Opening a tab as a web page
How about including a feature that allows users to drag the tab into the start bar or something to open that tab in a new window.
Strong support for an intelligent page-scroll!
Under "Text readability improvements", topic 2 (in the article of this Feature Brainstorming page) there is described a feature, I have missed for decades in all HTML-displaying software, including Firefox...
You all do know this: Reading a page over more than one screen leads to a last one, which contains any text-tail, not filling the screen completely. But here, whenever you page-down to this last screen, the end of the text is placed at the bottom of the screen, and therefore at the top there is more or less of text, displayed again. From there, you've lost the last line! From there, you always have to scan for this line, first...
This behavior is different from any other scrolling, and it's a drag in an ergonomical sense for the reader. I've never understood, why users didn't critize this, why programers didn't change this!
So, this feature in the way proposed seems to me overdue, really: "the previously visible area should be delimited by a frame/line for a certain period of time, after which the frame disappears or fades out, so it's easier to find the last read line." Or, similarily: simply show the last line of the previous screen at the top (for recognition, like an editor does), followed by the rest - and show an empty part beneath.
My suspicion is, that in the stone age, somebody had decided "Never screens with empty places at the bottom! Does no look good!", and from there on, all were imitating this - till nowadays. Imagine this crazy solution with a printed book: at the end of every chapter, the last page starts repeating text from the page before... maybe, pretty much lines (on average clearly half a page!), just to end with a last line, always exactly at the bottom place!
voodooyou
Downloading
I recently downloaded Firefox 2.0 and tried to download something. The "Open file with... isn't there and I have to save it first. I would like that option back.
i want to agree with that. you sould know it's passible to reactivate this feture by editing a config file, there are instractions on mozillazine fourms
Open
In IE it was wery good function: when you click on exe file you can open it witchout saving! IE sucks but it's have this! Why Firefox haven't got is?
Reintroduction of a Necessary feature
I don't know where to put this so I hope its ok that I put it here!
- why can't you use Alt-Enter to access the properties of a bookmark?
- I really like Firefox but I find that it is missing one key feature for me to transition from Mozilla 1.7.12 to Firefox 1.5.0.4, that is the lack of the same Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs" feature in Firefox.
Now I know that Firefox has a "Bookmark All Tabs..." option but unlike Mozilla it creates a folder just like any other and has an option to "open in tabs" at the bottom of the folder. I can see why they did this and it would be nice to be able to enter a bookmark group to access only one tab... Yet it is something that is really rarely needed and could be done by hovering over the tab group for a short while.
Now this might seam like a minor gripe considering all the other positives Firefox has over Mozilla, Yet I am truly addicted to the bookmark group in Mozilla and there are a few main reasons behind this:
- it looks different than the other folders and is easy to distinguish
- one simple click on the bookmark group to open it
- The "Bookmark This Group of Tabs" defaults to show you the file tree (for lack of a better term) giving you a quicker way to save the bookmark group.
I REALLY would LOVE a solution to this Please help.... Thanks! -- UKPhoenix79 00:32, 3 November 2006 (PST)
When?
I know that the release of Firefox 2.0 has just happened but I can't wait to see the new advantages of Firefox 3.0 so when can we expect it? And by the way When and how will you tell us what features made the cut down? Carutsu 22:20, 4 November 2006 (PST)
They are planning on a release in late 2007.
Colors
Perhaps one could be able to change colors of the default theme without installing a new theme, and one could color code certain websites to a color to be displayed on a tab. Jimmy 15:22, 7 November 2006 (PST)
You could realize it by making the themes half-transparent and building in a feature to change the background color. Then you could even define different areas (for example one area for each button) and give to the users the possibility to change the color of every element of the theme. --Photon 00:45, 10 December 2006 (PST)
I think Firefox should use the features of the new Windows Aero graphics in Vista to make the browser transparent in some areas, that the user could choose, so say you could see your MS Word document and see the browser somewhat at the same time.