Talk:Firefox

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Organization

Make schedules and prds lightweight and flexible by:

• design features (functional specs, UI, archictectural docs) on pages that bear no version number
• schedules/prds become collections of links to the above

Ben 11:08, 7 Nov 2005 (PST)

Also of note is that the rate of commercial take-up of Firefox will be limited whilst there is not a basic MSI installer package available from the main/official site. I spent the best part of a day trying to get a lucid explanation of how to deploy Firefox to about 150 PCs in a Windows domain. Add to that the explanation of installation switches here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments

is utterly incorrect reference the uninstall process and it was a most frustrating experience at every turn. There is a link to a third party MSI installer from Frontmotion, but at 14MB, 5MB over the size of the executable installer, I was most concerned at what else was included and also the re-branding undertaken.

I also realise this may not be the proper place for this post, but please re-raise these issues amongst the development team if you are going to edit it out.

Thanks All,

Adam

Other Comments

well i searched in here about info on mozilla extensions .. to find out quite some time later that this page only seems to be for main moz devel.

anyway why not create a page about firefox extension devel .. atleast one that points to the main sites to consider like http://roachfiend.com/ .. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=19 or a little less http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/packaging/extensions.html, http://www.bolinfest.com/firefox/build.html (example of eclipse build http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/build.html)

--Ebricca 06:51, 31 Mar 2005 (PST)

It will be on devmo, but in the meantime, there is MozillaZine KB. --Asqueella

How about links on the main page at least to the prominent wikis? As mentioned, http://kb.mozillazine.org/ and http://mozilla.wikicities.com/

I want to offer the one useful thing.my firefox browser is missing certain buttons and stuff that i see on alternative browser themes. please help me because none of them will install. iwant a browser that is more decorative anyway. please help (firefox 2) thanks, doug rosbury <doug561935@hotmail.com>

Page that should be linked

Firefox:Preconfigured_Packaging - This page should be linked from this page somewhere (I'd do it, but it says "leave it up to the team to modify the page")

Regular Crashes

The one thing I find is I can't use Firefox to go to my Yahoo! accounts because it always crashes. Now I would reccomend a reporting system, much like IE, and I think this is an area that needs to be looked. Is there something in Yahoo! Mail that causes Firefox to fail?

Out of date

When is this page going to be updated? I came by hoping there'd be some info on the new session saver stuff (which isn't linked), but I noticed the Places info is all still under FF2, and there's a lot of unnecessary info tucked around too (FF1.5 release party planning?). I'd start changing things myself, but I feel a little unqualified. --wjjohnst

Browsing

Why not possibility to to load images on a page at once when they are turned off in options?
Create in context menu command for example as in IE «Show picture».
Fierfox is 3 already but this simple function absents!

Release date

The release notes for Firefox 3.6 RC1 says it was released January 8th, 2009 instead of January 8th, 2010. This should be changed immediately if possible or at least fixed in the next release candidate or final.

Partitioning

We need rapidly a better support of partitioning : "all in C:\" as presently done is out of date :

1) recent off-the-shelf configurations have at least 2 partitions of equal size e.g. my 2 years old low end laptop. The users want to have the "user data" out of C:\ to avoid loss of them after a severe Windows crash and re-installation with Format C:\. This means an installer option to choose data (e.g. profile) directory.

2) in a near future many PC will have OS on a SSD disk to obtain fast start of the PC. Due to the SSD price C:\ partition will be small 64 to 128 GO. We have to offload from it all that is possible. That may include programs, it is presently possible to install Firefox out of C:\ but in case of bug report the only solution accepted by developers is to put back Firefox in "Program files" directory : this position has to be changed...

This 2 needs apply also to other Mozilla products e.g. Thunderbird.