User:Operations
Overall the purpose of this write-up is just to enlighten others by bringing together some of the more intelligent browsing enhancements I've found. I'm also hoping that actual Firefox user-interface developers might consider setting the browser up as I have, but not everyone thinks like I do. Many others besides myself have suggested the following changes but I'm afraid those people and I may just be power-users.
OUTSIDE RESOURCES:
- MakeUseOf - The Winners of ‘Extend Firefox’ - Best Firefox Addons
- Mozilla Wiki - Talk:Firefox:3.0 Tabbed Browsing
- Mozilla Wiki - Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Default Browser UI
CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION EXAMPLES:
- Firefox eBay Edition
FIREFOX DERIVATIVE IMPLEMENTATIONS:
- Blackbird
- Galeon
- Kirix - Strata
- Kylo.tv
- Miro
- Orca Browser
- Songbird
- Wyzo
DEFAULT INTERFACE PROBLEMS: [ more ideas can be found here ]
BUTTONS:
- New Tab button
[ isn't a default but should be the first button on the toolbar ]
- Home button
[ is a default that nobody probably uses ]
- Options menu button
- add a button for the add-ons prompt
- would help replace need for menu-bar
- example: Options Menu
WINDOWS:
- Preferences, Add-ons, and Downloads
[ each opens a new window instead of using the tabbed browser interface, they should load in the sidebar or in a separate tab ]
- New windows
[ new windows should only be used/allowed for separate Firefox profiles, TabGroups Manager should supplant the necessity for windows ]
- Application window borders and title-bar
MENUS:
- Send Link option
[ what is this? it never seems to work ]
TABS & TAB BAR:
- Tab grouping
- more ideas can be found here
- should use menus not additional tab-bars to select tab-groups
- Floating tabs
[ should be possible to float a tab, like picture-in-picture only for your browser ]
- Double-click on Tab-bar
[ should create new tab, Tab Clicking Options ]
OTHER:
- Download manager
[ integrate (torrent / Metalinker / ZIP) support ]
- OpenID integration
[ VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt extension is really buggy but the idea is great ]
EXTENSIONS (to be considered for integration):
- AddThis
- Autofill Forms
- Automatic Save Folder / Download Sort / FavLoc
- AutoPager / AutoPager Lite / PageZipper
- Browser Sign In
- Close Tab by Double Click
- Cooliris
- DblClicker
- Download Manager Tweak / Download Statusbar / Downloads in Tab
- DragIt
- ErrorZilla Mod / ErrorZilla Plus
- Extension List Dumper
- FoxTab
- Grab and Drag
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Mozilla Ubiquity
- OneTab
- Open IT Online
- Options menu
[ quick and easy access to extension settings ]
- Organize Status Bar
- Screengrab
- SmoothWheel / Yet Another Smooth Scrolling
- Status-4-Evar
- Stylish
- Tab Clicking Options
- Tab Utilities / FaviconizeTab / Custom Tab Width
- Tab Wheel Scroll
- TabGroups Manager
- WebCL
OTHER EXTENSIONS:
- All-in-One Sidebar
- ArchView
- AVG LinkScanner / LinkExtend / SiteAdvisor / Web of Trust / Web Security Guard
- bit.ly Preview
[ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]
- BugMeNot
- Buttonizer
- CookiePie
- Dashlane
- Disable Add-on Compatibility Checks
- Flash Block / NoScript / Adblock Plus
- Craigslist Helper
- Flash Game Maximizer
- Flem
- Fox Splitter
- FoxClocks
- Greasefire
- Greasemonkey
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus
- DownThemAll
[ resume/stop downloads, Metalinker support, could be better integrated ]
- Hide Favicons
- Identity
- IE Tab 2
- Link Fixer Thing / Linkification
[ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]
- Locationbar²
- Menu Editor
- Mozilla (Add-On Collector / Snowl)
- Pixelpipe Media Uploader
- Pixlr Grabber
- RetailMeNot
- SkipScreen
[ needs to be simplified and use only the drag&drop method incorporating the edges of the window ]
- Spool
- Tab Clicking Options
[ this should replace any need for new windows ]
- Tab Cloud
- Tab to Window or as I'd prefer Tab to Tab Group
- Textarea Cache / AutoSaveText
- ThumbStrips
- TinEye Reverse Image Search
- Toolbar Buttons / UrlbarExt
- Update Notifier
[ avoids users being asked to update things, people don't care stop asking & just do it ]
- VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt
[ WARNING: can cause an extreme decrease in performance ]
- WiseStamp
[ needs a more simplified user-interface ]
FIREFOX PLUG-INS:
- OpenXML Document Viewer
- Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
GREASEMONKEY & STYLISH & JETPACK EXTENSIONS:
- Greasemonkey
- AutoPagerize
- Facebook Fixed Header (Always-At-Top)
- HTTP-to-HTTPS redirector
- Unfriend Finder
- Stylish
- Adjust Menu Height
- Bookmarks Toolbar in Fullscreen
- deiconify menus
- Firefox 4 Add-Ons Hide Compatibility Warning
- Firefox 4 Blue Loading Progress Tab-Throbber / Firebird Style Tab Throbber
- Remove all icons (except tab-bar)
- Remove close/minimize/restore buttons (fullscreen)
- Remove locationbar bookmark star
- Remove locationbar drop-down arrow
- Remove locationbar Go arrow (FF3)
- Remove menu-items created by particular Add-ons
- Remove New Tab Plus
- Remove the Site Identity Button from Fx3
- Remove unused/annoying menu items
- Reorder statusbar panels and icons
- Scrollbar hidden / hide scrollbars totally
- Smart Stop/Reload/Go Button
- SquareTabs
- Tabs - remove tab drop down
- Userstyles.org - Redesign(2011) Professional
- Stylish (about:blank backgrounds)
- about:blank backgrounds
- about:blank OnFire Fixed
- About:blank - Blue logo on black
- about:blank - Dark Blue Firefox
- NASA Night Launch - Launch Image for Empty Tabs
GOOGLE EXTENSIONS:
- Better Gmail 2
- CloudMagic
- gDocsBar
- Gmail S/MIME
- Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
- Google Earth
- Google Gears
- Googlepedia
- gReader Comments
- Greasemonkey
- Google Account Multi-Login
- Google Reader Preview Plus
- Google Reader Without "Mark All As Read"
- Google Viewer
- Jasper's Google Reader subscribe
- Jasper's Google Reader subscribe
- Perfect Dark Google Reader
- PostRank Google Reader
- Stylish
- GMail - Remove ads and relocate action links (alt)
- Gmail Redesigned (by Globex Designs)
- Rapportive
- Taskforce
- Unsubscribe
- Xobni
- Zemanta
--Operations 18:31, 4 September 2011 (PDT)
