CFA/Search-Notes
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« Comparative Feature Analyses
Purpose
Examine a bunch of browsers, existing Firefox Add-ons, and web services to generate a report that describes:
- Which capabilities each has (look at preferences panel for details about how search is customizable)
- A summary of where each is different/unique
- Some conclusions about which aspects seem most innovative and interesting that we might want to consider for Firefox
Research
General capabilities
The following will be done in a table with notes and observations following as footnotes.
(PRD for FF3):
- Support search engine shortcut keys (Ryan Flint) - P2
- Resizable search bar (Neil Deakin) - P2
- Rich search results (Gavin Sharp) - P3
- Ability to declare a default search engine? - P3
- Ability to use a temporary search engine and then restore the default (one time use)? - P3
(PRD for FF2):
- ability to manage, add, restore default, and reorder search plugins
- ability to add search plugins
- highlight notification of ability to add search plugin
- support for multiple search boxes?
- combine bookmark keywords and bookmark search?
- offer suggestions to autocomplete searches
- ability to browse by name from address bar (keyword.URL)
- information on mouseover of buttons
- site-specific search using search box
- multi-engine search
- google calculator suggestions in search box
- keywords (search from location bar)
- highlight, right-click, and search
- drag and drop search
categories: UI plugins searches search results
- Pause/Resume - Same session
- Pause/Resume - Across sessions
- Pause/Resume - Auto-pause downloads on network failure
- Pause/Resume - Auto-resume downloads on network reconnect
- Download History - View
- Download History - Sort (alpha, date, type, size, etc)
- Download History - Edit (clear one, selected, all)
- Download History - Autoexpire items
- Protocols - FTP
- Protocols - Torrent
- Protocols - Other
- Download Queues - Create/manage new queues
- Download Queues - Create/manage multiple queues
- Download Queues - Start/pause/resume/stop/cancel downloading
- Download Queues - Schedule downloading
- Download Queues - Save/restore queues
- Download Speed - Throttling
- Download Speed - Acceleration
- Download linked file
- Download selected linked files
- Download all linked files
- Download Manager - View
- Download Manager - Auto-close/Hide
- Download Manager - View/go to file
- Download Manager - Open file
- Download Manager - Move/Manipulate files
- Download Manager - Mark file as a favourite
- Download Manager - Tag/group/categorize/organize files
- Download Manager - Search
- Download Manager - Advanced search
- Download Manager - Default download directory
- Download Manager - Customizable download directory
- Download Manager - Multiple customizable download directories
- Download Manager - Smart download directories
- Accessibility Features (y/n?)
- Anti-virus integration
- Download Prefs (list per browser, not in table)
- Download Manager screenshots (one per browser, not in table)
Browsers to investigate
- Firefox 2 - look for addons that do interesting search-related stuff
- Camino
- Flock
- iCab
- IE 7
- Maxthon 2
- Netscape
- OmniWeb
- Opera
- Safari - look at Insquisitor addon for Mac
- SeaMonkey
- Shiira
Firefox Add-ons to investigate
- CustomizeGoogle link
- Answers link
- GooglePreview link
- LinkedIn Companion link
- SearchWith link
- DictionarySearch link
- Groowe Search Toolbar link
- Loki link
- OpenSearchFox link