« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming
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- Language support
- Improve complex glyph rendering
- Support more complex languages (Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
- Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
- Being able to switch user-interface language without restarting the browser.
- The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.
- Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Persian or Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).
- Localization
- Times are converted local times
- Units such as currency, weight, distance are converted or highlighted, and allow for right click interactions
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See bug #240914.
(David Baron said: I expect this will be fixed for Gecko 1.9 (i.e., Firefox 3.0...)
- when a user downloads firefox, provide default search engines based on the country the request came from. E.G. UK users should have an ebay.co.uk search engine by default, rather than a ebay.com engine.
See bug #356184.
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- Ability to highlight text/tables in a webpage and then right click and "Export to OpenOffice.org Calc/Writer or Microsoft Excel/Word" depending on users preference and operating system.
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Many people I have shown Mozilla Firefox to have missed such a feature as it is in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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- Improving bidi text editing. Sometimes it crashes in textarea, which is very annoying in wikis (suppose you're writing an article for wikipedia).
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bug#315748
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| Variant button |
- A variant button to show a human friendly variant list, in particular the list of available languages in the server.
The main intention is to use the variant button as a language button.
This could also go to section 3 of this page.
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The variant button
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