Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Preferences

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Specific features	References
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.	n/a
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	bug 224509 bug 103545 CCK
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?)	n/a
Per-Site Preferences Allow the user to specify blocking of images, use of specified fonts & colors, allowance of JavaScript, etc. on a per-site basis. Could also store if Java and Flash is enabled on that site. Examples: current NoScript and AdBlock plugins. The features of them could be integrated. NoScript shows what rules are active on the page, without having to go into the prefs. Also, rules can be changed right there. With AdBlock, you can see what objects are accessed on the page and you can add a new blacklist rule based on this info.	OmniWeb Features:Site Preferences bug 108391 bug 123248 bug 194812
User controlled alternative style sheets. Allow the user to specify what style sheet shall be used for a page using a regular expression (regexp).	See feature request for Firefox 3. bug 41975
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).	bug 57805 bug 257241
Have your preferences and extension settings synched. 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."	n/a
General tasks
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.	n/a
Using multiple proxies Proxy settings should be saved in profiles, so that when changing network (more and more common with laptops and various wlan accesses) settings can be changed in a fast way	bug 43429. SwitchProxy adds 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.	bug 114376 bug 162659
Allow image placeholders to appear before the image starts being displayed (available in IE). CarlRogerson 23:52, 14 October 2006 (PDT)]
Allow animated image freezer. [Klapaucius, 17. October 2006 1130 CEST]
Add option to save proxy password and not bug every time the browser is open.	bug 112179
Implement Media player in Browser, winamp, windows media player etc
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 helpfull when you are using the same laptop from your company's intranet and from somewhere else.