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."

Comments

Check out Microsoft's wrongdoing!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's here: http://malfy.org/

Re:OS Logo?

[mkoenecke]

Since I'm only a geek by avocation, rather than by vocation, um... I don't get it. What's so funny about "An open source logo," other than the general idea that that would be a pointless mission-statement-ish waste of energy?

Re:Keep it simple ...

[Al Dimond]

Let's say that there's an election coming up for president of teh world. George W. Bush is running against Adolf Hitler. Those are your only choices, and everyone has to vote or be killed. 10% of the people are Nazis and 90% aren't. 90% of Nazis vote for Hitler and 10% vote for Bush. 90% of non-Nazis vote for Bush and 10% vote for Hitler.

Overall, 82% vote for Bush, so most people vote for Bush. 90% of Nazis vote for Hitler, so most Nazis vote for Hitler. Nazis are still people, they're just in a small, evil minority.

Re:DragDrop and Proper Focus/Blur Please!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Firefox does not provide any reference to a dragdrop file from the users FileSystem.
This is a HUGE issue as it prevents Drag and Drop file uploads for AJAX applications.
Sure, there is a FF Extension to solve this, but requires the user to install for such a behavior to work.

This should be a native solution. Can Firefox please reconsider their stance on this issue?
For years, drag and dropping of files into application windows has been EXPECTED behavior.
Firefox should allow AJAX applications the same sort of functionality.
As it stands, Firefox is the only browser I can not create a strictly script based solution for.

Below is an example. As we can see, the dragdrop event is useless except for preventing the dragdrop event from continuing propagation after we capture it.

dragdroptest

function doOnDragDrop(event)
{
var t,ta;
var str = "Dumping Event Data:\r\r";
var d = document.getElementById("out");
var o = event;

for (var itm in o) { str += itm+": "+o[itm]+"\r"; }

t = document.createTextNode( str );
ta = document.createElement("TEXTAREA");
ta.setAttribute("style", "{height:100%; width:100%;}");
ta.appendChild(t);
d.appendChild(ta);
event.stopPropagation();
}

window.captureEvents(Event.DRAGDROP);
window.addEventListener("dragdrop", doOnDragDrop, true);

Drag and Drop Files Onto Page

Also, firefox (on Mac at least) does not properly recognize an onBlur when I click on a non-firefox application window.
onBlur only happens when we click on a 2nd Firefox browser window