Labs/Ideas
(These need to be organized into categories for easier digestion. Ideally, we have a structured format, tags, browseable, searchable, submission date, author and contact info.)
- Idea: Reflect geolocation into the DOM
Initially for mobile browser applications but could be extended for wireless roaming. Imagine going to fandango.com and it already knows what area you are in. Or going to maps.yahoo.com and Yahoo! Maps knows where to start the default map. Advertising can be specific not only to the user, but also to where the user is physically at.
- Idea: Presence, attention & tagging
Develop an extension which would show you which of your friends are online, what they're tagging, etc. sort of a combination between IM and tagging.
- Idea: Photo Management
Develop experiments in what to build into the user interface to allow easier moving around of pictures/video/etc -- in particular from a user's desktop to the web
- Idea: Clickstream control & Privacy
Offer users ways to give users control and insight into their attention and clickstream. Are users willing to have their clickstream anonymized, aggregated and monetized? "Will you give me your clickstream for a free latte at Starbuck's?"
- Idea: Microformat Detection
Notify presence of of microformats in pages, display metadata about them, etc.
- Idea: Metadata Handler Extension API
Add an API to Firefox that lets core code and extensions register themselves as metadata handlers, get notifications when users load pages containing metadata, and get hooks into the UI for providing capabilities to users (f.e. "email all the people on this page" and "add the people on this page to my address book" for an hCard handler). More details
- Idea: Active identity Management
Ideally we want to be able to switch plugins such as Quicktime that cannot be installed automatically via the update service with software that can.
- Idea: Improve download process
- Metalink bug 331979
- Bittorrent support bug 236755 (perhaps code can be taken from AllPeers for this), potentially with HTTP/FTP seeding bug 320251
- Cross-session resumable downloads
- Idea: Gui Improvment - Search Box
clear search box with single click
- Idea: Bookmark Watchlist
set bookmark on watchlist, show message that page has been changed
- Idea: Bookmark Thumbnail
show thumbnail of page in bookmark list
- Idea: Bookmark links checker
mark bookmarks that refer to obsolete pages. combine with watchlist?
- Idea: Mozilla hosted integrated social networking plattform
- mozilla hosted to prevent comercial interests - integrated to make a standard
- Idea: Foaf Detection
- detecting foaf, a RDF based social network as like RSS
- integrated with human bookmark to surf blogs.
- Idea: FoxCard, user-based identity for ID2.0
- integrated existing personal certificate manager and master password to an identity wallet against Microsoft Infocard
- support backup and import/export