What new Firefox extensions would you like to see?
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October 18th, 2004 at 6:46 am
I would like to be able to edit the location (URL) immediately when creating a bookmark. Like in “File Bookmark” in Mozilla/Seamonkey.
October 18th, 2004 at 7:17 am
Well, I think we need Versionsomething (to go along with Firesomething) so you can run Mozilla Powerwolf version 1.0_RC1_PR2_beta12. :-)
I actually have some serious ones too! Will comment later when I have time to explain them better.
October 18th, 2004 at 7:46 am
I would like to see a better extension for referrer spoofing. The existing one doesn’t work in Linux, and has lacks the ability to store referrer spoofs for specific sites.
October 18th, 2004 at 7:50 am
I tried to convert a friend of mine to Firefox, but he was complaining that in IE (and I didn’t know this even though I worked with IE for quite some time) he could type the name of a bookmark in his address bar to get to a page.
Of course, in Firefox you could reach the same thing by adding a keyword to every bookmark with the same name as the bookmark, but I think this would be a nice feature to have anyway.
Other than that, I also had an idea I wanted to implement (but I’m still feeling a little overwhelmed by the whole JavaScript/DOM thing, don’t know where to start) to make a Bookmarks-like menu for del.icio.us links, with placing of links in folders based on keywords (like link with tag “root” gets into root, folder “Apps” contains links with tag “apps”), and an option to manually (and may be at a set interval) sync with del.icio.us. I think the configuration would be the hardest part, I was thinking it was easiest to make some transformation-XML file that can be merged by Javascript with the XML from del.icio.us to a bookmarks.html-like file.
October 18th, 2004 at 7:55 am
To have firefox open a new tab whenever we click the icons again. I forget that i already have firefox open nad instead of makin a new tab i dbl click the desktop icon, which opens another window of firefox. Need to open a new tab when dbl clicking an icon (and perhaps IE too :-)).
October 18th, 2004 at 7:58 am
I think it would ease migration from IE to Firefox if Firefox could use IE’s Favorites repository - that is, reading from and writing to IE’s Favorites folder, instead of bookmarks.html
Another great feature would be to use IE’s MRU list. I like to have the Address bar enabled in my Taskbar - so I can quickly type in a URL. However, the MRU (completion) list shown by Explorer - obviously - does not contains those sites I opened in Firefox. It would be very, very useful if both browsers used the same source.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:03 am
An extension that would be really helpful for web developers (at least until Firefox wins the browser wars) would be one that lets you view a page the way IE would show it. In other words, show the page with Internet Explorer’s CSS and HTML quirks. That way, we wouldn’t have to actually “run” Internet Explorer to see what it will look like.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:03 am
I would love to see an extension which handles IE’s .mht ( Web Archive format ) . If that is not possible , how about a similar format for FF .
October 18th, 2004 at 8:20 am
I´m searching an extension with which I can block my actual IP-number. This would be great.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:31 am
I’d like to see, if possible, an extension that would allow for profile data to be stored/read from the Internet. This would allow people to have the same profiles in multiple places (home, work, school).
I currently have 3 different profiles. One for home on Windows, one for home on Linux, and one on school computers.
It could be called either FireAnywhere or FireEverywhere.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:33 am
I’d like to see an extension created that’d be like an Instant Messaging client built into Firefox (using XUL).
October 18th, 2004 at 8:42 am
I would love to see tablet pc support for windows, with extensions like this: http://www.tabletpcpost.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=86&ttitle=IE_Ink
some other ideas:
- better text entry of url’s (using history to remember where you’ve gone before so that it recognizes it better)
- options for turning on “tablet” input controls for things like input boxes and text areas so that instead of being forced to use the input panel, you can just write in the text box and work with ink.
- include support for sending “ink” messages in thunderbird.
Tablets may be a niche market, but having the best tablet pc support wouldn’t be hard to do, and it would be easy to get a dominant position in the market because generally tablet pc’s users are the “early adopter” type of crowd anyway.
-woo
October 18th, 2004 at 8:45 am
I’d like an extension to add a search button to the toolbar that’s independent of the search bar and that opens a search engine in the sidebar (sort of like the old Netscape sidebar search).
October 18th, 2004 at 8:50 am
I would like to have the ability to rearrange the order of my tabs (perhaps drag the tab itself–the same way you can move the columns in Mozilla Mail’s message pane). Often I will have one page open which contains many links, and I will middle-click on the links to open them in a new tab. Then I often want to keep those tabs open, but want to move the first page back to the right so it is easier to get to–which can’t be done in Mozilla right now. I’m sure there are many other reasons why movable tabs would be handy. I know there have been many times I wished I had that ability.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:54 am
How about an extension that displays on the status bar (or allows access to somehow) the total time it took for a page to be downloaded. Allowing a user to configure it to be the total time for all images/pages/css files or just the main html file.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:56 am
of course that’s besides the most anxiously anticipated extensions/features:
xforms
svg
web forms 2.0 stuff like canvas and such.
mono/xpcom
And then there’s those never in a million year extensions that I just can’t help but mention:
- support for the directx/filter tag that is ie only
- support for the funky but functional data binding features in ie
- htc support?
Anyway - at least you’ll get a good laugh out of those last ones :)
-woo
October 18th, 2004 at 8:58 am
How about an extension that could show my browsing history in a network structure?
October 18th, 2004 at 9:00 am
Would love to see a extension that fixes Launch
October 18th, 2004 at 9:04 am
What about an extension that suggests other extensions to a user based on their actions?
Privacy is obviously a critical issue. It would be a very challenging extension to write and get right involving lots of disciplines in both life sciences and engineering. But I’m convinced this is a big future aspect of software, and is imo a great fit with Firefox. And I’d totally believe that you could pull it off if anyone could.
I first wrote about this idea in the context of Blake’s request for ideas about machine learning. Here’s what I wrote:
http://www.blakeross.com/archives/000220.html
Search for “raiph”.
Characteristic of my worst writing, it’s a totally obtuse explanation. :(
I note that “Auzy” and “Damien” also posted on the same topic on that page.
raiph
October 18th, 2004 at 9:04 am
I have already blogged two of my extension ideas some time ago: http://www.livejournal.com/users/nmitchell/10300.html
Download to location: - an extra radio button beyond “Save As” and “Open” that is called “Mirror”. Selecting that downloads http://www.nmitchell.co.uk/default.htm to c:\web\www.nmitchell.co.uk\default.htm without prompting for a file name. I have the code to do this (hacked directly into firefox), but not the knowledge to transform it into an extension.
Privacy mode: - when you enter this mode, it checkpoints the history/cache etc. When you leave, it restores the checkpoint, removing everything you did in the meantime.
October 18th, 2004 at 9:12 am
I would like to see an extension that could be named “Bookmark Auto-Sort”. It would show effect in the “Add Bookmark” dialog. If the URL or the website name contains a special string, in the “Add bookmark” dialog there should be an associated bookmark folder in the box “Create in”. This would be sth. like the extension Download Sort, but for bookmark folders.
Example: If the URL oder website name contains the string “mp3″, Firefox would propose to save the bookmark in the folder “Music”.
Wouldn’t this be a time-saving extension?
Download Sort:
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=25&vid=26&category=
October 18th, 2004 at 9:13 am
A éMéta-extension” : an extension which install with only one click some others extensions.
Something like :
- Manager Extensions Pack
- IE Migration Extensions Pack
- Advance User Extensions Pack
October 18th, 2004 at 9:18 am
I too would love to see the ability to drag and drop tabs.
I’ve often wanted to re-order tabs, or drag a tab into another window so it opens in a new window and deletes the dragged tab.
I’d love to be able to drag the favicon onto the window and have it load in a new tab.
Frankly, drag and drop tabs are very desirable. Think Photoshop pallets. ;)
October 18th, 2004 at 9:27 am
I found the extensions / toolbar button to quickly clear all privacy-related data.
But I will like to install an extension that will automatically clear the privacy data on exit. (Useful on the computers used by more than one person)
October 18th, 2004 at 9:29 am
What about adding a little arrow in the “Reload” button, in the main menu, which displays a sub menu with “Reload all tabs” and other features related to reloading pages ?
October 18th, 2004 at 9:34 am
I am the network admin. at a public library that is currently switching the building over to Firefox. We have a 100 PC deployment in the works, and have currently installed in on our most troubled staff PCs and are getting around to the rest of our staff. However, we cannot allow it on our 36 public PCs without locking it down to prevent changes from casual crackers/hackers (the tools>options settings, about: pages, adding/removing extensions/themes/search engines, etc).
I would like to see some administrative tools designed to assist admins in implimenting Firefox on a network and locking it down, that takes into account that we don’t have programmer support.
Currently I’m communicating with Nick Stallman (Go Nick!)(mozdev.org, lockthefox project) to create a custom script file, but it would be nice to not have to depend on the kindness of strangers.
I’ve tried using bob’s most excellent deployment setup (http://firefox.dbltree.com/), but it did not keep the settings like it was supposed to (or did I missunderstand what it was supposed to do?).
Did I also mention that my library is part of a consortium of libraries that share technology (47 libraries in Northern Indiana to be exact) and I believe many of them would be interested in a securable alternative to Internet Explorer. (hint, hint :)
Thanks,
Harper A.
Warsaw Community Public Library
Warsaw, IN 46580
hapted@wcpl.lib.in.us
October 18th, 2004 at 9:34 am
I would like a VoiceML extension so we can start coding voice enabled sites (Opera 7.6 now supports this).
October 18th, 2004 at 9:37 am
Two things:
1. A button that allows one to save the view source window.
2. Use find-as-you-type in the view source window.
October 18th, 2004 at 9:46 am
1. an extension allowing to hide/show portions of a web page on a per-click basis. Oh, I hate this navbar, one click and it’s hidden or gone. And that ugly big image ? Berk, gone.
2. an extension generating one single image representing the whole document, like the previews web agencies use.
October 18th, 2004 at 10:10 am
ability to set a periodic refresh for the selected url. especially nice would be the ability to include that info in the site’s bookmark.
October 18th, 2004 at 10:10 am
Opps, nevermind on #2 for me there. Didn’t realize bug 250279 was fixed yesterday!
October 18th, 2004 at 10:13 am
How about Firefox branding (like an ISP might do) setup? You would want it to plug in to the installer somehow.
October 18th, 2004 at 10:49 am
1. Segmentation support in FF download manager (like ReGet or GetRight)
3. Status bar that show KB/s, objects left, etc. (like Opera)
October 18th, 2004 at 10:56 am
An anchor detection plug-in. I often read page and what to link to a specific entry. It often happens there are anchors but no table of contents. Anyway, I always check on the source code to be sure. It would be nice to have a faster way than reading code every time.
example: http://www.hardmac.com/
October 18th, 2004 at 11:00 am
A FreeChess client would be awesome!
October 18th, 2004 at 11:02 am
One that integrates with anti-virus programs to, for example, scan a file before downloading it.
October 18th, 2004 at 12:02 pm
I would like to have an extension that (or a feature in FF itself) that gives tabs focus on moseover (after xx ms delay, ofcourse) this is already possible in Tabbrowser Extensions, but it also contains so much I don’t want.
October 18th, 2004 at 12:07 pm
I would love to see an extension that makes it easier to add live bookmarks. It might be as simple as adding a checkbox to the “Bookmark This Page” dialog that adds the current bookmark as a live bookmark.
October 18th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
I’ve played with the thought to create a searchbar that uses all the mycroft plugins as buttons (instead of the annoying dropdown) and maybe throws in a few googlebar features (ideally, googlebar should just use mycroft plugins). However, no time and little desire to dive into XUL have caused me to wait for someone else to do this.
It should be fairly easy to create this.
October 18th, 2004 at 1:04 pm
I would apreciate to have the ability to make my own buttons. Something like http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ but with graphical buttons that can be put on button toolbar. There are many nice bookmarklets I want quick access to. :)
And I miss the “page load time” in status bar…
October 18th, 2004 at 1:08 pm
I don’t know how feasible this is, and after looking into seeing if I could do this myself, I’m realized it’s beyond my current abilities.
I had this idea for an extension that I’ve always wanted, a Translator extension for firefox, so that it would be able to read user dictionaries for any language, and if the current encoding of the page matched a language, it would switch to that dictionary. You could point to words and have the look-ups show up in the status bar.
I thought primarily of this because this functionality exists in Wenlin, a piece of software I purchased to read Chinese texts that has this capability. The demo at wenlin.com gives a fairly decent idea of what I’m talking about. I figure that you could generalize this, as long as you had a dictionary for a particular language. The idea would be that, if your default encoding is say, English, but you’re on a Chinese website, the extension would kick into action and you could just point at characters you didn’t understand and have at least some rudimentary insta-lookup rather than having to run it through a translator and getting a mangled version. I don’t know enough to figure out if it would be too memory intensive to have dictionaries, even basic ones, easily accessible like this.
October 18th, 2004 at 1:39 pm
A extension to do bookmark Syncronization.
For instance, syncronize the work PC bookmark with the home PC bookmark.
October 18th, 2004 at 1:53 pm
Several of those extensions already exist. You people are lazier than I am, and that’s a feat. MiniT (for dragging tabs around) and Nuke Anything (for “disappearing” any page elements), for two. Bookmark syncing too (via FTP). http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com.
A couple I’d like to see (that I’m pretty sure don’t exist yet):
- A “file helper fork” extension. This would allow the user to be prompted for selected filetypes to have selective helper app selection… without having to Browse… for the alternate program. Like you could set “.ram” to prompt between either, say, RealPlayer or Media Player Classic when a .ram url was clicked.
- Bookmark hotkeys. Each bookmark could have its own custom hotkey combo.
- And this is related to a request above for something comparable to IE’s “shortcuts” ability: A “bookmarks-to-shortcuts” converter extension, that you might activate just now and then, and maybe even just on select bookmark subfolders (to save on the resources of keeping all bookmarks “shortcutted” all the time.
- A “no-click” bittorrent extension. i.e., you can click on a .torrent file and it just fucking bittorrents the file. No “where do you want to save this file” first (you can preset where it defaults to), no right-click context menu on the fileename in a new window and click “enable transfer.” Make bittorrenting seamless. Making bittorrent an extension of Firefox will also likely have the positive side effect of otherwise would-be leechers leaving their seeds active (or whatever the “proper” terminology is) longer.
That is all. For now.
October 18th, 2004 at 2:09 pm
Another simpler extension is something I’m pretty sure existed for older versions of Firefox. I’d like the ability to save the currently open tabs, so that they’re automatically reloaded on a restart. This was a feature of AvantBrowser that I liked a lot, but which doesn’t seem to exist in the current release of Firefox.
October 18th, 2004 at 2:37 pm
a few ideas:
1. display my messengers (ICQ/Yahoo) in the sidebar. loading the web versions 2 the sidebar is either diffuclt, or take 2 much cpu power cause it uses java. yahoo msnger have this option in IE for some reason.
2. a button and a mecanisim that saves all the urls of the open tabs u have, so ull b able to access all the things u last read, without using bookmarks and such. should b done automaticly in case u crash 2.
3. IE conversion pack - there is a site which shows how 2 setup firefox 2 look and work almost axactly like ie. should b automatically.
3. syncronize both IE and firefox bookmarks - both ways. chance in one happens in the other, and vice versa. should be as automated as possible.
thanks and good luck :-)
October 18th, 2004 at 3:01 pm
Two features that I found useful in I.E. but have seen no mention of for Firefox:
1. Automatically saving a page using its title, rather than the filename.
2. Inserting the URL into the saved page code.
I don’t know whether these would be considered to be breaking standards compliance, but they would be invaluable as extensions.
October 18th, 2004 at 3:14 pm
A lot of the ideas here have already been turned into extensions. Try Livemark This http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/09/rightclick_add_live_bookmark.php, TabBrowser Extensions http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en and Nuke Anything http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/nukeanything.
October 18th, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Even though these comments are so extensive this will hardly be read, but:
-A way to [google, if possible] search every site visited, ie- i sometimes visit a site and remember what i read, but dont remember the address or title or anything or when, so it would be cool if i could search my cache and stuff thru the websites and not just the titles.
thats it :)
October 18th, 2004 at 4:13 pm
1) better resize method for resizing pictures. the current method does a very quick job, but the quality of the image is poor. I would like to see a nicer resize algorthm used that gives better image quality at the expense of some CPU time.
2) An extension to make F5 F5 work. (Pressing f5 f5 in IE refreshes the page and takes you to the top of the page, in firefox F5 F5 just refreshes the page - but praps this should be the default behaviour of firefox rather than an extension)
October 18th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
I’d like an extension that fixes the page status text in the lower-left corner of the status bar.
What would also be nice is an extension that provides a GUI for theme development. Let’s say you load this extension, and it pops up a window with a template version of Firefox’s default/fresh install layout. You can then load your replacement images into the GUI and replace as you wish with a drag-and-drop interface. It could even allow the replacement of custom icons from various extensions (like Tabbrowser Extensions’ icons.)
You’d seen an explosion in theme development if it was made this simple.
October 18th, 2004 at 6:02 pm
RichCorb said:
> I’d like to see an extension created that’d be like an Instant Messaging client built into Firefox (using XUL).
Here are a couple:
Jabberzilla is a Jabber (jabber.org) client. It’s not done yet, and it looks a little messy, but it’s the most developed IM extension so far: http://jabberzilla.jabberstudio.org/
Msnmsgr does MSN Messenger, though it might have stopped working when Microsoft started blocking third-party clients: http://msnmsgr.mozdev.org/
Sean said:
> I’d like an extension to add a search button to the toolbar that’s independent of the search bar and that opens a search engine in the sidebar (sort of like the old Netscape sidebar search).
The Searchsidebar project has this: http://searchsidebar.mozdev.org/
cppjavaperl said:
> I would like to have the ability to rearrange the order of my tabs (perhaps drag the tab itself–the same way you can move the columns in Mozilla Mail’s message pane).
miniT(drag+indicator) lets you rearrange tabs. It also gives you a little arrow to tell you where the tab is going to be moved to: http://v2studio.com/k/moz/
Duplicate Tab lets you open a page in a new tab or window, and it stays at the same part of the page you were looking at: http://twanno.mozdev.org/duplicatetab.html
woo said:
> svg
You’ll need to download special, unofficial builds with SVG support:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/latest-0.9/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/latest-trunk/
(choose the file for your platform with “SVG” in the filename)
Gizmo said:
> A “Méta-extension” : an extension which install with only one click some others extensions.
If you select the Custom install option when you install Firefox, there’s a (currently disabled but selected) option to install Developer Tools. In the future, there will probably be other “Extension Packs” to choose from.
Daniel Glazman said:
> 1. an extension allowing to hide/show portions of a web page on a per-click basis.
Hmm, interesting. Maybe it could rely on the DOM Inspector to delete nodes.
Tom Williams said:
> ability to set a periodic refresh for the selected url.
Reload Every lets you do that: http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/
David Latapie said:
> An anchor detection plug-in.
This can be handled with Jesse Ruderman’s Named Anchors bookmarklet: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#named_anchors
Drag that to your bookmarks list, and click on it when you come across a page like the one you described.
Nelson Yee said:
> I had this idea for an extension that I’ve always wanted, a Translator extension for firefox, so that it would be able to read user dictionaries for any language, and if the current encoding of the page matched a language, it would switch to that dictionary.
It’s not quite as compact as what you’re describing, but Translation Panel is a sidebar that will do some of that for you: http://nazodane.hp.infoseek.co.jp/extension/translation.xhtml
It doesn’t automatically switch languages, but that’s a great idea. Mozilla can already determine the page’s language based on the HTML lang attribute, but not based on the encoding.
Fabiano G. Souza said:
> A extension to do bookmark Syncronization.
Bookmarks Synchronizer does this. It lets you upload your bookmarks file to an FTP site: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=14&vid=946
Be careful with this one. It caused Firefox to crash whenever I started Firefox, but that’s probably because I’ve been using the same profile for a long time.
Bjorn said:
> Bookmark hotkeys. Each bookmark could have its own custom hotkey combo.
Sounds like bookmark keywords to me, except that you can’t have modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Win) with those.
Nelson Yee added:
> I’d like the ability to save the currently open tabs, so that they’re automatically reloaded on a restart.
1.) Open up the tabs you want.
2.) Go to Tools | Options…
3.) Under the General category, under Home Page, click Use Current Pages.
Adam said:
> 1. Automatically saving a page using its title, rather than the filename.
Firefox has always done that. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
Wow. That was a long comment…
October 18th, 2004 at 6:37 pm
A typing-tutor. No need to be full-featured, but I want to use different Chinese IMEs when I use this program. Gecko is preferred because of Unicode support.
October 18th, 2004 at 6:50 pm
How about a “Push That Freakin Button” extension? You know how some websites force you to push the same button whenever you visit them? e.g. Yahoo’s login button, or your library’s Start Session button? Well with this extension you would right-click any such button and select “Push That Freakin Button!”.
(There is a great freeware product for Windows by the same name that does this, but for dialog boxes).
October 18th, 2004 at 7:40 pm
Something like in Opera - ability to display turned off images WITHOUT whole page downloading! And, possibly, ability to download only image which I’ll choose.
This extension should show images already available in cache.
October 18th, 2004 at 8:55 pm
I’d like a userContent.js to go along with my userContent.css, so I can run javascript automatically on any given website.
October 18th, 2004 at 11:54 pm
[Pardon me if this shows up twice, I wasn’t sure the first posting attempt made it. All I saw were what appeared to be headers.]
Something to turn off location bar autocomplete.
I want to keep my history and completely disable the function that expands URLs as I type them by bringing up old URLs from my history or URLs I’ve typed before (Mozilla suite calls this function “Location bar autocomplete” in the preferences).
I can do this very easily in Mozilla suite with a preference toggle, but Firefox has no preference to disable this.
October 19th, 2004 at 12:09 am
I’d like an extension that when you click a “keyword” bookmark (whether in the toolbar, menu or sidebar) it launched a textbox asking what term I’d like to search. That way I could use keyword searches without having to remember all the keywords. Don’t know much coding (let alone XUL) so I can’t really do it myself.
October 19th, 2004 at 2:26 am
>Daniel Glazman said:
>> 1. an extension allowing to hide/show portions of a web page on a per-click basis.
>Hmm, interesting. Maybe it could rely on the DOM Inspector to delete nodes.
Surely that’s the Nuke Anything extension? http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/
I’m amazed at how many requests here have been for things which already exist.
The one I’d like to see is Glazman’s proposed page->image extension. One click and bam! there’s a JPG or PNG version of the full page saved to disk. So useful, especially for doing web design and layout.
October 19th, 2004 at 4:34 am
Some more ideas
1) Ability to turn images on/off without reloading the page. So I can have them off by default, but click on placeholders if i want the image to appear.
2) a % zoom feature like opera (i think) where the whole page is resized, including images, fonts, etc.
3) Session saving that WORKS (I’m aware there’s already a session saver extension, but it only seems to work occasionally. I use ’save session copy on shutdown’ so when i restart firefox i can manually choose to restore my last session if i so desire - this does not work very well with the current extension).
4) An extension that will help me get chicks. I told this one woman at a bar that I was using the latest nightly build of firefox and she just looked at me with a blank expression. not what i was hoping for.
October 19th, 2004 at 6:54 am
I would like to see an integration between Firefox and Thunderbird. Here is the project someone has worked on before.
http://xulwebmail.mozdev.org/
If anyone can revive this and implement, that would be super!
Hem Ramachandran
October 19th, 2004 at 7:38 am
Phil Wilson wrote:
> Surely that’s the Nuke Anything extension?
> http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/
A great extension, but i need the extension to be able to delete a portion of a webpage for good (so it doesn’t appear again on reload). Sort of like adblock, but not only for ads (images/flash etc.), but for every possible object on a webpage….
Then you can customize any webpage on the web to your own liking….
October 19th, 2004 at 7:43 am
1. “Add Multiple Bookmarks”
Select the links on a web site and add them all at the same time as bookmarks. Or maybe show the “Add Bookmark” dialog for each link one after another.
2. “Shortcuts”
Assign Keys like Ctrl + Key to menu items or buttons.
I know, there already exists sth. like this:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/keyconfig
But the author seems to have forgotten it.
And there’s even not a homepage.
October 19th, 2004 at 8:42 am
an extension that will put the extension menu back into Tools > Options..
October 19th, 2004 at 8:48 am
Thanks, Minh, I’ll look at that Translator extension you mentioned.
Regarding your suggestion about using “Current Pages”, that’s not really the solution I’m looking for, because I’d have to set it each time I wanted to save the tabs state. It’s close, though, so I guess as a hack someone could just have something that set that attribute prior to the browser closing. It’d probably be nicer to do it as a non-hack, though.
October 19th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Took a look at the Translator thing, and from the looks of it, it’s not at all like what I’m describing. I probably should not have used the word “Translator” as much as “quick Dictionary lookup by mouseover or highlight”, since I don’t want the page to actually be fed through a translator and a bad translation to be made, but rather, someone with rudimentary ability in a language to have their language ability assisted. I know enough Chinese to generally understand the structure of most sentences, but have a very small vocabulary, which is where this would come in real handy. I can see the same for other people reading languages which they’re somewhat familiar with, but not really fluent in (the way I can also guess at German because it has a fairly English sentence structure, but I sometimes run into words that are not analogous to English).
Anyhow, if any really proficient developers want to discuss this with me, shoot me an email.
October 19th, 2004 at 10:52 am
One of the very few things I still like about IE is that I can right-click on any page and chose the “Create Shortcut” to have it place a Shortcut.url file on my Desktop. Would it be at all possible for an extension to do this?
October 19th, 2004 at 11:24 am
Make an extension that would allow Firefox to work in Coral mode, that is that it would use the NYUD system to surf to relieve load on servers.
For more information about this new system: http://www.nyud.org/coral/
This thing ought to be of great use on sites like Slashdot, so servers can be accessed even when handling high loads.
I imagine that the extension could simply make an extra context menu on links such as “Open link through Coral”.
October 19th, 2004 at 3:09 pm
I’d like to get rid of the separate search bar, and just have the address bar default to Google …. like Mozilla does.
October 19th, 2004 at 4:09 pm
> I’d like to get rid of the separate search bar, and just have the address bar default to Google …. like Mozilla does.
You can do that by going to about:config, changing keyword.URL to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=, and restarting Firefox. See http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000570.html.
October 19th, 2004 at 10:48 pm
An extension to anonymize the Google cookie ;)
Something to allow Firefox’s cache to be indexed by Google Desktop Search. There’s already an extension which’ll do that here: http://www.kenschutte.com/firefoxext/ , but at the ‘expense’ of a full duplicate of the cache. How about something which writes an indexable copy to disk long enough for GDS to index it (or until GDS is ’seen’ to index it), then mops up afterward by deleting the copies.
Or something that fiddles with the cache format so that GDS recognises that it could index it, if only it would try.
> Posted by: Minh Nguyen
>>David Latapie said:
>>> An anchor detection plug-in.
> This can be handled with Jesse Ruderman’s Named Anchors bookmarklet:
> http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#named_anchors
> Drag that to your bookmarks list, and click on it when you come across a page like the one you described.
There’s also an extension :-
http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/?page=fx_na
“Named Anchors
This extension adds a new tab to Page Info with information about the named anchors in the current document.
Drag & Drop the address of a named anchor to the browser to open the page at the specified “
Jesse, I hope you’ll think about converting the good ideas to (Opera-compatible) Bookmarklets too, if possible …
October 20th, 2004 at 3:29 am
Some ideas:
1. a byte counter: counts how many bytes I’ve download in a page/for session/for today
2. speed meter: like “netpersec” show current bandwidth, average and max kbps sent and received
3. a font rendering - more accurate and customizable than MS cooltype - like acrobat reader does
4. like Opera, a button for switch/disable style sheet (already in webdeveloper)
5. like Opera, a button for view only cached images (useful for gprs connection)
October 20th, 2004 at 11:14 am
1. Extension to open external links (e.g. links from a Thunderbird email) in an existing empty tab (i.e. the Untitled-tab) if it exists and there is no other tabs in that Firefox window. Else, open in new tab.
2. Page count. Display a X/Y page count in the status bar so that you know how many pages there are for that web-page. It’s like the dynamic size of the scrollbar, except that it’s more concrete with numbers.
October 20th, 2004 at 3:28 pm
I’d love to see a “stealth” extension, where when you click it, all of your private data (cookies, browser cache, etc) gets inaccessible and invisible, only to be restored when you leave stealth mode. I believe Safari has this?
–Christian
October 21st, 2004 at 6:48 am
Show external (not loop back) IP in status bar.
Ideal
- Small IP icon that expands to IP and vice versa upon click.
- Context menu that includes copy IP.
- Automatic refresh upon reconnect.
October 21st, 2004 at 7:53 pm
I would like to block access to window.open for everything except my own bookmarklets.
October 21st, 2004 at 11:46 pm
>I would love to see an extension which handles IE’s >*.mht (Web Archive format) . If that is not >possible how about a similar format for FF.
MAF 0.4.2
http://maf.mozdev.org/installation.html
This has both *.mht support and a similar format for FF called *.maf that can save all tabs as well into a single archive.
October 21st, 2004 at 11:48 pm
>I would love to see an extension which handles IE’s
>*.mht (Web Archive format) . If that is not
>possible how about a similar format for FF.
Meant to be.
October 22nd, 2004 at 11:41 am
I would like an extensión that allows programming new extensions… in python :-)
October 22nd, 2004 at 6:11 pm
cyfer on the network structure:
If you can find a Mac (OS X) take a look at MacWarrior’s Trailblazer. Impressive.
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer/
October 22nd, 2004 at 6:12 pm
They also have a video
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer/TrailBlazer.mov
October 24th, 2004 at 6:26 am
i would love to see a custom style sheet extention i know theres one that lets you do it by putting css in your usercontent.css but i want one that i can click on veiw then change style sheet and it asks me where the style sheet is that i want to load