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Firefox Accepting Feature Suggestions for Version 3
Krishna Dagli writes to mention an article over at Ars Technica discussing the Firefox team's call for feature suggestions. Version 3 of the software is already in the works, and the team members are looking to the community for ideas on where to go next. From the article: "The wish list is long indeed, and it provides an insight into the desires of the browser community, and a look at the open source development process. While closed-source projects often ask their user community for feedback on requested features, the process is not usually open to the public. For Firefox 3, anyone can both suggest new features and comment on other people's suggestions. The feature requests are divided into categories, such as browser customization, privacy features, security, history, download manager, and other areas. There are suggestions for features found in other competing browsers, such Safari, IE 7 beta, and Opera. IE7 seemed to be featured most prominently, with requests for "low-rights mode," as well as more cosmetic features like skins that mimic Microsoft's browser."
There's a greasemonkey script that does this (and it's incredibly useful!); http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/linkify.u ser.js. Greasemonkey is an incredibly useful tool. You can make major modifications to pages with relatively simple javascript
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To solve this issue, remove the Adobe Reader plug-in from your Firefox plug-ins folder. This will cause Adobe Reader to launch in a separate process with its own window. Or just ditch Adobe Reader and install Foxit Reader, the PDF viewer with less bloat.
Having followed this particular argument for a while, I have little faith left in the devs' ability to listen to good advice.
It's right here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2324/
Firefox 2 has added a "Recently Closed Tabs" list in the History menu. It might not work as well as a sorted view of the whole history panel, if you want to get back a tab that you closed hours ago and it's fallen off the bottom of the list; but it's good if you realise soon after you accidentally close it.
It's a reference to the trouble Debian are having with Mozilla (shall we call it the IceWeasel debacle?) - Debian only includes Free[tm] packages and files in their distribution, the Firefox logo isn't Free. So Debian created their own logo for firefox, and use that instead. But Mozilla don't like that, and asked them to either use the firefox logo or stop calling it firefox
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Startup Tabs (you usually go to the same round of sites when you turn on in the morning, so...)
1. Open up all the tabs you want to open on startup.
2. Go to Options and click "Use current pages" in the Home Page Location setting.
You can also enter them by hand in this field by separating tabs with a |.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
What I had in mind was slightly different. When you first turned it on after a defined period it would open all the tabs you normally check. However you would still have only one homepage, and if you clicked on the home button you would only get that page, not the whole set. I don't think it already does that, does it?
I use my homepage as a navigator, so I don't want 10 pages opening every time I click on it.
"Full SVG" doesn't make it entirely clear what you want, given the different versions and profiles. Most web browser developers seem to dislike the recent SVG Tiny 1.2, because its design is unsuitable for the web. Mozilla already has bloat problems with their SVG implementation (partly their fault, partly because the spec is large and complex), and some developers want a simpler SVG because most people don't actually need SVG - they just want proper scalable images in web pages. (The same applies for wanting animated PNGs, but not needing MNG). None of that is an excuse for bugs or missing features in what they've already decided to try to implement, though.
Whole page zoom seems to be an area where Firefox is falling behind at the moment - as far as I can see, the plan is to do that for Firefox 3 (which has a new graphics system) some time next year. I believe that new graphics system will let them do nicer image resizing too.
Try the morning coffee extention.
This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2677/