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Please feel free to add to this list if you have ideas for Firefox add-ons by clicking on the "edit" link. Developers interested in entering the Extend Firefox competition will be looking here for inspiration.
Some Ideas for Firefox Add-ons
- Jesse Ruderman's Extension Ideas
- Shared Tab - implement a web service and extension that allows you to open a tab that is followed and changed by all the people granted access to it.
- Web spell checker - extends spell checker to work on the text of an HTML page. This would be useful as a development tool.
- Map helper. Extends existing mapping tools (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, etc), allowing to create custom location and route sets, which can be stored locally or even shared remotely.
- Podcast player. Adds a sidebar where live bookmarks in a specific folder are displayed and considered as podcasts (a la Sage). Mockup.
- Three sections: podcasts, a playlist area, play controls, and currently played episode tag, if available.
- It could use the default media plugin (Windows Media Player, QuickTime, etc.) or embed an open source player like XSPF.
- Episodes can be downloaded automatically.
- The podcast list will show which episodes are being downloaded and which have completed if it's the case.
- Bonus: export as m3u list.
- Unified wysiwyg text editing environment on popular web platforms (gmail, yahoo, mediawiki, wordpress, others?). When a user edits a wikipedia page or writes an email in gmail (i.e. on a supported web platform) he is:
- presented with the same (pretty!) interface
- preferable keyboard commands for bold, italic, underline are the same across sites
- interface expands with the web platforms abilities. Wikipedia has a large set of tools (that we all know from text editing apps), others less so
- Users can (relatively) easily script their own rule sets for new, unsupported platforms
- Drag to download. Ctrl-drag a link to a file system folder to download the target. Ctrl+drag a selection to download all targets.
- Audio recorder. Grabs any audio coming from the current tab to a .wav/.ogg/.mp3 file. If support for <audio>/<video> tags land, the necessary codecs may be already available.
Ken Saunders Extension Idea
- Scrolling Text Extension
- Fun for everyone but highly beneficial and useful to persons with poor eyesight, dyslexia, color blindness, and other visual impairments.
- Its purpose is to display and scroll web page text content at the top of a page with various customization options available to the user such as;
- Scroll speed and direction
- Font size
- Text color and background color on the scroll bar
- settings should always persist
This concept has been researched and it is has been determined to be doable due to the existing technology that lies within extensions like CliCk Speak and Accessibar.