« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming
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- Page content notification
- Some sort of unified system for informing users of all the various types of available content on a page, including Web feeds, Microformats, Microsummaries, and what-have-you. How could this information be best communicated to users through the browser?
- Currently, when a Web feed is detected on a page, a Feed icon
 is displayed in the Location bar. If a page has multiple content types available, however (web feed, microformat(s), microsummary, etc), putting all those icons in the Location bar may not be feasible. What are the possible alternatives?
- RSS in the URL bar, that's basically becoming a standard between all browsers so let's keep that. Clicking on it brings you to a built-in RSS reader (a la Safari). Left-hand side of the page will have the URL of the RSS feed so you can copy it into your favorite feed reader and all the other feed icons that are available (microformats and etc.) that you can cilck on. Clicking on one of those brings up the requested feed in the internal reader the same way. Also you should be able to select which you want via the View menu for quicker access, ex: View -> hCard, they will only show up under the view menu if available. All feeds and such should appear in the internal feed reader. I'll start a new section about it.
- API and default UI for taking action on a notification (ie: subscribe to feed, import uFormat)
- Implement a framework for pluggable back-ends for nsIAlertService, to use native desktop notification systems such as Galago, or 3rd party tools such as Growl, Snarl.
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- New notification types
- tab-modal alerts, more file formats, microformats, microsummaries
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bug 59314
bug 123913
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- Omnibus "Status" area
- download status
- popup/cookie/XPI blocker status
- security/trustworthiness status
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bug 245567
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- Modified page warning
- Warn User before closing page with modified form
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- Form Dirty Bit
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- Backend changes
- Get nsIAlertService working for Mac.
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| General tasks |
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- Improve error messages and the information they convey
- Full language pass on error messages
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