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** Open External Links in (by application? by param?)  
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== Site/page-specific preferences ==
== Site/page/element-specific preferences ==


Allow users to specify persistent preferences (trust level, rendering options, filtering, whatever) on a site/page basis. The web is not an uniform universe, using the same rules everywhere is broken by design.
Allow users to specify persistent preferences (trust level, rendering options, filtering, whatever) on a site/page basis. The web is not an uniform universe, using the same rules everywhere is broken by design.
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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123248 bug 123248]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123248 bug 123248]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194812 bug 194812]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194812 bug 194812]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238099 bug 238099]


== User controlled alternative style sheets ==
== User controlled alternative style sheets ==

Revision as of 13:30, 25 October 2006

« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming

Saved Form Information

  • Edit/delete individual Form Manager entries, either via prefs or at form fill time.
  • Avoid auto-saving things which look like CC numbers.

Enterprise-wide settings

  • Possibility to read settings (like start page, proxy etc.) from Active Directory (or any other similar system) if the computer is inside it and disable editing these settings
  • don't ask to save a password until we can tell if it was correct. (i.e. spawn a new thread for the question, don't stop the load)
References

List filtering

  • add filtering to the following lists (like the filtering for the Cookies list):
    • Allowed Sites - Popups
    • Black list sites (this sites won't be allowed to open popups)
    • Exceptions - Images
    • Exceptions - Cookies
    • Allowed Sites - Add-ons Installation
    • Don't Remember Passwords by full URL
    • Remember Passwords by full URL
    • Open External Links in (by application? by param?)

Site/page/element-specific preferences

Allow users to specify persistent preferences (trust level, rendering options, filtering, whatever) on a site/page basis. The web is not an uniform universe, using the same rules everywhere is broken by design.

  • Scope specification should use patterns (wildcards, regexpes, xpath expressions...), which can devolve in simple URLs/site names. Adblock Plus shows how the UI can suggest a default pattern the user can customize if he wishes
  • Site/page rules can include (but are not limitted to) :
  • ruleset sources could be local, imported from another user, or via subscipted lists/feeds (Adblock Plus)
References

User controlled alternative style sheets

  • Allow the user to specify what style sheet shall be used for a page using a regular expression (regexp).
References

Shortcut Key Configuration

  • Creating customized shortcuts to preferred Firefox functions using unassigned keyboard combinations.
  • Creating shortcuts for sites/links/bookmarks
  • UI for displaying/searching/modifying existing key combinations, displaying what does every keyboard shortcut mean in every context (much like Opera does).
References

Sync Preference and Extensions settings

An option to have all your Firefox preferences and extension settings saved on a server of choice and such settings would be loaded on startup of Firefox. Something like Google Browser Sync but on an extensions level. An example of such extension settings would be to have the Adblock, NoScript or CookieSafe filter lists synched so that on any Firefox browser that you use, provided that you give the correct user details in a form of login, you will have the same settings.

View Page Info Improvements

  • Improvements for the Links tab
    • Let the list be sorted by clicking on the table header (name, address, type)
    • Having selected some entries on the Links tab, add the command "open selected link(s) in new tab(s)" to the context menu.
    • Add a column to the list from what the link has its anchor. For example text or image. In addition it would be cool if you could see which links lead offsite (and which not) in an additional column so that you could also sort for it.
  • Improvements for the Media tab
    • Let the list be sorted by clicking on the headers of the list (Address, Type,...).
    • Having selected some of the items add the command "save media to ..."
    • Add a column "Type" that shows the "ending of the files for example "jpg, gif, png". Perhaps this could also use the content-type returned for the file.
    • Add a column "Size" that shows the size of the file, in human terms such as 1/3 Meg or some such, but will sort on # of bytes.
    • The list of media should be (optionally?) displayed as a list of thumbnails. Searching for a specific image in a list of cryptic URLs is tedious. Thumbnails would make that task easier, as well as providing a better visual representation of "what's on this page."
  • Add tab(s) for micro-formatted content, feeds, etc.

Use proxy in system preferences

Many OS X users use Quicksilver to change network locations, e.g. home and work. If Firefox detected the proxy set in network locations then the user would not have to manually change proxy settings in Firefox each time the network location is changed. Similary in Windows, it could detect the Internet Options proxy. This "Use System Proxy" setting could be a 4th choice in the connections settings dialog along side Direct, Auto-Detect and Manual.

Using multiple proxies

Multiple proxy settings should be saved in profiles, so that when changing network (more and more common with roaming laptop users and wlan accesses) settings can be changed in a fast way Even easier: When the actual proxy is not available Firefox should automatically detect which other proxy is available.

  • bug 43429
  • FoxyProxy is a powerful and user-friendly proxy handler, but is missing transparent fallback
  • SwitchProxy is an older and simpler option adding a status bar menu to quickly switch between proxies.

Save As... PostScript, PDF, ODF, XPS

Early Netscape allowed the user to "save as" a web page as postscript, HTML, PDF, etc. These days, we seem to be only allowed to "save as" in HTML or text. This then means we have to use time-consuming external programs instead of it being a quick and easy drop-down selection. Please give us back our old "save as" options and also include a new ODF "save as" option.

  • Add "Save current" option (to save current DOM structure, including input fields with text).
References

Image placeholders

Allow image placeholders to appear before the image starts being displayed (available in IE).

Animated image freezer

Allow animated image freezer.

Proxy passwords

Add option to save proxy password and not bug every time the browser is open.

References

Implement Media player in Browser, winamp, windows media player

Save your preferences

Add an option to save all your preferences in a file, such as size of cache, places where you don't want to save passwords, when you want to clean your download history, information about cookies, contents, tabs, ... also to copy your passwords to an encrypted file (for making easier changing from windows to linux, for example

Multiple welcome pages

Allow to specify multiple welcome pages. And in case the first one isn't accessible, display the second one. This could be very helpful when you are using the same laptop from your company's intranet and from somewhere else.