Firefox:1.5 Preferences Reorg

New Preferences System

Finish + Tidy + Review + Land + (time to document the reorg in built-in Help, guesstimating 10d) = 25d

Screenshots: http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/options/prefwindowv/prefs.html

Comment by Victor Bogado

There is no easy way of finding out which session of the preferences you are at the moment, I would suggest some kind of highlight in the corresponding icon.

Speed

What about having a Speed preference in Options? If the default settings can't be optimized for everybody on install, have another tab with a slider or radio buttons for 'My Computer Speed' and 'My Internet Connection Speed'. Sliders would make these useful settings easy to change w/o the need to muck about in about:config.

Throttle Preference

I would like to see a preference reflecting a new ability (that needs to be written into Firefox) to throttle all downloads. When downloading a large file or several files at my maximum bandwidth, I cannot browse the web effectively. There should be an option to cap maximum download at 80% of capacity, for example, allowing the other 20% to be used for normal browsing. This could be done with a slider as well.