Mobile/Brainstorming

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Madhava

  • Performance/responsiveness while page is loading
  • Provide contextual actions
    • open link in new tab/save picture, among others
  • make sure UI works well with vitual keyboard
    • including revised search layout
  • find-in-page
  • continuous zoom (for both multitouch and non-multitouch screens)
  • making error pages better (a lot of our messages aren't very well written for mobile context (shorter/general improvement)). offering better suggestions aroung where you might be trying to go rather than 404 pages
  • replacing modal dialogs, desktop firefox has too many (which we've inherited), and mostly don't need to be actually modal.
  • awesomefill to make good suggestions for input fields
  • making the sidebars more discoverable
  • links and fields are hard to tap sometimes
  • being able to create a permanent record of a webpage (receipt, boarding pass, etc) as a PDF or something else
  • visual history
  • better animated transitions
  • better in-content theme
  • more UI space for add-ons

Grab-bag of other stuff

  • multitouch plan
  • haptics plan
  • mobile-appropriate session-restore
  • ability to work with pannable content
  • some kind of "method of last resort" to interact with desktop-specific pages
  • client certificates for authentication
  • easy support for tab badges
  • make "availability" available via an API
  • mobile-appropriate video controls
  • support for choosing web-based helper apps (mail, cal, RSS)

caitlin

  • start page stuff.

mfinkle

  • context menus
  • responsiveness
  • moving tiles in to platform
  • flash performance
  • over-drawing
  • Android
  • camera API

Ben S

  • visual bookmarks
  • better animated transitions--especially for panning
  • focus on zoom performance
  • showing mobile bookmarks should be "awesome"
  • long tap as a secondary action!
  • remote debugging with firebug
  • jetpack as a primary way to extend mobile firefox (good place to attach: larry)
  • webapps more first class: being able to handle mimetypes, prism, camera/audio
  • better form fill assistant
  • solution to panning long amounts (does not need to be incredibly discoverable)
  • high priority: android!
  • webgl or hardware accelerated platform for smoother effects that make UX more approachable

Ben C

  • electrolysis
  • text resize (being able to read a column of text without having to zoom)
  • swirly zoom in and out
  • prism

Aakash

  • Crash Reporting mechanism
  • Hendrix-lite mechanism
  • crash reporting
  • feedback mechanism
  • knowledge base tooltip extension to show how ui parts work
  • QA companion update
  • browser chrome extension, for writing browser chrome tests/running them

Vivien

  • Improve bookmarks and our way to access them
  • Context-menus
  • awesome screen - use the space more efficiently
  • in-site menus (upper left icon)
  • Extensions - make a better life for them (or to launch them)

alexp

  • speed and responsiveness

crowder

  • jetpack, making addon story much better

stuart

  • multitouch
  • how we manage site specific data
  • identity
  • easier to discover things
  • making our app synergize better with itself.
  • safebrowsing
  • session restore
  • improved page navigation
  • startup time
  • shutdown time
  • a way to view history visually
  • mobile web dev tools
  • test pilot
  • more device apis (address book, calendar)
  • making web apps more first class apps on devices
  • video and audio
  • webgl
  • dealing capacitive touchscreen
  • portrait mode
  • responsiveness
  • getting to the back/forward buttons while zoomed
  • virtual keyboard issues
  • form input needs to be improved
  • better theme for content

mike k

  • page navigation -- dealing with long pages better
  • making clicking of links easier