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Often the number of buttons provided when you customize the toolbars is overwhelming. They should be grouped by category and extensions that add more buttons might add them to their own category or if aware choose the correct category to which to add the buttons.

I'd like to be able to set my menubars, bookmark bar, and (as an example) the Google toolbar to autohide. By this, I mean like the windows taskbar. This way I would be able to use that extra space for viewing, but wouldn't have to turn the bars on and off manually, or switch from the fullscreen mode.

This idea could present a problem with being able to trigger the right bar for display, but I think if someone worked out the UI specifics for that, it would be a neat feature.

*Allow the main menu (File, Edit ...) to be customized and/or retracted in order to be able to free much more space for sites' display without using full screen mode.

*Remove some menu items

*Move other menu items

[[User talk:Steve England|Reasoning and Arguments]]

*Show an ''open url in new tab'' or ''open url'' option in the context menu when the user right-clicks on a plaintext url (text that is recognizably a url, but has no <nowiki><a></nowiki> tags).

It would be usefull when browsing without location bar you want to open url (for example in fullscreen mode: hide address bar)

*As per [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63295 bug 63295] (almost 6 years old), menus should auto-scroll if you hover above/below them.

*Toolbar enhancements

**Allow user to move toolbars

*Ability to move menubar and toolbars collectively, arbitrarily

*Group icons by Extension

*This change it allows an access improvement to the lateral toolbar of the Bookmarks (Ctrl+B) increasing the functionality.

*Redesign both icons with a smaller size so that they do occupy less space in the Bookmarks toolbar.

*Improve the trobber (the circle thingy at the top right).

*Perhaps Firefox-ko of Mozilla Japan?

*Enable auto hide toolbar when in full screen(like ie)

*The ability to set a maximum size for the search box so that when the browser window is expanded greatly the address box expands but the search box remains the same size.

*This would enable users with a larger screen resolution to have more icons on the top bar and having the decision whether the search box or the address box should be made smaller, rather than the default in FF2 which decreases the address box leaving a large search box which the user may not want.

*Include right click options on back/forward buttons to open the previous/next page in a new window or tab. It would need to preserve the browse history in new window/tab.

*Combine Stop and Back buttons. While a page is loaded the Back button could turn into a Stop button, once the the page is finished, the button turns back into a Back button.

With rare exceptions, the Average User does not need access to both the reload and stop buttons at the same time. Combining them so they occupy the same space and "toggle," à la Safari, will free up real estate on the UI and reduce visual complexity.

*...at the cost of continuously reload pages on locks/slowness/etc. Shiira already avoided this solution. If this will be done, MUST be enabled/disabled with a setting in the Preferences. (Why? Button toggles depending on state!)

*[http://www.apple.com/safari/ Apple - OS X - Safari]

*[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/313 Stop or Reload Button Extension]

After a page has loaded the stop button grey's out and has no effect. In IE the stop button is always available and pressing it will halt animated gifs from animating. It would be good to go a step further and have pressing stop prevent animated gifs, embeded sound files, flash animations, video files etc from running.

In Firefox 2 the 'New Tab' button in the Navigation toolbar is not shown by default. One must 'customize' the toolbar. This is not ideal and does not promote the use of tabs. My mom was using Firefox for at least a year before I showed her that it had tabs!!! Tabs are extremely useful, so you might as well make that feature more easy to access (for new/basic users who don't know what tabs are or the keyboard shortcut to open a new tab.)

Home Page and Home button have been with us since forever. However, I have a strong feeling they are no longer relevant and no one uses them as they did in the old times of "web portals". I propose to create a task-oriented "start" pane - basically a question of "what do you want to do". It should have:

I consider Thunderbird's start pane to be a good example of what I'm talking about.

This feature is mainly for people who tend to have a lot of tabs opened at the same time. You could add the ability for the user to see a numbering system on the far right of each tab over the close button (or the far left over the favicon) once the user presses the ctrl key on their keyboard which will make it easy to navigate through the tabs using ctrl + "The corresponding number"

*Supplant need for separate windows, hopefully

Added by [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Operations Operations] on 09/09/07

*[http://www.paranoid-androids.com/tabgroups/ Tab Groups]

*[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4838 Multiple Tab Handler]

Have the animated dots to the left of the page title on each tab be a visual representation of the page loading status.

For example: 3/4 of the dots glowing will represent that only 3/4 of the page has loaded.

*Autocomplete list should be editable (like cookie-list) or erasable otherwise it will contain a lot of trash after some time and it is also a mild security risk because sometimes people demonstrate their actions and it is not nice previous entries pop-up; perhaps some toggle can help to disable/enable the feature

If implemented, this proposal can boost productivity for web-application users with technically simple (and known from many text-processors/editors) UI add-on

*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Dynamic%20Abbrevs Emacs Dynamic Abbrevs]

*[http://wiki.mozilla.org/DiscussionForBetterAutocompletesInForms Discussion]

Use heuristics to try and avoid caching sensitive data for autocompletion. For example, if something looks like a credit card number or social security number, don't cache it. It's very disconcerting to start typing in your social security number on your bank's Web site, and realize your browser already knows it...

*Any command that can be accessed from a menu or a button should be hotkeyable (including changing the standard hotkey), and can be put onto the toolbar as a button.

*I would like to add that all the "commands," including pop up menu commands, should be representable by main/pop up menu items, toolbar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and/or mouse gestures. The interface to configure them should be unified. Custom solutions via extension do not work well because they tend to ignore the custom commands provided by other extensions, and run into problems (like Menu Editor not removing old Greasemonkey menus after extension update).

*Since AJAX has become very popular, often we do many action on the same page, even if its contents totally changes. Site developers sometimes implement program handling of Back and Forward buttons, which takes page history navigation out of the user's control, and this is not natural and not convenient. Instead, there can be three levels of Undo/Redo actions: low level for each script or user action which changes the actual document DOM structure (also useful for debugging); middle level for traditional Back/Forward (socument location cnanges); and high level for browser-wide actions like opening and closing pages, switching tabs etc. User should be able to turn off tracking of each separate level, to save memory and speed up performance, as well as to customize their history deepness (how many recent actions can be tracked).

*Double click on a text link (like: www.somesite.com/here.html or http://www.somesite.com/here.html) recognizes it and opens it like a regular link, a very simple feature.

*Another option is just that if you highlight a text link and right click it should have menu options for 'Open in new tab' and 'Open in new window.' I like the original suggestion better, however, as long as it is possible.

*[http://www.squarefree.com/2005/05/22/autolink/ Jesse Ruderman - AutoLink user script]

*[http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/ Linkification]

*Alternatively scrollbar enhancements could help (refer to the second link for more details). Not sure if it's easy to implement though.

*[http://usethics.ru/lib/scroll_bar/ Enhanced scrollbar details (Russian, but pictures talk for themselves)]

*When hovering over an object in the navigation toolbar the respective keyboard shortcut should be displayed as a tool tip.

It could considerably improve the usage of keyboard shortcuts for new Firefox users that are not used to work with keyboard shortcuts (like old people). This should be a default-on feature with the option to turn off in Options -&gt; Advanced -&gt; General -&gt; Accessibility

*Instead of only increasing and decreasing the current page's font size, allow for the entire page to be zoomed in/out, like Opera. Make the zoom keys customizable.

*A magnifying glass like Photoshop and CorelDraw to zooming specific page area, not only a general magnifing zoom, but a precision area zoom to be different of all browsers with zoom function.

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821 bug 4821]

*While Flash displays its own context menu, it is inconvenient and looks inconsistent, preventing access to what user would actually like to do with the page or its part (often users do not recognize where is GIF and where is Flash). The same is happening when a script changes the context menu. User should have the ability to display browser context menu wherever on the page they right click, and to save the object they clicked.

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821 bug 4821]

*Be able to edit the HTML source of a web page that is open and then save the changed version to the local hard disc.

*Currently "View &gt; Page Source" does not allow editing for a web based page. Make this editable and then give the ability to save the entire page with images etc, using the modified source to the local hard disc.

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172817 bug 172817] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269326 bug 269326]

*Color of visited links should range from VLINK to LINK according to time passed.

**This feature was present in early Mosaic, but I haven't seen it again in any browser.

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211531 Bug 211531]

*I'd like to have the option of choosing a custom font size for a page; the browser should be able of remember the last size in future visits to the same page.

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108391 Bug 108391] [http://urandom.ca/nosquint/ NoSquint extension] (but per-domain is simplistic, as all pages on a domain to not follow the same style). Also requested in [[Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Accessibility]] as "Font Deltas".

*Allow multiple file opening by holding CTRL/SHIFT in the Open File dialog

*Lets the user close all other windows

(Adds undo feature to right click on main window when closing of multiple windows has occured)

*Revisit default tab strip

*Re-evaluate toolbar buttons

*Handle Adobe Flash (and others) like IE 7, requiring a left-click before the plugin begins intercepting keyboard shortcuts.

*[[User talk:Jokeyrhyme]]

*[[User:Auk/Firefox menus]]

May I point out that the View&gt;View_Images(?) menu is missing in Firefox 2x. In Netscape the View&gt;Load_Images(?) sub menu could load all of the images on the page without needing to click on each icon. <br><br> May I offer an additional reason why this menu should be restored to Firefox. When one uses search engines some sites with offensive naked pictures may embed keywords contained in the search criteria (eg. linux) causing the search engine to include a naked picture site along with desired search results containing penguins. After reading and approving the page text the user needs a single action to view all of the pictures. <br><br> For users who are surfing with Load Images Automatically not activated, there should be 2 new options:

<br><br>May I ask you to please clarify where on the page the mouse pointer should be placed for these actions? How is the right click different from a default configuration left click over an image icon that causes the image to load and replace the icon? As I remember, in Netscape a right click over an image icon brings up a pop up image menu with choices such as copy image link, save image as, view image, etc. Did you mean to add the load all images sub menu to the right click pop up image menu when a right click happens over an image icon? <br><br> May I suggest since current Firefox distinguishes images from the server hosting the web page and images from other servers. There might properly be two view all images sub menu items: <br> Load_All_Images_from_Host_Server <br> Load_All_Images_from_Any_Server <br><br>Impact on code shold be minimal. The load image code is already in the browser so adding two sub menu items under view the view menu that call each kind of load image as a permanent part of the source tree would have negligible impact on source size, binary size, and maintainability. It should have no impact on performance if the load all images menu item is not selected.

Netscape for SuSE 7.3 Linux has a load all images menu option. Modern Knoppix live CD Iceweasel and Konqueror do not have this menu item.

Currently pressing ALT + 's' opens the 'History' menu. This is really annoying since a lot of board pages use the shortcut ALT + 's' to submit new posts.

*ui.key.contentAccess into 4

If the user has the "Downloads" dialog open when closing the last browser window, they do not get the opportunity to save their tab settings. It only warns them that they have multiple tabs open.