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08-Nov-2005, 12:04 PM #1
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I've decided to enter the competition, and have a few ideas to start. So here is your chance to get what you've always wanted (or at least thought about)

What feature/functionality would you like Firefox to do...but doesn't? (yet) Any cash I am awarded from the ideas generated here will be returned to TSG by donation
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08-Nov-2005, 12:56 PM #2
Personally, I'd like a simple way to export all the settings and addons I have installed on one PC, so I can import them on another...

...it's a PITA getting FF on all my PCs configured the same way with the same addons.
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08-Nov-2005, 08:05 PM #3
Enhanced Tab Browsing.

With the current tab browser the tabs are on the top of the screen and opening a new tab will (depending on your preferences) A) load your homepage in that tab or B) leave it blank.

Here are a few of my suggestions:

Allow placement of tabs anywhere. A side bar, bottom bar or even a wrap around (all four sides). It helps people like me who might have a great many tabs at a time.

An Option to load a different page then your home page into a freshly opened tab. If you want to get real technical, you could have the user put in the four pages he/she visits the most.
When you open a new tab, firefox looks at the pages you already have open and the pages on your list and opens the next one. Example: Lets say your list has TSG, Google, CAD Comics, and the FireFox homepage. You have both TSG and Google in tabs. You click to make a new tab. Firefox sees that you have TSG and Google open, looks down the list to the next page, which happens to be Cad Comics, and opens that page in the new tab.

If this comes to pass you could also make what I call a blitz button. A blitz button would load a set of pre-determined pages in different tabs. And while your at that,
make the "refresh button" refresh ALL the tabs. Not just one.

I will have more soon....
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09-Nov-2005, 12:26 PM #4
You can refresh all tabs now by right clicking on any tab, and saying "reload all tabs"
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09-Nov-2005, 12:30 PM #5
And if you want a button for that...

The code is
user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_key__Reload All Tabs", "!][][][gBrowser.reloadAllTabs();");

And this explains how to make the button
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...oolbar_buttons
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09-Nov-2005, 11:32 PM #6
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You can refresh all tabs now by right clicking on any tab, and saying "reload all tabs"
But why can't the RELOAD BUTTON do this job? This is for a bigger better version of FireFox, am I right? This is my suggestion of what I would like to see.
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13-Nov-2005, 10:40 PM #7
Dunno if this competition is still going but i'd like firefox to be able to run active x
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14-Nov-2005, 06:58 AM #8
There already is an activex extension for firefox, though why would anyone wan't it. That'll only make the good-secure browser insecure. I'd prefer IEtab extension (which will run IE in a tab of firefox.
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14-Nov-2005, 07:02 AM #9
Its just I really don't like using IE but sometimes I have to for win updates and stuff.
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14-Nov-2005, 07:09 AM #10
How about a simple one click button to open a new tab...and it would be nice if new tabs always opened to a user solicited web page....or google
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14-Nov-2005, 07:15 AM #11
There is a button to open a new tab
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14-Nov-2005, 07:29 AM #12
ya i just tried clicking the mouse scroll button on the "home" icon...the fox is good
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14-Nov-2005, 10:35 AM #13
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There already is an activex extension for firefox, though why would anyone wan't it. That'll only make the good-secure browser insecure. I'd prefer IEtab extension (which will run IE in a tab of firefox.
Where is this extension that ye speek of?!
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16-Nov-2005, 04:47 PM #15
I would like to have an extension that allows one to print just specifically highlighted parts of a webpage, instead of the whole thing. IE does this......but Firefox does not (that I know of, and I did search the extensions). I would dearly love to be able to save some ink by only printing selected text, or picture, or whatever!
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