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-| valign="top" |When user clicks to play a streamed audio file, I am suggesting two methods to play it. First one is view the downloader and supply a Firefox’s “internal player” to play it. Second one is supply a player options within tool bar. I don’t know the possibility of this project. Please comment on this.
+| valign="top" |When user clicks to play a streamed audio file, I am suggesting two methods to play it. First one is view the downloader and supply a Firefox’s “internal player” to play it. Second one is supply a player options within tool bar. I don’t know the possibility of this project. Please comment on this.<br>
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+maxaeran: how does this fit with the WHAT-WG Audio object proposals? - Gerv
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 | valign="top" | Extension for bookmarking and sharing scripts and extensions.
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 | valign="top" | Hivemya
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-| valign="top" |JS coded extension w/ Open ID based accounts. SQL-based bookmark accounts directly linking to XPIs, with support for RSS. Is extension auto-installation possible through RSS/JSON subscription?
+| valign="top" |JS coded extension w/ Open ID based accounts. SQL-based bookmark accounts directly linking to XPIs, with support for RSS. Is extension auto-installation possible through RSS/JSON subscription? <br>
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+Who regularly wants to "load their preferred extensions on any firefox browser in seconds"? - Gerv
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 | valign="top" | Firefox Tab Grouping
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 | valign="top" | schapel
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-| valign="top" | This could be done in Gecko itself or as an Imagelib extension as described in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574#c672 this Bugzilla comment]
+| valign="top" | This could be done in Gecko itself or as an Imagelib extension as described in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574#c672 this Bugzilla comment]<br><br>Who is using this image format? What are the benefits? - Gerv
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-| valign="top" | Camino: Tabspose
-| valign="top" | Expose for tabs, but in the browser window ({{bug|312007}})
-| valign="top" | pinkerton
-| valign="top" | pinkerton
-| valign="top" | I've wanted to do this for years...
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 | valing="top" | Allow the option of passing URL to helper application instead of downloading
-| valign="top" | See {{bug|225882}}
+| valign="top" | See {{bug|225882}} and {{bug|137339}}
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-| valign="top" | Make SeaMonkey Not Suck As A News Reader
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-| valign="top" | Basically, get some traction on some of the highlights of {{bug|176238}}/{{bug|12699}} , in particular: "clickable references" ({{bug|62033}}) and headers in general ({{bug|23114}}), a more usable subscribe dialog ({{bug|40260}}), reordering of the folder pane ({{bug|150274}}, maybe even hierarchical?). For bonus points, a correct implementation of the nntp/news protocols ({{bug|89939}}) would be really cool!
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-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | UI stuff would be for SeaMonkey, but should be portable to Thunderbird easily. Both would profit from backend fixes.
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-| valign="top" | Real Mail Templates
-| valign="top" | Currently, mail templates are too static, their interaction with mails you respond to etc. is almost zero ({{bug|21210}}, {{bug|107876}} and others). It would be an enourmous progress if we could have variables like $$EMailAddress$$, $$QuotedBody$$, $$Date$$, $$CustomVariable(with Parameter)$$ in a template which get filled in when replying or composing.
-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | UI stuff would be for SeaMonkey, but should be portable to Thunderbird easily. Both would profit from backend fixes.
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-| valign="top" | Score Filter
-| valign="top" | A score filter ({{bug|151622}}) would associate an integer with every message. This integer could then be changed by filter actions like "Increase by x", "Set to Y", etc. and have itself filter criteria like "If score is lower than A", "If score has value B", etc. Several other message properties alterable by filter actions (like isJunk or isThread) would need to be made usable as filter criteria for that for full points. In toto, this would allow for very fine-grained message control.
-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | Mnyromyr
-| valign="top" | UI stuff would be for SeaMonkey, but should be portable to Thunderbird easily. Both would profit from backend fixes.
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 | valign="top" | PGP signature support would probably be easiest to build on top of Enigmail extension. See Metalink which supports associating MD5/SHA1 hashes and PGP signatures with files, and [http://microformats.org/wiki/hash-examples hash microformat] for embedding within a page.<br><br>Making three extra 404 hits on a website for each file downloaded is not a friendly thing to do (remember favicon.ico) - Gerv
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-| valign="top" | Implement link fingerprints
-| valign="top" | Link fingerprints are a method of making an HTTP or HTTPS URL reference not only a particular resource, but a particular version of that resource, in a way that the fetching client can validate. This would make it harder (not impossible) for crackers to change downloadable software packages without any user (and the site owner) noticing it. Further details can be found in [http://www.gerv.net/security/link-fingerprints/ the proposal by Gervase Markham], Gerv's [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/03/wordpress_download_tarball_com.html blog post about the recent Wordpress tarball attack] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292481 bug 292481]
-| valign="top" | [[User:Jens.b|Jens.b]]
-| valign="top" | Gerv
-| valign="top" | This is similar to Heikki's proposal above and could be done as part of that larger activity, but I think it deserves separate mention as its scope is specified more precisely, and it might be faster to implement. - Jens<br><br>There is already an extension which does some of this; a proper patch for the trunk would be required - Gerv
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 | valign="top" | Add tabbed messages support for Thunderbird
 | valign="top" | Tabbed message reading is a highly demanded feature for Thunderbird and was on the planned feature list for version 2, but missed the bus and currently there is nobody working on it. Having to change the selected folder and/or message or opening a new window decreases productivity (increases waste of time). The new message pane should also be available for the tabbed view. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297379 Bug 297379] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218999 Bug 218999]
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 | valign="top" | [[User:Shyamk|Shyam]]
 | valign="top" | [[User:Shyamk|Shyam]]
-| valign="top" | A repost of the idea I posted [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Performance Here] (Firefox3 Brainstorming).<br><br>Shyam: what qualifications do you have to mentor this project? - Gerv <br><br>Grev: Replied to you by e-mail, and updated this [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode07:Mentors wiki]. Needless to say, I {can/would like} to get dirty in implementing this along with the student (In case of time constraints).
+| valign="top" | A repost of the idea I posted [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Performance Here] (Firefox3 Brainstorming).<br><br>Shyam: what qualifications do you have to mentor this project? - Gerv <br><br>Grev: Replied to you by e-mail, and updated this [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode07:Mentors wiki]. Needless to say, I {can/would like} to get dirty in implementing this along with the student (In case of time constraints).<br><br>Shyam: mentors need to have Mozilla community experience. A mentor is not a co-worker by another name :-) - Gerv
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-| valign="top" | Vista Desktop Search Integration
-| valign="top" | Implement Vista Desktop Search for Thunderbird mail messages as described in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369283 bug 369283]
-| valign="top" | [[User:Bienvenu|Bienvenu]]
-| valign="top" | [[User:Bienvenu|Bienvenu]]
-| valign="top" | There is a lot of code in the Spotlight integration code that could be re-used for the Vista search integration.
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 | valign="top" | [[User:ericjung|Eric H. Jung]]
 | valign="top" | [[User:ericjung|Eric H. Jung]]
-| valign="top" | Think of never having to authenticate against all of your websites again! If the student runs out of time, I will write code to keep the server contents encrypted and the SSL delivery/retrieval mechanism. Student needs to write the GUI and web progress listener hooks.
+| valign="top" | Think of never having to authenticate against all of your websites again! If the student runs out of time, I will write code to keep the server contents encrypted and the SSL delivery/retrieval mechanism. Student needs to write the GUI and web progress listener hooks.<br><br>Why just cookies? Why not full remote profiles? Do you have an algorithm for handling merge conflicts? How does this relate to Google Sync? - Gerv
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 | valign="top" | Broken Add-on Detector
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 | valign="top" | [[User:piecu|Bartosz Piec]]
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-| valign="top" | Look at Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express for an example dialog
+| valign="top" | Look at Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express for an example dialog<br><br>What benefits does having such a dialog give us? - Gerv
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-| valign="top" | Bugzilla: Plugin System
-| valign="top" | [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371333 bug 371333]: Bugzilla has many methods for being extended, but they are not always clearly documented or coordinated. There is also no central repository for downloading plugins, or a standard way to install them. This task would be to make it easy for developers to write plugins, make it easy for administrators to install them, and write a useful sample plugin that demonstrates all of this.
-| valign="top" | [[User:MaxKanatAlexander|mkanat]]
-| valign="top" | [[User:MaxKanatAlexander|mkanat]]
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 | valign="top" | Bugzilla: Duplicate Bug Detection
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 | valign="top" | [https://launchpad.net/malone Malone] can do this now, although  I'm not certain its code is actually open source. (Anyhow, GPL'ed code can't be included in Bugzilla, which uses the MPL.)
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-| valign="top" | Bugzilla: Overhaul Charting System
-| valign="top" | Bugzilla currently has two charting systems, the Old Charts and the New Charts. Old Charts are very simple, and work. New Charts are very complex, and the code has been abandoned for several years. However, charting is a feature that many users want in a bug-tracking system.
-This task would be to implement a charting system that is simple to use, respects Bugzilla's built-in security, and provides the flexibility that administrators want. In particular, the ability to go "back in time" and chart data about the past would be very welcome. (Our current system only starts charting data as soon as you set up a chart, so you can't find out anything about last month, or even yesterday.)
-| valign="top" | [[User:MaxKanatAlexander|mkanat]]
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-| valign="top" | There may be some questions about importing data from the old systems. I think that New Charts are not in much use, since they aren't complete. The system would have to be able to import Old Charts, but the New Charts system could be entirely replaced by the system built in this project. (However, any left-over New Charts would have to be exported as CSV so that users wouldn't lose their data.)
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 | valign="top" | Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration
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 | valign="top" | [[User:NagappanAlagappan|Nagappan]]
 | valign="top" | [[User:NagappanAlagappan|Nagappan]]
-| valign="top" | Once the system is integrated with Tinderbox, then we can extend it to use for Thunderbird automation testing too.
+| valign="top" | Once the system is integrated with Tinderbox, then we can extend it to use for Thunderbird automation testing too.<br><br>Nagappan: please tell us your Firefox/LDTP/Tinderbox-related experience on the [[Community:SummerOfCode07:Mentors|Mentors]] page. - Gerv
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 | valign="top" | "Search as you Type in addressbar" extension
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 | valign="top" | [[User:jigarashah|jigar shah]]
 | valign="top" | Most of the time user want to find a page on a particular website; say mozilla developer, He goes to that website and browses through all available links. If when he starts typing in addressbar he gets suggestions based on his bookmarks and History it will reduce his search time. This is easy to do in Firefox 3 since there are plans to add SQLLite in FF3. Don't know about possibilities for FF2.
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