« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming
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- Improvements
- Improve PDF support and handling (Built in PDF viewer with support for more exotic features like forms, javascript, etc.)
- Save page as PDF
- Improve Java support
- Add support for SFTP and FISH (SSH2)
- When a third party plug-in is installed (eg. for Windows codecs), Firefox should spoof websites that return a "get plug-in" message so that it fools the website into thinking the official plug-in is installed. This way you will not keep getting the "get the plug-in" redirect message even when Mplayer with the necessary Windows Media codecs is already installed.
- If no plug-in is installed, Firefox should redirect to a Firefox plug-in site which will lead the user to the correct plug-in, rather than waste time on a website which only has Windows or IE plug-ins.
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See bug 162659
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- FTP
Implement full support of FTP by adding features like:
- Uploading
- Changing permissions
- FTP over SSL/TLS
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See bug 208385
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- Desktop experience
- Support X11 session management
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X11 session manager
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- New technology support
- IPTV
- IM
- Integrated radio livestream
- Open Document Format
- BitTorrent
- Magnet links
- eDonkey links
- SCTP 1
- Jabber/XMPP
- OBEX (Bluetooth, etc)
- SyncML
- SIP
- Scriptable ZeroConf (Bonjour/Rendezvous)
- WML. Would be grat if firefox could interpret WAP pages.
- ...at least implement WBMP and leave the rest to wmlbrowser extension.
- WebDAV and Secure WebDAV
- SMIL 2.0
- Microformat detection/notification with metadata
- metalink (mirrors & checksums for downloads)2
- Support Askemos compliant replication3
- Ogg4
- WMV
- Open Document Format
- XBEL
- SVG via img tag
- JPEG2000
- ANG
- MNG 5
- JNG
- DJVU 6
- ANI for
cursor: url(example.ani), ...
- should be at least as cross-platform as CUR support is now
- Save page as image, this should save a complete page as an image just like a screenshot does. Optionally attach the image directly to a new e-mail.
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1 SCTP patch
2 metalink
3 Firefox & Askemos
4 Firefox Ogg Support
5 mngzilla.sf.net; Bug 18574
6 Djvu support library
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| Flash |
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When a Flash media file is loaded, CTRL+T (open new tab) does not work. Flash must be stealing the keystroke.
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See bug 78414
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| Open GL Support |
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With the advent of the 3D LCD and CRT displays. It would be wise to be the first browser on the block to support 3D tiling. This feature support would also give extension and theme writers a great deal of flexibility not yet known in the browser world.
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| E-learningspecifications |
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Native support for e-learningspecifications like the new IMS Common Cartridge Specification.
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