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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
- 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 22:15, 8 July 2011 (PDT)