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| == Firefox Feature List Brainstorming ==
| | We are currently in the early development stage for Firefox 3, and would like to collect all the ideas for feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts of things we're thinking of doing, with links to more detailed ideas about implementation specifics or concerns, and targets for inclusion in the project. |
| We are currently in the early development stage for Firefox 2, and would like to collect all the ideas for front-end, user-facing feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts of things we're thinking of doing, with links to more detailed ideas about implementation specifics or concerns, and tagets for inclusion in the project. | | |
| | '''Note: This is a list of feature enhancement ideas for ''all'' future Firefox releases, not just Firefox 3. Firefox 3 will include a subset of the items on this list.''' |
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| '''How to use this page''': | | '''How to use this page''' |
| | * ''If you have ideas about features listed here'' please create a new wiki page off of your user page that outlines your ideas (mockups welcome!) and add a link to that page in the "References" column, or link to existing pages with examples, design thoughts, interesting articles, etc. |
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| * ''If you have ideas about features listed below'' please create a new wiki page off of your user page that outlines your ideas (mockups welcome!) and add a link to that page in the "References" column. Or link to existing pages with examples, design thoughts, interesting articles, etc. | | * ''If you have ideas for features not listed here'' please add them to the most appropriate group below. Include any references to more detailed implementation ideas. |
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| * ''If you have ideas for features not listed below'' please add them to the most appropriate group below. Leave the target field blank, and add any references to more detailed implementation ideas. | | * ''If you would like to comment on features listed here'' please do so on the [[Talk:Firefox/Feature Brainstorming|discussion]] page rather than in the list itself. |
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| ''note: mozilla platform feature enhancements are not in scope for this page; please refer to the [http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/gecko-1.9-roadmap.html Draft Gecko 1.9 Roadmap]'' | | * ''Etiquette:'' |
| | ** Please include a summary comment that describes your change so that it shows up in the page history view. |
| | ** Please make a User page for yourself with contact information so that if we need clarification of your idea, we can get in touch with you. |
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| ===Requiring new UI design=== | | == Sections == |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Accessibility|Accessibility]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Add-ons|Add-ons, Extensions, themes, plugins]] |
| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 50%" | ''Feature''
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Add-ons, Platform Development|Add-ons, Platform Development]] |
| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 10%" | ''Target''
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Addressbar|Addressbar]] |
| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 40%" | ''References''
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Archiving and Offline browsing|Archiving and Offline browsing]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Bookmarks|Bookmarks]] |
| | Deafult Page Zoom and Default Text Zoom
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Browsing|Browsing]] |
| * setting the default page zoom % for every page being loaded
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Buddylist|Buddylist-Friendslist]] |
| * setting the default text zoom % for every page being loaded
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Content Filtering, Manipulation, and Control|Content Filtering, Manipulation, and Control]] |
| * Menu entries for them in the view menu in a possible page zoom submenu and text zoom submenu
| | * [[Home: Home site]] |
| * Also putting this in Tools > Options > Content > Page Zoom % and Text Zoom %
| | * [[Cookies: Exceptions on the Fly]] |
| * pretty please with a cherry on top
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Default Browser UI|Default Browser UI]] |
| | FFx2
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Developer-facing UI|Developer-facing UI]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Downloads|Downloads]] |
| | Identity Management
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:email|Email]] |
| * password and cookie management
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Force-Quit ONE Window|Force-Quit ONE Window]] |
| * next-generation identity systems
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Form handling and text areas|Form handling and text areas]] |
| * single sign-on | | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Get URL of current page|Get URL of current page]] |
| | ext/FFx3
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:History|History]] |
| | [http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ Identity 2.0 at OSCON]
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Identity|Identity]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Images|Images]] |
| | Optional Eye Candy Integration
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Installer|Installer]] |
| * Tab opening + closing animation
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Internationalization|Internationalization]] |
| * Sidebar and search animation
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Microformat Handling|Microformat Handling]] |
| * Possible manipulation by theme
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Mobile and Enterprise Support|Mobile and Enterprise Support]] |
| | FFx3
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Notes and Annotations|Notes and Annotations]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Notification Tools|Notification Tools]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Other or Uncategorized|Other or Uncategorized]] |
| | Optional IE theme
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Performance|Performance]] |
| * Same size and button positioning
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Platform Integration|Platform Integration]] |
| * Tab opening like IE7
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Preferences|Preferences]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Printing|Printing]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Privacy|Privacy]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Profiles|Profiles]] |
| | Session Saver
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Protocols and Media Support|Protocols and Media Support]] |
| * restore tabs/windows
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:DocumentFilestorageSambaIntegration|Document Filestorage Samba Integration]] |
| * restore history of each tab
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Recovery Options]] |
| * advanced restore of DOM state/content
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Document Saving]] |
| | FFx2
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Store/save Workspace Tabs|Store/save Workspace Tabs]] |
| | [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436 Session Saver .2]
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Search and Find|Search and Find]] |
| [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=380534 Session Manager]
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Security|Security]] |
| |- | | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Software Update|Software Update]] |
| | Roaming Profiles
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Statusbar|Statusbar]] |
| * share a server hosted profile between multiple installations
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Tabs, Sidebar, Windows|Tabs, Sidebar, Windows]] |
| * secure storing and transmission: bookmarks, mail headers, passwords, cookies etc.
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:URL Handling|URL/Tab Handling (by user)]] |
| * optional choices, eg: mail -> share only sent mails | | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:User Interface|User Interface]] |
| * HTTP(DAV)[, SFTP, LDAP]
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:User Support and Testing|User Support and Testing]] |
| * user installable server script (PHP?) | | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Web Feed Handling|Web Feed Handling]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Web Standards Support|Web Standards Support]] |
| | [[User:boo/roaming|"Roaming Thoughts" (boo)]]
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Easter eggs|Easter eggs]] |
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| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Mac OSX Specific|Mac OSX Specific]] |
| | RSS Reader/Viewer
| | * [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Tab freeze and low memory consumption|Tab freeze and low memory consumption]] |
| | FFx2 | |
| | [[Feed Handling]] - design document
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| [[Feed_Handling:User_Interface|feedreader+ design document]] | |
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| | Omnibus "Status" Area
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| * download status | |
| * popup/cookie/XPI blocker status
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| * security/trustworthiness status
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| * see "Artifact/Resource Detection"
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| | FFx2 | |
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| | Phishing Protector
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| | Content Manipulation (like GM)
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| * persistant site-specific view options | |
| * tie-in to accessibility for consumers
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| * annotation/personalization of the web
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| | future
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| | Artifact/Resource Detection
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| * make it easier to find linked/embedded content
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| * media type detection
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| * microformats
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| * rss detection | |
| | ext
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| | [[Microsummaries|Myk's Microsummaries Idea]]
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| | History/Bookmark Overhaul
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| * history enhancements
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| ** global history navigation & presentation
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| ** session history navigation & presentation (handling iframes & modern DOM trickses)
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| ** search using metadata / full page text from cache
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| ** Option to store all text from all pages (possibly excluding https and preset sites) ever visited -- this would let you revisit pages that disappeared off the internet, and also do very good search through history. At 100 pages per day, and a very generous 10k per page (storing text-only, not scripts and images), this would be about a third of a gig annually, so manageable storage requirements by modern standards.
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| * bookmark enhancements | |
| ** tag-based system
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| ** preserving hierarchical behaviour for those who want it
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| ** when searching for bookmarks show the folder from the founden bookmarks
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| ** page change notification (any bookmark can be "live")
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| ** make it easier to directly add a keyword when saving bookmarks (ie: you should see a keyword field when you press cntrl+D to bookmark a page)
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| ** Easily-accessible, actual book-style bookmarks for long documents, where you can: | |
| *** Preserve your position in the page
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| *** Move, rather than create new/delete old, the bookmark. This is useful when reading through e.g. the archives of an on-line comic, an e-book, or catching up after vacation on a blog like slashdot,
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| ** Allow the user to store the full text and images of bookmarked pages, just in case they go away.
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| * next-generation ideas | |
| ** scrapbook/grabbag concept
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| ** relevance based filtering | |
| ** leverage power of DB-based history/bookmarks
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| ** auto-linking/smart tagging
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| ** preserving DOM state
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| ** baysian training/pruning
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| * APIs & integration points
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| ** social web service tie-ins
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| ** remote/sharing APIs
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| ** portable profile | |
| | FFx2
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| | [[User:Dria/On_Tagging|"on tagging" (dria)]] <br/> [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/008250.html thumbnail session history (ben)]
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| | Intro/Tutorial Mode
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| * host it on mozilla.com as movies | |
| * have some UI hooks in the product
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| | FFx2
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| | [[User:FunnyMan3595:Tutorial_Mode_Thoughts|thoughts from FunnyMan3595]]
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| | Bluetooth support (send content to device)
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| | future
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| | Extension Security & Management
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| * whitelist & blacklist | |
| * third-party signing and authentication by Mozilla
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| | FFx2
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| | [[Firefox:1.5_Extension_and_Plugin_Blacklisting|Extension Blacklisting UI Spec]]
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| | Stub Installers
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| | FFx1.5
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| | Look & Feel for XUL Rendered in Browser Window
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| * Get a design team up 'n running | |
| | FFx2
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| | [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322007 Bug 322007]
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| | EULA displayed on first run for each new profile
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| * required for distribution opportunities | |
| * This is probably not required for distribution opportunities, and is indeed probably a bad idea (reduces usability, no benefit). This is only required for programs having license clauses stronger than copyright law (e.g. no reverse engineering), and not for GPL/MPL/NPL-style licenses.
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| | FFx2
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| | [[User:CBeard:Fx2_EULA_Requirements|End-User License Agreement (EULA) Requirements for Firefox 2]]
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| ===Requiring significant changes to existing UI ===
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 50%" | ''Feature''
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 10%" | ''Target''
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 40%" | ''References''
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| | Tabbed Browsing
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| * select on close behaviour
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| * close buttons
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| * tabs instead of windows
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| * drag tabs between windows
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| * detach tab to new window
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| * merge windows to tabs | |
| * tab switching via Mouse Scroll Wheel (on all Platforms)
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| * grouping of tabs (possibly by multiple tab rows)
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| * open tabs one upon the other and/or side by side in a single window
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| * Shading of Tabs denoting time since it started (On the scale of white to black, white is more recent than black)
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| * Thumbnail tab view as currently in foXpose extension
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| | FFx2
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| | [[Link_Targeting|design thoughts for tabs instead of windows]]<br />[http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009210.html Ben Goodger blogs about tabs]<br />Whether [[Ctrl_W_not_close_app|Ctrl+W should not close the app]]<br />[[User:Ge.diego/Tab_Management_Comments|Diego Gálvez comments on Ben Godger test build that includes new tab management]]
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| | Find Improvements
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| * find integration points for web applications
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| | FFx3
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| | Search Engine Management
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| * adding/managing search engines
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| * clarifying the default "I'm feeling lucky" search in URL bar | |
| | FFx2
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| | [[User:Auk/Search_Model]]
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| | Spell Check
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| | FFx3
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| | Download Manager
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| * schedule
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| * integrated support for 3rd party Anti-virus scanners
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| * ability to 'Add' file to be downloaded via URL
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| * make many connections (to different or same server)
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| * p2p support (locating/participating)
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| * download queue | |
| | ext
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| | [[User talk:Mr-squig|Further Thoughts on download manager changes]]
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| | Aging Population Accessiblity
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| * smart font sizing | |
| * page zoom
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| | FFx3
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| | Zoom/panning/scaling for images
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| | future | |
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| | Print Preview
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| * Fully editable document within print preview utilizing simple text editor | |
| | FFx2
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| | Extension Management
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| * version compatibility
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| * options management
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| * update/install/remove
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| | FFx2 | |
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| | Image file support
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| * support for MNG | |
| * embedded SVG in page via <img> tag
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| * support for JPEG2000
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| * keep transparency when copying/pasting transparent images (PNG, GIF, etc...)
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| | FFx2
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| | Improving Theme Capabilities
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| | FFx3
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| | Support w32 Group Policies | |
| * Allowed extensions | |
| * Basic customizations (eg. company homepage)
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| | Requires that controls become disabled if overridden by policy. Use the normal Windows UI for editing the policy itself. See [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267888 bug 267888]
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| |Make the profile manager accessible through the menu
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| |[[User_talk:Bur#Profile manager|details & discussion]]
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| | Tabbed Browsing via Sidebar
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| * User should choose tab or tab Sidebar (with thumbnails) | |
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| | [http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/TabSidebar/index.html Tab Sidebar extension homepage]
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| |Allow user to move toolbars
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| |See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172818 bug#172818]
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| |Allow user to disable plugins
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| *via about:plugins | |
| *via Options/Preferences
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| *via Extensions
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| |Extentions and GUI convert to object code
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| *should increase execution speed
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| *should decrease less memory usage
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| ===Requiring little or no UI changes===
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 50%" | ''Feature''
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 10%" | ''Target''
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| ! style="background-color: #efefef; width: 40%" | ''References''
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| | Improve App/OS Integration
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| | FFx3
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| | Transactional DOM
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| | FFx3
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| | Adblock and Remote Filter Sets
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| | ext
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| | Why not use [http://bene.sitesled.com/ Adblock]?
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| | Base on XULRunner
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| | FFx3
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| | Autocomplete URL from
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| * middle of word
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| * local filenames
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| * user's bookmarks
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| * using history frequency for relevance | |
| | FFx2
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| |[[User talk:bur#Autocomplete_URL|remarks from bur]]
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| | Offline Mode/Use of Cache
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| * browsing
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| * apps (supercookies)
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| | FFx2
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| | Instrumentation
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| * history navigation
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| * install/uninstall
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| | FFx3
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| | Precognitive Fetch
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| | FFx3
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| | Integrate MHT saving (see MAF extension)
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| | Convenient usable flash blocker
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| * should be easy to use
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| * should apply as a default for all pages
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| * should allow flash for certain sites | |
| * should be able to load flash on user request
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| * Should also block the stupid "Extension not installed" pop-up if you do not have flash installed. Without flash installed, Firefox is a royal pain to use, since half of the sites on the Internet use it for ads, and each time you visit one, you get a stupid dialog you need to click away before you can keep browsing. I should be able to say "no" once, dammit.
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| |[[User talk:bur#Flash_blocker|remarks from bur]]
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| [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=433&application=firefox Flashblock] ext exists | |
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| |Make printing popup windows possible
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| |[[User talk:ThomasWaldmann|more here]]
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| |Make searching textarea possible
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| |FFx2
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| |[[User talk:ThomasWaldmann|more here]]
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| |Show and hide navigation/bookmark/menu bar via a right-click menu everywhere
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| |[[User talk:bur#Show_.26_Hide_bars|details & discussion]]
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| |Minimize to tray
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| |[[User talk:bur#Minimize_to_tray|details & discussion]]
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| |Improve bookmarks backend
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| |[[User talk:Theflow|more here]]
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| |Option to show an icon next to (and/or in the status bar) hyperlinks which open in a new window/tab (e.g. the icon next to external links on Wikipedia, etc).
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| |Saved Password Editing
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| * Ability to edit saved usernames and their respective passwords via the Privacy > Passwords > View Saved Passwords dialog | |
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| |Find function improvements/options
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| * Highlighting
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| ** Allow user to configure highlight colour
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| ** Highlight colour is chosen to be in contrast to the page background
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| | [[Find_UI_enhancement|Visual feedback on text/link find]]
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| |Stability/Performance
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| *Stability | |
| **Optimize browser stability when using a lot of extensions
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| *Performance
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| **Optimize memory usage
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| |FFx2
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| |[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak Mozillazine advice]
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| |Form Dirty Bit
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| * Warn User before closing page with modified form | |
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| |[[Form Dirty Bit]]
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| |Crash Recovering (automatic session saving with minimal UI impact)
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| * Saves tab histories, form data, cookies | |
| * Offers to restore after a crash
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| * Optional restoring after controlled shutdown
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| * Prompt force termination of Firefox process when trying to reopen after unexpected crash
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| |[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=164513 Crash Recovery]
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| |Better AccessKeys implementation
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| * no conflicts between web page and browser shortcuts
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| * showing AccessKeys for the current page | |
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| |[[AccessKeys_solution]]
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| |Search for whole words only
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| * Search bar should allow the user to search for a string matching only a whole word. | |
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| |[[Search for whole words only]]
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| |Improved ad filtering
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| * A bunch of web sites get around pop-up blocking by having it event-triggered, rather than on-load. I hit ctrl-L on the Dilbert comic site, with maximum pop-up block settings in my browser (FX 1.5.0.1), and much of the time, it pops up an ad window. That sucks. | |
| * Have a menu option to the effect of "show all images", because there's some Akamai server that mostly servers ads, but also "order" buttons on some Yahoo stores and travel web sites | |
| * Possibly, replace ads with "Ad blocked. Right click to display"
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| * Block links around ads. The whole pages shouldn't be a danger zone -- if I click somewhere blank on a web page to give my browser focus, I shouldn't be taken to the advertiser's web site.
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| * Eventually, regexes I can type in myself
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| * Then, learning by example. "Block this one" "don't block that one" and it figures it out
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| * The goal should be to have Firefox work well out-of-the-box (rather than with n hours of poweruser tweaking), so relying on extensions is not the best idea
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| |[https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=521&application=firefox RemoveItPermanently]
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| |Maintain form state in history
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| * You fill out a long form, click Submit, and an error occurs. You click Back and sometimes all of your form data is gone. I think it has to do with the page having a short TTL so it is re-requested from the server and re-rendered with a blank form.
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| * Allow users to go back through history and see exactly what was entered in the forms on pages.
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| * Never save password fields except through existing functionality
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| * Allow user to enable/disable feature
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| |Resize search box
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| *The box may extend as needed or be set to a new static size
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| *Users (like me) can see what they are searching when using more than two words.
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| |FFx2
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| |Ability to remove search engine addons from search box
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| *Users won't have to remove the default/global search engine addons to get rid of them | |
| *Users won't have to find to find and remove user specific added search engine addons
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| |Easy extension finding
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| * It's one thing being told Firefox is great because you can add all these extensions. For a significant number of users the reality is that wide choice is confusing and disencouraging, and that searching through 3 "tabbed browser extensions" wondering which is "the best" or "right for them" is a powerful disincentive. Not how many developers here think, but many end users will. | |
| * The Firefox forum has a [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=197645 basic FAQ] "I want to do X, what extension do I use" page | |
| * Users coming to Firefox need to be met on their first use, with a "welcome to Firefox" intro, to be told about extensions (amongst other things), and an easily noticed "find me an extension" access point, because helping people to look for extensions for functions they are used to, and quickly choose the one they want, is crucial to acceptance by a significant part of the market who want it easy and "just to work". | |
| * Ideal solution, some kind of online "find me an extension" wizard that helps users identify needs, and recommends the top 3 extensions to do that function, describing them in enough detail that users have some way to choose; online so it's always most up to date.
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| * (In best marketing style, I'd have it, however it's done, always say "People who liked this extension, might also like an extension to do XYZ." To encourage exploration of Firefox's strengths)
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| * [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=197645 FAQ on forum] | |
| * [http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=1048 Extensions summary on TEM]
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| |Run userChrome.js when loading a XUL window
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| |[[userChrome.js|details & discussion]]
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| | SSL auth required for send password
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| * This is an optional, but stongly recommended feature suggested during install
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| * Sending password with FORM.send or Javascript.Send check if the page is SSL encrypted and will display an error message if there's no valid SSL certificate.
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| * Will not allow adding "*" to FORM.edit field from Javascript (avoid sproof) | |
| This way a user will get warning when tries to log in to an unsafe service, like phising sites. All sites with authentication should have valid SSL certificate or should be added to "safe to login" list.
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| | Extension compatibility improvements
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| | [[Extension compatibility ideas]]
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