) about max. number of pipelined requests, whether to close connections as soon as all objects (images, etc.) have been retrieved (server friendly), etc.</li>
+** or to set other new parameters in preferences (GUI) about max. number of pipelined requests, whether to close connections as soon as all objects (images, etc.) have been retrieved (server friendly), etc.
-</ul>
+* If possible make HTTP/1.1 pipelining support a bit smarter too (bug 329977).
-If possible make HTTP/1.1 pipelining support a bit smarter too (329977).
+*Please make use of the Content-Length header to identify incomplete HTTP transfers; GMail, especially, breaks when a .js file is half-downloaded. (bug 225275)
 </td><td>
 See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201910 bug 201910]
-See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329777 bug 329777]
+See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329777 bug 329977]
+See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225275 bug 225275]
 </td></tr>
+<tr><th colspan="2">Developing</th></tr>
+<tr><td>
+; Version Control System
+* SVN/CVS/Git support
+</td><td>
+</td></tr>
+<tr><th colspan="2">Extensibility</th></tr>
+<tr><td>
+; External Web Apps
+* Open arbitrary mime-type using a webservice
+* We need a better title for such an obvious feature
+</td><td>
+See [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Fulldecent]
+</td></tr>
 </table>
+==Related Links==
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+[http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/pages/Electronics/TV-and-Video/Flat-Panel-Televisions/ '''lcd tv''']