Education/MMTC/Projects/Thomas

I have two probable projec.

Improvement to the download manager

The aim consists in starting the download of a file when pasting a valid URL on the Download manager.

• First, I will create an extension.
  
• Then, I will propose a patch.
  
• And finally I will go through review and super-review process.
  

I have already filed a bug : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506881

Oops, it seems that the extension will be the only step since the bug is now "'''RESOLVED WONTFIX'''"...

New tab management

I will not talk a lot about tabs and what's wrong. On the one hand there is too much things to say, on the other hand some people are better to talk about that :

• http://limi.net/articles/reinventing-tabs-for-the-browser/
  
• http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/firefoxnext-tabs-on-the-side/
  
• http://informationarchitects.jp/designing-firefox-32/
  

I would like to program a tab sidebar with a "new tab button" allowing to perform search : http://limi.net/media/sidebar-expanded.png/image_preview

And when the number of tabs is too big for the screen, the sidebar switch to a tree : http://limi.net/media/sidebar-collapsed.png/image_preview

Or maybe it will be best to have some "work spaces" to store tabs :