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= Some Ideas for Firefox Add-ons = | = Some Ideas for Firefox Add-ons = | ||
* Title and Title Bar Buttons - use the title bar's objects: the close, minimize, maximize and the title itself as regular buttons in Firefox to be put on any toolbar, and hide the now useless titlebar - so to earn vertical space without it beind wasted on a half-empty titlebar. | * Title and Title Bar Buttons - use the title bar's objects: the close, minimize, maximize and the title itself as regular buttons in Firefox to be put on any toolbar, and hide the now useless titlebar - so to earn vertical space without it beind wasted on a half-empty titlebar. | ||
* Chronological Searchbox History - for recent searches in the builtin searchbox to be sorted in the order you searched for them (like Google Toolbar does), plus the ability to choose them from the dropdown list (using the now hidden dropmarker) without running the search automatically. | * Chronological Searchbox History - for recent searches in the builtin searchbox to be sorted in the order you searched for them (like Google Toolbar does), plus the ability to choose them from the dropdown list (using the now hidden dropmarker) without running the search automatically. | ||
* Tab Scroller Everywhere - scroll between tabs in the tab bar even when hovering on other toolbars (like the navigation, address and menu bars) and so move quicker without the need to put the mouse pointer on it exactly. | * Tab Scroller Everywhere - scroll between tabs in the tab bar even when hovering on other toolbars (like the navigation, address and menu bars) and so move quicker without the need to put the mouse pointer on it exactly. | ||
* Bookmarks with current search terms and address parameters - actually merging the search plugins system into the bookmarks, enabling to use the better bookmarks organizing system for the search engines and so adding to them things like folders (that currently "Organize Search Engines" provide) and Open All in Tabs (to run the same search in several engines, which no extension does so easily so far). The current URL parameter is to run searches inside the current website (like Google Site Search) which strangely the search plugins doesn't have even now! Of course the intension is not to turn the bookmarks into thousands of little files like IE favorites (and the current search plugin system) but rather to use the same single file for them as well with the same system. All is needed is those two parameters for the bookmark's URL and changing-icon feature that "Favicon Picker 2" already provide, and later the equivalent of "Context Search" for the bookmark system. | |||
* Find Toolbar and Searchbar Merger - use the power of the find Toolbar inside the searchbox to find and highlight the searchterms in the page(a bit like SearchWP does, but with quickfind using the same textbox) | |||
* AllTabs - A clean and simple extension to view all tabs opened in Firefox in a single tab as thumbnail view, like the IE7 "Quick Tabs (Ctrl+Q)". Firefox currently has only hover-preview extensions like cooliris and tab preview. There is already [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1457 foXpose] which is actually where IE7 got the "Quick Tabs" Idea. | * AllTabs - A clean and simple extension to view all tabs opened in Firefox in a single tab as thumbnail view, like the IE7 "Quick Tabs (Ctrl+Q)". Firefox currently has only hover-preview extensions like cooliris and tab preview. There is already [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1457 foXpose] which is actually where IE7 got the "Quick Tabs" Idea. | ||
* ClearLens - A simple zoom-on-hover (mouse over) feature for images. Just mouse over a image for few seconds or simply shift+click to zoom-in, ctrl+click to zoom out, alt+click to reset to 100%. Image Zoom [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139 Look up] | * ClearLens - A simple zoom-on-hover (mouse over) feature for images. Just mouse over a image for few seconds or simply shift+click to zoom-in, ctrl+click to zoom out, alt+click to reset to 100%. Image Zoom [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139 Look up] | ||