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Overall the purpose of this write-up is just to enlighten others by bringing together some of the more intelligent browsing enhancements I've found. I'm also hoping that actual Firefox user-interface developers might consider setting the browser up as I have, but not everyone thinks like I do. Many others besides myself have suggested the following changes but I'm afraid those people and I may just be power-users.

OUTSIDE RESOURCES:
- MakeUseOf - The Winners of ‘Extend Firefox’ - Best Firefox Addons
- Mozilla Wiki - Talk:Firefox:3.0 Tabbed Browsing
- Mozilla Wiki - Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Default Browser UI

CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION EXAMPLES:
- Firefox eBay Edition

FIREFOX DERIVATIVE IMPLEMENTATIONS:
- Blackbird
- Galeon
- Kirix - Strata
- Kylo.tv
- Miro
- Orca Browser
- Qtrax
- Songbird
- Wyzo
- ZeeVee - Zinc

DEFAULT INTERFACE PROBLEMS: [ more ideas can be found here ]

 BUTTONS:

  - New Tab button

       [ isn't a default but should be the first button on the toolbar ]

  - Home button

       [ is a default that nobody probably uses ]

  - Options menu button

       - add a button for the add-ons prompt

       - would help replace need for menu-bar

       - example: Options Menu

 WINDOWS:

  - Preferences, Add-ons, and Downloads

       [ each opens a new window instead of using the tabbed browser interface, they should load in the sidebar or in a separate tab ]

  - New windows

       [ new windows should only be used/allowed for separate Firefox profiles, TabGroups Manager should supplant the necessity for windows ]

  - Application window borders and title-bar

       [ for an example just look at the Hide Caption / Hide Chrome extension ]

 MENUS:

  - Menubar (at the top of the browser)

       [ people rarely use this and Internet Explorer already dumped it, Hide Menubar / Autohide Menubar ]

  - Send Link option

       [ what is this? it never seems to work ]

 TABS & TAB BAR:

  - Tab sizing

       [ most websites only need an icon-sized tab like FaviconizeTab ]

  - Tab grouping

       - more ideas can be found here

       - should use menus not additional tab-bars to select tab-groups

  - Floating tabs

       [ should be possible to float a tab, like picture-in-picture only for your browser ]

  - Double-click on Tab-bar

       [ should create new tab, Tab Clicking Options ]

 ICONS:

  - Loading statusbar and toolbar icon (throbber)

       [ each tab in Firefox shows the loading status, is it necessary to display this information anywhere else? Fission is the way it should be implemented if at all ]

 LOCATION BAR:

  - Integrate search

       [ fix this so it doesn't allow URL misspells to be redirected to OpenDNS ]

  - Paste options

       [ add a paste-and-go option to the contextual menu, like how Maxthon's location-bar is ]

 OTHER:

  - Download manager

       [ integrate (torrent / Metalinker / ZIP) support ]

  - OpenID integration

       [ VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt extension is really buggy but the idea is great, another tool is Sxipper ]

TWEAKS:

EXTENSIONS (to be considered for integration):
- AsPDF
- Autofill Forms
- Autohide
- Automatic Save Folder / Download Sort / FavLoc
- AutoPager / AutoPager Lite / PageZipper
- Cooliris
- Copy and Go
- CyberSearch
- Download Manager Tweak / Download Statusbar / Downloads in Tab
- ErrorZilla Mod / ErrorZilla Plus
- Extension List Dumper
- FaviconizeTab / App Tabs

       [ the only sane way to browse the internet ]

- FireTorrent
- Fission
- FoxTab
- Grab and Drag
- Hide Caption / Hide Caption Titlebar Plus (Smart) / Hide Chrome
- Hide Menubar
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Open IT Online
- Options menu

       [ quick and easy access to extension settings ]

- Organize Status Bar
- Paste and Go
- PermaTabs Mod
- Screengrab
- SmoothWheel / Yet Another Smooth Scrolling
- Stylish
- Tab Clicking Options
- Tab History Menu / Tab History
- Tab Wheel Scroll
- TabGroups Manager

EXTENSIONS (that have been or will be integrated in some form):
- Mozilla (Geode, Prism, Sync, Ubiquity)

       [ WARNING: Weave can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]

- Undo Closed Tabs Button
- Unified Back-/Forward Button

       [ doesn't always work well with certain Firefox themes ]

OTHER EXTENSIONS:
- All-in-One Sidebar
- ArchView
- bit.ly Preview

       [ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]

- BugMeNot
- CookiePie
- Flash Block / NoScript / Adblock Plus
- Flash Game Maximizer
- Flem
- FoxClocks
- Greasefire
- Greasemonkey
- AVG LinkScanner / Haute Secure / LinkExtend / SiteAdvisor / Web of Trust / Web Security Guard
- DownThemAll

       [ resume/stop downloads, Metalinker support, could be better integrated ]

- Hide Favicons
- Identity
- IE Tab
- Infoaxe / ThumbStrips
- Link Fixer Thing / Linkification

       [ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]

- Locationbar²
- Menu Editor
- Mozilla (Add-On Collector / Jetpack / Snowl)
- Notable
- Pixelpipe Media Uploader
- Pixlr Grabber
- popIn
- replyforall
- RetailMeNot
- SkipScreen
- Split Browser

       [ needs to be simplified and use only the drag&drop method incorporating the edges of the window ]

- Tab Clicking Options

       [ this should replace any need for new windows ]

- Tab to Window or as I'd prefer Tab to Tab Group
- Textarea Cache / AutoSaveText
- ThinkfreeFox
- Toolbar Buttons / UrlbarExt
- Update Notifier

       [ avoids users being asked to update things, people don't care stop asking & just do it ]

- VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt / Sxipper

       [ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]

- WiseStamp

       [ needs a more simplified user-interface ]

- Zentact

       [ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]

- Zviewer

FIREFOX PLUG-INS:
- OpenXML Document Viewer
- Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin

GREASEMONKEY & STYLISH & JETPACK EXTENSIONS:
- Greasemonkey

       - AutoPagerize

       - Craigslist image preview

       - Flickr Gallery Plus!

       - Google Viewer

       - Greased Lightbox

       - HTTP-to-HTTPS redirector

       - Table Floaters

- Stylish

       - Adjust Menu Height

       - Blank Tabs - No icon + No Title + No TOOLTIP

       - ChangeAddOnsManagerView

       - Compress the Firefox Status Bar

       - CuteMenus - Alignment Fix

       - Extensions Manager - Hide Compatibility Warning

       - falconer (Chromifox) Location bar: Larger text

       - Firebird Style Tab Throbber

       - Firefox Chrome: Autohide Status Bar

       - Fission + Locationbar² - Color Active Link URL

       - NASA Night Launch Theme Cleanup

       - No FF3 back/forward dropdown in Linux

       - Remove "List All Tabs" menu from tab bar (FF 3.5)

       - Remove all icons (except tab-bar)

       - Remove Autofill menu icons

       - Remove close/minimize/restore buttons (fullscreen)

       - Remove Dropmarker from Back/Forward

       - Remove locationbar bookmark star

       - Remove locationbar drop-down arrow

       - Remove locationbar Go arrow (FF3)

       - Remove locationbar RSS icon

       - Remove menu-items created by particular Add-ons

       - Remove New Tab Plus

       - Remove the Site Identity Button from Fx3

       - Remove unused/annoying menu items

       - Reorder statusbar panels and icons

       - Scrollbar hidden / hide scrollbars totally

       - Smart Stop/Reload/Go Button / Tab Scope - Stop Button as Throbber Indicator

       - SquareTabs

       - Tabs - remove tab drop down

       - Userstyles.org >> Elegant blue

- Stylish (about:blank backgrounds)

       - about:blank backgrounds

       - about:blank OnFire Fixed

       - About:blank - Blue logo on black

       - about:blank - Dark Blue Firefox

       - NASA Night Launch - Launch Image for Empty Tabs

- Jetpack

       - Notify

GOOGLE EXTENSIONS:
- AideRSS
- Better Gmail 2
- gDocsBar
- Gmail S/MIME
- Google Earth
- Google Gears
- Googlepedia
- gReader Comments
- Greasemonkey

       - AideRSS Google Reader Integration

       - Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon

       - Google Account Multi-Login

       - Google Reader autoscroll / Google Reader Preview Enhanced

       - Google Reader Favicon ++ / Google Reader - Favicon Alert

       - Google Reader Prefetch More

       - GReader FavIcon Alerts

       - YouTube HQ + 720p Revised

- MailBrowser
- Stylish

       - GMail - Remove ads and relocate action links (alt)

       - Gmail Redesigned (by Globex Designs)

- Xoopit
- Zemanta

--Operations 21:09, 8 July 2011 (PDT)