Firefox:2.0 Product Planning

Firefox 2 Feature List Brainstorming

We are currently in pre-planning 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.

How to use this page:

• 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 below please add them to the most appropriate group below. Leave the target field blank, and add any references to more detailed implementation ideas.

note: mozilla platform feature enhancements are not in scope for this page; please refer to the Draft Gecko 1.9 Roadmap

Requiring new UI design

Feature	Target	References
Identity Management password and cookie management next-generation identity systems single sign-on	ext/FFx3	Identity 2.0 at OSCON
Session Saver restore tabs/windows advanced restore of DOM state/content	FFx3	Session Saver .2
Roaming Profiles share a server hosted profile between multiple installations secure storing and transmission: bookmarks, mail headers, passwords, cookies etc. optional choices, eg: mail -> share only sent mails HTTP(DAV)[, SFTP, LDAP] user installable server script (PHP?)		"Roaming Thoughts" (boo)
RSS Reader/Viewer	FFx2	feedreader+ design document
Omnibus "Status" Area download status popup/cookie/XPI blocker status security/trustworthiness status see "Artifact/Resource Detection"	FFx2
Phishing Protector	ext
Content Manipulation (like GM) persistant site-specific view options tie-in to accessibility for consumers annotation/personalization of the web	future
Artifact/Resource Detection make it easier to find linked/embedded content media type detection microformats rss detection	ext
History/Bookmark Overhaul history enhancements global history navigation & presentation session history navigation & presentation (handling iframes & modern DOM trickses) search using metadata / full page text from cache bookmark enhancements tag-based system preserving heirarchical behaviour for those who want it page change notification (any bookmark can be "live") next-generation ideas scrapbook/grabbag concept relevance based filtering leverage power of DB-based history/bookmarks auto-linking/smart tagging preserving DOM state baysian training/pruning APIs & integration points social web service tie-ins remote/sharing APIs portable profile	FFx2	"on tagging" (dria) thumbnail session history (ben)
Intro/Tutorial Mode host it on mozilla.com as movies have some UI hooks in the product	FFx2	thoughts from FunnyMan3595
Bluetooth support (send content to device)	future
Extension Security & Management whitelist & blacklist third-party signing and authentication by Mozilla	FFx2	Extension Blacklisting UI Spec
Stub Installers	FFx1.5

Requiring significant changes to existing UI

Feature	Target	References
Tabbed Browsing select on close behaviour close buttons tabs instead of windows drag tabs to windows tab switching via Mouse Scroll Wheel (on all Platforms) open tabs one upon the other and/or side by side in a single window	FFx2	design thoughts for tabs instead of windows Ben Goodger blogs about tabs
Find Improvements find integration points for web applications	FFx3
Search Engine Management adding/managing search engines clarifying the default "I'm feeling lucky" search in URL bar	FFx2
Spell Check	FFx3
Download Manager schedule p2p support (locating/participating)	ext	Further Thoughts on download manager changes
Aging Population Accessiblity smart font sizing page zoom	FFx3
Zoom/panning/scaling for images	future
Extension Management version compatibility options management update/install/remove	FFx2
Improving Theme Capabilities	FFx3
Support w32 Group Policies Allowed extensions Basic customizations (eg. company homepage)		Requires that controls become disabled if overridden by policy. Use the normal Windows UI for editing the policy itself. See bug 267888

Requiring little or no UI changes

Feature	Target	References
Improve App/OS Integration	FFx3
Transactional DOM	FFx3
Adblock and Remote Filter Sets	ext
Base on XULRunner	FFx3
Autocomplete URL from middle of word local filenames user's bookmarks using history frequency for relevance	FFx2
Offline Mode/Use of Cache browsing apps (supercookies)	FFx2
Instrumentation history navigation install/uninstall	FFx3
Precognitive Fetch	FFx3
Convenient usable flash blocker should be easy to use should apply as a default for all pages should allow flash for certain sites should be able to load flash on user request
Make printing popup windows possible		more here
Make searching textarea possible		more here