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Extend Firefox

Please feel free to add to this list if you have ideas for Firefox add-ons by clicking on the "edit" link. Developers interested in entering the Extend Firefox competition will be looking here for inspiration.

Some Ideas for Firefox Add-ons

• Jesse Ruderman's Extension Ideas
• Shared Tab - implement a web service and extension that allows you to open a tab that is followed and changed by all the people granted access to it.
• Web spell checker - extends spell checker to work on the text of an HTML page. This would be useful as a development tool.
• Map helper. Extends existing mapping tools (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, etc), allowing to create custom location and route sets, which can be stored locally or even shared remotely.
• Podcast player. Adds a sidebar where live bookmarks in a specific folder are displayed and considered as podcasts (a la Sage). Mockup.
  • Three sections: podcasts, a playlist area, play controls, and currently played episode tag, if available.
  • It could use the default media plugin (Windows Media Player, QuickTime, etc.) or embed an open source player like XSPF.
  • Episodes can be downloaded automatically.
  • The podcast list will show which episodes are being downloaded and which have completed if it's the case.
  • Bonus: export as m3u list.
• Unified wysiwyg text editing environment on popular web platforms (gmail, yahoo, mediawiki, wordpress, others?). When a user edits a wikipedia page or writes an email in gmail (i.e. on a supported web platform) he is:
  • presented with the same (pretty!) interface
  • preferable keyboard commands for bold, italic, underline are the same across sites
  • interface expands with the web platforms abilites. Wikipedia has a large set of tools (that we all know from text editing apps), others less so
  • Users can (relatively) easily script their own rule sets for new, unsupported platforms
• Drag to download. Ctrl-drag a link to a file system folder to download the target. Ctrl+drag a selection to download all targets.
• Audio recorder. Grabs any audio coming from the current tab to a .wav/.ogg/.mp3 file. If support for <audio>/<video> tags land, the necessary codecs may be already available.

Other Sources for Ideas

• Mozilla Labs Ideas Center
• Firefox 3 PRD Discussions