Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-02-27

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PST (19:00 UTC)
• Mozilla <table> conference room
• 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

PRD Status Update

Open actions for PRD progress

• List is here.

Firefox 3 development progress

Work in progress

Review of what's underway

• Places
• History on Places
• Site specific prefs (Myk)
• Line item template review (Beltzner)

New work that has been started

• Anything new to report?

Extension uplift: nominations for evaluation

Basic idea is that the Product team, UE team can investigate nominations further to evaluate for possible inclusion in Firefox.

Current nominiations

• URLFixer
• LocationBar²
• Firebug
• Console² (Myk's nomination)
• Site Specific Prefs (Myk's extension)
• Investigate download manager extensions (Brendan)
• Print Hint (another Myk nomination)
• TableTools (not this specific implementation, which is cumbersome to use, but some mechanism for letting users do a couple of common high-value operations on tables, in particular sorting them)
• Searchbar Autosizer - Nominated by johnath both for the autosizing search bar, and for the preference to clear bar after search.

Any new extensions to consider?

• Context Search - Nominated by steve england for changing the "Web Search for..." context item into a menu containing your Mycroft search plugins, so allows you to easily decide which search engine you use. Firefox's default is to use the currently selected search plugin only. UI change in right click context menu only when some text is highlighted. Bug 248173
• Resizable Form Fields - Lets the user resize form elements. Useful for making text areas larger when writing lots or after increasing font sizes. No UI needed. (Nominated by steve england) bug 167951
• Paste & Go 2 - Allows the user to paste clipboard text into either the search bar or URL bar and automagically start the browser to act upon the pasted data. UI change only to right click context menu in URL bar and Search bar. (Nominated by steve england). bug 216667 for URL bar RFE only.
• TabMixPlus: Only as example for the following features. From the user fears of Firefox 2: Add preferences UI for setting the tab min- and maxwidth, en-/disabling the scrolling of the tabbar and en-/disabling multi-tab-rows support - or to say it in another way: shortest access to the tab you want. (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Text Link: The way to open a plain text in a clean profile is an annoyance. There are also other extensions like this, auto-linkification would be handy (easy accessibility). (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• TargetKiller: It should be the users choice if a link open in the same tab, a new tab or a new window. Firefox should check if the target is the name of another frame in the page and if not, open it in the same tab. Many users don't know the middle click feature, maybe the manual page with the shortcuts should be opened on the first run? (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Dictionary Switcher: Many people who are not english-native speakers use more than one dictionary and changing it manually depending on the site is an annoyance. This extension does auto-detection. See bug 338427 (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Copy Plain Text: Copying some text and pasting it into a word processor often results in ugly format because the format from the web page is copied, too. (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Add to Search Bar or OpenSearchFox: Add an input field to the search bar with the context menu. See bug 261124 (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• OpenBook: In Firefox 2, the user can only change the title and folder in the "add bookmark" dialogue. So you can not change the address after a GET query, add a keyword or change the description. (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Extension Manager Extended: For shooting down problems with a profile in which extensions are installed (maybe by add-on interference), there should be an easy way to show the end user which add-ons have changed in the last few days / weeks. This extension shows date and time of the last update (or if there is none, of the installation). (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Extended Link Properties: At the moment, the user can not see how big a file is before he starts downloading, so there should be a tooltip or other access which shows the file size behind links to common download file types / file types which are not opened in the browser. ELP works with Firefox 2 if you change the maxVersion to 2.0.0.* . (Nominated by Archaeopteryx)
• Locale Switcher or Quick Locale Switcher: There is already a category for language packs in the add-on manager, but no UI way to change it. (Nominated by Archaeopteryx, sorry for so many wishes)

Round table

• Other business?